Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Polar Oceans: Current Dynamics and Future Trends
Discussion Leader: Lilian Dove (Caltech, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Will Hobbs (Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, University of Tasmania, Australia)
"Ocean Drivers of Antarctic Sea Ice Variability and Change"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Polar Oceans Variability Under the Spatial Resolution Lens
Discussion Leader: Johanna Länger (University of Victoria, Canada)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Alexander Hayward (NIWA, New Zealand)
"Relationships Between Environmental Drivers and Phytoplankton Functional Types in the Southern Ocean"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Channing Prend (University of Washington, United States)
"Remote Sources of Oceanic Heat Delivery to the Antarctic Continental Shelf"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Zoe Koenig (University of Tromsø, Norway)
"Turbulent Fluxes of Nutrients in the Barents Sea"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Claudia Schmidt (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany)
"Using Principle Component Analysis to Understand Biogeochemical Cycling of Carbon and Trace Metals in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Rebecca Hardenbrook (University of Utah, United States)
"Bounds on Convection-Enhanced Thermal Transport in Sea Ice"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Emiliano Cimoli (University of Tasmania (IMAS), Australia)
"What You Can’t See from the Surface: Revealing Diverse Biophysical Patterns in Antarctic Fast-ice Using Underwater Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Polar Oceans Variability Under the Temporal Resolution Lens
Discussion Leaders: Josephine Rapp (Université Laval, Canada) and Ben Fisher (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
VARUNESH CHANDRA (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
"Decline in Indian Summer Monsoon Synoptic Activity in Response to the Polar Sea Ice Melt in Climate Model Simulations"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Stephanie Lim (Stanford University, United States)
"Spatial and Interannual Variability of Antarctic Sea Ice Algal Habitat, 2004-2019"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Cheshtaa Chitkara (The university centre in Svalbard, Norway)
"There is a Time Series: a High Arctic Model System for Climate Change"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Christine Gawinski (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)
"Are Small Copepods the Winners of an Ice-free Northern Barents Sea?"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Patrick Farnole (University of Victoria, Canada)
"Citizen Science Initiative for a Community-based Monitoring of the Ocean Temperature in the Uummannaq Fjord"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Georges Kanaan (University of Washington, United States)
"The Potential for Microbial Memory in Sea Ice"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: From the Field to the Guts: Organize a Polar Expedition and Provide Science to the Community
Discussion Leaders: Emelia Chamberlain (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, United States) and Yilang Xu (MIT-WHOI Joint Program, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Organize a Polar Expedition and Provide Science to the Community
Lydie Lescarmontier (Office for Climate Education, France)
Clara Jule Marie Hoppe (Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes