SBI PHASE 2 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS (PI) MEETING

 

The Naval Postgraduate School

Monterey, California

March 21-23, 2005

 

The goal of the 2005 Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Phase 2 PI meeting is to update the SBI project participants on: 1) the SBI II results to date, including the 2004 field season, 2) discuss synthesis activities within ARCSS and SBI Phase 3 planning, 3) international collaboration related to SBI goals via ICARP II, IPY, SBE, and 4) plan for publications and presentations on the SBI project.

 

AGENDA

 

Sunday, 20 March 2005: arrival at hotel

 

Monday, 21 March 2005: meeting at Monterey Naval Postgraduate School (NPS Spanagel Hall -  Spanagel 101A)

 

0730-0830       Continental Breakfast/Registration for SBI PI meeting (NPS, in front of meeting room)

 

0830-0835       Opening statements (Grebmeier and Maslowski)

 

0845-1000       Session One-Hydrography, ADCP and Mooring Program

                        (Rapporteur: Wieslaw Maslowski)

¸        Rebecca Woodgate/Knut Aagaard: What's New in the Bering Strait?

¸        Knut Aagaard: From Bering Strait to the Chukchi Shelf Break: A Chronology of the Pacific Throughflow, 2002-2004


¸        Bob Pickart, Flow of Winter-Transformed Pacific Water Through Barrow Canyon: Dynamics and Eddy Formation

¸        Dave Kadko: Radioisotope Study of Eddy Formation during the 2004 SBI Mooring Recovery Cruise

¸        Andreas Munchow: Circulation over the Chukchi and Beaufort Slope from USCGC Healy's ADCP Systems

¸        Discussion

 

1000-1030                Break

 

1030-1200             Session Two-Modeling the SBI Region and Tracers of Shelf-Basin Exchange (Rapporteur: Lee Cooper)

¸        Wieslaw Maslowski: Physcial Modeling of the Western Arctic in Support of the SBI Phase II Program

¸        John Walsh: Carbon Cycling within the Chukchi/Beaufort Seas during 2002: A Numerical Analysis of Combined Ice-Breaker Observations from Cruise of the Healy, Polar Star, and Louis St. Laurent

¸        Sue Moore: Marine Mammal Habitats in the Western Arctic

¸        Lou Codispoti: Physical and Chemical Hydrography during the 2002 & 2004 SBI Process Cruises

¸        Dean Stockwell: 2004 Chlorophyll Distributions

¸        Terry Whitledge: Preliminary Results of the RUSALCA cruise, August 2004

¸        Discussion

 

1200-1330             Lunch: on NPS campus (LaNovia room)

 

1330-1500             Session Three-Sea Ice Studies, Organic/Inorganic Carbon Cycling        (Rapporteur: Terry Whitledge)

¸        Kazu Tateyama: Sea Ice Thickness Measurement in the Chukchi Sea using a Ship-bourne Electromagnetic Inductive Devise

¸        Rolf Gradinger: Primary Productivity in the Sea Ice of the SBI Region - Lessons Learned in 2004

¸        Dennis Hansell: Update on DOM in the SBI System

¸        Nick Bates: Carbon Cycling, Net Community Productivity, and Air-Sea CO2 Exchange in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas

¸        Ron Benner: Bioavailability of Organic Matter in the Western Arctic Ocean

¸        Discussion

 

1500-1530       Break

 

1530-1700       Poster Session (open discussions with presenters)

¸        Jackie Clement: Ocean Circulation and Exchanges Through the Northern Bering Sea û 1979-2001 Model Results

¸        Kate Hagstrom: Rates of Shelf-Basin Interaction Estimated with U-Series Radionuclides

¸        Kate Hagstrom: Seasonal changes in Th scavenging and particle cycling in the western Arctic Ocean

¸        Rodger Harvey: Appling Molecular Markers to Examine Carbon Dynamics in the Western Arctic Ocean

¸        Catherine Lalande: Vertical Export of Biogenic Matter Determined for Sediment Trap Deployments in the Chukchi Sea

¸        Anna Nikolopoulos: First Results from the Beaufort Slope Moored Array: Transport Variability

¸        Rebecca Pirtle-Levy: Can Chlorophyll in Sediments Serve as a "Food Bank" for Arctic Benthic Invertebrates?

