Chairs: Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Daniel J Hayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Conveners: Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Co-conveners: Daniel J Hayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Guido Grosse, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany and Benjamin M Jones, U.S. Geological Survey, Anchorage, AK, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
4:00 PM
Challenges and Achievements in Circumpolar Monitoring of Land Surface Hydrology with Satellite Data
Annett Bartsch1,2, Anna Maria Trofaier3, Barbara Widhalm2,3, Elin Högström2,3, Marina O Leibman4 and Yuri Dvornikov5, (1)University of Salzburg, Geoinformatics and Z_GIS, Salzburg, Austria, (2)Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, (3)Austrian Polar Research Institute, Vienna, Austria, (4)Russian Academy of Sciences, Earth Cryosphere Institute, Siberian Branch,, Moscow, Russia, (5)Russian Academy of Sciences, Earth Cryosphere Institute Tyumen, Moscow, Russia
4:15 PM
Distribution of Near-Surface Permafrost in Alaska: Estimates of Present and Future Conditions
Neal Pastick, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Forest Resources, Minneapolis, MN, United States; Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Torre Jorgenson, Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Bruce K Wylie, USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Shawn Nield, Natural Resource Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Palmer, AK, United States, Kristofer D Johnson, U.S. Forest Service, Newtown Square, PA, United States and Andrew Finley, Michigan State University, Department of Forestry and Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States
5:15 PM
Quantifying change in North American Arctic lakes between 1990 and present.
Mark Carroll1, Margaret Wooten1, Charlene DiMiceli2, Robert Allen Sohlberg3 and John R Townshend4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryalnd- College Park, College Park, MD, United States
5:30 PM
Identifying multiscale zonation and assessing the relative importance of polygon geomorphology and polygon types on carbon fluxes in an Arctic Tundra Ecosystem
Haruko Murakami Wainwright1, Baptiste Dafflon1, Lydia J Smith2, Melanie S Hahn2, Craig Ulrich1, Yuxin Wu3, John Peterson1, John Bryan Curtis1, Margaret S Torn4 and Susan S. Hubbard1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
5:45 PM
Temporal and Spatial Trends in Soil Moisture in Arctic Alaska 1992-2010
Liza K. Jenkins1,2, Laura L Bourgeau-Chavez2, Nancy H F French3 and Maria C. Chavez2, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States
