Agenda

Agenda and Presentations

Thursday June 4, 2026

(all times in Local Time) 

0800 Check-in

0830 Welcome, Background, Logistics, Scope and Goals (Majid Ghayoomi)

0845 Opening Remarks (Sigurður Magnús Garðarson)

0900 Participant introductions and Icebreaker

0945 Plenary Presentation: State of Arctic Seismicity

Talk 1 – Steven Gibbons – Arctic Seismology, locations, applications, and consequences

                 Talk 2 – Tine Larsen – Greenland Seismology

1000 Morning Break / Social Time

1020 Plenary Presentation: Disaster Management and Seismic Resilience

    Talk 3 – Solveig Thorvaldsdottir – Disaster Management System Design

    Talk 4 – Ali Asgary – Disaster Management; ADERISM Lab and Drone Based Search and Rescue

    Talk 5 – John Pennington – Defining “Disaster” and the Role of Hazard Mitigation Planning

1100 Group Activity – Session 1

1200 Lunch

1300 Plenary Presentation: Community Resilience and Disaster Management

    Talk 6 – Matthias Kokorsch – Disaster and Relocation Costs in Iceland

    Talk 7 – Jeremy Spoon – From compound disasters to social-ecological-technological change

    Talk 8 – Ranjan Datta – Rethinking Infrastructure Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives in the Canadian Arctic

    Talk 9 – Barrett Salisbury – Train the Trainer Initiative

1400 Group Activity – Session 2

1445 Afternoon Break/ Social Time

1505 Plenary Presentation: Infrastructure Resilience

Talk 10 – John Thornley – Earthquake Engineering of Arctic Infrastructure

Talk 11 – Bert De Jonghe – Impacts of landslides/tsunamis on infrastructure

Plenary Presentation: State of Permafrost

Talk 12 – Alex Kholodov – State of Permafrost in Alaska

Talk 13 – Matt Bray – Cryogenic Structure of Frozen Soil

Talk 14 – Jean-Michel Pereira – Upscaling the thermo-hydro-mechanical properties of permafrost from 3D images of its microstructure

1615 Day 1 Wrap up

1630 Adjourn

Friday June 5, 2026

(all times in Local Time) 

0830 Regroup and Announcements (Majid Ghayoomi) 

0845 ACE Project Overview 

Talk 15 – Majid Ghayoomi 

Talk 16 – Guangqing Chi 

Talk 17 – Michelle Ritchie 

Talk 18 – Mathew Jull 

0935 Group Activity – Session 3 

1005 Morning Break / Social Time 

1025 Plenary Presentation: Climate Adaptation and Urban Planning 

Talk 19 – Mark Pelling – Tomorrow's Cities: an interdisciplinary approach to risk sensitive, multihazard urban planning 

Talk 20 – Johanna Gisladottir – Climate Change Adaptation and Community Resilience in Iceland 

Talk 21 – Elisabeth Sjödahl – NATURACT – Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change 

Talk 22 – Larry Hamilton – Recent Climate and Population Trends in the Copper Valley Region 

1115 Group Activity – Session 4 

1200 Lunch (working Lunch) 

1300 Plenary Presentation: Engineering of Frozen Soils 

Talk 23 – Evgeniy Podolskiy – Passive seismic monitoring of the cryosphere: glaciers in Greenland and permafrost in Japan 

Talk 24 – Bill Yu – Design of novel time-domain reflectometry (TDR) sensors to characterize the multiphysics properties of frozen soils 

Talk 25 – Tugce Baser – Dynamics Behavior of Frozen Soils 

Talk 26 – Beena Ajmera – Strength degradations in frozen fine-grained soils induced by thawing 

1350 Group Activity – Session 5 

1445 Afternoon Break / Social Time 

1505 Group Activity – Session 6 

1600 Reporting 

1630 Adjourn 

Saturday June 6, 2026

(all times in Local Time) 

0900 – 1700 Golden Circle Tour (8 hours tour)