Date

Meeting Announcement and Call for Abstracts
56th AAAS Arctic Science Conference
"Is the North that Different? Consequences of Arctic and Sub-Arctic
Environmental Variation"
Kodiak, Alaska
27-29 September 2005

Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 July 2005

For further information, registration, and abstract submission, please
go to:
http://arctic.aaas.org/

or contact the conference president, Dr. Scott Smiley at:
smiley [at] sfos.uaf.edu


The Arctic Division meeting in Kodiak, Alaska will cover natural
resources, environmental change, and the impact of regime shifts and
global change. Recent discoveries, their interpretation, and impacts on
policy will be discussed with different perspectives ranging from
economics to ecology. Plenary topics and symposium include economics of
seafood, aquaculture, Amchitka Island, food security, tsunamis, and
volcanoes. Online registration will be available beginning 1 May 2005.
For further information, please go to:
http://arctic.aaas.org/

Call for Abstracts
Anyone interested in submitting an abstract for the 2005 Arctic Science
Conference can do so online at http://arctic.aaas.org/. The abstract
submission deadline is 1 July 2005.

Preliminary Program:

Plenary Session
- Economics of Seafood and Seafood Products in 2015: Dr. Jim Anderson
- Boreal Marine Ecology - What are the Differences compared with
Temperate Waters: Dr. Vrba
- Understanding Aquaculture's Role in the Future: Dr. Ron Hardy

Proposed Symposium and Technical Sessions
- Amchitka: Science and Policy
- Environment, Resources and People in the North
- Regime Shifts, Terrestrial and Marine
- Aquaculture in Alaska
- Volcanoes and Tsunamis

Proposed General Sessions
- Glaciology
- Terrestrial Biology and Ecology
- Oceanography
- Engineering
- Environmental and Physical Science
- Anthropology and Social Science