IARC-JAXA Workshop 2006
Program
Day 1 (March 6, Monday)
| 9:00 | Opening Remarks and Welcome (H. Kozawa, Associate Executive Director, JAXA) |
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| 9:15 | Welcome (C. Dorman, Vice President, Research, UA) |
| 9:30 | Overview of IARC-JAXA Activity (N. Matsuura, Project Manager, JAXA) |
| 10:00 | Overview of IARC (L. Hinzman, Deputy Director, IARC) |
| 10:45 | Overview of Japan’s science and technology policy (F. Itoh, MEXT) |
| 11:00 | Overview of NSF Arctic Program (M. Van Woert, Executive Officer, OPP/NSF) |
| 11:15 | IODP Scientific Drilling and CHIKYUU (IODP Science Drilling Vessel) (H. Kinoshita, Executive Director, JAMSTEC) |
| 11:45 | ALOS Reception at Alaska Satellite Facility (N. LaBelle-Hamer , Director, ASF-UAF) |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break and Comments by S. Jones (Chancellor, UAF) Poster Session |
| 14:00 | Ecosystem Studies of Today and Tomorrow with Emphasis on Observation, Modeling and Simulation (E. Wada, Program Director, JAMSTEC) |
| 15:00 | Application of Remote Sensing Data to Terrestrial Vegetation Studies (R. Suzuki, JAMSTEC) |
| 16:00 | Overview of UAF Climate Modeling Activities (J. Walsh, Chief Scientist, IARC) |
| 18:00 | Reception (Lavelle’s Bistro, SpringHill Suites Marriott Hotel) |
Day 2 (March 7, Tuesday)
| 9:00 | Monitoring the Influence of 2004 Alaskan Large Forest Fires on Terrestrial Environment ( M. Fukuda, Professor, Hokkaido U.) |
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| 9:40 | Thermal State of Permafrost: Present, Past, and Future (V. Romanovsky, Associate Professor, GI-UAF) |
| 10:20 | Linkages between Freshwater Discharges, Sea-ice Conditions and Primary Productivity and Climate Changes in the Bering Sea (S. Saitoh, Professor, Hokkaido U.) |
| 11:00 | Biochemical Enhancement related to Mesoscale Eddies in the Bering Sea Green Belt (K. Mizobata, IARC) |
| 11:20 | Synthesis of Satellite Data and Field Observation Data: Progress and the Next Step in the UAF's Site Study (Y. Harazono, IARC) |
| 11:40 | Downscaling Ice-Ocean Characteristics in the Beaufort-Chukchi Seas Simulated by an IARC Coupled Ice-Ocean Model (CIOM) (J. Wang, Associate Professor, IARC) |
| 12:20 | Lunch Break Poster Session |
| 13:15 | (VIP Facility Tour in IARC/IJIS) |
| 14:00 | Climate-Change Effects on Boreal Fire Regime and Its Consequences for Society (T. Chapin, Professor, UAF) |
| 14:25 | Some Ideas to Identify and Clarify the Source and Effects of Climate Warming in the Arctic and Subarctic (G. Juday, Professor, UAF) |
| 14:50 | Freshwater and Humans in a Changing Arctic Environment (D. White, Professor, UAF) |
| 15:15 | Large Dynamical Changes in Tidewater Glaciers and Implications for Greenland (M. Truffer, Assistant Professor, UAF) |
| 15:40 | Climate Change in the North: What the Past can Tell us about the Future ( N. Bigelow, UAF) |
| 16:05 | Closing Remarks (S. Akasofu, Director, IARC) |
| 16:30 | Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) tour |
Day 3 (March 8, Wednesday)
| 9:00 | Overview of IJIS (T. Sakurai and D. Ellanna) |
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| 9:30 | Introduction to OASIS (R. Nakajima and R. Muskett) |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 | Archive Data Overview (M. Hori) |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
| 12:45 | Demonstration of Data Usage |
| 15:00 | Open Discussion of IJIS / OASIS / Data Usage |
Poster Presentations
- Fire Affects on Plant-Soil System in Taiga Forests in Interior Alaska
(L. Koyama, M. Hirobe, S. Hobara and N. Tokuchi) - Spectral Characteristics of Ground Components One Year After Fire in an Interior Alaskan Black Spruce Forest
(K. Kushida) - Forest Fire Detection Based on MODIS Satellite Imagery, and Comparison of NOAA Satellite Imagery with Fire Fighters' Information
(K. Nakau, M. Fukuda, K. Kushida, H. Hayasaka, K. Kimura and H. Tani) - Preliminary Report on 2005 and 2004 Alaska Forest Fires
