For information about the Arctic Hydrology Initiative and the
development of the draft plan, contact science steering committee
co-chairs:
Charles Vörösmarty at: charles.vorosmarty [at] unh.edu
Larry Hinzman at: ffldh [at] uaf.edu
For information about the community review process, or if you have
problems obtaining the draft publication from the ARCUS web site,
contact Sue Mitchell at ARCUS at: sue [at] arcus.org.
The draft plan is available from: http://www.arcus.org/ARCSS/hydro/
REVIEW COMMENTS ARE DUE BY: 1 August 2001
Send comments to sue [at] arcus.org or by mail to ARCUS (address below).
DRAFT AVAILABLE FOR COMMUNITY REVIEW:
The Hydrologic Cycle and its Role in Arctic and Global Environmental
Change: A Rationale and Strategy for Synthesis Study
In September 2000, scientists met at the National Center for Ecological
Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, California, for a National
Science Foundation-sponsored workshop to determine research priorities
for arctic hydrology and how it can contribute to the goals of the
National Science Foundation (NSF) Arctic System Science Program.
There are several notable gaps in our current level of understanding of
Arctic hydrological systems. At the same time, rapidly emerging data
sets, technologies, and modeling resources provide us with an
unprecedented opportunity to move substantially forward. Workshop
participants and organizers came up with the following key unresolved
questions:
- What are the major features (i.e., stocks and fluxes) of the
pan-arctic water balance and how do they vary over time and space? - How will the arctic hydrologic cycle respond to global change?
- What are the direct impacts of arctic hydrology changes on nutrient
biogeochemistry, and ecosystem structure and function? - What are the hydrologic cycle feedbacks to the oceans and
atmosphere in the face of global change? How will these feedbacks
influence human systems?
Workshop participants and the organizing committee developed a draft
report from the workshop, with key findings and recommendations to
the National Science Foundation. This draft report is now available
for community review. We request and urge your participation in this
process. Please take a few moments to download the draft plan from
http://www.arcus.org/ARCSS/hydro/ and send us your thoughts. If you
are unable to download the PDF of the draft plan from the ARCUS web
site, you may request an emailed PDF file or a hard copy from Sue
Mitchell, sue [at] arcus.org, at ARCUS.
COMMENTS ARE DUE TO ARCUS BY: 1 August 2001
Send comments to sue [at] arcus.org or by mail to:
ARCUS
3535 College Road, Suite 101
Fairbanks, Alaska 99709-3710
USA
Thank you for taking the time to participate in this planning process.
Sincerely,
The NSF-ARCSS Hydrology Workshop Steering Committee:
Charles Vörösmarty (University of New Hampshire)
Larry Hinzman (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Bruce Peterson (Marine Biological Laboratory)
David Bromwich (Ohio State University)
Lawrence Hamilton (University of New Hampshire)
James Morison (University of Washington)
Vladimir Romanovsky (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Matthew Sturm (CRREL, Fort Wainwright, Alaska)
Robert Webb (NOAA, Boulder, Colorado)