July 30, 2012
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ISAR-3

Second Circular

Third International Symposium on the Arctic Research (ISAR-3)-Detecting the change in the Arctic system and searching the global influenceDate: January 14 to 17, 2013
(Public Lecture on January 14, 2013)
Venue: Miraikan (7th Floor)
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
Tokyo, Japan
Organized by:Committee on Earth and Planetary Sciences, Subcommittee for International Affairs(National Committee for IASC), Science Council of Japan
Japan Consortium for Arctic Environmental Research (JCAR)
Symposium website: http://www.jcar.org/isar-3/E-mail: isar3@jcar.org-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Background and objective
The Arctic environment is changing drastically due to the intensified warming in thisregion brought about by the interaction of components such as the atmosphere, ocean,cryosphere, and land surface conditions. In order to understand the feedback processes
between these various components in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions, and to makeprojections for the future, we need to exchange more knowledge and information than everbefore, by combining different scientific communities sharing common interests.
This Symposium will be directed to detecting and clarifying the recent changes in thisregion, and to understanding the essential processes behind them, and to search for theirglobal influence. It will also aim to envision the future through further scientific discussions,and to enhance further national and international cooperation and collaboration, including
those between Arctic and non-Arctic countries. Discussion will also be included on thedirection and expected outcomes of the Green Network of Excellence (GRENE) Arctic Climate
Research Project in Japan.
ISAR-1 (“Drastic Change under the Global Warming”) was successfully held from
November 4 to 6, 2008, followed by ISAR-2 (“Arctic System in a Changing Earth”) from
December 7 to 9, 2010. Both were held in Tokyo. (The content of the previous Symposiums
canbeseenat<http://www.jamstec.go.jp/iorgc/sympo/isar1/index.html>

and<http://www-arctic.nipr.ac.jp/isar2/toppage/isar2top.htm>.) We have now planned ISAR-3,
including a number of topics under the theme “Detecting the change in the Arctic system andsearching the global influence.” It will be held from January 14 to 17, 2013, in Tokyo. We
would like to invite you to attend ISAR-3, which will be launched under the auspices of theNational Committee of IASC of the Science Council of Japan and the Japan Consortium for
Arctic Environmental Research (JCAR), with the cooperation of several institutions andagencies. The Symposium language is English.
Date and Venue
Date: January 14 to 17, 2013
(Public Lecture on January 14, 2013)
Venue: Miraikan (7th Floor)
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
2-3-6, Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-0064 Japan
http://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/index_e.html
Sessions
The following seven general sessions and six special sessions will be provided.
General sessions:(G1) Atmospheric science(G2) Ocean and sea ice(G3) Hydrology, permafrost, and snow cover(G4) Ice sheets, glaciers, and ice cores(G5) Terrestrial ecosystem(G6) Marine ecosystem(G7) Interdisciplinary modeling studies
Special sessions:(S1) Polar (Arctic) amplification in global warming (Conveners: Hiroshi L. TANAKA, VladimirALEXEEV)Recent rapid Arctic warming is considered to be a research frontier in the study of globalwarming. Arctic sea ice is melting drastically, and exceeding IPCC projections. Although
ice–albedo feedback plays an important role in polar (Arctic) amplification, it must bejust an amplifier of certain warming processes in the Arctic. Long-term natural(internal) variability is a candidate cause of polar amplification as well as anthropogenic
forcing. The goal of the proposed special session is to pursue a complete understandingof polar amplification by exchanging our latest findings on polar amplification.
(S2) Changes in water and carbon cycles of terrestrial ecosystems on permafrost in awarming Arctic (Conveners: Atsuko SUGIMOTO, J. van HUISSTEDEN)
Two research projects, PAGE21 by the EU–FP7 consortium and GRENE-TEA supported
by MEXT Japan, which started at almost the same time, have similar goals of employing
a pan-Arctic observation network to evaluate the effects of global climate change on
Arctic environments and carbon pools, and their feedback effects on the global climate.
These projects perform complementary research and contribute to internationalobservation networks, in order to understand the processes of changing terrestrial
ecosystems and their global effects. This session offers a platform to present research
results, and to foster cooperation relating to water and material cycles (C, N, etc.) of
terrestrial ecosystems in biological, geophysical, and interactional processes, not onlywith regard to these projects, but for all other groups doing research under thesescientific themes.
(S3) Changes in the Greenland ice sheet in the context of interactions with the atmosphereand the ocean (Conveners: Teruo AOKI, Konrad STEFFEN, Shin SUGIYAMA)
Recent observations have shown significant ice mass loss in the Greenland ice sheet.
The warming climate is a key driver, but the processes connecting changing climate
conditions with ice mass loss are rather complex. For example, warming of the ocean
rather than rising air temperature is suspected to be a trigger of retreating outlet
glaciers. This session invites contributions in the study of: (1) changes in the Greenland
ice sheet in the past, present, and future; (2) physical processes that are driving therecent ice sheet mass loss; and (3) interactions between the ice sheet and theatmosphere and the ocean.
(S4) International cooperation on Arctic observation and research (Conveners: TetsuoOHATA, Volker RACHOLD)
International cooperation on research, observation, and also data archiving is essential
for understanding the rapidly changing Arctic system. This session will include: (1)status reports on ongoing programs, projects, and activities on Arctic environmental
research in various countries as a basis for the discussions on cooperation; and (2)presentations on the promotion of international cooperation such as IASC and the Arctic
Council and related projects and initiatives, and programs of the ICSU and WMO andother international bodies relevant to the Arctic region. The session will allow time todiscuss gaps and necessities regarding cooperation for better understanding thepresent and future state of the Arctic.
(S5) GRENE Arctic project (Conveners: Hiroyuki ENOMOTO, Takashi YAMANOUCHI)
A new Japanese Arctic climate change research project “Rapid Change of the Arctic