(H. Hayasaka) - Ground Surface Burn Severity Index Based on Thermal Conductivity Measurements
(M. Fukuda) - Permafrost Degradation after the Tundra Fire in Seward Peninsula, Alaska - A Preliminary Study -
(Y. Sawada and K. Harada) - Preliminary Study on Permafrost Degradation by 2004 Boundary Fire: Site Description, Active Layer, and Geomorphological Control on the Vegetation Recovery
(K. Harada, Y. Sawada and J. Mori) - Impacts of Wildfire on the Hydrological Environment in Interior Alaska
(Y. Ishii, Y. Kodama, Y. Kim, K. Harada, Y. Sawada and M. Fukuda) - Observation of CO2 Efflux at Poker Flat Forest Fire Burned Site in 2005
(Y. Kodama, Y. Ishii and Y. Kim) - Decomposition Rate of Woody Debris in a Burnt Forest: Result of a Preliminary Study at Poker Flat Research Range
(M. Jomura and M. Dannoura) - Effects of Fire on Fine Root Biomass in a Black Spruce Forest: A Preliminary Study at the Poker Flat Research Range
(K. Noguchi and Y. Matsuura) - Measurements of Root Respiration and Soil Respiration before and after Forest
(M. Dannoura and M. Jomura) - A Case Study of 2004 Fires at Poker Flat Research Range
(Y. Matsuura) - Survey Results of Ground Conditions after Fires near Fairbanks
(H. Hayasaka and H. Tani) - Examination of Structural Constraints in Relation to Site Condition in Black Spruce Chronosequence
(A. Osawa, T. Kajimoto, Y. Matsuura and N. Kurachi) - Carbon Loss from Forest Floor/Topsoil by Wildfire: A Case Study of 2004 Fires at Poker Flat Research Range
(Y. Matsuura) - The Effects of Intensive Forest Fire on Revegetation in Interior Alaska (Mid-term Report, February 2006)
(S. Tsuyuzaki and K. Narita) - The Role of Fire Disturbance in the Response of Historical Carbon Dynamics in the Boreal Forest from 1950-2002
(M. S. Balshi and A. D. McGuire) - Bio-Oprical Properties and its Application for Ocean Color Algorithm in the Western Arctic Ocean
(A. Matsuoka, S. Saitoh and K. Shimada) - Satellite Observation of Emiliania huxleyi Blooms in the Eastern Bering Sea from 1998 to 2005
(T. Iida, S. Saitoh, T. Miyamura, M. Toratani, H. Fukushima and N. Shiga) - The Mechanism of Temporal and Spatial Variability of Phytoplankton in the Bearing Sea and the Okhotsk Sea Using Satellite Observation and Ecosystem Modeling
(T. Iida, S. Saitoh and J. Wang) - Temporal and Spatial Variations of Chlorophyll-a Concentration and Primary Production over the Bering Sea
(T. Rho, S. Saitoh, T. E. Whitledge, H. Kiyofuji, T. Iida and K. Mizobata) - Problem of Atmospheric Correction in Bering Sea
(M. Toratani) - Drastic Decrease in Copepod Populations on the Southeastern Bering Sea Shelf in the Early 2000s
(N. Yamada, N. Shiga and A. Iijima) - IPY Collaborative Research Cruises in Arctic Sea and Bering Sea Using T/S Oshoro-maru, Hokkaido University
(S. Saitoh, Y. Sakurai and T. Whitledge) - Satellite Snow Information for Hydrological Research
(H. Enomoto, Y. Kim, R. Toshiro, S. Kimura, S. Takahashi and K. Satow) - Sea Ice Growth/Decay Analysis in the Arctic
(H. Enomoto, K. Tateyama, K. Shirasawa and H. Eicken) - Automatic Data Processing of Sea Ice Information
(H. Enomoto, K. Tateyama and R. Toshiro) - Glaciological Activities on McCall Glacier, Alaska, in 2003-2004
(S. Takahashi, K. Satoh, K. Satow, J. Uetake, M. Nolan, F. Pattyn, M. Igarashi and Y Fujii) - Controls of the Land-fast Ice-Ocean Ecosystem Offshore Barrow, Alaska
(M. Jin, C. J. Deal, J. Wang, K. Shin, N. Tanaka, T. E. Whitledge, S. H. Lee and R. R. Gradinger) - Summer Chlorophyll Distributions and the Association with the Runoff and an Ocean-Ice Circulation in the Beaufort/Chukchi Sea
(K. Mizobata) - Summer Chlorophyll Distributions in Relation to Mesoscale Features in the Beaufort/Chukchi Sea
(K. Mizobata) - Eddy-induced Cross-slope Exchange along the Bering Sea Shelf Break Using a 3-D OGCM & Satellite Multi-sensor Remote Sensing
(K. Mizobata) - Preliminary Analysis of Spatial Distribution of CO2 Exchange over Alaskan Boreal Ecosystem: A Synthesis of NOAA/AVHRR Data and Tower Fluxes
(T. Kitamoto, M. Ueyama, Y. Harazono, T. Iwata and S. Yamamoto)