¸        Jim Swift: The SBI Service Measurement Program

¸        Waldemar Walczowski: Circulation in the Western Arctic Ocean - Comparison of in situ Data and Model Results

 

1730-1900       Reception-on NPS base (Terrace room/patio)

 

1900                Dinner on your own

 
 
Tuesday, 22 March 2005

 

0740-0830       Continental Breakfast- (NPS Spanagel Hall - Spanagel 101A)

 

0830-0835       Meeting updates (Jackie Grebmeier)

                       

0835-1000       Session Five Primary and Secondary Producton

                        (Rapporteur: Dennis Hansell)

¸        Victoria Hill: Primary Productivity in the Western Arctic - A Study of the Shelf and Basin of the Chukchi Sea

¸        Dave Kirchman: Shifts in the Balance Between Autotrophy and Heterotrophy in the Western Arctic Ocean

¸        Ev and Barry Sherr: SBI û Microzooplankton as Herbivores and as Food for Mesozooplankton in Arctic Ocean Food Webs

¸        Carin Ashjian/Bob Campbell: Mesozooplankton Grazing and Egg Production in the SBI Study Region

¸        Brad Moran: Seasonal POC Export Fluxes during SBI-II: A Comparison of 2002 and 2004 Results

¸        Discussion

 

1000-1030       Break

 

1030-1200       Session Six-Benthic Procesess                                                                         (Rapporteur: Carin Ashjian)

¸        Lee Cooper: An Overview of Benthic and Water Column Tracer Data from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecology Group at the University of Tennessee

¸        Jackie Grebmeier: Benthic Processes and Community Structure in the SBI Study Area, 2002-2004

¸        Ken Dunton: Spatial and Temporal Differences in Food Web Structure on Arctic Shelves: Evidence for Changes in Ultimate Carbon Sources?

¸        Al Devol: Oxygen Consumption and Dentirification in Sediments

¸        Rodger Harvey: An Update on Molecular and Isotopic Approaches to Understand Carbon Sources, Transport and Cycling in the SBI region

¸        Discussion

 

1200-1330                   Lunch on NPS campus (LaNovia room)

 

1330-1500             Session Seven: Data Management/Data policy issues                              (Rapporteur: Jackie Grebmeier)

¸        Greg Stossmeister: Update on SBI Data Archive

¸        Steve Roberts: SBI GIS Tools for Analysis Activities

¸        Jim Moore: Status of SBI Data Management Support and the Next Steps

¸        Open discussion

 

1500-1530       Break

 

1530-1700       Continued discussion of science, data and synthesis

 

1900-2100       SBI Dinner at Hilton Monterey (Room - Vista Del Mar)

 

Wednesday, 23March 2005

 

0745-0830       Continental breakfast at NPS (NPS Spanagel Hall - Spanagel 101A)

 

0830-1000       SBI Phase 3 Synthesis, ICARP2, IPY coordination                                  (Rapporteur: Jackie Grebmeier)

¸        Jackie Grebmeier: Outline of SBI Ideas for Phase 3

¸        John Weatherly: ARCSS Synthesis and ARCSS Science Planning

¸        Open discussion

 

1000-1030       Break

 

1030-1200       Open Discussion (Rapporteur: Jackie Grebmeier)

¸        Special issue Deep-Sea Research/papers/timetable (Jackie Grebmeier and Rodger Harvey)

¸        Special session Feb. 2006:  AGU/ASLO/TOS Hawaii meeting (Jackie Grebmeier)

¸        4rd SBI Pan-Arctic Meeting, September 2006 (?focus, location)

¸        Discussion and meeting wrap-up

 

1200-               SBI 2 PI Meeting adjourns

 

1300-1500             SBI AC lunch on base (LaNovia room)

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Thursday, 24 March 2005 (SBI AC meeting at Hilton Hotel, Room Peninsula)

 

0745-0830       Continental breakfast (Room - Peninsula)

 

0830-1000       SBI Phase III, data issues, synthesis

 

1000-1030       Break

 

1030-1200       SBI synthesis, ICARPII, IPY, international efforts, etc.

 

1200-1300             Lunch in meeting room

 

1330-1500             Continued meeting discussions

 

1500                SBI AC Meeting adjourns


Abstracts and Meeting Book

TABLE OF ABSTRACTS FOR TALKS AND POSTERS

 

PARTICIPANT

ABSTRACT TITLES FOR TALKS AND POSTERS

PG NO.

Aagaard, Knut, Rebecca Woodgate and Thomas Weingartner

From Bering Strait to the Chukchi Shelf Break: A Chronology of the Pacific Throughflow, 2002-2004

1

Ashjian, Carin and Campbell, Bob

Mesozooplankton Grazing and Egg Production in the Western Arctic Ocean

2

Bates, Nick

Carbon cycling, net community productivity, and air-sea CO2 exchange in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas

3

Benner, Ron and Jenny Davis

Molecular Indicators of the Bioavailability of POM and DOM in the Western Arctic Ocean

4

Clement, Jackie, Wieslaw Maslowski, Lee Cooper, Jackie Grebmeier, Waldemar Walczowski

Ocean Circulation and Exchanges Through the Northern Bering Sea û 1979-2001 Model Results

5

Codispoti, Lou

Physical and Chemical Hydrography During the 2002 & 2004 SBI Process Cruises

6

Cooper, Lee, Rebecca Pirtle-Levy, Catherine Lalande, I.Lauren Larsen, Arianne Balsom, Zheng-hye Li, and Jacqueline M. Grebmeier

