SBI PHASE 2 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS (PI) MEETING

The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS)

University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbaucher Drive, Miami, FL

March 5-7, 2003

The goal of the 2002 Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Phase 2 PI meeting is to update the SBI project participants on: 1) the SBI Phase I and II results to date, specifically including the 2002 field season, 2) discuss the 2003 and 2004 field season programs, 3) international collaboration related to SBI goals, and 4) plan for publications and presentations on the SBI project.

AGENDA

Tuesday, 4 March 2003: arrival at hotel

Wednesday, 5 March 2003 (SBI 2 PI Meeting)(red=no ppt received)

0715-0730       Van/car transport from DoubleTree Hotel to RSMAS [meet in lobby near front desk: emergency cell phone contact via Ari Balsom: ph. (+1-865-406-9014]

0730-0830       Continental Breakfast/Registration for SBI PI meeting (RSMAS SA-103, adjacent to Dean’s Office)

0830-0845       Opening statements (Grebmeier/Tupas) (RSMAS SA-103)

0845-1000       Session One-Hydrography, ADCP and Mooring Program and Canadian/ Japanese Collaboration

                         (5 speakers; Rapporteur: Knut Aagaard)

• Jim Swift, Upper Halocline Characteristics – What Do the 2002 Data Tell Us About Sources in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas?

• Lou Codispoti, Jim Swift and Company, Implications of the Biogeochemical Hydrographic Data Collected from the Healy in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas During the 2002 SBI Process Cruises
• Robin Muench, ADCPs, LADCPs, and Boundary Mixing
• Charles Flagg, Maureen Dunn and John Gunn, Status of SBI Shipboard ADCP Data
• Marty Bergmann, Canadian Arctic Science Projects and DFO Coast Guard Elements
• Koji Shimada et al.: Overview of the Joint Western Arctic Climate Studies (JWACS)

1000-1030      Break

1030-1200      Session Two-Mooring Program, Tracers of Shelf-Basin Exchange

                          (6 speakers: Rapporteur: Jim Swift)

• Rebecca Woodgate, A Year in the Physical Oceanography of the Chukchi Sea 1990-1991
• Rebecca Woodgate, The Chukchi Borderland Cruise 2002
• Bob Pickart, Shelfbreak Circulation in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea:  Mean Structure and Variability
• Dave Kadko, Radioisotope Evaluation Of Shelf-Basin Transport Processes From The 2002 Field Season
• Lee Cooper, Stable and Radio-isotope Tracers in the SBI Study Area-2002
• Dennis Darby, What the Paleo-Record in the Western Arctic Tells Us About Recent Changes and the Future

1200-1330      Lunch: Patio of the Commons Room

1330-1500      Session Three-Sea Ice Studies, Organic/Inorganic Carbon Production, and Shelf-Basin Exchange

                        (6 speakers: Rapporteur: Lee Cooper)

• Hajo Eicken, Sediment Transport by Chukchi/Beaufort Sea Ice in 2001/2002
• Rolf Gradinger, Biomass and Productivity of Ice Algae in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas in Spring 2002
• Dennis Hansell: DOC and DON in the SBI System
• Nick Bates: POM and DIC Distributions in the SBI study Region of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
• Ron Benner, Is Terrigenous DOC in the Canada Basin Old and Refractory?
• Carin Ashjian, Exchange of Plankton and Particles between the Shelf and Basin

1500-1530      Break

1530-1600      Session Four-Carbon Transformation and Fate

                        (2 speakers: Rapporteur: Glenn Cota

• Rodger Harvey, G3Molecular Markers of Organic Matter Sources and Cycling in the SBI Study Region
• Brad Moran, POC Export During SBI-II: 2002 Results

1600-1700      Poster Session* (author list below; need to stand by poster)

1700-1900      Reception-Commons Room and Patio (sponsored by the Dean, RSMAS)

1900                Van/car transport to hotel and Dinner on your own

Thursday, 6 March 2003

0715-0730       Van/car transport to RSMAS (0715 and 0730 in hotel lobby)

0730-0830       Continental Breakfast-RSMAS

0830-0835       Meeting updates (Grebmeier)

