Open Planning Meeting
"Western Arctic Shelf Basin Interactions (SBI) Phase III Planning"
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2005 Fall Meeting
Tuesday, 6 December 2005
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
For further information, please contact:
Jackie Grebmeier
E-mail: jgrebmei [at] utk.edu
The Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) project office will
hold an open, informal discussion session at AGU in San Francisco, CA on
developing plans for SBI Phase III. The central goal of SBI, funded
through the NSF Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Program and the Office of
Naval Research (ONR), is to improve our understanding of the impacts of
global change on the physical and biogeochemical connections among the
continental shelves, slopes, and deep basins of the western Arctic.
Within the Phase III synthesis and modeling planning effort there is a
need to evaluate and integrate the field results collected as part of
the current SBI Phase II with other western arctic studies and then
expand these studies to a pan-arctic assessment of other shelves and
basins.
The meeting will take place on Tuesday, 6 December 2005 from 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. at:
The Argent Hotel - Olympic Room
50 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
The Argent Hotel is a long block from the Moscone Center West. View an
online map at:
http://www.cmrhousing.com/agu_9u/map.asp
This meeting will be led by Rodger Harvey and Wieslaw Maslowski, both
members of the SBI Advisory Committee. This meeting will be the first of
three planned open discussion forums to be held over the next three
months for community input on the objectives and direction for this
final phase of SBI.
Further information on the SBI project and planning efforts for SBI
Phase III can be found at the SBI Project office website:
http://sbi.utk.edu/phaseiii.htm