Arctic Change 2008

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Conference Programme and Abstracts
Programme et résumés de la conférence
Québec (Qc)
9-12 December, 2008 • 9-12 décembre 2008
WELCOME TO ARCTIC CHANGE 2008
With climate change and Arctic issues moving to the forefront of national and international agendas, circumpolar nations face
an increased urgency to expand the observational basis needed to formulate strategies and policies that will minimize the nega-
tive impacts and maximize the positive outcomes of the on-going transformation of the Arctic. Building on the success of its
annual scientific meeting, the ArcticNet Network of Centres of Excellence and its national and international partners welcome
the international Arctic research community to Quebec City for the International Arctic Change 2008 Conference. Coinciding
with the pinnacle of the Fourth International Polar Year (IPY), Arctic Change 2008 welcomes over 700 researchers, students,
policy makers and stakeholders from 16 countries and from all fields of Arctic research to address the global challenges and op-
portunities brought by climate change in the circum-Arctic.
ArcticNet is supported by the Government of Canada through the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) programs.
Additional support for the Arctic Change 2008 conference was provided through NCE’s International Partnership Initiatives
program.
BIENVENUE À ARCTIC CHANGE 2008
Les changements climatiques et les enjeux entourant l’Arctique se retrouvent au premier plan des priorités nationales et inter-
nationales. Les nations circumpolaires doivent maintenant élaborer des stratégies et des politiques visant à réduire les impacts
négatifs et maximiser les répercussions positives des changements en cours dans l’Arctique. Le Réseau de centres d’excellence
ArcticNet et ses partenaires nationaux et internationaux invitent la communauté internationale de recherche arctique à partici-
per à la conférence internationale Arctic Change 2008. Coïncidant avec la quatrième Année polaire internationale (API), Arctic
Change 2008 invite plus de 700 chercheurs, étudiants et décideurs de 16 pays et de tous les champs de la recherche arctique à
venir aborder les défis et les opportunités amenés par les changements climatiques dans la région circumarctique.
ArcticNet est appuyé par un programme des Réseaux de centres d’excellence (RCE) du Gouvernement du Canada.
Arctic Change 2008 a reçu un soutien additionnel des RCE par l’entremise de son Initiative de partenariats internationaux.
PARTNERS / PARTENAIRES
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
International Organizing Committee p. 2
Local Organizing Committee p. 2
General Conference Programme p. 3
Student Day Programme p. 4
Plenary Session Programme p. 6
Topical Session Programme
Schedule p. 8
Co-Chairs and Description p. 23
Student Day Oral Abstracts p. 33
Plenary Session Oral Abstracts p. 36
Topical Session Oral Abstracts p. 42
Poster Abstracts p. 169
Participants p. 325
Sponsors p. 340
Exhibitors p. 343
Sponsor Advertisements p. 347
Conference Floor Plan p. 350
Arctic Change 2008 Conference Programme and Abstracts
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Prof. Jody Deming Dr. Lars-Otto Reiersen
Chair, International Arctic Polynya Programme (IAPP) Executive Secretary, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA Programme (AMAP)
Oslo, Norway
Prof. Louis Fortier
Scientific Director, ArcticNet Prof. Peter Schlosser
Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee, Study of Envi-
ronmental Arctic Change (SEARCH)
Dr. Martin Fortier, Chair Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York,
Executive Director, ArcticNet USA
Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Ms. Mary Simon
Prof. Chris Furgal President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
Co-Director, Nasivvik Centre Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Mr. Duane Smith
Prof. Jean-Claude Gascard President, Inuit Circumpolar Council-Canada (ICC)
Project leader, Developing Arctic Modeling and Observing Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Capabilities for Long-term Environmental Studies (DA-
MOCLES) Prof. Paul Wassmann
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France Leader, ARCTic marine ecOSystem research network (ARC-
TOS)
University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ms. Christine Barnard Ms. Suzette Forget
Data Manager, ArcticNet Finance Coordinator, ArcticNet
Ms. Jaime Dawson Prof. Louis Fortier
Communications Officer, ArcticNet Scientific Director, ArcticNet
Ms. Christine Demers Dr. Martin Fortier
Administrative Assistant, ArcticNet Executive Director, ArcticNet
Ms. Natalie Desmarais M. Keith Levesque
Executive Assistant, ArcticNet Ship-based Research Coordinator, ArcticNet
M. Sylvain Tougas
Website Developer, ArcticNet