0835-1005       Session Five-Trophic Interactions and Benthic Dynamics

                        (6 speakers, Rapporteur: Dennis Hansell

• Glenn Cota, Western Arctic Primary Productivity
• Dave Kirchman, Heterotrophic Microbes and the Metabolic Balance of the Arctic Ocean
• Ev and Barry Sherr, Preliminary Results of the Protist Grazing Rate/ Phytoplankton Growth Rate Assays and the Mesozooplankton Grazing Rate Assays
• Bob Campbell, Mesozooplankton Grazing Rates During the 2002 SBI Field season
• Sharon Smith: Biomass of Zooplankton and Molecular Studies in the SBI Study Area
• Devol, Al, Pore-Water Oxygen Distributions in Western Arctic Ocean Margin Sediments

1005-1030       Break

1030-1215       Session Six-Benthic Process, Biophysical Coupled Modeling, and SBI Data Management

                        (6 speakers, Rapporteur: Carin Ashjian

• Ken Dunton, Benthic Faunal Biomass in the Wetsern Arctic: Linkage to Overlying Water Column Process
• Jackie Grebmeier,G3 Benthic Carbon Cycling and Community Structure in the SBI Study Area
• John Walsh and Dwight Dieterle, Decadal Shifts in Biophysical Forcing of Marine Food Webs in the Arctic: Numerical Consequences
• Wieslaw Maslowski, Towards Understanding of Marine Environments in the Western Arctic - Physical Modeling for the SBI Program
• Jim Moore et al., SBI Data Management Support Update
• Greg Stossmeister, SBI Data Archives at JOSS: Status Updates
• Rudy Dichtl, The Metadata Tutorial for SBI

1215-1330      Lunch: outside patio off Commons Room

1330-1400       Session Seven-Outreach and SBI Cruise 2003

                        (Rapporteur: Ken Dunton)

• Betty Carvellas, TEA on the SBI 2002 Summer Cruise
• Terry Whitledge, Barrow Outreach

1400-1530       Field Program: 2003 (survey and mooring cruises) Rapporteur: Jackie Grebmeier

• Jim Swift (Chief Scientist survey cruise): survey cruise objectives, plans, data sets needs, participants; service/hydro team components
• Robin Muench: Shipboard dissemination of data (e.g., CTD data)
• John Bengston talk, Marine mammals as indicators of Arctic marine Ecosystem Hotspots
• Rebecca Woodgate (Chief Scientist-mooring cruise), with input from Bob Pickart and Knut Aagaard: mooring cruise objectives, plans, data set needs, participants; service/hydro team components
• Jim Moore JOSS activities

1530-1545       Break

                       

1545-1730       Field Program: 2004 (process and mooring cruises) - with break-out rooms available

• Process cruises on USCGC Healy: dates, spring cruise timing/native issues, cruise plan; chief scientists, participants (Rapporteur: Jackie Grebmeier)
• Bob Pickart (with input from Knut Aagaard and Rebecca Woodgate): mooring cruise on USCGC Healy

1730-2000       Dinner at RSMAS-sponsored by SBI Project Office

2000                Van/car return to hotel: meet outside Commons Room, walk to vans

Friday, 7 March 2003

0715-0730       Van/car transport to RSMAS

0730-0830       Continental breakfast at RSMAS

0830-1000       Field Program: 2004 (cont.) (break-out rooms available)

• Continue 2004 field program discussions (Rapporteur: Jackie Grebmeier)

• Break

1020-1200       Open Discussion

• Special issue Deep-Sea Research/papers/timetable (Sharon Smith)
• Special sessions Feb. 2004:  ASLO and/or AGU (Jackie Grebmeier)
• 3^rd SBI Pan-Arctic Meeting, 3-7 Nov 2003, Cadiz, Spain (Jackie Grebmeier)
• Possible Oden 2005 cruise (Jim Swift/Jackie Grebmeier)?

