Terrestrial WG, Toyama, Japan, 23 April 2015

AgendaTerrestrial Working Group Meeting
23 April 2015
14:00-17:30(Lunch 12.00-14.00, Coffee Breaks 16.10-16.30)

Toyama, Japan
Toyama International Conference Centre

Draft Agenda
Participants:
BENJAMIN VINEGLA PÉ REZ – SPAIN
INGIBJÖ RG SVALA JÓ NSDÓ TTIR – ICELAND, CHAIR DANIEL SANCHEZ-MATA – SPAIN
VICTORIA PEASE – SWEDENWARWICK F. VINCENT - CANADA, VICE CHAIR
JELTE ROZEMA - THE NETHERLANDSTORBEN CHRISTENSEN - DENMARK,VICE CHAIR
PHIL WOOKEY - UK
ANDREAS RICHTER – AUSTRIADONALD A. (SKIP) WALKER - USABIRGIT SATTLER – AUSTRIAVLADIMIR ROMANOVSKY - USAWEI LUO - CHINAWG MEMBERS PRESENT:JOSEF ELSTER- CZECH REPUBLICMADS FORCHHAMMER - DENMARKOTSO SUOMINEN – FINLANDANTERO JÄ RVINEN - FINLANDTHIERRY BOULINIER - FRANCEKARSTEN PIEPJOHN - GERMANYJON S. OLAFSSON - ICELANDRATAN KAR – INDIA
MANISH TIWARI - INDIAATSUKO SUGIMOTO - JAPANTAKAYUKI NAKATSUBO - JAPANYOO KYUNG LEE – KOREASTEPHEN COULSON - NORWAYINGER GREVE ALSOS - NORWAYPIOTR GLOWACKI – POLAND

GUESTS AND OBSERVERS:HIROSHI HAYASAKA – HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITYWG MEMBER NOT PRESENT:DIRK WAGNER - GERMANYWIESLAW ZIAJA – POLAND
SECRETARIATYOO KYUNG LEE (EXECUTIVE OFFICER)NOEMIE BOULANGER-LAPOINTE (IASC FELLOW)
JEFFREY-ROSS (IASC FELLOW)JOSEFIN LENZ (IASC FELLOW)

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AgendaTable of Content
1OPENING AND REPORTING .............................................................. 3

1.1

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS ....................................................................... 31.21.31.4REPORT FROM THE CHAIR ................................................................................ 3
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING.......................................... 3ADOPTION OF AGENDA .................................................................................... 32

MAIN ISSUES ...................................................................................... 3

2.1

REPORTS ON TWG ACTIVITIES ......................................................................... 3

2.1.1

HERBIVORY NETWORK ..................................................................................... 3

2.1.2
2.2

THE RATIC W ORKSHOP .................................................................................... 3REVIEW OF IASC ACTIVITIES RELATED TO TWG ............................................... 42.2.1
2.2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5

ONSHORE GEOSCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND LOGISTICS - THE CASE PROGRAM OF
BGR ............................................................................................................... 4CIRCUMBOREAL VEGETATION MAP ................................................................... 4OTHER TERRESTRIAL ACTIVITIES EXTERNAL TO IASC ...................................... 4REVIEW OF WG FOCI ....................................................................................... 4UPCOMING ACTIVITIES ..................................................................................... 52.5.12.5.22.62.6.1

THE ARCTIC FRESHWATER SYNTHESIS ............................................................. 5POLAR AND ALPINE MICROBIOLOGY CONFERENCE ............................................ 5PROPOSED ACTIVITIES .................................................................................... 5NEW ACTIVITIES/TASKS BROUGHT FORWARD BY THE MEMBERS ....................... 52.6.1.1

CATALYSTS FOR TREELINE EXPANSION UNDER GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH ....... 52.6.1.2

PERMAFROST CARBON NETWORK .................................................................... 62.6.1.3

2ND GTN-P NATIONAL CORRESPONDENTS W ORKSHOP ASSOCIATED TO THE 7TH
CANADIAN PERMAFROST CONFERENCE ............................................................ 62.6.1.4 OPPORTUNITIES TO USE REMOTE SENSING IN BOREAL FOREST/TUNDRA W ILDLIFEMANAGEMENT AND SCIENCE ............................................................................. 62

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1OPENING AND REPORTING (14.00-14.10)

1.1

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONSINGIBJÖ RG SVALA JÓ NSDÓ TTIR

1.2

REPORT FROM THE CHAIR
INGIBJÖ RG SVALA JÓ NSDÓ TTIR

1.3

APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETINGYOO KYUNG LEE
1.4

The minutes of the 2013 meeting is given in ANNEX 1.3

ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA
INGIBJÖ RG SVALA JÓ NSDÓ TTIR

2MAIN ISSUES (14.10-16.10)

2.1

REPORTS ON TWG ACTIVITIES

2.1.1

HERBIVORY NETWORK WORKSHOPINGIBJÖ RG SVALA JÓ NSDÓ TTIR
This one day workshop was held in Finland, Helsinki, on 9 April 2014. AnotherHerbivory Network Workshop was held in conjunction with Arctic Biodiversity
Congress, Trondheim, Norway, on 1 December. The Herbivory network alsoorganised one of the Congress sessions entitled Herbivory impacts onbiodiversity and northern livelihoods under changing conditions.
2.1.2

The Workshop report is given in ANNEX 2.1.1

THE RATIC WORKSHOPSKIP WALKER
A Rapid Arctic Transitions due to Infrastructure and Climate (RATIC) workshop
and topical session was held at the Arctic Change 2014 conference in Ottawa,
8 – 12 December 2014. The RATIC meetings were organized so that3

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Agendainternational scientists who have been working independently in several areasof the Arctic on issues related to Arctic infrastructure could network with eachother and share their findings. The studies at the Ottawa workshop and topicalsession documents reported major changes to local social-ecological systems,
including alternations to permafrost, landforms, hydrology, vegetation, wildlife,and people’s livelihoods. The workshop focused on case studies, mainly insmall communities of northern Alaska.

