Preliminary program

Sunday, 2 May All day Arrivals All day Optional Tours of Fairbanks (individual arrangements) Noon - 5 p.m. Registration 1 - 3 p.m. IBFRA Science Steering Group meeting (Riverview Room, closed session) 3 - 5 p.m. IBFRA Program Committee meeting (Riverview Room, closed session) 5 - 7 p.m. Break ~7 p.m. Optional movie - Arctic Dance [details] (Jade Room, free admission) ~7 p.m. Optional Fairbanks Community Panel Discussion: International Perspectives on Management of the Boreal Forest [details] (Princess Hotel, $10 admission, includes dinner)

Monday, 3 May 7 - 9 a.m. Registration 9 - 10 a.m. Welcome and opening remarks 10 - 10:30 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m. - Noon Controls over Disturbance Regime I: Contemporary Analyses (Fukuda and Chapin) Oral presentations Associated posters Noon - 1:30 p.m. Break 1:30 - 3 p.m. Controls over Disturbance Regime II: Long-term Perspectives (Chapin and Fukuda) Oral presentations Associated posters 3 - 3:30 p.m. Break 3:30 - 5 p.m. Responses to Climate I: Historical/Spatial Perspectives (Vaganov and Wirth) Oral presentations Associated posters 5 - 7 p.m. Break 7 - 9 p.m. Poster session for days 1 and 2 themes

Tuesday, 4 May 8:30 - 10 a.m. Responses to Climate II: Stand-level Perspectives (Linder and Wirth) Oral presentations Associated posters 10 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - Noon Responses to Climate III: Landscape-level Perspectives (Linder and Apps) Oral presentations Associated posters Noon - 1:30 p.m. Break 1:30 - 3 p.m. Responses to Structure and Demography to Disturbance (Wirth and Schulze) Oral presentations Associated posters 3 - 3:30 p.m. Break 3:30 - 5 p.m. Responses of Carbon Dynamics to Disturbance I (Schulze and Vaganov) Oral presentations Associated posters 5 - 7 p.m. Break 7 - 9 p.m. Poster session for days 3 and 4 themes

Wednesday, 5 May 8:30 - 10 a.m. Responses of Carbon Dynamics to Disturbance II (Conard and Karjalainen) Oral presentations Associated posters 10 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - Noon Management of the Boreal Forest (Karjalainen and Conard) Oral presentations Associated posters Noon - 5 p.m. Field trips (Free, includes bag lunch) 6 - 7 p.m. Pre-banquet mixer 7 - 10 p.m. Optional banquet Guest speaker: Vic van Ballenberghe [details] Topic: Wolf control, politics, and wildlife conservation in Alaska

Thursday, 6 May 8:30 - 10 a.m. Regional and Global Implications for the Climate System I (Shvidenko and McGuire) Oral presentations Associated posters 10 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - Noon Regional and Global Implications for the Climate System II (McGuire and Shvidenko) Oral presentations Associated posters Noon - 1:30 p.m. Lunch 1:30 - 3 p.m. Biodiversity of the Boreal Forest (Apps and Chapin) Oral presentations Associated posters 3 - 3:30 p.m. Break 3:30 - 5 p.m. Sustainability of the Boreal Forest (Chapin and Apps) Oral presentations Associated posters 5 - 5:30 p.m. Closing remarks 5:30 p.m. Adjournment

Friday, 7 May All day Departures and optional post-conference tours

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