Date

Multiple Resources Available

  1. Website Available
    Frontier Scientists
    Arctic Region Supercomputing Center

  2. Report Available
    State of the Arctic Coast 2010--Scientific Review and Outlook

  3. Newsletter Available
    IASC Progress, Spring 2011
    International Arctic Science Committee

  4. Website Available
    Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project

  1. Website Available
    Frontier Scientists
    Arctic Region Supercomputing Center

Greg Newby of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University
of Alaska Fairbanks has launched a new website entitled "Frontier
Scientists". The website connects Alaska field scientists with
individuals curious about arctic discoveries, and is funded by the
National Science Foundation.

The website features scientists and current research investigations in
remote arctic locations. Multiple functions on the website allow
scientists to share first person and real-time accounts from remote
field locations. Visitors to the website can view chronicled video
clips, ask questions directly to the scientists, follow some of them on
Twitter and Facebook, and converse on their blog. Current research
topics include grizzlies, petroglyphs, paleo-Eskimo history, Cook Inlet
volcanoes, Alutiiq weavers, and climate change. The site is also hosting
a photo contest of Alaskan natural, historic, and cultural images.

To view this website, please go to:
http://www.frontierscientists.com.

For further information, please contact:
Greg Newby
Email: newby [at] arsc.edu
Phone: 907-450-8663

Elizabeth O'Connell
Email: wondervision2 [at] yahoo.com
Phone: 541-312-2419

  1. Report Available
    State of the Arctic Coast 2010--Scientific Review and Outlook

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), the international
Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) Project, the Arctic
Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), and the International
Permafrost Association (IPA) are pleased to announce the official
release of an international entitled "State of the Arctic Coast
2010--Scientific Review and Outlook."

The coast is a key interface in the arctic environment. It is a locus of
human activity; a rich band of biodiversity, critical habitat, and high
productivity; and among the most dynamic components of the circumpolar
landscape. The arctic coastal interface is a sensitive and important
zone of interaction between land and sea; a region that provides
essential ecosystem services and supports indigenous human lifestyles; a
zone of expanding infrastructure investment and growing security
concerns; and an area in which climate warming is expected to trigger
landscape instability, rapid responses to change, and increased hazard
exposure. The circumpolar arctic coast is arguably one of the most
critical zones in terms of the rapidity and the severity of
environmental change and the implications for human communities
dependent on coastal resources.

A collaborative effort by 47 lead and contributing authors from 10
nations including all those bordering the arctic coast and others with
arctic interests, the "State of the Arctic Coast 2010--Scientific Review
and Outlook" report grew from a recommendation by the Workshop on Arctic
Coastal Zones at Risk, convened in October 2007 in Tromso, Norway. The
report was peer-reviewed and released in draft form for open public
review in 2010. It is published by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht,
LOICZ International Project Office, at the Institute of Coastal Research
in Geesthacht, Germany.

To view and download the report, please go to:
http://www.arcticcoasts.org.

  1. IASC Progress, Spring 2011
    International Arctic Science Committee

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) announces that the
spring 2011 issue of IASC Progress is available. Highlights include:

- New cooperation initiatives to promote arctic health research,
education, and outreach;
- The Arctic Science Summit Week 2011; and
- State of the Arctic Coast 2010--Scientific Review and Outlook.

To download this issue of Progress, please go to:
http://iasc.arcticportal.org/index.php/home/service/media.

For further information, please contact:
Mare Pit
Email: Mare.Pit [at] iasc.info

  1. Website Available
    Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project

The ice2sea MISMIP3D: Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project for
planview models (3D) is now online. To access the website, please go to:
http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~fpattyn/mismip3d.

ice2sea MISMIP3D is developed within the Seventh Framework Programme
(FP7) ice2sea project. However, participation in the intercomparison
exercise is completely open to the public. Everyone that has an ice
sheet model (at least 2D planform) capable of handling grounding lines
(transition of the ice sheet and the ice shelf) can participate.

ice2sea MISMIP3D is a model intercomparison exercise similar to the
Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (MISMIP), which was
developed with the aim of evaluating marine ice sheet models along a
flowline. MISMIP3D applies to planview models (i.e. incorporating two
horizontal dimensions). The model setup is very close to MISMIP and
considers ice flow in one direction.

For further information, please go to:
http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~fpattyn/mismip3d.