| Saturday |
| 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Session: The Role of Diatoms in Polar Marine Ecosystems
and Biogeochemical Cycles: Lessons Learned from the Southern Ocean and Arctic
Ocean |
| Discussion Leaders: Jeff Bowman (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, USA) and Sebastien Moreau (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) |
| 3:15 pm - 3:50 pm | Keynote: Philipp Assmy (Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway)
"The Role of Diatoms in Polar Marine Ecosystems and Biogeochemical Cycles: Lessons Learned from the Southern Ocean and Arctic Ocean" |
| 3:50 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Stirred and with Ice? About Water Masses, Ice
Dynamics, Mixing Processes and Nutrients |
| Discussion Leaders: Cecilia Peralta-Ferriz (Polar Science Center, APL, University of Washington, USA) and Oliver Legge (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom) |
| 5:30 pm - 5:45 pm | Montserrat Roca Marti (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ICTA, Spain)
"Carbon Export in a Bloom Region from the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean Derived from Th-234 and Sediment Traps" |
| 5:45 pm - 5:50 pm | Discussion |
| 5:50 pm - 6:05 pm | Christiane Uhlig (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany)
"Degradation of DMSP in Antarctic Winter Sea Ice: Who Is Responsible?" |
| 6:05 pm - 6:10 pm | Discussion |
| 6:10 pm - 6:25 pm | Eithne Tynan (National Oceanography Centre Southampton, United Kingdom)
"Sharp Gradients in pH and O in the Polar Surface Oceans Driven by Contrasting Biological Activity" |
| 6:25 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
| 6:30 pm - 6:45 pm | Lorenz Meire (Greenland Insitute of Natural Resources, Denmark)
"Glacial Meltwater as Driver for High Primary Production in Greenlandic Fjords" |
| 6:45 pm - 6:50 pm | Discussion |
| 6:50 pm - 7:05 pm | Nicole Couto (Rutgers University, USA)
"A Census of Upper Circumpolar Deep Water Intrusions on the Continental Shelf of the West Antarctic Peninsula" |
| 7:05 pm - 7:10 pm | Discussion |
| 7:10 pm - 7:25 pm | Eric Mortenson (University of Victoria, Canada)
"Carbon Flux in Sea Ice: Implementation of Sea Ice Algae in a 1D Biogeochemical Ecosystem Model" |
| 7:25 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm | Dinner |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Producing, Eating and Being Eaten: Primary Producers,
Consumers, Food Web Dynamics, Material Recycling and Export in Warming Polar
Regions |
| Discussion Leaders: Lena Seuthe (The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway) and Clara Hoppe (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Mar Fernandez-Mendez (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany)
"Role and Composition of Algal Aggregates in the Central Arctic Ocean" |
| 9:15 am - 9:20 am | Discussion |
| 9:20 am - 9:35 am | Francois Fripiat (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
"Significant Mixed Layer Nitrification in a Natural Iron-Fertilized Bloom of the Southern Ocean" |
| 9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 9:55 am | Elizaveta Ershova (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA)
"Inter-Annual Variability of Summer Mesozooplankton Communities of the Western Chukchi Sea: 2004-2012" |
| 9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Megumi Shimizu (Duke University Marine Laboratory, USA)
"Increased Organic Matter Input and Source Change
by Ice Shelf Collapse in Sediments in the Larsen A Embayment, Weddell Sea" |
| 10:15 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:35 am | Christina Bienhold (AWI Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Germany)
"Benthic Bacterial Communities in a Changing Arctic Ocean – A Case Study on the Laptev Sea Continental Margin" |
| 10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 10:55 am | Heike Link (Christian-Albrechts University at Kiel, Germany)
"Comparative Studies of Benthic Functions in the Arctic and Southern Ocean" |
| 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 | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Component |
| Discussion Leaders: Marius Årthun (Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway), Beth Curry (University of Washington, USA) and Kim Martini (Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA / University of Washington, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
| "Discussion of the Science Reported During the Seminar" |
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- Lee Cooper (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, USA)
- Jacqueline Grebmeier (Univ. of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, USA)
- Marilyn Raphael (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
- Paul Wassmann (University of Tromso, Norway)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
