Register Now for SBI eTown Meeting
Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI)
Implementation Planning for Phase III Modeling and Synthesis
Date: Monday, 30 January 2006
Time: 9:00 a.m. Alaska Standard Time (AST)
(10:00 a.m. PST; 11:00 a.m. MST; 12:00 p.m. CST; 1:00 p.m. EST)
Duration: Approximately 1.5 hours
Advance registration is required.
Registration Deadline: Thursday, 26 January 2006
Meeting overview and registration are available at:
http://www.arcus.org/ARCSS/ETM/January_06/SBI/
For more information, please contact:
Jackie Grebmeier
Director, SBI Project Office
E-mail: jgrebmei [at] utk.edu
http://sbi.utk.edu
Dear Colleagues:
The Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Advisory Committee and
Project Office is sponsoring this eTown Meeting to provide an open forum
to discuss implementation objectives and planning for SBI Phase III and
to solicit community input for a systems approach to understanding
arctic shelf-basin dynamics.
A second SBI Town Hall Meeting will be held in conjunction with the 2006
Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii on 22 February 2006. More
information about the Hawaii meeting is available at the bottom of this
e-mail.
The goal of the ongoing SBI project 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. SBI was designed through cooperative science
planning to include three phases: Phase I (1999-2001) included
retrospective synthesis, opportunistic sampling and modeling; Phase II
(2002-2006) is the on-going multi-year field program and modeling effort
in the Amerasian Arctic; and the planned Phase III (2007-2009) will be
the synthesis and modeling component.
SBI Phase III will produce syntheses from the regional to the entire
Arctic and, in some cases, the entire global ecosystem in the context of
SBI objectives. We anticipate that results from the SBI Phase I and II
data sets will form the basis of western Arctic synthesis studies and
may also include results from coincident field programs that occurred
during the SBI program to date. Projects would examine broad scale
implications of these results in order to develop a better systems
understanding of shelf-basin interactions in the Arctic and its
connection to global processes.
Jackie Grebmeier
Director, SBI Project Office
The eTown Meeting is scheduled for Monday, 30 January 2006 at 9:00 a.m.
Alaska Standard Time (10:00 a.m. PST; 11:00 a.m. MST; 12:00 p.m. CST;
1:00 p.m. EST).
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
To join the eTown Meeting, participants will log in to an Internet
presentation through an online interface AND call in through a
teleconference line. Participants also have the option to participate
via phone only.
Web-platform login and call-in instructions will be sent to all
registered participants in advance. The eTown Meeting will be archived
and available for viewing after the actual online session.
REGISTRATION
To register for the ARCSS eTown Meeting, go to:
http://www.arcus.org/ARCSS/ETM/January_06/SBI/registration.html
Registration Deadline: Thursday, 26 January 2006
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
More information about the eTown Meeting can be found at:
http://www.arcus.org/ARCSS/ETM/January_06/SBI/
More information about the Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI)
Project can be found at:
http://sbi.utk.edu
Or contact:
Jackie Grebmeier
Director, SBI Project Office
E-mail: jgrebmei [at] utk.edu
For registration and technical questions, please contact:
Laura Slater, ARCUS
Phone: 907-474-1600
E-mail: laura [at] arcus.org
UPCOMING SBI TOWN HALL MEETING:
In conjunction with the 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii
Topic: SBI Phase III Implementation
Date: Wednesday, 22 February 2006
Time: 6:30 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
Location: Hawaii Convention Center, Level 3, Room 316A