big day in Fairbanks

Gov. Palin's sub-cabinet is holding its next meeting in Fairbanks on Nov. 6. The agenda is packed.
A good chunk of the meeting will be open to the public, and the first thing on the agenda is a public comment period. After that, they'll get quick overviews from UAF researchers Terry Chapin and David Atkinson on adaptation and coastal erosion, respectively. Buck Sharpton, the UAF vice chancellor for research, who's also on the sub-cabinet, will talk about digital mapping (I think to scale down climate models to make them more useful here). There's also a pitch by CCS, the company that's helping the state inventory emissions, for how it might help the sub-cabinet.
A second chunk of the meeting is closed to the public, and has some exciting stuff, like figuring out how much money the state should ask for next year to develop a strategy.
The sub-cabinet's working group on immediate action is also meeting that day in Fairbanks, starting at noon at the Regency Hotel, and that meeting is open to the public. Fairbanks' own Luke Hopkins is on there. One interesting tidbit is that Peter Larsen is scheduled to talk on the "foreseeable economic impacts" of climate change. He was the lead author for ISER's study on potential costs to state infrastructure -- the only such study out there, as far as I know -- but he now works for the Nature Conservancy as their climate change point person in Alaska. Not sure what capacity he's speaking in, or whether being a green will harm his credibility.
Click here for more on the two meetings.