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GENERAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY,
9 DECEMBER 10 DECEMBER 11 DECEMBER 12 DECEMBER
Plenary Session Plenary Session
08:30 - 10:00 Student Day
(Room 2000AB) (Room 2000AB)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Student Day Topical Sessions Topical Sessions Topical Sessions
Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
(Hilton Ballroom) (Hilton Ballroom) (Hilton Ballroom) (Hilton Ballroom)
13:30 - 15:00 Student Day Topical Sessions Topical Sessions Topical Sessions
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
Plenary Session Plenary Session
15:30 - 17:00 Student Day Meeting Adjourns
(Room 2000AB) (Room 2000AB)
Poster Session Poster Session
17:00 - 19:00 Registration/Reception
(Room 2000CD) (Room 2000CD)
Banquet
19:00 - 23:00 Dinner on your own Dinner on your own
(Hilton Ballroom)

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STUDENT DAY PROGRAMME
TUESDAY, 9 DECEMBER
Arctic Change International Student Day (Room 2000AB)
Celebrating Partnership and Collaboration in Arctic Research
07:30 Registration Breakout Session assignment confirmation
08:30 Sonja Ostertag Welcome Message from the ASA President
08:35 Danielle Dubien Student Day Objectives and Agenda
08:40 Louis Fortier Opening Remarks from the ArcticNet Scientific Director
08:50 Mary Simon Keynote Speech from the President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
10:00 Break
Free love in the far north: reproductive strategies used by arctic foxes on Bylot
10:30 Cassandra Cameron
Island, Nunavut, Canada
Trans-polar fat 008: An update on atherogenic effects and regulatory issues in
10:45 Émilie Counil
Nunavik
Permafrost young researchers gets their hands dirty: The PYRN-Thermal State of
11:00 Hugues Lantuit
Permafrost IPY project
Digital image analyses of oil sacs in copepods as a fast and cost efficient method to
11:15 Daniel Vogedes
determine total lipid
Spring Measurements of Stratospheric Composition from PEARL in 007 and
11:30 Felicia Kolonjari 008 using the Portable Atmospheric Research Interferometric Spectrometer for the
Infrared (PARIS-IR)
Karen Flaherty
Kerri Tattuinee
Kiah Hachey
11:45 Arctic research from the perspectives of six participants in Nunavut Sivuniksavut
Janice Grey-Scott
Ann-Marie Aitchison
Abbygail Noah
12:00 Lunch

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STUDENT DAY PROGRAMME
12:00 Lunch
13:15 Lara Mountain Introduction to Student Breakout Sessions
Room Topic Facilitators
0C Keys to success for young researchers G. Gilchrist, M. Mallory, I. Laurion
0B Designing a dynamic research proposal L. Brathwaite
E. Loring
000AB Communication and outreach
I. Myers-Smith
13:30
M. McKenna and Inuit Research
06A Northern training and involvement
Advisors
Arctic Research on the international J. Baeseman
06B
stage H. Lantuit
15:00 Break
15:30 Jenny Baeseman International circumpolar research opportunities
15:40 Vicki Sahanatian Circumpolar training opportunities
15:50 Lucette Barber Review of Arctic Climate Change Youth Forum
Engaging undergraduate university students in climate change
16:00 Ryan Brooks
research
16:15 ASA Update and General Assembly
17:00 Arctic Change Registration and Reception

