The Schedule

13:15 - 13:35 Permafrost Refreeze: The Reindeer Factor (film)

Kaisu Koski, Lab4Living, Sheffield Hallam University 

13:35 - 13:45 Exploring resilience through the lenses of Arctic narratives: case study of Tiksi & Bykovsky

Natalia Doloisio, Utrecht University 

13:45 - 13:55 Transforming research approaches to highlight the urgency of Arctic change: recommendations from the AGORA workshop to promote community inclusion and scientific communication

Mary Edwards, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton 

13:55 - 14:10 UK's Arctic Policy

Jane Rumble, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 

14:10 - 14:20 RRS Sir David Attenborough science capability and future look

Sophie Fielding, British Antarctic Survey

14:10 - 14:25 IC3 - A ten year funded project on ice sheet loss and global carbon cycles

Terri Souster, UiT

15:00 - 15:10 Open Arctic Science: how the UK Polar Data Centre supports Open Science and FAIR data principles

Sarah Manthorpe, British Antarctic Survey

15:10 - 15:20 Historical British Arctic Whaling Activities: Analysing their voyages and their catch (recording)

Ryan Charles,

15:20 - 15:35 Spatiotemporal AI and Digital Twinning for the Polar Environment 

Scott Hosking, British Antarctic Survey & The Alan Turing Institute 

16:10 - 16:20 Microclimatic winter conditions shape soil erosion and vegetation patterns in sub-Arctic tundra

Georg Kodl, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews

16:20 - 16:30 Quantifying and characterising geomorphic signatures of active layer detachment slides in the Brooks Range, Alaska

Charlotte Pearson, University of Hertfordshire

16:30 - 16:40 Location, timing and trajectory of dust emissions from ice-free Greenland (2016-2021)

Joanna Bullard, Loughborough University

16:40 - 16:50 Multiscale remote sensing for understanding dust originating in the Arctic

Sam Poxon, Loughborough University

16:50-17:00 - Comfort break

17:00 - 17:10 Microstructure of Snow on Sea Ice and Simulation of Radar Altimetry

Melody Sandells, Northumbria University

17:10 - 17:20 Weather and glacial controls on fjord ice cover in Nuup Kangerlua (Nuuk Fjord), SW Greenland: Environmental, social and industry implications

James Lea, University of Liverpool

17:20 - 17:30 Improved Arctic shipping data and methods based on POLARIS show where ships of different ice strength have been in areas of heightened risk from sea ice, 2015-2022, 

Alison Cook, Scottish Association for Marine Science 

09:10 - 09:20 EISCAT-3D: a new perspective on the polar upper atmosphere

Mervyn Freeman, British Antarctic Survey

09:20 - 09:30 Multi-Physics Ensemble Modelling of Arctic Tundra Snowpack Properties

Georgina Woolley, Northumbria

09:30 - 09:40 Microbial community assembly in snow, ice and cryoconite habitats on a High Arctic glacier

Amy Bo Tinky Solman, Queen Mary University of London & the Natural History Museum

09:40 - 09:50 Modelling and measurement of carbon emissions under Arctic snow

Nick Rutter, Northumbria University

09:50 - 10:00 Title tbc

Ben Redmond Roche, Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway

10:00 - 10:10 Getting to the core of environmental change: a multi-proxy study of three high arctic lacustrine sediment records spanning ~3,300 years

Amy Gray, Loughborough University

11:10 - 11:20 Arctic and sub-Arctic marine sediment carbon stocks; a meta-analysis

Beth Langley, University of Glasgow

11:20 - 11:30 Evaluating impacts of possible prey loss due to reduced sea ice on Bowhead whales in the Canadian Arctic

Hayley McLennan, University of St Andrews

11:30 - 11:40 Walrus from Space: Validating satellite imagery counts using RPAS counts

Jaume Forcada, British Antarctic Survey

11:40 - 11:50 The importance of ocean meltwater layers on biogeochemical processes in the Central Arctic

Alison L Webb, University of York

11:50 - 12:00 Silicon isotopes reveal the impact of fjords processes on the transport of reactive silica from glaciers to coastal regions

Tong Wang, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol

12:00 - 12:10 Intra- and interannual variability of the Atlantic Water inflow to the Arctic Ocean

Angelika Renner, Institute of Marine Research, Tromsø, Norway

12:10 - 12:30 PechaKucha-style poster presentations

13:30 - 13:40 Degradation and composition of organic carbon in the sediment flocculation layer on the East Siberian Arctic Shelf

Kirsi Keskitalo, Northumbria University; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 

13:40 - 13:50 Holocene methane emissions from high latitude lakes in Alaska

Maarten van Hardenbroek, Newcastle University

13:50 - 14:00 The case of Arctic lichens. How plastic is the lichen symbiosis in the face of warming?

