September Arctic Chapter AAAS Conference Information

Submitted by Carla Browning
Phone: (907) 474-7778
08/01/03

The Arctic Chapter AAAS will be held in Fairbanks at the Westmark Hotel during September 22-24, with a reception on September 21. This year’s theme, inspired by the magnitude 7.9 earthquake on the Denali Fault, is "Extreme Events: Understanding Perturbations to the Physical and Biological Environment".

Special talks and sessions will cover a broad range of the "unexpected" in the Arctic, from earthquakes and eruptions to oil spills, fires, floods, nuclear events, and rapid changes associated with global warming. Crises will also be considered from an anthropological perspective. A concluding session will discuss how science should inform public policy for disaster mitigation.

The conference web site is: http://arctic.aaas.org