Primary Convener:
Elizabeth Hoy, Global Science and Technology Inc Greenbelt

Convener:
Ryan Pavlick, NASA Headquarters
Amanda Whitehurst, NASA Headquarters
Jonathan Wang, University of Utah

Early Career Convener:
Bradley Gay, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Chair:
Bradley Gay, NASA GSFC/UMD ESSIC
Scott Goetz, Northern Arizona University
Amanda Whitehurst, NASA Headquarters
Elizabeth Hoy, Global Science and Technology Inc Greenbelt

Climate change is unfolding faster in the high northern latitudes than anywhere else on Earth. These changes are impacting ecological processes directly, through warmer temperatures and changing precipitation, and indirectly, through increasing frequency of climate-driven disturbances such as wildfire, outbreaks of pests and pathogens, and permafrost thaw. Although some ecosystems are resistant or resilient to these changes, many are shifting to new states, altering the function of the Arctic-boreal region. This session invites contributions in terrestrial ecology and carbon cycle science that provide conceptual, regional, or global insights into the resilience and vulnerability of the Arctic-boreal region, including its wildlife and ecosystem services, to changing climate. Contributions may address any geographic area of this region. We welcome studies that use in situ, airborne, and satellite remote sensing observations, and models, or some combination thereof, to conceptualize, detect, predict or forecast the changing function of this region in the earth system.

Index Terms
0426 Biosphere|atmosphere interactions
0428 Carbon cycling
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics
0475 Permafrost, cryosphere, and high-latitude processes

Cross-Listed:
NH - Natural Hazards
A - Atmospheric Sciences
GC - Global Environmental Change

Suggested Itineraries:
Climate Change and Global Policy
Biochemistry
Open Science and Open Data

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering