The AAAS Arctic Division 2011 meeting
October 5, 2011
The Arctic Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held
its 2011 annual meeting in Dillingham Sept 21 – 24. This was the first time the Arctic
AAAS meeting was held in rural Alaska. The meeting featured more than 50 science presentations
covering estuarine ecology, energy supplies, food security, mining, fisheries and
climate change. Highlights of the conference included a Pebble Mine panel discussion
as well as popular sessions about subsistence and citizen science, where data was
generated at grass roots levels.
More information about the conference can be found online.