Climate System and its Global Influences” has begun within the framework of theGRENE (Green Network of Excellence) Program funded by Japan’s Ministry of Education,Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in 2011. This project involves
multi-disciplinary approaches to the Arctic climate system and its influences. It also
fosters close collaboration between model and observational studies, as their resultscomplement each other: model results help to interpret observations whileobservations are used to constrain models and validate model outputs. This session
invites presentations on the strategy of new research projects, results from newresearch, data archiving concerns and necessities, and related scientific activities.
(S6) Monitoring of the Arctic environment (Convener: Atsumu OHMURA)
The Arctic is presently monitored from space, through the atmosphere, at the earth’s
surface, and down to the ocean floor. An awareness of the need for environmental
monitoring is relatively new. Monitoring is understood differently, and its value is often
questioned. What makes monitoring different from other observations? Monitoring
activities in the Arctic and in similarly sparsely inhabited regions have additionaldifficulties. The session will look back in history to study the origin and development ofmonitoring activities, identify present and future objects to be monitored, investigate
technical and social requirements for successful monitoring, and formulate what should
be monitored specifically in the Arctic and by what means.

Structure of symposium
Presentations
Oral and poster sessions will be held January 15 to 17, 2013.
The Symposium will consist of the following oral and poster presentations:
Oral Presentations
1. Keynote speech
2. Regular oral presentations
Poster presentations
Public lectures
Public lectures will be held on January 14, 2013 at the same venue.
AwardTo encourage students to promote their Arctic research, ISAR-3 will award a Best
Presentation Award. A presentation by a student will be selected in the Best Presentation
Award competition judgment.
BanquetThe Symposium banquet will be held in the evening of January 16 at Hotel Nikko Tokyo(Daiba 1-9-1, Minato-ku, Tokyo). Please sign up for the banquet when you register for thesymposium.

Submission of abstract and notification of acceptanceParticipants wishing to present an oral/poster presentation are requested to submit an
abstract of no more than one page of text (A4 size paper, 500 words maximum, PDF file). The
abstract must be submitted by September 15, 2012. Refer to the Symposium website fordetails. Notification of acceptance will be made to participants by the middle of October.
Paper (peer-reviewed) publication
If your abstract is accepted for an oral or poster presentation at ISAR-3, you are strongly
encouraged to submit the paper(s) (scientific paper or research note) to the proceedings ofISAR-3, which will be published in Polar Science. Polar Science is an international
peer-reviewed quarterly journal. It is dedicated to providing original research articles forsciences

