Chairs: Robert Northington, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States and Jeffrey M Welker, University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Biological Sciences, Anchorage, AK, United States
Primary Conveners: Robert Northington, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
Co-conveners: Jeffrey M Welker, University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Biological Sciences, Anchorage, AK, United States, Christopher L Osburn, N Carolina St Univ--MEAS, Raleigh, NC, United States and N John Anderson, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons: N. John Anderson, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Geochemical drivers of organic matter decomposition in the active layer of Arctic tundra
Elizabeth Herndon1,2, Taniya Roy Chowdhury2, Benjamin Mann2, David E Graham2, Stan D Wullschleger2, Baohua Gu2 and Liyuan Liang2, (1)Kent State University Kent Campus, Kent, OH, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Net Ecosystem Production of Polar Desert and Wetland Landscapes in the Rapidly Changing Canadian High Arctic
Craig A. Emmerton1, Vincent L St.Louis1, Elyn Humphreys2, Joel D Barker3, John Arthur Gamon1 and Gilberto Pastorello4, (1)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Emeryville, CA, United States
What is driving the change in vegetation productivity in northern Eurasia?
Pawlok Dass, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, Michael A Rawlins, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, Ben Smith, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, John S Kimball, The University of Montana, Flathead Lake Biological Station, Polson, MT, United States and Youngwook Kim, Univ Montana, NTSG, Missoula, MT, United States
Changing Boreal Fire Regimes: Impacts on Permafrost Soils and Forest Succession in Siberian Larch Forests
Heather Dawn Alexander, University of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville, TX, United States, Michelle C Mack, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, Susan Natali, Woods Hole Science Center Falmouth, Falmouth, MA, United States, Michael M Loranty, Colgate University, Geography, Hamilton, NY, United States, Sergey Davydov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and Nikita Zimov, Northeast Scientific Station, Cherskiy, Russia
High Arctic tundra greenhouse gas fluxes: new insights from Adventdalen, Svalbard
Norbert Pirk1,2, Frans-Jan W Parmentier1,3, Mikhail Mastepanov1,3, Hanne H. Christiansen2 and Torben R Christensen1,3, (1)Lund University, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund, Sweden, (2)University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway, (3)Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Late-Summer Tundra Methane Concentrations and Fluxes on the North Slope of Alaska
Joseph P Smith1, Rizalina S. Suriben1, Richard B Coffin2,3, Thomas Jordan Boyd2, Paula S Rose3,4, Thomas A Douglas5, Lewis C Millholland IV4, Erik Redman Boudart1 and John Edward Woods1,6, (1)US Naval Academy, Oceanography Department, Annapolis, MD, United States, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, (4)SAIC/NRL--Code 61, Washington, DC, United States, (5)US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL, United States, (6)US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, United States
Quantifying the magnitude, spatiotemporal variation and age of aquatic CO2 fluxes in western Greenland
Hazel Elizabeth Long1, Susan Waldron2, Trevor Hoey2, Mark Garnett3 and Jason Newton3, (1)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12, United Kingdom, (2)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (3)Scottish Universities Environmental Research Center at the University of Glasgow, East Kilbride, United Kingdom
Low-Altitude CH4 and δ13CH4 spatial Heterogeneity over the Northern Slope of Alaska
Claire E Healy1, David S Sayres1, Jason Brent Munster1, Edward J Dumas2, Ronald Dobosy3, John Kochendorfer4, Jordan Wilkerson1, Bruce Baker3, Mark Heuer2, Tilden P Meyers2, Manvendra Krishna Dubey5 and James G Anderson1, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)NOAA/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)NOAA Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)NOAA Oak Ridge, Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