1200                SBI 2 PI Meeting adjourns; van/car transport to hotel

*Poster Titles

• Arianne Balsom et al.: Sediment Bacterial and Viral Abundances in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas

• Laura Belicka et al.: Biochemical Tracers of Marine and Terrestrial Organic Carbon Near the East Barrow Canyon, Arctic Ocean

• Mark Benfield et al: Calibration of Broadband Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers for Use as Scientific Echosounders

• Jaclyn Clement et al.: Upstream Environment for SBI-Modeled and Observed Biophysical Conditions in the Northern Bering Sea

• Glenn Cota et al.: Arctic Productivity

• Glenn Cota et al.: Arctic Ocean Color

• Dennis Darby et al.: A millennial-scale Paleoclimate record from the Western Arctic Ocean

• Jeffrey Dixon et al.: Circulation and Variability in the Western Arctic Ocean from a High-Resolution Ice-Ocean Model

• Jackie Grebmeier et al.: The Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Project (poster, powerpoint presentation, video clips and  movies)

• Catherine Lalande et al.: Vertical Export of Biogenic Matter in the SBI Study Region

• Igor Melnikov:Biologically-Oriented Processes in the Coastal Sea Ice Zone: Long-Term Observations in the White Sea.

• Jim Moore et al. SBI Data Management Support: Base Bathymetry Maps for the SBI research Area

• Igor Melnikov: Biologically-Oriented Processes in the Coastal Sea Ice Zone: Long-Term Observations in the White Sea

• Stephane Plourde et al: Poster: Egg Production and Hatching Success of Calanus glacialis/marshallae: a Dominant Copepod in the SBI Study Region during 2002

• Lori Roth and Rodger Harvey: Degradation and Modifications of Dissolved Protein by Natural Bacterial Assemblages in Arctic Waters

• Waldema Walczowski and Wieslaw Maslowski, SBI-II modeled Versus Observed Hydrography and Currents of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas

• Sang H. Lee and Terry E. Whitledge, The Nutrient Dynamics and Physical Structures in Bering Strait and the southern Chukchi sea, June 2002

TABLE OF ABSTRACTS FOR TALKS AND POSTERS

PARTICIPANT	ABSTRACT TITLES FOR TALKS AND POSTERS	PG NO.
Ashjian, Carin, Mark Benfield, Scott Gallager, Stephane Plourde	Exchange of Plankton and Particles between the Shelf and Basin	1
Balsom, Arianne, Jacqueline Grebmeier, Lee Cooper, Steven Wilhelm	Sediment Bacterial and Viral Abundances in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas	2
Bate, Nicholas and Dennis Hansell	POM and DIC Distributions in the SBI Study Region of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas	3
Belicka, Laura, Rodger Harvey, Robie Macdonald, Mark Yunker	Biochemical Tracers of Marine and Terrestrial Organic Carbon Near the East Barrow Canyon, Arctic Ocean	4
Benfield, Mark, Robert Stokes, Charles Greenlaw, Duncan McGehee, D. Van Holliday, Carin Ashjian, Dan Torres	Calibration of Broadband Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers for use as Scientific Echosounders	5
Bengston, John and Sue Moore	Marine Mammals as Indicators of Arctic Marine Ecosystem Hotspots	6
Benner, Ron	Is Terrigenous DOC in the Canada Basin Old and Refractory?	7
Bergmann, Marty	Canadian Arctic Science Projects and DFO Coast Guard Elements	8
Campbell, Robert, Carin Ashjian, Stephane Plourde, Mari Butler	Mesozooplankton grazing rates during the 2002 SBI field season	9
Carvellas, Betty	TEA on the SBI 2002 Summer Cruise	10
Clement, Jaclyn, Wieslaw Maslowski, Lee Cooper, Jacqueline Grebmeier, Waldemar Walczowski, Jeff Dixon	Upstream environment for SBI – Modeled and observed biophysical conditions in the northern Bering Sea.	11
Codispoti, L. A, Jim Swift and Company	Implication of the Biogeochemical Hydrographic Data Collected from the Healy in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas During the 2002 SBI Process Cruises	12
Cooper, Lee, Jacqueline Grebmeier	Stable and Radio-Isotope Tracers in the SBI Study Area, 2002	13
Cota, Glenn, Josefino Comiso, Lawrence Pomeroy, David Ruble	Arctic Productivity	14
Cota, Glenn, Xiaoju Pan, David Ruble, Jian Wang	Arctic Ocean Color	15
Cota, Glenn	Western Arctic Primary Productivity	16
Darby, Dennis	What the Paleo-Record in the Western Arctic Tells Us About Recent Changes and the Future	17
Darby, Dennis, Jens Bischof, Greg Cutter, Anne de Vernal, Claude Hillaire-Marcel	A Millennial-Scale Paleoclimate Record From the Western Arctic Ocean	18
Devol, Allan, John Christnesen	Pore-Water Oxygen Distributions in Western Arctic Ocean Margin Sediments	19
Dichtl, Rudolph	A Metadata Tutorial for SBI	20
Dixon, Jeffrey, Wieslaw Maslowski, Jaclyn Clement, Waldemar Walczowski	Circulation and Variability in the Western Arctic Ocean from a High-Resolution Ice-Ocean Model	21
Dunton, Kenneth	Benthic Faunal Biomass in the Western Arctic: Linkage to Overlying Water Column Processes	22

TABLE OF ABSTRACTS FOR TALKS AND POSTERS (cont.)

