NOAA's ARCTIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Overview -- KEY ISSUES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 2 Presentations and Discussions -- ORIENTATION TO WORKSHOP GOALS -- Welcome -- Workshop Structure and Goals -- Welcome -- PRESENTATIONS -- NOAA and Arctic Contaminants Research -- Questions/Discussion -- Eddie Bernard -- Dave Hofmann -- Questions/Discussion: -- The Big Picture: A CENR Perspective on Contaminants Research and Remarks from the NOAA Administrator -- Questions/Discussion: -- A View from the National Ocean Service -- Questions/Discussion: -- NOS - Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment (ORCA): Missions -- NOAA's National Status and Trends (NS&T) Program -- US Arctic -- Petroleum Hydrocarbon Pollution -- Petroleum Hydrocarbon Pollution -- Radionuclides in Animals of Subsistence and Ecological Value -- Cadmium in the Arctic Environment and Biota -- Persistent Organic Pollutants -- What NOAA Should Do to Succeed: -- Benefits of Comprehensive Environmental Monitoring off Barrow -- A View From The National Weather Service -- Questions/Discussion: -- NOAA's Arctic Contaminants Research -- Responsibilities of the NWS in the Arctic -- Activities Related to Arctic Contaminant Issues -- Key Research Issues Related to Arctic Contaminant Inputs, Transport, and Effects from Natural Variab ... -- Improved Mesoscale Modeling -- A View from the National Marine Fisheries Service -- Questions/Discussion: -- A View from the National Environmental, Satellite, Data, and Information Service -- Questions/Discussion: -- A View from the Coastal Ocean Program -- Questions/Discussion: -- Southeast Bering Sea Carrying Capacity -- NOAA Coastal Ocean Program Southeast Bering Sea Carrying Capacity -- Prolonged Biological Production, Ocean Color and Eddies in the Green Belt of The Southeastern Bering Sea -- REFERENCES.

FIGURE CAPTIONS -- Other Perspectives -- Questions/Discussion: -- Other Perspectives -- Questions/Discussion: -- Other Perspectives -- Questions/Discussion: -- Other Perspectives -- Other Perspectives -- Other Perspectives -- Other Perspectives -- Other Perspectives Leslie King Regarding ARCUS -- Questions/Discussion -- SMALL GROUP WORK SESSIONS -- Charge To The Small Groups -- Plenary Discussions -- Summary Of Breakout Group #1: Arctic Haze, Ozone, and UV Flux -- Questions/Discussion: -- Summary of Breakout Group #2: Natural Variability -- Summary of Breakout Group #3: Contaminant Sources, Transport, and Dispersion Effects -- Summary of Breakout Group #4: Amap -- Questions/Discussion: -- FINAL THOUGHTS -- 3 Background Information -- NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES/NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL COMMISSION ON GEOSCIENCES, ENVIRONMENT, AND RESOURCES POLAR… -- The Purpose Of This Workshop -- Participant List -- THE ARCTIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE: SCOPE, DESCRIPTION, AND FUNDED PROPOSALS -- The Arctic Research Initiative -- Background and Geographical Area -- THE NOAA ARCTIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE: HEALTH OF THE WESTERN ARCTIC/BERING SEA ECOSYSTEM -- DESCRIPTIONS OF NOAA PROGRAMS WITH RELEVANCE TO ARCTIC CONTAMINANTS -- SUMMARY OF NOAA/OFFICE OF OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH PROGRAMS RELATED TO ARCTIC CONTAMINANTS -- ERL/ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (ETL) SUMMARY -- Radar Studies of Wet Deposition -- Micrometeorological Measurements of Dry Deposition -- Lidar Measurements of Arctic Haze -- Modeling Studies of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions and Wet Deposition -- Lidar Measurements of Ozone, Polar Stratospheric Aerosol and Volcanic Ash -- ETL-GI/UAF-CRL Collaboration Efforts -- Summary -- ERL/AIR RESOURCES LABORATORY (ARL) SUMMARY -- ERL/AERONOMY LABORATORY (AL) SUMMARY -- ERL/PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY (PMEL) SUMMARY.

ERL/CLIMATE MONITORING AND DIAGNOSTICS LABORATORY (CMDL) SUMMARY -- SUMMARY OF NOAA/NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE PROGRAMS RELATED TO ARCTIC CONTAMINANTS -- DRAFT SUMMARY OF NOAA/NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE PROGRAMS RELATED TO ARCTIC CONTAMINANTS -- U.S. Arctic Contaminant Research Planning Workshop August 10-13, 1996 Fairbanks, Alaska -- Radionuclide Priority. Research Areas -- Hydrocarbon Priority. Research Areas -- Persistent Organic Pollutant Priority Research Areas -- Acidification Priority Research Areas -- Generic Priority Research Areas.