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 

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 

Plenary Part II Sustainable communities in the High North

Auditorium 2 (Chairs: Eirik Mikkelsen and Brynhild Granås)

09:00 Introduction to Part II: Eirik Mikelsen

09:10 Invited speaker Rasmus Ole Rasmusen, Nordregio, Sweden: Sustainable communities in the High North. Challenges and options

 10:30 Break

12:00 Lunch

Part II, plenary: Traditional knowledge

Auditorium 2, (Chairs: Nils Aarsaether and Mette R. Midtgard)

13:00  Invited speaker Jelena Porsanger, Sámi University College, Norway: Traditional knowledge for sustainable resource management

13:30 Break 

14:30 Break

16:00 Poster session with bar service

18:00 End poster session

Part II, plenary: Local adaptation to climate change

Auditorium 2, Chairs: Inger Njølstad and Brynhild Granås)

09:00 Invited speaker VII: G.K. Hovelsrud. Community adaptation to climate change

 10:30 Break

12:00 Lunch

Part II, plenary:: Health care in rural areas in the North

Auditorium 2, Chairs: Inger Njølstad and Laila Hopstock

13:00  Invited speaker VII: R. Strasser. Sustainable Health Care in Rural and Remote Communities

13:30 Break 

14:30 Break

Part II, plenary: Social Indicators, Social research, and Climate change in the North

Auditorium 2, Chairs: Nils Aarsaether and Camilla Brattland)

14:50 Invited speaker Joan Nymand Larsen et al., Stefansson Arctic Institute, Iceland: Arctic Social Indicators and long-term monitoring: considerations for regional and community sustainability

15:20 Invited speaker Alexander Pelyasov, Center of the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for Research for the Study of Productive Forces, Russia: The shortcomings of Arctic Social Research - A challenge for the sustainability of Arctic communities in the new creative age

15:50 J.Ø. Odland. Climate Change, Environment, Human Health and Human Adaptation in Circumpolar Regions. A strategy for sustainable development and policy development

16:20 End

Part II, plenary: Cooperation in Education and Research in the North

Auditorium 2, (Chairs: Ivar Aaraas and Mikko Moilanen)

09:00 Invited speaker XI: A. Bourmistrov. Education and research cooperation on sustainable management – importance for value creation and local sustainability

10:30 Break

Part II, plenary

Auditorium 2, Chairs: Nils Arrsæther, Eirik Mikkelsen and Camilla Brattland)

10:50 Part II Report Theme sum up and final discussion

Plenary:  Auditorium 1

12:15 Lessons learnt - concluding Arctic Frontiers 2010

13:00 Lunch

14:00 End

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  

Marine Biodiversity under change

Arctic microbial and zooplankton diversity

Auditorium 1, (Chair: Elizaveta Ershova)

09:00 Invited speaker Connie Lovejoy et. al., Université Laval, Canada: Microbial Diversity in the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas: an evolving story

09:20 Invited speaker Michel Poulin et. al., Canadian Museum of Nature, Canada: Biodiversity of Arctic phytoplankton, ice algae and protists

09:40 Invited speaker Russ Hopcroft et. al., University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA: A Pan-arctic analysis of Biodiversity patterns for zooplankton on Arctic shelves

10:00 B.H. Hansen et al. Current status and knowledge on the effects of oil on Arctic calanoid copepods.

10:15 Allison Bailey et al., The University Centre in Svalbard, Norway: Overwintering ecology of two key zooplankton species in a high-Arctic fjord: Evidence for state-dependency in diapause strategy?

10:30 Break

Arctic zooplankton and ice biota diversity

(Chair: Elizaveta Ershova)

10:50 Invited speaker Xenia Kosobokova et al., Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia: Patterns of zooplankton diversity through the depths of the Arctic’s central basins

11:10 Ananda Alex Rabindranath et al., Scottish Oceans Institute, Scotland: Seasonal and Diel Vertical Migration (DVM) of Arctic Zooplankton

11:25 Svetlana Matviy, Russia: The role of fast ice in the transitional land/sea zone zooplankton communities of SE Baltic

11:40 Invited speaker Rolf Gradinger, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA: Biodiversity of Arctic sea ice fauna

12:00 Lunch

Arctic zooplankton diversity and toxicology (Chair: Gerald Darnis)

13:00 Ole N Staurland Aarbakke et al., University of Tromsø, Norway: First finding of Pseudocalanus moultoni Frost 1989 in Norwegian waters

13:15 Ketil Eiane & D.L. Aksnes, Bodø University College, Norway: The jellyfish Periphylla periphylla in Norwegian coastal waters: are mass occurrences spreading?

13:30 Nina Bednarsek et al., British Antarctic Survey, UK: Will Southern Ocean pteropods survive ocean acidification?