PARTICIPANT	ABSTRACT TITLES FOR TALKS AND POSTERS	PG NO.
Eicken, Hajo, Michael Tapp, Rolf Gradinger	Sediment Transport by Chukchi and Beaufort Sea Ice in 2001/2002	23
Gradinger, Rolf, Hajo Eicken, Michael Tapp	Biomass and Productivity of Ice Algae in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas in Spring 2002	24
Grebmeier, Jacqueline and Lee Cooper	Benthic Carbon Cycling and Community Structure in the SBI Study Area	25
Grebmeier, Jackie and SBI 2 PI	Overview of the Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Project	26
Hansell, Dennis, Nicholas Bates	DOC and DON in the SBI System	27
Harvey, Rodger, Laura Belicka, Robie Macdonald	Molecular Markers of Organic Matter Sources and Cycling in the SBI Study Region	28
Kadko, David and Robert Pickart	Radioisotope Evaluation of Shelf-Basin Transport Processes From the 2002 Field Season	29
Kirchman, David	Heterotrophic Microbes and the Metabolic Balance of the Arctic Ocean	30
Lalande, Catherine	Vertical Export of Biogenic Matter in the SBI Study Region	31
Maslowski, Wielsaw, Waldemar Walczowski, Jaclyn Clement, Jeffrey Dixon	Toward Understanding of Marine Environments in the Western Arctic-Physical Modeling for the SBI Program	32
Melnikov, Igor	Biologically-Oriented Processes in the Coastal Sea Ice Zone: Long-Term Observations in the White Sea.	33
Moore, James, Richard Dirks, Gregory Stossmeister	SBI Data Management Support Update	34
Moran, Brad	POC Export During SBI-II: 2002 Results	35
Muench, Robin	ADCPs, LADCPs, and Boundary Mixing	36
Pickart, Robert, Tom Weingartner	Shelfbreak Circulation in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea: Mean Structure and Variability	37
Plourde, Stephane, Carin Ashjian, Robert Campbell	Egg Production and Hatching Success of Calanus glacialis/marshallae: A Dominant Copepod in the SBI Study Region During 2002	38
Roth, Lori, Rodger Harvey	Degradation and Modifications of Dissovled Protein by Natural Bacterial Assemblages in Arctic Waters	39
Sherr, Barry, Evelyn Sherr, Jennifer Crain	Preliminary Results of the Protist Grazing Rate/Phytoplankton Growth Rate Assays and The Mesozooplankton Grazing Rate Assays	40
Shimada, Koji, Eddy Carmack, Fiona McLaughlin, Shigeto Nishino, Motoyo Itoh	Overview of the Joint Western Arctic Climate Studies (JWACS)	41
Smith, Sharon	Biomass of Zooplankton and Molecular Studies in the SBI Study Areas	42
Swift, James	Upper Halocline Characteristics – What Do the 2002 Data Tell Us About Sources in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas?	43
Walczowski, Waldemar, Weislaw Maslowski	SBI-II modeled Versus Observed Hydrography and Currents of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas	44
Walsh, John, Dwight Dieterle, Wieslaw Maslowski, Terry Whitledge	Decadal Shifts in Biophysical Forcing of Marine Food Webs in the Arctic: Numerical Consequences	45
Lee, Sang and Terry Whitledge	The Nutrient Dynamics and Physical Structures in Bering Strait and the Southern Chukchi Sea, June 2002	46
Woodgate, Rebecca, Knut Aagaard, Jim Swift, Bill Smethie, Kelly Falkner	The Chukchi Borderland Cruise 2002	47
Woodgate, Rebecca, Knut Aagaard, Tom Weingartner	A Year in the Physical Oceanography of the Chukchi Sea 1990-1991	48