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PLENARY SESSION PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY, 10 DECEMBER - 8:30 TO 10:00
OPENING PLENARY
Chair: Martin Fortier, Chair of the Arctic Change 2008 International Organizing Committee
Louis Fortier
08:30 Welcome from ArcticNet and Introduction
Scientific Director, ArcticNet
Martin Fortier
08:40 Welcome from IOC and Meeting Logistics
Executive Director, ArcticNet
Edwin Bourget
08:45 Welcome from Université Laval
Vice Rector, Research and Creation, Université Laval
Duane Smith
08:50 Opening Remarks
President, Inuit Circumpolar Council-Canada
Patrick Borbey
09:00 Assistant Deputy Minister, Northern Affairs Organization, The Northern Strategy and Science
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
David Carlson
09:15 The IPY 007-009: An Update
Director, International Programme Office, International Polar Year
09:45 Questions & Discussions
WEDNESDAY, 10 DECEMBER - 15:30 TO 17:00
PANEL: THE FUTURE OF CIRCUMPOLAR RESEARCH AND POLICY
Chairs: Duane Smith, President, Inuit Circumpolar Council-Canada & Lars-Otto Reiersen, Executive
Secretary, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
David Hik
15:30
Vice-President, International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)
Carl Christian Olsen
15:40
Executive Council Member, Inuit Circumpolar Council-Greenland
Marybeth Murray
15:50
Executive Director, International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC)
Caleb Pungawly
16:00
Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska
Lene Kielsen Holm
16:10
Director of International Sustainable Development, Inuit Circumpolar Council-Greenland
Lars-Otto Reiersen
16:20
Chair, Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) Initiating Group
16:30 Presentation of SAON recommendations to the Arctic Council
16:40 Questions & Discussions
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PLENARY SESSION PROGRAMME
THURSDAY, 11 DECEMBER - 8:30 TO 10:10
EXPLORING EARTH’S LAST OCEAN FRONTIER
Chair: Jody Deming, Chair, International Arctic Polynya Program
08:30 David Grimes Thriving in the North – Canadian Arctic Environmental Prediction Services
08:50 Wieslaw Maslowski On limits and uncertainties of predictions of Arctic warming
09:10 Larry Mayer Mapping the High Arctic: The Challenges and the Joys
09:30 Benoit Beauchamp Hydrocarbon Energy from the Arctic: Holy Grail or Pipe Dream?
09:50 Don Rothwell A New Legal Regime for the Arctic
THURSDAY, 11 DECEMBER - 15:30 to 17:30
MAJOR INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC RESEARCH PROGRAMS: HIGHLIGHTS AND RESULTS
Chair: Peter Schlosser, Chair, Study of Environmental Arctic change (SEARCH) Science Steering
Committee
15:30 Barry Smit Climate Adaptation & Vulnerability in Arctic Regions (CAVIAR)
15:50 Kue Young Is Cancer Increasing among the Circumpolar Inuit?
Gilles Gauthier & Arctic Wildlife Observatories Linking Vulnerable EcoSystems
16:10
Dominique Berteaux (ArcticWOLVES)
Arctic Tipping Points (ATP): a new EU project on marine ecosystems
16:30 Paul Wassmann
dynamics in the European Arctic sector?
Developing Arctic Modelling and Observing Capabilities for Long-
16:50 Jean-Claude Gascard
term / Environmental Studies (DAMOCLES)
The International Polar Year (IPY) Circumpolar Flaw Lead (CFL)
17:10 David Barber
system study
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TOPICAL SESSION PROGRAMME
(Schedule)
WEDNESDAY, 10 DECEMBER -- 10:30 - 12:00 AM
T01A. Impacts of Climate Change on Arctic Trophic Interactions and Ecosystem Services?
Room 206A
10:0 Lecomte, Nicolas Metamorphosis of the Arctic Terrestrial Food Webs: between Collapse of Native Species
and Explosion of Exotic Predators?
10: Gauthier, Gilles Impact of climate change on arctic terrestrial food webs: examples from the Bylot Island
long term study
11:00 Doiron, Madeleine Plant-herbivore interactions and climate change: The Case of the Greater Snow Goose
11:1 Hofgaard, Annika Land use and climate driven alteration of trophic interactions in tundra systems: an alpine
example from 6N
11:0 Therrien, Jean-François Reproductive success and long-distance movements of Snowy Owls: is this top arctic
predator vulnerable to climate change?
11: Smith, Paul Seabirds Indicate Change in the Arctic Marine Environment
T04A. Community-Based Research Initiatives as an Interface for Inuit and Scientific Knowledge
Exchange
Room 2000AB
10:0 Simon, Mary & Smith, Duane Opening remarks by co-chairs
10: Mate, David More Talk, More Action : Cooperative Approaches for Addressing Climate Change
Adaptation at the Community Level in Nunavut
11:00 Huntington, Henry Siku-Inuit-Hila: Connecting Communities and Scientists through Community Exchanges,
Experts Groups, and Measurements
11:1 Furgal, Chris Methods and Approaches to Linking Inuit Knowledge and Science for the Understanding
of Climate Change in Arctic Regions
11:0 Aatami, Pita The inuit of Nunavik (Northern Quebec): successes and challenges
11:
T06A. IPY 2007-2008 Research: Cryosphere / Hydrosphere / Atmosphere
Room 206B
10:0 Bernier, Monique RADARSAT based river ice mapping in the Nunavik context
10: Chung, Yi-Ching Evaluation of a Coupled Sea Ice System Including Blowing Snow Processes Over Arctic
Sea-Ice
11:00 Gyakum, John Trends in Canadian Surface Temperature Anomaly Intensity
11:1 Shiklomanov, Nikolay Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) Program: Accomplishments and Future
Directions
11:0 Peterson, Ingrid Variability of oceanographic and ice properties in the eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago
11: Myers, Paul West Greenland Current Variability
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