13:45 Joanna Szczucka, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland: Response of marine and terrestrial ecosystems to climate changes in Arctic – links between physical environment, biodiversity of zooplankton and seabird populations

14:00 Nicholas Warner et al., Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway: Effects of seasonality on trophic magnification factors for contaminant accumulation in Arctic food webs

14:15 Helene Angot et al., Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway: Influences of climate change on organochlorine pesticide contamination within benthic communities in Svalbard

14:30 Break

Arctic benthic zoogeography and biodiversity (Chair: Gerald Darnis)

14:50 Invited speaker Andrey Gebruk & A.N. Mironov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia: Biogeographical patterns and recent history of Arctic marine benthic fauna

15:10 Invited speaker Dieter Piepenburg et al., University of Kiel, Germany: The biodiversity of the benthic macro- and megafauna of Arctic shelf seas - a pan-Arctic synopsis of magnitude, patterns and processes

15:30 Knut Sivertsen, Finnmark University College, Norway: Temperature and physiological processes determine the southern border of the sea urchin dominated barren grounds along the Norwegian coast

15:45 -

16:00 Poster session with bar service

18:00 End poster session

Marine biodiversity under change 

Benthic biodiversity

Auditorium 1, (Chair: Joanna Przytarska) 

08:30 Invited speaker Jan Marcin Weslawski et al., IOPAS, Sopot, Poland: The benthic biodiversity of Arctic coasts and fjords

08:50 Monika Kedra et al., Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland: Shallow winter macrofaunal assemblages along the depth and distance-to-glacier gradients (79° N, Spitsbergen)

09:05 Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk et al., Institute of Oceanology PAS, Poland: Arctic open sea shelf vs. semi-enclosed marine inlets: macrobenthic diversity of Barents Sea and west Spitsbergen fiords

09:20 Eivind Oug et al., Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Norway: Benthic fauna in the Varangerfjorden – before and after the invading red king crab

09:35 Stephen Jewett et al., University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA: Invertebrate communities associated with various substrates in the nearshore Aleutian Islands, with emphasis on thick crustose coralline algae

09:50 Katya Solyanko et al., University of Hull, UK: Subtidal benthic fauna of the Gorlo Strait of the White Sea: an attempt of the species inventory based on diachronic surveys

10:05 Invited speaker Sarah Mincks Hardy et al., University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA: Molecular diversity of Arctic fauna: Genetic tools provide new insights in taxonomy and biogeography of marine organisms

10:30 Break

10:50 Invited speaker Bodil Bluhm et al., University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA: Biodiversity of Arctic deep-sea benthos

11:10 Invited speaker Sabine Cochrane et al., Akvaplan-niva, Norway: Arctic Sea floor biodiversity under change: assessing goals and reality

11:30 Piotr Kuklinski et al., Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland: Arctic bryozoans – our current status of knowledge

11:45 Jyotsna Sharma & B.A. Bluhm, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA: Diversity of Free-Living Nematodes from Macrobenthos in the Arctic deep-sea Canada Basin

12:00 Lunch

Arctic Fish communities (Chair: Camilla Ottesen)

13:00 Michaela Aschan et al., University of Tromsø, Norway: Change in fish community structure: indication of an ecological regime shift in the Barents Sea?

13:15 Maria Fossheim et al., Institute of Marine Research, Norway: The spatial structure of the Barents Sea fish community

13:30 Andrey V. Dolgov et al., Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO), Russia: Trophic relations in fish community in the northern Barents Sea

13:45 Paul Renaud et al., The University Centre in Svalbard, Norway: Climate change, competition, and habitat usage: earlier and stronger warming may alter ecosystem roles of the key Arctic species Boreogadus saida

14:00 Knut E. Jørstad et al., Institute of Marine Research, Norway: Genetic links across the Arctic Ocean – comparing herring (Clupea) in the Barents and Bering Seas

14:15 Cammilla Ottesen et al., University of Tromsø, Norway: Early life history aspects of daubed shanny (Leptoclinus maculatus) in Svalbard waters

14:30 Break

14:50 Invited speaker Harald Gjøsæter, Institute of Marine Research, Norway: Biodiversity of and changes related to harvestable fish resources

15:10 Invited speaker Catherine W. Mecklenburg et al., California Academy of Sciences, USA: Biodiversity of Arctic Marine Fishes

Arctic ecosystems (Chair: Camilla Ottesen)

15:30 Haakon Hop et al., Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway: Has Kongsfjorden in Svalbard passed a tipping point for persistent change in the marine ecosystem?

15:45 Thomas Juul-Pedersen et al., Greenland Climate Research Centre, Greenland: Long-term monitoring and research of high- and sub-arctic marine ecosystems in Greenland

16:00 End