Alaska Integrated Ecosystem Model
Project-related talks and posters presented at AGU 2012
Monday, December 3, 2012
B11C. B11C. Phenology Responses and Feedbacks to Biogeophysics, Disturbance, and
Climate Change I Posters
Convener(s): David Moore (University of Arizona), William W Hargrove (USDA Forest Service),
Forrest Hoffman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Steven Norman (USDA Forest Service)
8:00 AM - 12:20 PM; Hall A-C (Moscone South)
B11C-0453. Modeling leaf phenology variation by groupings of species within and across
ecosystems in northern Alaska.
Eugenie S. Euskirchen; Tobey B. Carman; Anthony D. McGuire
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
B14D. B14D. Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change II
Convener(s): Anthony McGuire (University of Alaska) and Edward Schuur (Univ Florida)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM; 2006 (Moscone West)
B14D-03. Carbon balance and greenhouse gas fluxes in a thermokarst bog in Interior Alaska:
Positive and Negative Feedbacks from permafrost thaw
Mark P. Waldrop; Jack McFarland; Eugenie S. Euskirchen; Merrit R. Turetsky, Jennifer W.
Harden; Kristen Manie; Miriam Jones; Anthony D. McGuire
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
B21D. B21D. Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change III Posters
Convener(s): Anthony McGuire (University of Alaska) and Edward Schuur (Univ Florida)
8:00 AM - 12:20 PM; Hall A-C (Moscone South)
B21D-0388. Modeling thermokarst dynamics in Alaska ecosystems.
Yujin Zhang; Anthony D. McGuire; Helene Genet; William R. Bolton; Vladimir E. Romanovsky;
Guido Grosse; M. T. Jorgenson
B21D-0391. The effects of forest fire on the frozen soil thermal state.
Elchin E. Jafarov; Helene Genet; Vladimir E. Romanovsky; Anthony D. McGuire; Sergey S.
Marchenko
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
C23E. C23E. Geochemical and Microbial Processes in the Terrestrial Cryosphere II
Convener(s): Birgit Hagedorn (University of Alaska Anchorage), Janet Jansson (LBNL), Nozomu
Takeuchi (Chiba University) and Alexandre Anesio (University of Bristol)
1:40 PM - 3:40 PM; 3007 (Moscone West)
C23E-03. The tool of microbial genomics research for interpreting the lability of permafrost
carbon and potential greenhouse gas feedbacks at different scales of resolution (Invited)
Mark P. Waldrop; Rachel Machelprang; Jenni Hultman; Kimberly P. Wickland
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
B23F. B23F. Fire as a Biogeochemical Catalyst in the Earth System II Posters
Convener(s): Adrian Rocha (Univ. of Notre Dame), Michael Loranty (Colgate University) and
Ben Bond-Lamberty (DOE Pacific Northwest Lab)
1:40 PM - 6:00 PM; Hall A-C (Moscone South)
B23F-0517. Modeling the effects of fire severity on soil organic horizons and forest
composition in Interior Alaska.
Helene Genet; Kirsten M. Barrett; Jill F. Johnston; Anthony D. McGuire; Fengming Yuan; Eugenie
S. Euskirchen; Eric S. Kasischke; Scott T. Rupp; Merrit R. Turetsky
B23F-0517. Identification of previously unrecognized tundra fire events on the Arctic Slope
of Alaska.
Benjamin M. Jones; Amy Breen; Benjamin Gaglioti; Daniel H. Mann; Mike L. Kunz, David
Selkowitz; Guido Grosse; Christopher D. Arp; Philip E. Higuera; David Verbyla; Vladimir E.
Romanovsky; Donald A. Walker
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
B33E. B33E. Strategic Climate Change Partnerships: Integrating Regional Research,
Conservation, and Natural Resource Management II Posters
Convener(s): Stephen Gray (USGS) and Jeffrey Morisette (DOI/US Geological Survey)
1:40 PM - 6:00 PM; Hall A-C (Moscone South)
B33E-0562. The Alaska Integrated Ecosystem Model: An interdisciplinary tool to assess the
responses of natural resources in Alaska to climate change.
Anthony D. McGuire; Scott T. Rupp; Alec Bennett; William R. Bolton; Amy Breen; Eugenie S.
Euskirchen; Tom Kurkowski; Sergey S. Marchenko; Vladimir E. Romanovsky; Mark P. Waldrop;
Fengming Yuan
B33E-0555. Dynamic coupling of Alaska based ecosystem and geophysical models into an
integrated model.
Alec Bennett, Tobey B. Carman
To learn more about the Alaska IEM: Visit http://www.snap.uaf.edu/projects.php
or contact Dr. Amy Breen (UAF) at albreen@alaska.edu, or Dr. Stephen Gray (DoI
Alaska Climate Science Center) at sgray@usgs.gov.