GC11A:
Arctic Change: Integrating Long-Term Perspectives and Current Observations for Understanding Future Impacts and Responses I Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Peter Schlosser, Columbia University, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States, Peter David Jordan, Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland and Mary-Louise E. Timmermans, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Primary Conveners:  Peter Schlosser, Columbia University, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States
Co-conveners:  Maribeth S Murray, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, Peter David Jordan, Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland and Mary-Louise E. Timmermans, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Maribeth S Murray, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Projected Duration of the Sea-Ice-Free Season in the Future Alaskan Arctic
Muyin Wang, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and James E Overland, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Extreme Weather Events on the Last Frontier: Meteorological Analyses and Societal Impacts
Lauren Zuromski, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, John E Walsh, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Richard Thoman, National Weather Service Alaska Region, Environmental and Scientific Services Division, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Characterization of Recent Greenland Melt Events in Atmospheric Analyses and Satellite Data
Richard I Cullather1, Sophie Nowicki2, Bin Zhao1, Lora Koenig3 and Samiah Moustafa4, (1)NASA/GSFC Code 610.1, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States
 
Transport Pathways of Pollution Plumes into the Canadian Arctic during RACEPAC and NETCARE 2014
Heiko Bozem1, Peter Michael Hoor1, Franziska Koellner1,2, Johannes Schneider2, Christiane Schulz2, Julia Burkart3, Megan D Willis3, Andreas Bodo Herber4, Stephan Borrmann2, Manfred Wendisch5, André Ehrlich5, Warren Richard Leaitch6 and Jonathan Abbatt3, (1)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Mainz, Germany, (2)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Particle Chemistry Department, Mainz, Germany, (3)University of Toronto, Department of Chemistry, Toronto, ON, Canada, (4)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Climate Science, Sea Ice Physics, Bremerhaven, Germany, (5)University of Leipzig, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig, Germany, (6)Environment Canada Toronto, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
Future increases in Arctic precipitation linked to local evaporation and sea-ice retreat
Richard Bintanja and Frank Selten, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands
 
Will Arctic ground squirrels impede or accelerate climate-induced vegetation changes to the Arctic tundra?
Jennifer Dalton, Charles Elliot Flower, Joel Brown, Miquel A Gonzalez-Meler and Christopher Whelan, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
 
Foliar Expression of Parent Lithologic Composition in the Sub-Arctic: Examples from Heath Ecosystems of Abisko, Sweden.
Eric Wayne Heim1, Nathan Tomczyk2, Kiley Remiszewski3, Julia G Bryce4, Serita D Frey5, Maria F Prado6 and Ruth K Varner4, (1)Northern Michigan University, Chelsea, MI, United States, (2)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (5)Univ of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, NH, United States, (6)Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Mercury Content of Vegetation across a Subarctic Mire Thaw Gradient
Amy Lauren Mayedo1, Kiley Remiszewski2, Maria F Prado3, Carmody K McCalley2, Julia G Bryce4 and Ruth K Varner4, (1)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Impacts of ocean albedo alteration on Arctic sea ice restoration and Northern Hemisphere climate
Ivana Cvijanovic1,2, Ken Caldeira1 and Douglas G MacMartin3, (1)Carnegie Institution, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)University of Copenhagen, Centre for Ice and Climate, Copenhagen, Denmark, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
What Influences Activity of Zonal Circulation over Eurasia in Periods of Arctic Amplification?
Euihyun Jung1, Baek-Min Kim2 and Gyu-Ho Lim1, (1)Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, (2)KOPRI Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
 
Atmospheric Blocking and Sub-Arctic Climate: Insights from CMIP5
Yanni Ding1, James Carton1, Sirpa M A Hakkinen2, Gennady A Chepurin1 and Michael Steele3, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Impacts of Organic Macromolecules, Chlorophyll and Soot on Arctic Sea Ice
Oluwaseun O Ogunro1, Oliver W Wingenter1, Scott Elliott2, Mark Flanner3 and Manvendra Krishna Dubey2, (1)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
A new approach to quantitatively describe permafrost core using multi-energy CT scanning: composition fraction and morphological analysis
Chun Chang1,2, Catherine McKnight1 and Timothy J Kneafsey1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing, China
 
HyLab: Building In-State Capabilities for Imaging Spectroscopy in Alaska
Anupma Prakash, Donald L Hampton, Marcel Buchhorn, Jordi Cristóbal-Rosselló and Christine F Waigl, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Decreased Surface Albedo Driven By Denser Vegetation On the Tibetan Plateau Yangjian Zhang*, Li Tian
Yangjian Zhang and Li Tian, IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China
 
Responding to Change in NW Alaska: Ethnographic Film and the Voices of the People
Scott Craig Gerlach, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, Sarah Renee Betcher, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, David E Atkinson, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada and Philip A Loring, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
 
Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age Impacts on Prehistoric Human Migrations in the Eastern North American Arctic
Sarah A Finkelstein, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and Max Friesen, University of Toronto, Department of Anthropology, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
Polynya Formation, Location, Sea Level History and Human Settlement in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Peter Schledermann1, Maribeth S Murray1 and Charles G Hannah2, (1)Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Climate and Culture Change in North and Northwest Alaska
Anne M. Jensen, UMIAQ, LLC, Anchorage, AK, United States
 
Cultural Implications of Out-of-Phase Weather across northern Alaska after 500 CE: Regional Variability during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age
Owen Kenneth Mason1, Claire M Alix2, Nancy H Bigelow3 and John F Hoffecker1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie, Paris, France, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States