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