The Interdisciplinary Research for Arctic Coastal Environments (InteRFACE) project will be hosting a virtual poster meeting August 15 and 21, 2023 from noon to 3 p.m. Eastern. The meeting will begin with a live kickoff led by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program mangers on August 15, followed immediately by an introduction to the virtual poster session hosted on the GatherTown platform.

The InteRFACE project focuses on the impacts to and responses of coastal systems to climate change in the Arctic. The project pursues multi-disciplinary science to explore the coupled feedbacks between natural and human systems at the coastal interface in the Arctic. Researchers from four national laboratories (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks collaborate to improve the predictive understanding of potential trajectories of change at the Arctic land and ocean interface. The project uses and develops regional and global earth system models to explore the coupled interactions between rivers, coastal oceans, sea ice, and marine biogeochemistry. In the framework of a changing Arctic, the local to global feedbacks with energy resources, transportation, and marine resources are modeled and analyzed.

The larger research community is invited to attend this working project meeting to see a selection of the ongoing research being conducted by the InteRFACE team. The project welcomes the opportunity to share our research and discuss collaborative opportunities. Posters will cover topics* including Project Overview (2), Coastal Erosion and Flooding (4), Sea Ice (3), Permafrost Hydrology (6), Rivers - Temperature, Ice, Erosion (5), Biogeochemistry (2), Ocean Dynamics (3), Energy Resources (3), and Transportation, Marine Natural Resources (2).

Tuesday, August 15
All times listed are in Eastern Time Zone.

Join the live Zoom kickoff call from noon to 1:30 p.m. The kickoff call will include an introduction to the InteRFACE project team and the DOE program managers. Lightening talks introducing the posters will follow the project overview talk.

Immediately following the kickoff call, join the the virtual GatherTown poster session, which will run until 3 p.m.

Monday, August 21
All times listed are in Eastern Time Zone.

Join GatherTown from noon to 3 p.m. for a second day of virtual poster sessions.

Register here to receive access information for both the Zoom kickoff call and GatherTown virtual poster sessions. Guide to the GatherTown platform.

*Number of posters per topic is shared in parenthesis and in this table.