Chairs: Kimberly Wickland, USGS, National Research Program, Baltimore, MD, United States and Jorien Vonk, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
Primary Conveners: Kimberly Wickland, US Geological Survey, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners: Marion Syndonia Bret-Harte, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Maria Tzortziou, CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Kimberly Wickland, USGS, National Research Program, Baltimore, MD, United States
4:00 PM
Sunlight Controls Water Column Processing of Carbon in Arctic Freshwaters
Rose Merin Cory1, Collin P Ward1, Byron C Crump2 and George W Kling3, (1)University of Michigan, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
4:15 PM
Detecting the Signature of Permafrost Thaw in Arctic Rivers
Robert G Spencer, Florida State University, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Paul James Mann, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1, United Kingdom, Thorsten Dittmar, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, Timothy I Eglinton, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Aron Stubbins, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah, GA, United States
4:45 PM
Decadal-Scale Increases in Dissolved Carbon Flux from the Western Canadian Arctic to the Arctic Ocean
Suzanne E Tank, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Robert G Striegl, USGS WRD, Boulder, CO, United States, James W McClelland, University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX, United States and Steven V Kokelj, NWT Geosciences Office, Government of the Nothwest Territories, Yellowknife, NT, Canada
5:00 PM
The Buffering Balance: Modeling Arctic river total-, inorganic-, and organic-alkalinity fluxes
Christopher W Hunt1,2, Joseph Salisbury2, Wilfred M Wollheim3, Madeleine Mineau2 and Robert James Stewart4, (1)Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
5:15 PM
Estuarine Nitrogen Dynamics Along the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast: Seasonal Patterns and Potential Climate Change Effects
James W McClelland1, Tara L Connelly1, Byron C Crump2, Colleen Kellogg3 and Kenneth H Dunton1, (1)University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
5:30 PM
Arctic River Discharge and Sediment Loads --- an Overview
James P Syvitski1, Irina Overeem2, G Robert Brakenridge1, Benjamin Hudson1 and Sagy Cohen3, (1)CSDMS Facility, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
