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The symposium was sponsored by the National Park Service and was an International Polar Year event. The theme of the meeting was Natural and Cultural Heritage of Greater Beringia. The meeting presentations focused on the natural and cultural resources found in the parks, protected areas, and communities of this vast area, which stretches from the Lena River in Siberia to the Mackenzie River in Canada and from the North Pole to the Aleutian Islands. The 2008 Alaska Park Science Symposium was the third in a biannual series of scientific conferences that are place-based, in that the symposia focus on specific national parks in Alaska, and drawing scientists and scholars from many disciplines with work occurring in or relevant to these areas. The focus of the 2008 symposium was on the parks and protected areas (e.g. preserves, monuments, refuges) in Greater Beringia, including Alaska, Chukotka, and the Yukon Territory. The National Park Service areas in the Alaskan Arctic include: the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park, and Noatak National Preserve. The National Park Service manages the Shared Beringian Heritage Program, which supports a wide range of cultural exchanges, research, and international meetings focused on the Beringia region. The Beringia Days International Conference has been held annually since 1996 to recognize and celebrate the contemporary and historic value of the region’s shared ecological and cultural heritage. Agenda PDF 2008 Park Science in the Arctic Agenda At a Glance 76.74 KB 2008 Park Science in the Arctic Agenda Day 1 155.45 KB 2008 Park Science in the Arctic Agenda Day 2 179.67 KB 2008 Park Science in the Arctic Agenda Day 3 168.39 KB Attendees 2008 Park Science in the Arctic Attendees 434.92 KB Poster and Presentation Abstracts for the 2008 Alaska Park Science Symposium 10/14/08 - 10/16/08 Abstracts are listed in alphabetical order by first author’s last name. Presenters are listed in parentheses if they are other than the first author. List of Abstracts Long-Term Monitoring of Vegetation Change Following Tundra Fires in Noatak National Preserve, Alaska Jennifer L. Allen 1 , Charles Racine 2 , John Dennis 3 1 National Park Service - Alaska Region, Fire Management, 4175 Geist Rd, Fairbanks, AK, 99709, USA, Phone 907-455-0652, Fax 907-455-0601, jennifer_allen [at] nps.gov 2 219 E. King St, Edenton, NC, 27932, USA, Phone 252-482-0244, charles_racine [at] yahoo.com 3 National Park Service, 1849 C Street, N.W (3130), Washington, DC, 20240, USA, Phone 202-513-7174 Fire is an important driver of change at the local and landscape levels in the tundra ecosystems of Noatak National Preserve. In July 2005, with support from the National Park Service Arctic Network Inventory and Monitoring program, we relocated and remeasured fire plots established in 1981–82 at eight sites in Noatak National Preserve to evaluate the long-term (25 to 30 years) effects of tundra wildfire on vegetation and permafrost. At all four 1977 and one 1982 burned site (but not the 1972 burn) there has been an increase in vascular plant cover during the past 23 years from 1981–82 to 2005. This increase was mostly due to increases in shrub cover by as much as 65% on a shrub tundra site and 15 to 30% in tussock-shrub tundra. The shrub species involved in this increase were mostly deciduous shrubs of birch and willow. Grass and forb (mainly fireweed) cover has declined or disappeared. At two lightly burned shrub tundra sites there has been a net decrease in the number of forb species (from 21–24 species in 1981 to 14 species in 2005) during the past 24 years. Thaw depths in 2005 were similar to those measured in 1981–82 except for a site burned in 1972 and possibly again in 1984. This analysis of change from 1981 to 2005 following tundra fire has occurred during a remarkable period of warming in the North American Arctic, with evidence for the expansion...