8:30 Coffee, meet and greet
9:00 Goals and overview of the agenda and overview of the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Science Initiative (CAVSI) (Skip Walker and Gabriela Schaepman-Strub)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Panel 1: Training the next generation of Arctic vegetation scientists: Curricula, field schools, other resources, and creation of a Vegetation Young Scientist Network (Moderators: Mária Šibíková & Shawnee Kasanke)
11:10 Panel 2: Learning from large pan-Arctic networks or programs (Moderators: Craig Tweedie and Millicent Harding)
11:50 Mapping Arctic Science (Craig Tweedie)
12:00 Lunch (catered in room)
13:00 Panel 3: Learning from vegetation-focused Arctic networks or projects (Moderators: Howard Epstein and Cassandra Elphinstone)
13:50 Breakout Session
Groups 1 & 2: Training the next generation of Arctic vegetation scientists
Groups 3 & 4: Creation of a new AVON
Group O: Online breakout
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Plenary: Reports from breakout sessions followed by discussion
17:00 Adjourn
8:30 Coffee meet and greet
9:00 Welcome & Introduction of keynote speaker (Skip Walker & Jozef Šibík)
9:15 Keynote: Vegetation complexity of the Arctic-Alpine realm at disparate spatial scales (Ladislav Mucina)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Overview of the CAVSI initiative (Skip Walker)
10:40 Panel 4: Pan-Arctic Species List and local floras (Moderators: Helga Bültmann and Aaron Wells)
11:20 Panel 5: Sampling and archiving protocols for Arctic plot data (Moderators: Amy Breen and Maria Dance)
12:00 Lunch (catered in room)
13:00 Panel 6: Vegetation Classification (Moderators: Jozef Šibík and Ladislav Mucina)
13:40 Panel 7: Mapping and Remote Sensing (Moderators: Martha Raynolds and Brianna McNeal)
14:20 Breakout/Writing Sessions
Group 4: Pan-Arctic Species List and local floras
Group 5: Sampling and archiving protocols for Arctic plot data
Group 6: Vegetation Classification
Group 7: Mapping and Remote Sensing
Group O: Online breakout
16:00 Reports from breakout sessions
16:30 Plenary: Back to the future: Bridging generations of scientists, from pioneers to young investigators (Skip Walker)
17:30 Adjourn
8:30 Coffee, meet and greet
9:00 Welcome and overview: Recent applications of circumpolar vegetation-related products (Gabriela Schaepman-Strub)
9:20 Lightning Talks: New and future directions for observing, reconstructing, and predicting vegetation change in the Arctic (Moderator: Vitallii Zemlianskii)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Plenary: How does CAVSI fit into ICARP IV and IPY (Skip Walker, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, and Amy Breen)
11:15 Plenary: Outline 10-year CAVSI Science plan (Skip Walker, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, and Amy Breen)
12:00 Lunch (catered in room)
13:00 Breakout/Writing Session: Outline sections of the science plan and white paper
15:00 Outcomes Report for Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Science Initiative
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 CAVSI resolution and additional discussion
17:00 Adjourn