Welcome & Review of Day 1 by Nicole Schmitt, Executive Director of Alaska Wildlife Alliance

0:15:09 Tundra ecosystem change as a consequence of permafrost degradation: Using a novel field experiment to simulate a future warmer world by Ted Schuur, Professor in the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at Northern Arizona University.

0:41:57 Pilot studies to assess feasibility of intervention/assisted adaptation: thin-layer sediment augmentation at the Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge by Andy Yuen, project leader for the San Diego NWR Complex, which includes Seal Beach NWR, San Diego Bay NWR, Tijuana Slough NWR and San Diego NWR.

0:57:54 Question and Answer Session with panelists.

1:10:48 State wildlife management in Alaska: scope, scale, and process by Chris Krenz, Tony Kavalok, Ryan Scott and Tom Paragi. Chris Krenz is the wildlife science coordinator at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Wildlife Conservation, Tony Kavalok is an ADF&G Assistant Director, Ryan Scott is an ADF&G Assistant Director, and Tom Paragi is the ADF&G Intensive Management Coordinator.

1:27:31 Offshore rafts as artificial haul-outs for walrus in absence of sea ice by Rick Steiner, conservation biologist in Anchorage, Alaska, and founder of Oasis Earth.

1:42:30 Active forest management as a means for climate change adaptation in the boreal forest by Will Putman, Forestry Director at Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC), a non-profit tribal organization serving 42 tribal communities in interior Alaska.

1:58:46 Experimental approaches to resisting and redirecting high-latitude terrestrial feedbacks to climate by F. Stuart Chapin, III. Dr. Chapin’s research addresses the effects of changes in climate and wildfire on Alaskan ecology and rural communities. He pursues this internationally through the Resilience Alliance, nationally through the Ecological Society of America, and in Alaska through partnerships with rural indigenous communities.

2:13:30 Can saving ice save our way of life? Using glass microspheres to increase surface albedo by Leslie Field. Leslie is the Founder and CTO of the Arctic Ice Project, where she also served as the founding CEO for over a decade.

2:28:30 Resist until when? Applying adaptive management by Dr. Abby Lynch, Research Fish Biologist with the USGS National Climate Adaptation Science Center.

2:44:44 Question and Answer session with panelists.

3:08:04 Facilitated panel discussion:
Are there criteria that dictate when or where we should resist? Does it make sense to resist some trajectories, but not others; or resist in some places, but not others? How do we define the thresholds or limits for when we stop resisting?

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