The Workshop reports are given in ANNEX 2.1.2.

2.2

REVIEW OF IASC ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE TWG

2.2.1

ONSHORE GEOSCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND LOGISTICS – THE CASE PROGRAMOF BGRKARSTEN PIEPJOHNThe CASE-program (Circum-Arctic Structural Events) of the Federal Institute forGeosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in Hannover is the German
instrument for geoscientific research of the onshore geology in the Arctic region.
The major task of BGR is to solve, how the supercontinent Laurasia broke apartand how the Arctic Ocean opened and the margins evolved.
2.2.2

Summary of the CASE – program is given in ANNEX 2.2.1

THE CIRCUMBOREAL VEGETATION MAPSKIP WALKER

2.3

OTHER TERRESTRIAL ACTIVITIES EXTERNAL TO IASC
INGIBJÖ RG SVALA JÓ NSDÓ TTIR
The agenda item will include brief updates on external activities that could beof interest to the TWG.

2.4

REVIEW OF WG FOCIINGIBJÖ RG SVALA JÓ NSDÓ TTIRThe Scientific Foci of the Working Group had been discussed and agreed uponat the first WG meeting in Potsdam (Germany) in January 2011. Under this4

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Agendaagenda item, the WG is asked to revisit these foci and to discuss possible
changes or additions.

2.5

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

2.5.1

ARCTIC FRESHWATER SYNTHESISWARWICK VINCENT
A set of session under ICARP III for Arctic Freshwater Synthesis will use theIASC TWG funds to support the participation of 4 ECS in poster, oral anddiscussion activities.

2.5.2

POLAR AND ALPINE MICROBIOLOGY CONFERENCEJOSEF ELSTER
The 6th International Conference on Polar and Alpine Microbiology is to beheld in 6 – 9 Septemeber 2015 in České Budĕjoice, Czech Republic. This
meeting is a continuation of the highly successful meetings previously held inRovaniemi 2004 (Finland), Innsbruck 2006 (Austria), Banff 20008 (Canada),
Ljubljana 2011 (Slovenia) and Big Sky 2013 (USA). The conference will bring
together the scientific community for discourse on the latest aspects of coldliving microorganisms and their role in polar and alpine environments. The 2015
conference will again provide an opportunity to share ideas and build researchcollaborations addressing the latest developments in microbiology in polar andalpine habitats.

2.6
2.6.1

PROPOSED ACTIVITIESNEW ACTIVITIES/TASKS BROUGHT FORWARD BY THE MEMBERS
Under this agenda item, new suggestions and proposals on WG activities will
be brought forward by members of the Working Groups. This will include shortpresentations followed by a discussion.

2.6.1.1 CATALYSTS FOR TREELINE EXPANSION UNDER GLOBAL CHANGE:RESEARCH SYNTHESIS AND FUTURE PRIORITIES WORKSHOPWARWICK VINCENT5

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AgendaA four-day workshop is proposed to bring together an international group ofearly-career and expert arctic and alpine treeline researchers with the aim ofadvancing their understanding of mechanisms driving treeline ecosystemchange under climate change. They propose to 1) synthesize the current stateof knowledge on disturbance as a catalyst for treeline ecosystemchange; 2)synthesize and summarize data collected through the Global Treeline Range
Expansion Experiment (G-TREE); and 3) idntify the next research priorities andform a research framework for future initiatives in treeline ecosystem research.
WG request of the workshop is given in ANNEX 2.6.1.1

2.6.1.2 PERMAFROST CARBON NETWORKVLADIMIR ROMANOVSKYA Working Group Lead Meeting of the Permafrost Carbon Networks will takeplace in Flagstaff, Arizona, 11 – 12 May 2015. The upcoming meeting brings
together network participants that have been leading syntheses in the last fouryears and continue to be engaged in new synthesis activities planned over thenext couple of years. This workshop is also a key event in engaging newparticipants to start new synthesis activities that have been identified inprevious meetings based on missing gaps and important reserach areas.
 WG request of the workshop is given in ANNEX 2.6.1.2

2.6.1.3 2ND GTN-P NATIONAL CORRESPONDENTS WORKSHOP ASSOCIATED TO THE
7TH CANADIAN PERMAFROST CONFERENCE
VLADIMIR ROMANOVSKYThis is a follow-up to the Data Management GTN-P Workshop for dataproviders, users and national correspondents held in November 2011 inPotsdam, Germany. The main topic of the planned 2nd GTN-P workshop
associated to the 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference 2015 in Quebec, on 15– 18 September 2015, will be the GTN-P data quailty control and thedevelopment of a specific plan to prepare the first GTN-P bi-annual report on
the thermal state and the international monitoring quality of the Earth’s
permafrost areas.
 WG request of the workshop is given in ANNEX 2.6.1.3

2.6.1.4 OPPORTUNITIES TO USE REMOTE SENSING IN BOREAL FOREST/TUNDRAWILDFIRE MANAGEMENT AND SCIENCEVLADIMIR ROMANOVSKY AND SKIP WALKER

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The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) Wildfires
Collaboration Team (WCT) seesks to convene a workshopon Opportunites touse remote sensing in boreal forest/tundra wildfire management and science.
Fire managent issues, such as hotspot detection, are shared by temperatezones and reasonable tools have been developed, but new sesnsors like theCIRC and UNIFORM may offer alternatives.

 WG request of the workshop is given in ANNEX 2.6.1.4

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