History and Development of ACD

A Timeline

• Initial workshop: Woods Hole, Massachusetts, November 2-4, 1999, sponsored by the NSF's Office of Polar Program and its program "Russian-American Initiative on Shelf-Land Environments" (RAISE), organized by Jerry Brown (US) and Steve Solomon (Canada) under the auspices of the International Permafrost Association (IPA)
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  • Workshop Report

• Arctic Coastal Dynamics (ACD) accepted as an official project of the International Arctic Sciences Committee (IASC) in April 2000.
• First international ACD workshop sponsored by IASC held in Potsdam, Germany, October 18-20, 2000
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  • Development of a phased, five-year Science and Implementation Plan
• Second IASC/IPA-sponsored international ACD workshop held in Potsdam, Germany, November 26-30, 2001
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  • Workshop report: Rachold, V., Brown, J. and Solomon, S. (eds.) 2002: Arctic Coastal Dynamics - Report of an International Workshop, Potsdam (Germany) 26-30 November 2001. Rep. Polar Research 413, 27 extended abstracts, 103 pp.

• Third IASC-funded international ACD workshop held in Oslo, Norway, December 2-5, 2002
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  • Workshop report: Rachold, V., Brown, J., Solomon, S. and Sollid, J.L. (eds.) 2003: Arctic Coastal Dynamics - Report of the 3rd International Workshop, Oslo (Norway), December 2-5, 2002. Rep. Polar and Marine Research 443

• Arctic Coastal Dynamics (ACD) accepted as a regional project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) in May 2003
• Fourth IASC-funded international ACD workshop held in St. Petersburg, Russia, November 10-13, 2003
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  • Workshop report: Rachold, V. and Cherkashov, G. (eds.) 2004: Arctic Coastal Dynamics - Report of the 4th International Workshop, St. Petersburg (Russia), November 10-13. Rep. Polar and Marine Research 482

• Fifth IASC-funded international ACD workshop held in Montreal, Canada, October 13-16, 2004
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  • Workshop report: Rachold, V. Lantuit, H., Couture, N. and Pollard, W.H.(eds.) 2005: Arctic Coastal Dynamics - Report of the 5th International Workshop, McGill Univesity, Montréal (Canada), October 13-16. Rep. Polar and Marine Research 505