An Overview of Benthic and Water Column Tracer Data from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecology Group at the University of Tennessee

8

Cottrell, Matthew, Rex Malmstrom, A Parker, David Kirchman

Shifts in the Balance Between Autotrophy and Heterotrophy in the Western Arctic Ocean

9

Devol, Allan, B Chang, John Christensen

Dentrification, Oxygen Consumption, and Isotopic Fractionation in Western Arctic Margin Sediments

10

Dunton, Ken, Susan Schonberg, Craig Aumack

Spatial and Temporal Differences in Food Web Structure on Arctic Shelves: Evidence for Changes in Ultimate Carbon Sources?

11

Gradinger, Rolf and Hajo Eicken

Primary Production in the Sea Ice of the SBI region û Lessons Learned in 2004.

12

Grebmeier, Jackie

Benthic Processes and Community Structure in the SBI Study Area, 2002-2004

13

Grebmeier, Jackie

International Shelf-Basin Exchange (SBE): a component of the AOSB/CLIC Integrated Arctic Ocean Observing System(iAOOS) Network proposed for the International Polar Year 2007

14

Hagstrom, Kate and Brad Moran

Seasonal Changes in Th Scavenging and Particle Cycling in the Western Arctic Ocean

15

Hagstrom, Kate and Brad Moran

Short-term Rates of Shelf-Basin Interaction in the Western Arctic Ocean Estimated using 234Th-238 U Disequilibria

16

Hansell, Dennis

Update on DOM Findings

17

Harvey, Rodger, Laura Belicka, Robie Macdonald

An Update on Molecular and Isotopic Approaches to Understand Carbon Sources, Transport and Cycling in the SBI region

18

Harvey, Rodger, Laura Belicka, Robie Macdonald, Mark Yunker

Appling Molecular Markers to Examine Carbon Dynamics in the Western Arctic Ocean

 

19

Hill, Victoria

Primary Productivity in the Western Arctic û A Study of the Shelf and Basin of the Chukchi Sea.

20

Kadko, Dave

Radioisotope Study of Eddy Formation during the 2004 SBI Mooring Recovery Cruise

21

Lalande, Catherine, Jackie Grebmeier, Lee Cooper, Brad Moran

Vertical Export of Biogenic Matter Determined for Sediment Trap Deployments in the Chukchi Sea

22

Maslowski, Wieslaw, Jacyln Clement, Waldemar Walczowski, Jaromir Jakacki

Physical Modeling of the Western Arctic in Support of the SBI Phase II Program

 

23

Moore, James, Gregory Stossmeister, Steve Roberts

Status of SBI Data Management Support and the Next Steps

24

Moore, Sue

Marine Mammal Habitats in the Western Arctic

25

Moran, Brad

Seasonal POC Export Fluxes during SBI-II: A Comparison of 2002 and 2004 Results

26

Muenchow, Andreas

Circulation over the Chukchi and Beaufort Slope from USCGC Healy's ADCP Systems

27

Nikolopoulos, Anna, Robert Pickart, Saniel Torres

First Results from the Beaufort Slope Moored Array: Transport Variability

28

Pickart, Robert

Flow of Winter-Transformed Pacific Water Through Barrow Canyon: Dynamics and Eddy Formation

29

Pirtle-Levy, Rebecca, Jackie Grebmeier, Lee Cooper

Can Chlorophyll in Sediments Serve as a "Food Bank" for Arctic Benthic Invertebrates?

30

Sherr, Barry, Evelyn Sherr, Carin Ashjian, Robert Campbell

SBI-Microzooplankton as Herbivores and as Food for Mesozooplankton in Arctic Ocean Food Webs

31

Stockwell, Dean

2004 Chlorophyll distributions

32

Swift, James, Lou Codispoti, Kristin Sanborn

The SBI Service Measurement Program

33

Tateyama, Kazutaka

Sea Ice Thickness Measurement in the Chukchi Sea using a Ship-Bourne Electromagnetic Inductive Devise

34

Walczowski, Waldemar

Circulation in the Western Arctic Ocean - Comparison of in situ Data and Model Results

35

Walsh, John, Dwight Dieterle, Wieslaw Maslowski, Terry Whitledge

Carbon Cycling within the Chukchi/Beaufort Seas during 2002: A Numerical Analysis of Combined Ice-Breaker Observations from Cruises of the Healy, Polar Star, and Louis St. Laurent

37

Weatherly, John

ARCSS Synthesis and ARCSS Science Planning

39

Whitledge, Terry

Preliminary Results of the RUSALCA cruise, August 2004

40

Woodgate, Rebecca, Knut Aagaard, Tom Weingartner

What's New in the Bering Strait?

43