IARC 2005 Summer School 

September 6-27, 2005

 

hosted by NABOS 2005 expedition aboard

Icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn

 

Organizers: 

International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA

Universit้ Laval, Qu้bec, Canada

Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Moscow, Russia

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia

 

Funding Agencies:

National Science Foundation (NSF), USA

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA

Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada: ArcticNet

Russian Foundation for Basic Research

Russian Ministry for Education and Science

Russian Academy of Science

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

 

   

 

Agenda

 

 

Monday, September 5, 2005:

12:00 – 18:00                          Loading and embarkation of Russian team in Murmansk, Russia

 

Tuesday, September 6, 2005:

  8:00 – 12:00                          Loading and embarkation in Kirkenes, Norway

17:30 – 19:30                          Welcome meeting

21:30 – 24:00                          Welcome reception in the lounge

Wednesday, September 7, 2005:

  8:30 – 10:00                                      Chief mate officer: Security instruction

10:00 – 11:30                                      Excursion, guided by icebreaker officers 

12:30 – 12:50                          Vladimir Alexeev, Louis Fortier, Irina Repina: Welcome

12:50 - 14:30                                       Roger G. Barry: Climate of the Arctic

14:30 – 15:30, 16:30 – 17:30    Peter J. Minnett: The Arctic atmosphere

17:30 – 19:30                          Genrikh Alekseev: Sea ice extent and surface air temperature in the Northern Hemisphere

Social hour in the lounge:

21:00 - 22:00                           Summer school instructors: Presentation of summer School research projects

 

Thursday, September 8, 2005:

  8:30 – 10:30                          Expedition meeting

10:30 – 11:30, 12:30 – 13:30        Bruno Tremblay: Physical oceanography of the Arctic

13:30 - 15:30                           Genrikh Alekseev: Atlantic Water in the Arctic Ocean: inflow, circulation and variability

16:30 – 18:30                          Igor Dmitrenko: Regional hydrography of the Siberian shelf and adjacent Arctic Ocean

18:30 – 19:30                          Summer school project working group meetings

Social hour in the lounge:

21:00 - 22:00                           Roger G. Barry: History of Arctic exploration and climate programs

 

Friday, September 9, 2005:

  8:30 – 10:30                          Expedition meeting

10:30 – 11:30, 12:30 – 13:30        Igor I. Mokhov: Links between the Arctic and global climate

13:30 – 15:30                          Bruno Tremblay: Sea ice and climate

16:30 – 18:30                          David G. Barber: The geophysics of snow and sea ice

18:30 – 19:30                          Summer school project working group meetings

 

Social hour in the lounge:

21:00 - 22:00                           Genrikh Alekseev: History of oceanographic investigations in the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas

 

 

Saturday, September 10, 2005:

  8:30 – 10:30                          Expedition meeting

10:30 – 11:30, 12:30 – 13:30        Jens H๖lemann: Modern transport processes on the Arctic shelves

13:30 - 15:30                           Jody W. Deming: Particle fluxes and microbial activity in the Arctic Ocean

16:30 – 18:30                          Louis Fortier: Trophic and vertical fluxes of carbon in the Arctic

18:30 – 19:30                          Summer school project working group meetings

 

Sunday, September 11, 2005:

8:30 – 10:30                            Expedition meeting

10:30 – 11:30, 12:30 – 13:30        Roger G. Barry: The cryosphere-climate system

13:30 - 15:30                           J. Kirk Cochran: Sea ice as transport agents for contaminants in the Arctic

15:30 – 18:30                          Jody W. Deming: Arctic sea ice: a unique microbial habitat facing extinction

18:30 – 19:30                          Summer school project working group meetings

 

 

 

Monday, September 12 – Wednesday, September 21, 2005: Field research, working on Summer School research projects

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 21:

 

19:30 – 21:30                          Barbecue on the helicopter deck, dedicated to the last oceanographic station

 

Thursday, September 22, 2005:

  8:30 - 11:30                           Working on Summer School research projects

12:30 – 14:30                          Harper Simmons: Ocean tide and general circulation modeling

14:30 – 15:30, 16:30 – 17:30        Genrikh Alekseev: Fresh water in the Arctic Ocean: sources, outflow and variability

17:30 – 19:30                          David G. Barber: The optical properties of snow and sea ice

 

Friday, September 23, 2005:

  8:30 - 11:30                           Working on Summer School research projects

12:30 - 14:30                           David G. Barber: Remote sensing of snow/sea ice

14:30 – 15:30, 16:30 – 17:30        Peter J. Minnett: Remote sensing of the atmosphere and surface

17:30 – 19:30                          Harper Simmons: Tides, waves, internal waves

Social hour in the lounge:

21:00-22:00                             Jody W. Deming: Microbial life in Arctic winter ice: Links to Astrobiology

 

 

Saturday, September 24, 2005:

  8:30 - 10:30                           Louis Fortier: Arctic polynyas  

10:30 – 11:30, 12:30 – 13:30        Peter J. Minnett: Surface heat budget over leads and polynyas

13:30 – 15:30                          Igor Dmitrenko: Polynya impact on hydrography of Siberian shelf

16:30 – 17:30                          J. Kirk Cochran: Natural radionuclides as tracers of particulate organic carbon fluxes in Arctic polynyas

17:30 – 19:30                          Expedition meeting

 

Sunday, September 25, 2005:

  8:30 - 10:30                           Jody W. Deming: Comparative ecosystems in high Arctic polynyas poised for change

10:30 - 11:30, 12:30 – 13:30-        David G. Barber: Polynyas, sea ice, and climate change

13:30 – 15:30                          Roger G. Barry: Paleoclimate of the Arctic and recent climate trends

15:30 – 17:30                          Louis Fortier: Climate change and Arctic zooplankton and fish

17:30 – 19:30                          Expedition meeting

 

Social hour in the lounge:

21:00-22:00                             Jens H๖lemann: Quaternary history of the Siberian Arctic shelf seas

 

Monday, September 26, 2005:

  8:30 - 10:30                           Summer School research project reports

10:30 - 11:30, 12:30 – 13:30         Vladimir Alexeev: Feedbacks in the Arctic

13:30 – 15:30                          Roger G. Barry: Snow and ice feedbacks in the Arctic

16:30 – 17:30                          David G. Barber: The effect of snow on physical-biological coupling

17:30 – 19:30                          Final expedition/summer school meeting with presentation of summer school project results

21:00 – 24:00                          Farewell Party

 

September 27, 2005:

16:00 – 20:00                          Unloading and disembarkation in Kirkenes, Norway

 

September 28, 2005:

8:00 – 12:00                            Unloading and disembarkation of Russian team in Murmansk, Russia

 

 

 

Breakfast: 7:30 - 8:30                  Tea: 15:30 – 16:30

Lunch: 12:30 – 13:30                  Dinner 19:30 – 20:30