08:30 Opening of the science conference - Welcome: Kirsten Broch Mathisen, Director, Department for Climate and the Environment, The Research Council of Norway

08:40 Introduction to Science conference: Salve Dahle, Head of the Arctic Frontiers Steering Committee 

Sea ice variability under changing boundary conditions: recent & paleo-records

Auditorium 3 (Chair: Dorthe Klitgaard Kristensen) 

09:00 Invited speaker Sebastian Gerland, NPI, Norway: The Status of Arctic Sea Ice: Variability, Trends and Key Processes

09:30 Waldemar Walczowski & J. Piechura, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland: Warming of the West Spitsbergen Current and sea ice conditions north of Svalbard

09:50 Peter Wadhams et al., University of Cambridge, UK: Measurements of ablation rates of ice floes in Fram Strait using ice mass balance buoys

10:10 Sönke Maus, University Bergen, Norway: Sea ice chemistry issues within the focus of climate change

10:30 Break

10:50 Invited speaker Anne de Vernal, Université du Québec à Montréal, GEOTOP, Canada: Variability of sea-ice in the Arctic and subarctic seas: From historical records to geological archives

11:20 Sebastian Mårtensson & H.E.M. Meier, Stockholm University, Sweden: Modelling the decadal variability of the Arctic Sea ice

11:40 Oleg Pokrovsky, Main Geophysical Observatory, Russia: Impact of Atlantic and Pacific Multi-Decadal Oscillations on Ice Extent in Russian Arctic Seas

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Invited speaker Guillaume Massé et. al., Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, France: High Resolution Reconstructions of Arctic Sea Ice

13:30 C. Stickley & Nalan Koç, NPI, Norway: The big freeze: Diatoms record Arctic sea ice at ~47 Ma

13:50 Invited speaker Jennifer Pike et. al., Cardiff University, UK: Quaternary Sea Ice Conditions: Clues from Marine Diatoms

14:20 Break

14:50 Katrine Husum et. al, University of Tromsø, Norway: Improving Ocean Temperature Proxies – Reconstruction of Sea Surface Temperatures in northern high-latitude oceans

15:20 Simon Pind Jessen & T.L. Rasmussen, University of Tromsø, Norway: Subsurface temperature and ocean-atmosphere heat flux for the Svalbard margin 0 – 24,000 years BP

15:40 Vasily Smolyanitsky,  AARI, St. Petersburg, Russia: JCOMM Expert Team on sea ice - operational sea ice matters

16:00 Poster session with bar services

18:00 End poster session

Remote sensing of the cryosphere as a tool in process studies

Auditorium 3 (Chair: Jack Kohler)

09:00 Invited speaker Leif Toudal Pedersen, DMI, Denmark: Remote sensing observations of the changes in Arctic sea ice

09:30 Joao Rodrigues & P. Wadhams, University of Cambridge, UK: Thirty years of sea ice thickness and extent in Fram Strait from submarine and satellite observations.

09:50 David Barber et. al., University of Manitoba, Canada: The summer perennial pack ice in the southern Beaufort Sea was not as it appeared in the summer of 2009.

10:10 Invited speaker Nick Hughes et. al., Met.no, Norway: Regional and Global Sea Ice reanalysis

10:30 Break

10:50 Invited speaker Ketil Isaksen, Met.no, Norway: Recent warming and thawing of Arctic permafrost

11:20 Stefanie Linow et. al., Germany: Improving snow accumulation estimates from microwave remote sensing with in-situ data.

11:40 Erik Malnes et. al., Norut, Norway: Satellite monitoring of the cryosphere and its relation to vegetation and growing seasons on Svalbard.

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Invited speaker Dana Floricioiu et. al., Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center, Germany: Advancements in glacier observations by means of high resolution TerraSAR-X radar imagery.

13:30 Max König NPI, Norway: Glacier Monitoring on Svalbard with Satellite Remote Sensing.

13:50 Anthony Doulgeris & T. Eltoft, UiT, Norway: General Statistical Methods for SAR analysis of the Cryosphere.

14:10 Jacek Jania et. al., University of Silesia, Poland: Application of satellite and terrestrial remote sensing methods for studies of tidewater glaciers in Svalbard with special reference to Hansbreen as an example.

14:30 Break

Ice shelves and ocean interactions in a warming climate (Chair: Laura de Steur)

14:50 Kurt Lambeck, The Australian National University, Australia: The ice sheets of northern Eurasia from MIS 6 to the Holocene: solutions from glacial rebound analyses

15:20 Michele Rebesco et. al., Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Italy: Deglaciation stages of the Barents Sea Ice Sheet from swath bathymetry and sub-bottom data

15:40 Renata G Lucchi et. al., Universidad de Barcelona, Spain: The Storfjorden paleo-ice stream deglaciation system revealed from continental margin sediments

16:00 End

Ice shelves and ocean interactions in a warming climate (cont.)

Auditorium 3 (Chair: Laura de Steur)

09:00 Invited speaker Ole Anders Nøst, NPI, Norway: Fimbul Ice Shelf – top to bottom

09:30 Tore Hattermann & A. Levermann, NPI, Norway: Response of Southern Ocean circulation to global warming may enhance basal ice shelf melting around Antarctica

09:50 Invited speaker Angelika Humbert, Univ. of Muenster, Germany: Fimbulisen: The influence of basal melt on the ice flow dynamics and vice versa

10:20 Discussion

10:30 Break

10:50 Invited speaker Adrian Jenkins, BAS, UK: Ocean-ice shelf interactions in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica

11:20 Svein Vagle et. al., Fisheries and Oceans, Canada: Oceanography of the Northwest Passage: Ocean Interactions in a Warming Climate

11:40 Gordon Hamilton et. al., University of Maine, USA: A Rapid Connection Between the Ocean and the Greenland Ice Sheet

Plenary session

Auditorium 1 

12:15 Lessons learnt - concluding Arctic Frontiers 2010

13:00 Lunch

14:00 End