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
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
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
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
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