18th annual aosb meeting
29 March 1 April, 1999
National Institute for Polar Research
Tokyo, Japan
| Sunday, 28 March | |
| 1700-1800 | AOSB Steering Committee meeting |
| 1800- | Informal reception at hotel bar |
Monday, 29 March |
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| 0930-0935 | Opening of meeting by AOSB Chair (Fütterer) |
| 0935-0945 | Welcome from NIPR (NIPR Director-General, Professor Takeo Hirasawa) |
| 0945-1000 | Meeting arrangements and adoption of agenda |
| 1000-1200 1000-1200 1000-1100 1100-1200 |
AOSB programs and interests IAPP (Legendre) NOW Report from the SCG |
| 1200-1300 | Lunch Hosted by the NIPR Director-General to honor the returning Japanese Antarctic expeditioners. 6th floor of NIPR building. All AOSB participants invited. |
| 1300-1700 1300-1400 1400-1500 1500-1600 1600-1700 |
AOSB Programs and Interests APARD (Fütterer) Arctic Ocean remote sensing activities/GRASP (Gudmandsen) Freshwater balance in the Arctic (Holland) Shelf-basin interaction (Anderson and Clark) |
| 1700-1800 | Discussion, wrap-up, plans for Tuesday |
Tuesday, 30 March |
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| 0900-1230 0900-0930 0930-1000 1000-1020 1020-1040 1040-1120 1120-1140 |
Related Arctic Ocean programs VEINS and post-VEINS (Dickson) SHEBA/JOIS (Clark and Bergmann) ACSYS (Dickson) BIODAFF (Weslawski) ESOP-2 (Anderson and Gascard) Nansen Arctic Drilling (Fütterer) |
| 1140-1230 | Discussion, wrap-up, plans for Wednesday |
| 1230-1400 | Lunch |
| 1400-1800 | Presentations on the NIPR and its programs (see below) |
| 1900- | Dinner hosted by NIPR |
Wednesday, 31 March |
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| 0900-1030 0900-0930 0930-1000 1000-1030 |
Future directions for AOSB programs (Introduction) Atlantic variability and global change (Dickson) Research needs and opportunities for multiple platforms (Fütterer) Data Management Plan in Russia (Vyazilov) |
| 1030-1230 | Relations to other Arctic science programs and organizations --EU, LOIRA, European Polar Board (Fütterer) |
| 1230-1300 | Discussion, wrap-up, plans for Thursday |
Thursday, 1 April |
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| 0900-1130 | Future directions for AOSB programs (discussion and conclusions) |
| --Atlantic variability and global change --Research needs and opportunities for multiple platforms |
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| 1130-1215 | Management issues (including the workplan for the next year, the AOSB website, newsletter, brochure, etc) |
| 1215-1230 | Elections |
| 1230 | Adjourn |
Please Note: Short session breaks will be added as needed. Tea, coffee, soft drinks and waster will be available throughout the day.
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Presentations on the NIPR and its programs;
Japanese Research Programs in the Arctic Ocean
| Tuesday, March 30 | |
| 14:00-14:10 | Introduction on Japanese activity in the Arctic Ocean (M. Fukuchi: CAEM, NIPR) |
| 14:10-14:20 | Establishment of Arctic Environment Research Center within NIPR (H. Ito: AERC, NIPR) |
| 14:20-14:50 | Arctic Research by the Frontier Research System for Global Change (M. Ikeda: Gr. Sch. Environmental Earth Sci., Hokkaido Univ.) |
| 14:50-15:20 | Arctic Ocean Research Activities of JAMSTEC (T. Takizawa: JAMSTEC) |
| 15:20-15:50 | Satellite and ship observations in the sub-arctic North Pacific and marginal seas (S. Saitoh: Fac. Fish., Hokkaido Univ.) |
| 15:50-16:20 | Can arctic cod be in an indicator species related to climatic change in the circumpolar marine ecosystem ? (Y. Sakurai: Fac. Fish., Hokkaido Univ.) |
| 16:20-16:50 | Winter cruise 1999 in Greenland and Barents Seas (H. Ito: AERC, NIPR) |
| 16:50-17:20 | Fjord study around Spitzbergen since 1991 (S. Ushio: AERC, NIPR) |
| 17:20-17:50 | NOW program (T. Odate: Biology Dept., NIPR) |
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Members:
Leif Anderson, Sweden
Martin Bergmann (alternate), Canada
Larry Clark (alternate), USA
John Cooley, Canada
Robert Dickson, United Kingdom
Mitsuo Fukuchi, Japan
Dieter Fütterer, Germany
Jean Claude Gascard, France
Preben Gudmandsen, Denmark
Geoffrey Holland, Canada
Pentti Mälkki, Finland
Jan Marcin Weslawski, Poland
Staff:
Louis B. Brown
Cara M. Sucher
Observers:
Roger Colony, ACSYS
Louis Legendre, Chair IAPP-SCG
Evgeny Vyazilov, Russia
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