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ESF-VR-FORMAS Conference on Global Change Research

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: THE ROLE OF THE ARCTIC REGION

Chaired by

CHAIR:

JörnThiedeE-Mail

Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine ResearchBremerhavenGermany

http://www.awi.de/de/

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Jonas Björk, Swedish Research Council, Stockholm, SE - Dorthe Dahl Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, DK - Paul Egerton, European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, FR - Volker Rachold, International Arctic Science Committee, Stockholm, SE - Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE

Dates

13-17 October 2007

Location

Utsikten Meetings, Nynäshamn, Sweden
The conference will be held at Utsikten Meetings, in Nynashämn. Nynashämn is a country idyll located on the east coast of Sweden, 55 km from Stockholm and 52 km from Södertälje.

Final Programme & List of Accepted Participants

© Hans Oerter, AWI

Dramatic and manyfold news of changes in the Arctic (destruction of permafrost landscapes, shrinkage and thinning of the Arctic sea ice cover, reduction of the Greenland ice sheet) make us wonder what all of this will mean for the world. The presently ongoing International Polar Year offers a unique chance to assess the modern processes which alter marine and terrestrial environments in the Arctic and which control the quality of life of Arctic indigenous and non-indigenous populations. New coring records demonstrate that the Arctic was ice-free during the Early Tertiary, but that during mid-Tertiary it had cooled enough to acquire its first ice covers.

The Pleistocene ice cores from Greenland have demonstrated fast and dramatic changes of the atmospheric circulation over the Arctic whose imprint have also been traced in oceanic and terrestrial paleoclimate records from low latitudes. Only the ongoing warm climatic phase (the Holocene) seems to have been relatively stable.

Modelling Arctic climates and ocean environments suggests the complete dissappearance of the Arctic sea ice cover over the coming century. Hence questions are asked what is in store for the future, for the entire Arctic and its people, its lands and seas, as well as for the entire world. And the conference will assess if credible answers can be found.

Sessions will address the following topics: 1. The Contemporary Arctic 2. The Arctic in the Past 3. The Arctic in the Earth System 4. Future Climate Change: Consequences for the Arctic. Contributed talks are encouraged.

Abstracts, Posters & Short Oral Contributions

There will be no short talks other than those listed on the programme. All other abstracts have been accepted as posters.

There will be no short talks other than those listed on the programme. All other abstracts are accepted as posters and are listed here:

Posters can be fixed with long pins onto poster panels. Poster size should be no more than 200 cm high x 120 cm wide. Use letters and drawings that can be read from approximately 100 cm distance.

Group Transportation & Practical Information Guide

Detailed information on all practical aspects of the conference (access to site, registration & fee payments, accommodation, travel reimbursements...) is available from the Practical Information Guide. Please read it fully and carefully...

GROUP TRANSPORTATION
Two buses will be arranged on arrival day from Stockholm Arlanda airport to Nynashamn. The journey takes approximately 90 minutes.

Bus departure times – Saturday 13 October: 16.00 and 18.00

Airport departure point: The buses will leave from around 150m outside the exit of Terminal 5. The bus driver will also be at the exit of Terminal 5 with a sign showing "ESF Conference".

Group transportation back to Stockholm Arlanda airport will be arranged in a similar way for the departure day.

Bus departure times – Wednesday 17 October: 09.00 and 10.00

ACCOMMODATION
Please note that SINGLE accommodation can only be guaranteed to invited speakers. All other participants will have to share a TWIN room. In case single rooms would become available at the time of the conference, rooms will be attributed on a “first come, first served” basis. Only the TWIN conference fee should be paid to the ESF when registering. The supplement for single should be paid to the venue directly. Should you wish to be put on waiting list for single accommodation, please contact Mrs. Anne Blondeel-Oman.

Accommodation

Please note that SINGLE accommodation can only be guaranteed to invited speakers. All other participants will have to share a TWIN room. In case single rooms would become available at the time of the conference, rooms will be attributed on a “first come, first served” basis. Only the TWIN conference fee should be paid to the ESF when registering. The supplement for single should be paid to the venue directly. Should you wish to be put on waiting list for single accommodation, please contact Mrs. Anne Blondeel-Oman.

Conference Fees

Some grants available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs. Grant requests should be made by ticking appropriate field(s) in the paragraph "Grant application" of the application form.

Registration Form

All participants - including speakers & session chairs - are kindly expected to confirm their attendance (and, when applicable, to pay the conference fee) by filling in a Registration Form.
Closing date for registration & fee payment: 21 September 2007

ESF Contact

AnneBlondeel-OmanE-Mail

Senior Conference Officer

Phone: +32 (0)2 533 2020
Fax: +32 (0)2 538 8486
Please quote 07-240 in any correspondence.

Partnership

This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with the Vetenskaprådet (VR)

With Support from

Links of Interest

• Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS): ARCUS was formed in 1988 to identify and bring together the distributed human and facilities resources of the Arctic research community, to create a synergy for the Arctic in which each resource, when combined with others, can result in a strength that enables the community to rise to the many challenges facing the Arctic and the United States.
• Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP): AMAP is an international organization established in 1991 to implement components of the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy (AEPS).
• International Polar Year (IPY 2007-2008): The International Polar Year is a large scientific programme focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009.
• The Planet: aims to enhance public awareness about the planet and our future; to show the limits, threats, and possibilities we are facing today. 'The same inconvenient truth, but differently presented'.

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