Jiri Subrt, University of Edinburgh

14:00 - 14:10 The Polar Summer: Does microclimate set the clock for above- and below-ground tundra phenology?

Elise Gallois, University of Edinburgh

14:10 - 14:20 Dendrochronology and remote sensing for the identification and understanding of socio-ecological impacts of beaver range expansion into Inuit Nunangat

Georgia Melodie Hole, Anglia Ruskin University

14:20 - 14:30 Priorities for research on beavers in the Arctic: reflecting on research processes

Helen Wheeler, Anglia Ruskin University

14:30 - 14:40 Pododermatitis in Captive Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus): investigating patterns and signalling factors

Daniela Eberl, Nottingham Trent University - School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences

14:40 - 14:50 PechaKucha-style poster presentations

International cooperation and partnerships: Arctic governance 

16:00 - 16:10 The impact of the war in Ukraine on the security in the Arctic - the future of northern energy projects 

Dr. Slawomir Gromadzki, Department of Internal Security Ignacy Moscicki's University of Applied Sciences in Ciechanów, Poland

16:10 - 16:20 Arctic Governance: a Treaty-Based Regime

Elena Knyazeva, University College Cork (Ireland)

16:20 - 16:30 Walking on Thin Ice: Dealing with Rogue Weather Balloons in the Arctic

Kelsey Frazier, Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies

16:30-16:40 Overview of the Arctic Council and its Working Groups

Ms Reagan Aylmer, Advisor to the Arctic Council Secretariat, Arctic Council Secretariat

Inclusion

16:45 - 16:52 Beyond physical safety: Psycho-social safety and metal wellbeing

Steve Marshall, British Antarctic Survey

16:52 - 16:59 Understanding & Supporting wellbeing in Polar exploration: A case study of BAS expedition personnel

Paul Burgum, Durham University 

16:59 - 17:06 Breaking the Ice: Access Polar and the need for Disabled Inclusion and Representation in Polar Research

Charlotte Cockram, Accessibility in Polar Research

17:15-17:45 Panel discussion

09:00 - 09:15 Tracing Glacial Meltwater From the Greenland Ice Sheet to the Ocean Using Gliders

Kate Hendry, British Antarctic Survey

09:15 - 09:30 Simulation of acoustic reflection and scattering from Arctic ice observed by an upward looking sonar

Nicholas P Chotiros, Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas in Austin

09:30 - 09:45 IceNet v2: Towards sharp sea ice forecasts in the Arctic and Southern Oceans 

Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge

09:45 - 10:00 Using AI sea ice forecasts for Arctic conservation planning

Ellie Bowler, British Antarctic Survey

10:00 - 10:15 Improving Walrus Monitoring with Infrared CubeSat Technology 

Carlo Convenevole, Cranfield University

10:45 - 10:55 Project-based carbon accounting

Kris Nicholls, British Antarctic Survey 

10:55 - 11:05 Making best use of historical samples

Jade Boughton, British Antarctic Survey

11:05 - 11:15 Future Marine Research Infrastructure update

Leigh Storey, NERC 

11:15 - 11:45 Panel discussion, chaired by Clara Manno

International cooperation and partnerships: Indigenous co-collaboration

11:45 - 11:55 Working with Indigenous communities on environmental change in the western Canadian Arctic

Callum Pearce, Anglia Ruskin University

11:55 - 12:05 Co-development of a new model for contaminant monitoring to support Indigenous-led research and strategic decision-making, 

Louise Mercer, Northumbria University

12:05-12:15 Implementing the Inuit Strategy on Research – the Canada-Inuit Nunangat-United Kingdom Arctic research Programme 2021-2025

Henry Burgess, NERC Arctic Office 

Education

12:15 - 12:30 Teaching and Learning through Place, People and Practices: A Global Intersection of Righting Relations in Education Through Story, Anita Lafferty, University of Alberta 

12:30 - 12:45 The Læra Institute, Anthony Speca