The science conference will split into two parallel sessions on Thursday morning.  The conference continuing the main auditorium and a break out session on  Ocean Governance Issues occuring in the Theorifagbygget, room 4213.

Invited speakers

• Reigstad, M.J. Carroll et al.: Carbon flux, ecosystem feed back and climate change in the seasonal ice zone of the Barents Sea
• Mauritzen, C.: Arctic Observations: meeting the needs of operational ocean forecasting, climate monitoring and all timescales in between.
• Helge Drange et al.: Title to be determined
• Leu, E., Søreide, J., Falk-Petersen, S., Berge J.: Consequences of changing sea ice cover for primary and secondary producers in the Arctic: timing, quantity and quality
• Ken Drinkwater: The role of physical forcing on the variability in the Barents Sea ecosystem including potential impacts of climate change: Results from the NESSAR project
• H. Hop et al.: Key players in the marine food web of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard.
• Jean-Claude Gascard et al: Title not yet determined.
• Michael Klages & Thomas Soltwedel. A decade of change at HAUSGARTEN deep-sea observatory: causes and consequences
• Eddy Carmack: The Arctic-Subarctic connection: Structures and Scenarios of Change
• Barber, D. et al.: Ocean-Sea Ice-Atmosphere forcing of the Circumpolar Flaw Lead in the southern Beaufort Sea - early results from the IPY-CFL project.
• Louis Fortier, Caroline Bouchard, Pascale Lafrance, Helen Cloutier: Circumpolar comparison of the hatching season of Arctic cod: a test of the freshwater hypothesis.
• Grebmeier, J.M., Codispoti, L.A., Benner, R., L.W.: Cooper. Benthic carbon cycling in the Chukchi Sea: status, trends and climate warming.

In order to promote the build-up of knowledge and pan-Arctic integration, the invited projects are asked to submit review manuscripts that, as a follow up of the volume Structure and function of contemporary food webs on Arctic shelves (Prog. Oceanogr. 71: 123-477), will be published in Progress in Oceanography.

Scientific committee

The scientific programme committee consisting of Jackie Grebmeier (University of Maryland Chesapeake Biological Laboratory), Martin Fortier (ArcticNet, Quebec), Ken Drinkwater (Institute of Marine Research, Bergen), Kim Holmén (Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø and Norwegian IPY), Cecilie Mauritzen (Meteorological Institute, Oslo) and JoLynn Carroll (ARCTOS).