SEAK2022 was a virtual Workshop on SE Alaska, and neighboring regions along the British Columbia coast, climate change, ice sheet dynamics, volcanic geohazards, Ice Age refugia, biodiversity, and biogeographic history

 

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This meeting took place and is now over. Here are links to meeting files:

Video of Day 1 (first 2/3, missing intro remarks and the introduction of first speaker, sorry)
Video of Day 1 (final 1/3)
Video of Day 2
Discussion Jamboards (ideas from our group brainstorming discussions)
Participant list with emails

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Meeting Details:

This virtual meeting took place Tuesday May 24 and Wednesday May 25, from 12:00 pm to 5:30 pm (eastern daylight time).

Zoom link to join meeting: NA

The meeting program, talk titles and authors, is available here [view online] [pdf download]

Abstract volume is available here [view online] [pdf download]

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Background
Southeast Alaska extends ~500 miles along the North Pacific Coast and comprises more than 5,000 islands in the Alexander Archipelago with stunning coastal mountains that rise steeply from the Pacific Ocean. The region holds an enormous geological and biological richness, characterized by rainforests, glacial fjords, wetlands, mountains, volcanoes, glaciers, karst caves, an extensive marine shoreline, and a diverse fauna that has been shaped by a dynamic glacial history and more recently by land use and loss of habitat.

The theme of this workshop focuses on the Late Quaternary Alaskan geological and evolutionary history. By combining expertise across the geological and biological disciplines, we wish to bring together scientists from different disciplines and at different career levels to foster discussions about present knowledge and future directions in research on Ice Age climate history and its impacts on mammal biogeography and population dynamics in a critical gateway in the Quaternary history and peopling of the Americas.

Program
The program is dictated by those interested in participating. The program focused on identifying gaps in knowledge about the geologic history, past glaciation and volcanism in the Quaternary, biodiversity patterns and biogeographic history through the last glaciation and across the Holocene. We have break-out discussions that will lead to a workshop report that identifies key gaps in knowledge, and how to fill them.

Keynote presentions by:
James Baichtal, Tongass National Forest (retired)
Jocelyn Colella, University of Kansas
Joseph Cook, University of New Mexico
Summer Praetorius, United States Geological Survey

Deadlines 2022 (all past)
Registration is free. Deadline for contacting us with a talk suggestion was April 29. Deadline for abstract submission was May 6.

Registration: closed

If you have any questions about this meeting, please email jbriner@buffalo.edu.


Local Organizing Committee and Contacts
Jason Briner
Professor of Geology, Department of Geology, University at Buffalo
Charlotte Lindqvist Associate Professor of Biology, Department of Biological Sciences
Barbara Catalano Administrative Assistant, Department of Geology and Center for Geohazards Studies

Technical Program Committee
Jason Briner Univ. Buffalo
Charlotte Lindqvist Univ. Buffalo
Britta Jensen Univ. Alberta
Joe Licciardi Univ. New Hampshire


Sponsors and Host
U.S. National Science Foundation
Center for Geohazards Studies, University at Buffalo
National Geographic Society


For any questions, please contact Charlotte Lindqvist or Jason Briner, University at Buffalo
Email: cl243@buffalo.edu
Email: jbriner@buffalo.edu