***ALL PRESENTATIONS WILL BE IN THE WOOD CENTER BALLROOM ON THE UAF CAMPUS*** Conference program Tuesday, 29 May All day Arrivals 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Registration Wednesday, 30 May - Day 1 8:00 - Noon Registration 9:00 a.m. Welcome and opening remarks John Yarie 9:30 a.m. Keynote address: Changing boreal fire regime: A key link between global change and society F. Stuart Chapin, III 10:15 a.m. Break A. Climate change and Disturbance 1 10:30 a.m. A new Generation of Climate Change Experiments: Events not Trends. A. Jentsch, J. Kreyling & C. Beierkuhnlein 10:50 a.m. The Browning of Boreal Alaska D. Verbyla 11:10 a.m. Climate Warming in Alaska: Effects of Climate Change on Forest Insect Populations R. Werner 11:30 a.m. Changes in Palsas and related discontinuous permafrost features as indicators of regional temperature shifts in Boreal and Sub-Arctic Zones, Labrador, Canada B.A. Roberts & K.W. Deering 11:50 a.m. Decline of Alaska birch (Betula neoalaskana) forests in southcentral Alaska R.A. Ott & G.W. Mahal B. Climate change and Disturbance 2 1:20 p.m. Potential climate-induced vegetation change in central Siberia in the century 1960-2050 N.M. Tchebakova, E.I. Parfenova & A.J. Soja 1:40 p.m. Aging Stands in the Alaskan Boreal Forest Encounter Global Warming P. Duffy, D. Mann & T.S. Rupp 2:00 p.m. Holocene Land use and Vegetation history at lowers of Volkhov river near Staraya Ladoga by pollen and 14C data (Leningrad region, northwestern Russia). I.V. Sumareva, E.S. Pleshivtseva & M.V. Sheetove 2:20 p.m. Possible processes of vegetation change during climatic warming in coniferous forests of the Swiss Alps T. Wohlgemuth, H. Bugmann, F. Meier, B. Moser, A. Rigling & W. Tinner 2:40 p.m. Simulation of Boreal Forest Dynamics in response to climate-induced changes in disturbance regime P. Caplat, M. Anand & C. Bauch 3:00 p.m. Break C. Forest Health 1 3:30 p.m. The Role of Climate Warming and Reduced Snow in a Widespread, Long-term Mortality of Yellow-cedar in Coastal Alaska P. Hennon, D. D'Amore, D. Wittwer, P. Schaberg, G. Hawley, C. Beier, G. Juday & J. Caoutte 3:50 p.m. Predicting the carbon impacts of anticipated eastern spruce budworm outbreak in Canada using the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3). W. Kurz, G. Stinson, C. Dymond, E. Neilson, K. Porter, D. MacLean, D. Gray & M. Campagna 4:10 p.m. Climate change-Forest dynamics and Eastern spruce budworm outbreaks H. Morin, I. Simard & Y. Jardon 4:30 p.m. Impact of Mountain Pine Beetle on Stand Structure and Vegetation in Northern British Columbia C. DeLong & B. Heemskerk 4:50 p.m. Tree-ring reconstruction of forest tent caterpillar outbreaks along a latitudinal gradient in western Quebec, Canada J. Huang, Y. Bergeron, B. Denneler & J. Tardif 5:10 p.m. Dinner 7:00 p.m. Posters Thursday, 31 May - Day 2 D. Forest Health 2 8:20 a.m. Impacts of recent drought on the productivity, health and dieback of Canadian aspen forests: early signs of climate change? E.H. Hogg, J.P. Brandt & M. Michaelian 8:40 a.m. Dendrochronological reconstruction of heavy wind disturbances in Picea abies - Larix decidua mountain forest in Tatra Mts. Europe. T. Zielonka, J. Holeksa & P. Fleischer 9:00 a.m. Is an unprecedented Dothistroma needle blight epidemic related to climate change? A. Woods, K.D. Coates & A. Hamann 9:20 a.m. Ground-truthing climate-based modeling of Mountain pine beetle disturbance risk in whitebark pine ecosystems J. Regniere, J.A. Logan, W. Macfarlane & L. Willcox 9:40 a.m. When forest management and climate change collide: the eruption and spread of mountain pine beetle populations in western North America A.L. Carroll 10:00 a.m. Break E. Fire Regimes 10:30 a.m. Fires in the North - millennial fire history for Pinus forests in Finnish Lapland Fires in the North - millennial fire history for Pinus forests in Finnish Lapland 10:50 a.m. Climate, weather and forest fires of the past 200 years in southeastern Canada boreal forests inferred from tree rings: some insights for natural disturbance-based management Y. Bergeron, J.C. Tardif, M.D. Flannigan & M.P. Girardin 11:10 a.m. Changes in fire regimes, not climate or CO2, determined 20th-century carbon balance of the central