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AGENDA RUSALCA Review and Planning Meeting. Montenegro

October 9-12, 2010

Day 1, Saturday 9, October, 2010

9:00 - 9:30

Welcome

Dr. Sreten Mandic, Director, Montenegro Institute of Marine Biology

Vitaly Keondjian, President Group Alliance

John Calder, Director Arctic Research Program, NOAA

Other?



9:30 - 9:45

Presentations by Principal Investigators, RUSALCA 2009 Goals, Requirements

Change Detection

Overview, Terry Whitledge, University of Alaska



Physical Oceanography and Change Detection (Leads Woodgate, Bondareva)

9:45 - 10:30

Bering Strait Moorings - Rebecca Woodgate, Tom Weingartner, Elena Bondareva.



10:30 - 11:15 Robert Pickart

11:15 - 11:30 Tea-Coffee Break

Fluxes and Change Detection (Leads, Cooper-Savichev)

11:30 - 12:15 Terry Whitledge, Sang Lee, (Productivity)

12:15 - 13:30 M. Flint, K. Soloviev, V. Sergeeva (Phytoplankton)

13:30 - 14:45 Lunch

14:45 - 15:30 Lee Cooper, Jackie Grebmeier benthic fluxes

15:30 - 16:15 Tea, coffee break

16:15 - 17:00 A. Savichev Seafloor- water column fluxes, CO2, CH4 etc.

Day 2, October 10, 2010. More presentations

09:00 - 09:45 Nick Bates: Fluxes in air-sea CO2



Benthic Biology and Change Detection (Leads, Bluhm, Denisenko)

9:45 - 10:30 Bodil Bluhm, Stanislav Denisenko, Katrin Iken

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee and Tea Break



Epibenthic Fish Distribution

10:45 - 11:30 Catherine Mecklenburg, Daria Petrova

11:30 - 12:15 Brenda Norcross, Brenda Holliday



Zooplankton

12:15 - 13:00 Russ Hopcroft, Ksenia Kosobokova

Carin Asjian

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch



Marine Geology, hydrocarbon

14:30 - 15:30 Anatoly Astakhov, Tatiana Matveeva, Elisaveta Logvina

15:30 - 15:45 Tea-Coffee Break



Modeling

15:45 - 16:30 Wang Sea Ice-Ocean Ecosystem

16:30 - 17:15 Kevin Wood, Historical climate reconstruction for the RUSALCA region

Day 3, October 11, 2010. Group Discussions (futures of RUSALCA- Russian Federation – U.S. Arctic Ocean observations).

09:00 - 09:30 Publications: Terry Whitledge, Mikhail Flint.

09:30 - 10:00 RUSALCA 2011-2012. Mikhail Zhdanov, Kathleen Crane

Science plan

Ship

Issues

Changes – additions in the program (words from Flint, Pisarev and others)

10:00 - 10:15 Tea Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:00 Change Detection Strategies - Data Base Needs: Goals for SAON

John Calder

Russ Hopcroft

11:00 - 12:30 Coordination of U.S.-Russian Arctic observations: Future plans

John Calder, Rene Eppi, Yuri Tsaturov, AARI, Sergei Pisarev, Mikhail Flint.

Status of U.S. – Russian Federation MOU’s and Arctic Observations Field program opportunities including UAS’s

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 Discussion Groups To Be Determined

15:00 - 17:00 Tour of Kotor

17:00 Reception at the Kotor City Hall: Greetings from the Minister of Economy, the Minister of Ecology, the Montenegro Institute of Marine Biology, and the Russian and American Ambassadors to Montenegro

Goodbye reception-Dinner

Day 4, October 12, 2010.

Open Day

Departure of Russian RUSALCA scientists

Arrival of Black Carbon and Methane Workshop Participants.

RUSSIAN-AMERICAN LONG-TERM CENSUS OF THE ARCTIC.