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Science conference programme

Wednesday, January 21

09:00 Welcome: Paul Wassmann, ARCTOS, Leader of Scientific Committee, Norway.

09:03 Opening: Jens Revold, State Secretary for the Minister of Research and Higher Education, Norway.

09:18 Welcome: Ken Drinkwater, Arctic Frontiers Science Steering Committee

09:22 Introduction to Science Conference: Paul Wassmann, ARCTOS

    Session I: Arctic Ocean governance

    Chair: Maria Hammer

    09:30 Key lecture I: O. R. Young: Arctic Ocean governance - status and prospects 

    10:00 A. H. Hoel: Implementing the ecosystems-based approach to oceans management in the Arctic: the case of the Norwegian management plan for the Barents Sea 

    10:20 Break 

    10:40 D. VanderZwaag: Canada and Arctic Ocean governance 

    11:00 D. Fluharty: US and Arctic Ocean governance: Living resources 

    11:20 V. Denisov et al: Ecosystem-based ocean management practices in the Russian Arctic 

    11:40 R. Hall. The role of satellite technology in Arctic Governance 

    12:00 Lunch

      Session II: Global warming and the arctic-subarctic connection


      Chair: Matias Langgaard Madsen

      13:00 Key lecture II: E. Carmack: The Arctic-Subarctic connection: Structures and Scenarios of Change 

      13:30 Key lecture III: K. Drinkwater: The influence of climate variability and change on the Barents Sea ecosystem: Results from the NESSAS project 

      14:00 W. P. Budgell & V. S. Lien: Projected changes in the physical environment of four sub-Arctic seas under climate change 

      14:20 Break 

      14:40 A. B. Sandø: The importance of heat transport and local air-sea fluxes to the Barents Sea temperature variability 

      15:00 D. Slagstad & I. Ellingsen: Primary production in a future Arctic Ocean without summer sea ice 

      15:20 G. Huse & I. Ellingsen: Capelin migrations and climate change – a model analysis 

      15:40 N. A. Ekerhovd: Climate Change and the Blue Whiting Agreement 

      16:00 Poster session with bar service 

      18:00 End poster session

        Thursday, January 22 - parallel sessions

        Session III: Global warming and decadal changes in the Arctic

        Main meeting room 

        Chair: Lena Seuthe 

        09:00 Key lecture IV: Jean Claude Gascard: Global Warming, Global Warning: the Arctic Ocean under threat 

        09:30 Key lecture V: Cecilie Mauritzen: Highlights from the IPY project iAOOS Norway - Closing the Loop 

        10:00 Key lecture VI: M. Klages & T. Soltwedel: A decade of change at HAUSGARTEN deep-sea observatory: causes and consequences 

        10:30 Break 

        10:50 R. Ingvaldsen et al.: Inter-annual variability in the dense water leaving the Barents Sea to the Arctic Ocean 

        11:10 F. Cottier et al.: Observing Arctic shelf processes: 8 years of physical and biogeochemical marine observations in Svalbard 

        11:30 V. K. Pavlov: Sea level in the Nordic Seas. What are the main causes? 

        12:00 Lunch

        Break out session: Ocean Governance Issues

        Theorifagbygget, room 4213 

        Chair: Alf Håkon Hoel 

        09:00 M.K. Jones and T. Pedersen: Which Age of the Arctic? 

        09:20 M. Midtgaard. Arctic oil and gas: sustainability at risk? 

        09:40 M. Knol: Arctic Ocean Governance: an ambiguous science - policy relation? 

        10:00 Coffee break 

        10:20 G. Hoogensen et al.: Complementarities and tensions in conceptualizing relevant security frameworks for the Arctic context 

        10:40 T.W. Potts and C. Schofield: External participants in the Arctic system of governance and cooperation.

        11:00 O.S. Stokke: Global-regional interplay in Arctic Ocean governance.

        11:20 T. Henriksen:Challenges and Opportunities in the Conservation of Arctic Marine Biodiversity.

        11:40 End

        Session IV: Global warming and trophic structure of marine Arctic ecosystems

        Chair: Kriss Rokkan Iversen

        13:00 Key lecture VII: Jacqueline Grebmeier: Benthic carbon cycling in the Chukchi Sea: status, trends and climate warming 

        13:30 Key lecture VIII: Michael Carroll: Trophic structure of arctic ecosystems related to variable food supplies 

        14:00 M. Noyon et al.: Potential impact of climate change on the pelagic amphipod Themisto libellula and the energy transfer through the food web 

        14:20 Break 

        14:40 K. Blachowiak-Samolyk et al.: Does climate change influence biodiversity of mesozooplankton from the European Arctic marginal ice zone?

        15:00 J. E. Tremblay & Y. Gratton: What have we learned from 10 years of nutrient investigations in the western Arctic? 

        15:20 S. G. Denisenko et al.: Long-term changes in zoobenthos and dominance of benthic species in the Barents Sea: their relation to climate change and anthropogenic impact. 

        15:40 S. H. Ferguson et al.: Arctic warming and killer whales: will beluga, narwhale and bowhead whales survive? 

        16:00 End

          Friday, January 23

          Session V: Marine food web dynamics in an era of climate warming

          Chair: Lisa Bjørnsdatter Helgason

          09:00 Key lecture IX: L. Fortier: Circumpolar comparison of the hatching season of Arctic cod: a test of the freshwater hypothesis 

          09:30 Key lecture X: H. Hop: Key players in the marine food web of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. 

          10:00 Key lecture XI: M. Reigstad & J. Carroll: Carbon flux, ecosystem feed back and climate change in the seasonal ice zone of the Barents Sea 

          10:30 Break 

          10:50 K. Kosobokova et al.: Distribution of zooplankton biomass in the Eurasian and Canadian Basins of the Arctic Ocean: between-basin comparison 

          11:10 J. Berge et al.: Diel vertical migration of Arctic zooplankton during the polar night 

          11:30 C. Wexels-Riser et al.: Suspended biomass and vertical flux of organic matter in the western Fram Strait: a winter and spring scenario 

          12:00 Lunch

            Session VI: Ocean - Sea Ice - Atmosphere forcing in ice-dominated ecosystems

            Chair: Jasmine Nahrgang

            13:00 Key lecture XII: D. Barber et al.: The International Polar Year (IPY) Circumpolar Flaw Lead (CFL) system study 

            13:30 Key lecture XIII: E. Leu & J. Søreide: Consequences of changing sea ice cover for primary and secondary producers in the Arctic: timing, quantity and quality 

            14:00 P. Mayzaud et al.: Lipid and fatty acid seasonal changes of phytoplankton in Kongsfjord during the 2007 warm scenario 

            14:20 Break 

            14:40 E. N. Hegseth et al.: Changed spring bloom timing in a Svalbard (high Arctic) fjord caused by Atlantic inflow? 

            15:00 M. I. Wallace et al.: Zooplankton vertical migration persists throughout the year in two high Arctic fjords 

            15:20 A. Aubert: Winter dynamics of small zooplankton in Amundsen Gulf 

            15:40 D. Martynova et al.: Calanus glacialis: Food dependent or food independent gonad development and egg production? 

            16:00 Summing up 

            16:15 End

               
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