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Arctic WorkshopThe annual Arctic Workshop was started in 1970 byProfessor John T. Andrews at INSTAAR as a way ofcommunicating recent ideas and results from field and laboratorystudies. The workshops were designed as well tofocus on graduate student participation as a way to promoteprofessional development of students. The location ofthe Arctic Workshop began to alternate between Boulderand other host locations in 1983, and has since grown intoan annual internationally attended meeting hosted by academicinstitutes worldwide. Organization of the workshopswas assumed by W. T. Pfeffer in 2004, following the retirementof Professor Andrews. Oral presentations and a postersession presented during the three-day meeting allow coverageof past and present Arctic and Antarctic environments,and reflect the interdisciplinary spectrum of research in theNorth and South circumpolar regions. All researchers interestedin high-latitude environments are encouraged toattend. Student participation is a vital component of thesemeetings, and financial support is available to this end. TheU.S. National Science Foundation has generously supportedregistration, accommodation, and subsistence for presentinggraduate students, making this meeting into a great mediumfor students to explore a wide variety of research studies inthe Arctic and Antarctic regions.35th Annual Arctic Workshop,9–12 March 2005The 35th Annual Arctic Workshop was hosted inEdmonton, Canada, by the Canadian Circumpolar Instituteand the University of Alberta, Earth and AtmosphericSciences Department. The U.S. National ScienceFoundation offered generous support for graduate studentparticipation in the workshop. The Abstract and OrganizingCommittees were led by John England, with invaluable supportfrom Mark Furze, Roy Coulthard, Duane Froese, ElaineMaloney, Cindy Mason, Chantel Nixon, Anna Pienkowski-Furze, Ryan Danby, and Mark Nuttall. There were 120 participants,68 of whom were graduate students.36th Annual Arctic Workshop,16–18 March 2006The 36th Annual Arctic Workshop was hosted byINSTAAR. There were 114 participants from 9 countries,including Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom, Canada,Russia, Germany, Iceland, and France. Of the participants,55 were graduate students. Student participation was supportedby the Arctic Natural Sciences Program at the U.S.National Science Foundation. Oral sessions were organizedthematically into lacustrine, marine, glacial history, atmosphericand meteorological processes, human dimensions,and archaeology. The poster session on Friday morningcomprised 41 posters. The Organizing Committee includedTad Pfeffer, David Lubinski, Wendy Roth, Anne Jennings,and Bill Manley. The abstracts of this meeting are still availablefrom the AW website (http://instaar.colorado.edu/meetings/AW2006/).The 2006 Arctic Workshop web site contains information about the meeting, searchable abstracts, and theproceedings in PDF format. Visit http://instaar.colorado.edu/aw/.RESEARCH MISSION | 15