The IARC Science Advisory Board (ISAB)

The IARC Science Advisory Board serves to help our institution reach its potential by providing scientific, technical and strategic insights and guidance. Members of ISAB will be leading scientists with the broad perspective required to provide the guidance that will enable IARC to maximize its contributions to Arctic research, education and outreach in the international arena. The broad perspective and familiarity with ongoing Arctic research are essential for evaluating and guiding the integration and synthesis activity that is the cornerstone of the IARC program.

The ISAB will meet in Fairbanks once each year to review IARC’s recent activities and evaluate its plans and progress in achieving our goals of advancing Arctic climate research through international cooperation. It is our hope that these annual meetings and follow-up reports by ISAB will help IARC align its research capabilities with the scientific needs of the US and other arctic nations by providing critical assessments of our on-going and planned activities. IARC is embarking upon the challenge of creating an Arctic System Model to help understand the functioning of the Arctic as a system and permit a capability to predict the consequences of changes in one component through the entire system. This effort will build upon collaborations with arctic research institutions around the world.

The ISAB will be highly qualified senior scientists who are knowledgeable across broad fields of arctic disciplines, who are highly placed or influential in leading arctic national or international political circles and who have an interest in promoting collaboration among international researchers. ISAB members have a prominence and authority needed to help IARC establish linkages with international research partners and government agencies.

Since Japanese support has played such a large role in developing IARC, at least two positions on the ISAB board will be filled by researchers from Japan. We will strive to have at least two other non-US researchers as guiding members. ISAB members will be asked to serve a three year term.

Norbert Untersteiner (Chair)
University of Washington
7412 E. Greenlake Drive N.
Seattle WA 98115
n-u@runbox.com

Eddy Carmack
Institute of Ocean Sciences
P.O. Box 6000
Sidney, B.C. V8L 4B2
CANADA
Carmack@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Jennifer Francis
Dept of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Rutgers University
74 Magruder Road
Highlands, NJ 08901
francis@imcs.rutgers.edu

Taroh Matsuno
FRCGC-JAMSTEC
3173-25 Showa-machi
Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama-shi
Kanagawa-ken 236-0001
JAPAN
matsuno@jamstec.go.jp
iharah@jamstec.go.jp

Gordon McBean
Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
University of Western Ontario
1389 Western Road
London Ontario N6A5B9
CANADA
gmcbean@uwo.ca

Walter C. Oechel
Global Change Research Group
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182
oechel@sunstroke.sdsu.edu

Mike Wallace
University of Washington
Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean
Box 354235
Seattle WA 98195
wallace@mail.atmos.washington.edu

Tetsuzo Yasunari
Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center
Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikuda-ku
Nagoya Aichi 464-8601
JAPAN
Yasunari@hyarc.nagoya-u.ac.jp