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19 January
Welcomes and New Opportunities and Challenges
09:00 Jarle Aarbakke, Rector of University of Tromsø & Salve Dahle, Chairman of Steering committee: Opening of Arctic Frontiers
09:05 Egil Olli, President of Sami Parliament: Address to Arctic Frontiers
09:10 Elisabeth Walaas, State secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs on behalf of Jonas Gahr Støre, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway: Priorities for the Arctic.
10:10 Joe Borg, Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, European Commission: The Arctic strategy of the European Union.
10:40 Sergei Donskoi, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, Russian Federation: Development of resources in the Russian Arctic.
11:10 James A. Slutz, Assistant Secretary, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy: US focus on energy in the Arctic.
11:40 Per Berthelsen, Minister for Finance and Foreign Affairs, Greenland Home Rule: Living off nature.
12:10 Danielle Labonté, Director General, Strategic Policy (Northern Affairs) , Indian and Northern Affairs. Canada: Canada's northern strategy and Arctic Research Initiative.
13:50 Oran Young, Professor Bren School of Environmental Management, University of California Santa Barbara, USA: The age of the Arctic.
14:20 Hariharan Pakshi Rajan, Principal Law of the Sea /Ocean affairs Officer, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law the Sea, UN: The Arctic and the UNCLOS.
14:50 Cecilie Mauritzen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute: What have we learned from the International Polar Year?
15:20 Trond Grytting, Rear Admiral, Norway: From the cold war to the hot Arctic.
20 January
License to operate - Management of Arctic Seas
09:02 Trude Sundset, Vice President Environment and Climate, StatoilHydro, Norway: How to earn a licence to operate in the Arctic.
09:32 Herve Madeo, First Deputy CEO/ VP Projects, Shtokman Development AG, Russia: Development of Shtockman gas field.
10:02 Carlos Berrozpe Garcia, Leader for marine team, Unit for water protection and marine environment, DG Environment, European Commission: Ecosystem approach to the management of the arctic seas.
11:00 Einar Svendsen, Research Director at Institute of Marine Research, Norway: Fisheries of the arctic seas in an era of climate changes.
11:30 Tatiana Saksina, Arctic Governance Officer at WWF International: Arctic governance.
12:00 Jan G. Winther, Director Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway: Legacy of IPY.
13:30 Heidi Sørensen, State Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Norway: Arctic Seas from white to blue – how will it affect us and what must we do?
Young science in the North - Panel discussion
15:00 Panel
- Jenny Baeseman, Director - Association of Polar Early Career Scientists ( USA);
- Andrew J. Greenshaw, Vice-Chair Board of Governors, University of the Arctic, and Associate Vice President (Research) University of Alberta Canada;
- Kriss Rokkan Iversen, Young Scientist Forum, ARCTOS, Norway;
- Alexandre Forest, young scientist representing ArcticNet, Canada;
- Representative from Sami College, Kautokeino, Norway;
- Representative from young scientists from Russian Academy of Science, Russia;
16:30 Summing up by Martin Fortier, Executive Director of ArcticNet Canada.
21 January
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
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
10:40 D. VanderZwaag: Canada and Arctic Ocean governance
11:00 D. Fluharty: US and Arctic Ocean governance: Living resources
11:20 V. Denisov: Ecosystem-based ocean management practices in the Russian Arctic
11:40 R. Hall. The role of satellite technology in Arctic Governance
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
22 January
Session III: Global warming and decadal changes in the Arctic
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?
Session IV: Global warming and trophic structure of marine Arctic ecosystems
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
14:40 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?
23 January
Session V: Marine food web dynamics in an era of climate warming
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
10:50 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
Session VI: Ocean - Sea Ice - Atmosphere forcing in ice-dominated ecosystems
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?