Presentations available for download

23 September 2011

Introduction

• Deliang Chen (International Council for Science, ICSU) - Visioning: Towards a new initiative on Earth system research for global sustainability research
• Mahlon C. Kennicutt II (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, SCAR) - Setting the scene: Polar research priorities and the ICSU grand challenges
• Ian Allison (International Association Cryospheric Science, IACS) - The International Polar Year a unique snapshot of the polar regions and its status

Examples of polar research priorities

• Stephen Rintoul (CSIRO, Australia) - The polar oceans: Thermohaline circulation/acidification/dynamic functioning
• Hamish Pritchard (BAS, UK) - The terrestrial ice sheets: dynamics, stability and sea level rise
• Hugues Lantuit (AWI, Germany) - Permafrost degradation and climate feedback processes
• David Bromwich (Ohio State University, USA) - The polar atmosphere: forecasts from climate and weather models
• Barbara Delmonte (University of Milan Bicocca) - Climate of the past, a bipolar perspective

Examples of polar research priorities

• David Hik (IASC, University of Alberta, Canada) - Polar ecosystems: changes to life at the extremes (available soon)
• Louwrens Hacquebord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) - Social and economic consequences of change in the polar regions