Arctic Clash:  Climate and Geopolitics

USC Arctic symposium, Friday 16 Feb – University Park Campus SOSB40

9:30-9:50 (Pacific)  Welcome coffee, introduction:  The Arctic at a Crossroads

10:00-12:00       Accelerating Environmental Crisis:  Grim Futures 

      Yereth Rosen, Climate Change and the Collapsing Alaskan Arctic

      Ilarion Merculieff, Climate Impacts on Indigenous Arctic Communities

      Robert English, Synergies of Disaster

2:00-4:30       Geopolitics Invades the Arctic:  Is Cooperation Still Possible?

      Pavel Devyatkin,  Russia, the Arctic Council, and the Collapse of Cooperation

      Cynthia Lazaroff, Bering Strait Diplomacy

      Lassi Heininen, Rivalry Restrained, Cooperation Restored?