Canadian boreal forest B. Bond-Lamberty, S.D. Peckham, D.E. Ahl & S.T. Gower 11:30 a.m. Recent changes in climate and the fire regime increase depth of burning of the surface organic layer in Alaskan black spruce forests E.S. Kasischke, M.R. Turetsky, A D. McGuire, J. Harden, K. Manies, R. Ottmar, E.S. Kane & N.H.F. French 11:50 a.m. Current and future fire regimes in eastern Canada: implication for sustainable forest management S. Gauthier, D.R. Gray, J. Morissette & P. Lefort 12:10 a.m. Lunch F. Fire Consequences 1: Communities 1:40 p.m. Boreal Fire Disturbance and Forest Recovery Tracked with Satellite Time-Series Data: 1982-2005 S. Goetz 2:00 p.m. Does fire control Abies balsamea abundance in the coniferous boreal forest of western Qu�bec, Canada? A palaeoecological assessment based on charcoal, pollen and plant macroremain analyses A.A. Ali, L. Capece , H. Asselin, A. Larouche, Y. Bergeron, C. Carcaillet & P.J.H. Richard 2:20 p.m. The role of fire for the distribution of larch and spruce in Eastern Siberia E.D. Schulze & D. Mollicone 2:40 p.m. Can variations in surface fire severity drive landscape patterns of post-fire forest composition? Early results from Alaska�s black spruce forests. J. Johnstone, F.S. Chapin III, T. Hollingsworth, E. Bernhart, L. Boby, M. Mack & E. Schuur 3:00 p.m. Break G. Fire Consequences 2: Processes 3:30 p.m. Resilience of coniferous forests after disturbance: reducing fire intensity may sustain tree recruitment under climate warming B. Moser & T. Wohlgemuth 3:50 p.m. Ecophysiological controls over post-fire succession in interior Alaska K. Kielland 4:10 p.m. Fire severity, nitrogen loss, and plant nitrogen availability in boreal black spruce forests M.C. Mack, L. Boby, J. Johnstone, T. Hollingsworth, E.A.G. Schuur & F.S. Chapin III 4:30 p.m. Comparison of edge influence on vegetation structure and composition at fire-, clearcut-, and partial-cut edges in the mixedwood boreal forest S.E. Macdonald, K.A. Harper & Y. Bergeron Friday, 1 June - Day 3 8:00 - 5 p.m. Field trip 6 - 7 p.m. Pre-banquet mixer 7 - 10 p.m. Optional banquet; Guest speaker: Dr. John Zasada Saturday, 2 June - Day 4 H. Utilization 8:20 a.m. A Unified Classification of Natural and Anthropogenic Forest Disturbance P.J. Burton & M.R. Roberts 8:40 a.m. Gap dynamics in black spruce forest of northwestern quebec A. St-Denis, D. Kneeshaw & Y. Bergeron 9:00 a.m. Growth patterns from different generations of Scots pine dominated forests in Estonia: methodological considerations A. Kangur, M. Hordo, A. Sims, K. J�giste, A. Kiviste & P. Hari 9:20 a.m. The Effects of Harvesting System on C Storage in Red Spruce Stands: An exploratory analysis using the CBM-CFS 3 A.R. Taylor, W.A. Kurz & J.R. Wang 9:40 a.m. Interrelation of soil cover and vegetation dynamics at clear-cuttings in European Russia N.Y. Goncharuk & T.P. Titarev 10:00 a.m. Break I. Other Disturbance Issues 10:30 a.m. Climate change impacts on dynamics of vegetation and regeneration after catastrophic windthrow in pristine spruce forests N.G. Ulanova, O.V. Cherednichenko & T.J. Minaeva 10:50 a.m. Sensitivity of Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics to Long-Term Throughfall Exclusion in Interior Alaska. S. Runck, D.W. Valentine & J. Yarie 11:10 a.m. Spread of invasive plants on Alaska�s roadsides and river floodplains: a network model T.L. Wurtz & M.J. Macander 11:30 a.m. Invasion of the leafy kind. Disturbance as a driver for aspen establishment in the conifer dominated upper foothills region of Alberta, Canada S.M. Landh�usser 11:50 a.m. Russian boreal forests and disturbances: An attempt of systems analysis A. Shvidenko & S. Nilsson 12:10 a.m. Lunch J. Adaptive Mangement 1:40 p.m. Forest Management in a Changing Climate: Adaptation and Transition in the Champagne and Aishihik Tradiitonal Territory, Southwest Yukon A.E. Ogden & J.L. Innes 2:00 p.m. Theory and practice: confronting the challenges of climate change through active adaptive management F. Schmiegelow 2:20 p.m. Break 2:40 p.m. Rubber hits the road: A panel discussion F.S. Chapin III, John Zasada, Brad Hawkes, Anatoly Shvidenko 4:30 p.m. Concluding remarks and announcements Sunday, 3 June All day Departures and optional post-conference tours