Tromsø Agenda, Participants, and Abstracts Volume:

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Registration and Accommodation Information

REGISTRATION COSTS:

• Registration deadline is 30 April, 2004.
• Please click on and print out Registration Form
  Phone and fax contact is: Christine R. Martin, fncrm@uaf.edu, phone 1 907 474-2459 & fax: 1 907 474-7666
• Registration will be $100 per person paid at the conference. This covers the cost of the conference materials, local transportation, welcome buffet, and lift ticket for a local excursion.
• The opening banquet will cost $70 per person extra, and the Sami style seashore (closing) dinner will cost extra (price is yet unknown, and will be updated to the webpages when determined). These costs can be paid at registration. Cost of lodging and meals is extra.

LODGING COSTS:

At Tromsø downtown for 2 June (no reservations made for 1 June ), we suggest that you make reservation at one of the following accommodations. Room cost is reflected in the quality of the room.

1. Hotel Amalie (phone: +47 776 64800), similar website address, single room with breakfast: 845 NOK / $120 US.(we have reserved 30 rooms).
2. Rainbow Polar Hotel , (phone + 47 777 51700), single rooms: 760 NOK/ $106. (we have reserved 30 rooms).
3. Hotel Nord (phone +47 776 68300), single rooms: 394/452 NOK/ $55/63 US (7 single rooms reserved), double rooms: 609 NOK/$85 US. (9 double rooms reserved, occupants split the cost).

At Sommarøya 3-6 June. :

1. Single room, all meals, conference facilities with coffee: 3535 NOK /3 days, including Sami dinner.
2. Shared double room: all meals, conference facilities with coffee 2785 NOK/per person, 3 days, including Sami dinner.
3. Five persons sharing a nice house, kitchen, bedding etc. included, self-catering approximately1350 NOK per person for 3 nights. This is self-catering, and shops are close. Full pension is available. This is a high quality low price alternative, and participants can then order dinner, etc. like the others a little in advance.

ACTIVITIES:

• You can walk from the on foot to a low but spectacular mountain summit, and also along the shores of the island and surrounding areas. See photographs of the site at their web site.
• Boat rental is available of smaller boats on individual and small group basis, or also cabin cruisers accommodating 15 passengers (1056 NOK/$150 US an hour).
• The closing banquet dinner will be served in lavvos (Sami type tents)with the diners seated in groups around the beach. This time of year the midnight sun is up, and when the weather is nice the spectacular scenery entrances the visitors.

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ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS:

PLEASE ATTACH ABSTRACT ACCORDING TO THE EXAMPLE FORMAT FOR ABSTRACTS SHOWN BELOW (500 word maximum text + figures and references):

Abstracts:

***Due 1 April 2004.*** Submit a 500-word (maximum) abstract with your application. Abstracts should be in English and formatted according to the example below. Send abstracts to CHRISTINE R. MARTIN as an email attachment or embedded in the email. fncrm@uaf.edu.

Oral talks:

Powerpoint presentations are encouraged and we will have a projector available that is compatible with PC and Macs. Talks will be limited to 15 minutes with 5 minutes of discussion.

Posters:

Posters will be on display during the entire length of the conference and can be viewed during breaks and during, before and after the daily sessions. Abstracts for posters should follow the same guidelines as for oral presentations. Posters should be formatted to 120 x 85 cm (48 x 36 inches). Poster presenters are encouraged to make page-sized copies of their posters for distribution at the conference.

ABSTRACT FORMAT :

Hardcopy abstracts: Use Times 12 point font, single spaced. If possible, email your application with an attached Word document with your abstract. The abstracts may include references and figures beyond the 500 word maximum text length. Submission by email is encouraged because this will minimize retyping the abstracts. Authors should also send their abstracts by express mail particularly if there are attached figures. The abstracts will likely be published informally as an in-house report and be made available as a PDF file over the web. The volumes of abstracts from the previous conferences have been extremely useful as reference and for to securing funding for future work.

Figures and tables:

Please submit figures in both hardcopy and softcopy (electronic file, GIF, TIF, EPS format) to facilitate incorporation into a final report. Figures should fit within a 7.5 x 10 inch (19 x 25.5 cm) frame including the legend, and a legend should be attached at the bottom of the figure, left justified.

For example:
Figure 1. Provisional vegetation map of Greenland.
Tables should have the legend attached to the top of the table, left justified.

Please keep these points in mind when writing your abstracts:

1. It would be highly desirable to present multi-author synthesis papers that point toward national plans for mapping large regions of the Arctic.
2. Presentation of significant circumpolar or continental-scale products are strongly encouraged. Examples include circumpolar base maps, NDVI products, color maps of portraying a synthesis of Yurtsev's Levels I and II, and maps of very large regions of the Arctic (e.g. all of the Russian Arctic, Arctic Canada, Scandinavia, or North America).

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EXAMPLE ABSTRACT :

REVIEW OF VEGETATION MAPPING IN ARCTIC ALASKA
Stephen S. Talbot
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1011 East Tudor Road, Anchorage, AK 99503 USA
Email: stalbot@corcomsv.corcom.com
Information on arctic vegetation has increased markedly in recent years (Walker et al., 1995). At an International conference on the Classification of Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation at Boulder, Colorado in March 1992, the participants recognized that no single existing classification or map portrayed the synthesis of current knowledge..........etc.
Literature Cited:
Walker, D.A., C. Bay, F.J.A. Daniels, E. Einarsson, A. Elvebakk, B.E. Johanson, A.P. Kapitsa, S.S. Kholod, D.F. Murray, S.S. Talbot, B.A. Yurtsev, and S.C. Zoltai. 1995. Toward a new arctic vegetation map: a review of existing maps. Journal of Vegetation Science, 6:427-436.

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