B099
The Resilience and Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems to Climate Change III

Tuesday, 15 December 2020: 07:00-08:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Abhishek Chatterjee, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Peter C Griffith, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Natalie Boelman, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observ., Palisades, NY, United States, Michelle C Mack, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Scott J Goetz, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Abhishek Chatterjee, USRA, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Natalie Boelman, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observ., Palisades, NY, United States, Michelle C Mack, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Peter C Griffith, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Elisabeth K Larson, NASA, Washington, DC, United States
07:00
Welcoming Remarks
07:05
Meaningful research for meaningful impact: Arctic researchers and indigenous communities working together to combat global climate change (Invited) (760343)
Darcy L. Peter, Woods Hole Research Center, Arctic boreal research, Falmouth, MA, United States
07:20
Beavers engineer vast arctic tundra lowlands of Alaska (684545)
Ken D Tape, Jason Clark and Benjamin M Jones, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
07:25
Estimating integrated measures of forage nutritional quality for herbivores in northcentral Alaska by fusing optical and structural remote sensing data (666646)
Jyoti S. Jennewein1, Jan Eitel2, Kyle Joly3, Ryan Long2, Andrew Maguire2, Lee Alexander Vierling2 and William Weygint1, (1)University of Idaho, Natural Resources and Society, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (3)National Park Service Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
07:30
As above, so below: Linkages between ground-layer plant communities and subsurface permafrost characteristics in interior Alaska lowlands. (686789)
William Cox, University of Colorado at Boulder, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, CO, United States; Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Catherine M Dieleman, University of Guelph, Department of Integrative Biology, Guelph, ON, Canada, Thomas Douglas, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fort Wainwright, AK, United States and Merritt R Turetsky, University of Colorado, Boulder, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, CO, United States; Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States
07:35
Assessing recruitment age and climate sensitivity of deciduous shrubs in tundra disturbed by retrogressive thaw slump thermokarst in the Alaskan Low Arctic (671328)
Diane C Huebner1, Agata Buchwal2 and Marion Syndonia Bret-Harte1, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Poznan, Poland
07:40
Ground Truth Trekking: Validating Interpretations of Satellite-Based Change in Reflectance Metrics Across Scales and Resolutions Using MODIS, Landsat, and Worldview Imagery of South-Central and Arctic Alaska (667700)
Roman J. Dial1, Patrick Sullivan2, Hans-Erik Andersen3, Colin Maher4, Thomas Day1, Sylvia Day1, Russell Wong1, Kaili Martin1 and Christopher S Potter5, (1)Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
07:45
Discussion
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