relatedtothepolar

regionsofEarthandotherplanets(http://www.journals.elsevier.com/polar-science/). Polar Science appeared in the IPY
2007-2008 period and offers benefits to authors including fast and easy online submission,no page charges, worldwide distribution, and 25 free offprints or a PDF.
Indicate your intention to submit your paper when we notify you that your abstract has beenaccepted. Papers to be submitted to Polar Science need to satisfy the following conditions.
(1) The presentation (oral or poster) of the paper is executed by the author or co-author atthe Symposium.
(2) The manuscript of the paper is submitted to Polar Science by February 15 (Friday), 2013
via the Elsevier Electronic Submission system (http://ees.elsevier.com/polar/).
Please refer to the Polar Science Guide for Authors.
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/711700/authorinstructions
The issue of Polar Science for ISAR-3 is expected to be published in 2014 (Volume 8).
The papers of the previous symposium (ISAR-2; held in Tokyo from December 7 to 9, 2010)
were also published in Polar Science as a special issue (Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 1-154), and are
currently distributed online (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18739652/6/1).

Important Dates and Deadlines
Abstract submission starts: July 30, 2012
Deadline for abstract submission: September 15, 2012
Notice of acceptance of abstracts and start of registration: by October 15, 2012
Early bird registration ends: October 31, 2012
Program announcement: November 15, 2012
Registration of presenters ends: November 20, 2012
Symposium: January 14 to 17, 2013
Deadline for paper submission: February 15, 2013

Registration and Banquet Fees
Registration and banquet fees are as follows. Online registration is available through theSymposium website.
Early Bird

RegularBefore October 31

After November 1

8,000 JPY

10,000 JPY

5,000 JPY

Student*Free

2,000 JPY

3,000 JPY

Over 70 years oldFreeFree

5,000 JPY

4,000 JPY

5,000 JPY

5,000 JPY

Full

Accompanying

Banquetperson*Please show your student identification card at the Symposium reception desk.
Travel support
We plan to support travel expenses for certain number of young scientists. Refer to theSymposium website for details.
Accommodation
We request that you book your own accommodation.
The venue is located in the Odaiba district of central Tokyo.
Some accommodation websites are provided below.
http://travel.rakuten.co.jp/en/
http://www.japanican.com/index.aspx
Side meetings
Groups who wish to find a room for side meetings during the Symposium should pleasecontact the Symposium Secretariat.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Organized by:Committee on Earth and Planetary Sciences, Subcommittee for International Affairs(Japan National Committee for IASC), Science Council of Japan
Japan Consortium for Arctic Environmental Research (JCAR)

Symposium Organizing Committee
Chair: Tetsuo OHATA, RIGC/JAMSTEC (Chair of JCAR)
Co-chair: Atsuko SUGIMOTO, Hokkaido University (Chair of the Japan National Committeefor IASC)
Kumiko GOTO-AZUMA, NIPR

Hiroyuki ENOMOTO, NIPR
Tetsuya HIYAMA, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Masahiro HORI, EORC/JAXA
Tamotsu IGARASHI, RESTEC
Michiyo YAMAMOTO-KAWAI, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Yojiro MATSUURA, FFPRI
Takuji NAKAMURA, NIPR
Toru NOZAWA, NIES
Sei-Ichi SAITO, Hokkaido University
Koji SHIMADA, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Konosuke SUGIURA, RIGC/JAMSTEC
Rikie SUZUKI, RIGC/JAMSTEC
Hiroshi L. TANAKA, CCS/University of Tsukuba
Jinro UKITA, Niigata University
International Advisory Committee
Larry HINZMAN, IARC, USA
Yeadong KIM, KOPRI, Korea
Atsumu OHMURA, ETH, Switzerland
Volker RACHOLD, IASC, Germany
Konrad STEFFEN, WSL, Swizerland
John WALSH, IARC, USA
Peter WADHAMS, University of Cambridge, UK
Cunde XIAO, CAREERI, CAS, China
Huigen YANG, PRIC, China

Symposium Secretariat (Contact address)
Miki YOSHIOKA, AERC, NIPR
Yasushi INOUE, Office of JCAR, NIPR
Yuji KODAMA, Executive Director, Office of JCAR, NIPR
Address: Midori-cho 10-3, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Tel. +81-42-512-0645 or +81-42-512-0925

Fax. +81-42-528-3195

E-mail: isar3@jcar.org
Useful Link
(Transportations)
Yurikamome:

http://www.yurikamome.co.jp/en/index.php

Tokyo Metro:

http://www.tokyometro.jp/global/en/index.html

Toei:

http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/english/index.html

(Travel Tips)
Train route finder:
Weather:

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http://www.timeanddate.com/weather/japan/tokyo