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Kortrapport / Brief Report 036 Norsk Polarinstitutt KORTRAPPORT / BRIEF REPORT 036 NORSK POLARINSTITUTT . NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE 2016 Christina A. Pedersen (ed.) Report from the Ny-Ålesund Seminar Tromsø, Norway, 23-25 September 2015 Kortrapport / Brief Report no. 036 Christina A. Pedersen (ed.) Report from the Ny-Ålesund Seminar Tromsø, Norway, 23-25 September 2015 The Norwegian Polar Institute is Norway’s central governmental institution for management-related research, mapping and environmental monitoring in the Arctic and the Antarctic. The Institute advises Norwegian authorities on matters concerning polar environmental management and is the official environmental management body for Norway’s Antarctic territorial claims. The Institute is a Directorate within the Ministry of Climate and Environment. Norsk Polarinstitutt er Norges hovedinstitusjon for kartlegging, miljøovervåking og forvaltningsrettet forskning i Arktis og Antarktis. Instituttet er faglig og strategisk rådgiver i miljøvernsaker i disse områdene og har forvaltningsmyndighet i norsk del av Antarktis. Instituttet er et direktorat under Klima- og miljødepartementet. Address: Christina A. Pedersen, [email protected] Norwegian Polar Institute Fram Centre NO-9296 Tromsø Norway © Norsk Polarinstitutt 2016. Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, NO-9296 Tromsø, www.npolar.no, [email protected] Technical editor: Gunn Sissel Jaklin, NPI Cover design: Jan Roald, NPI Cover photo: Geir Wing Gabrielsen, NPI Printed: February 2016 ISBN: 978-82-7666-327-3 (printed edition) ISBN: 978-82-7666-328-0 (digital edition) ISSN: 1504-3215 (printed edition) ISSN: 2464-1308 (digital edition) Table of Contents Summary ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 Report from the Kongsfjorden System Flagship Group discussion ............................................................... 6 Organisation of the flagship ...................................................................................................................... 6 Prioritised tasks ......................................................................................................................................... 7 How to interact with NySMAC................................................................................................................... 9 How to use/take advantage of the new NySMAC webpage ................................................................... 10 Report from the Terrestrial Ecology Flagship Group discussion ................................................................. 11 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 11 Flagship tasks list ..................................................................................................................................... 12 Scientific topics .................................................................................................................................... 12 Organisation of the flagship .................................................................................................................... 15 Website content ...................................................................................................................................... 15 Flagship – NYSMAC interaction ............................................................................................................... 15 Infrastructure needs ................................................................................................................................ 15 Funding needs ......................................................................................................................................... 16 Flagship actions ....................................................................................................................................... 16 References ............................................................................................................................................... 17 Report from the Glaciology Flagship Group discussion .............................................................................. 18 Glaciology in Ny-Ålesund ......................................................................................................................... 18 Knowledge gaps ....................................................................................................................................... 18 General topics to be addressed ............................................................................................................... 18 Mass balance ....................................................................................................................................... 18 Dynamics ............................................................................................................................................. 19 Hydrology ............................................................................................................................................ 20 Snow .................................................................................................................................................... 20 Ice cores ............................................................................................................................................... 21 Biochemistry ........................................................................................................................................ 22 Integrated glaciological activity ............................................................................................................... 22 Improve integration............................................................................................................................. 22 1 Communication between the groups .................................................................................................. 22 Results of latest Flagship Meeting........................................................................................................... 23 Cooperation between groups.............................................................................................................. 23 Future funding ..................................................................................................................................... 23 Mass balance ....................................................................................................................................... 23 Hydrology station ................................................................................................................................ 24 Airborne photographic campaigns ...................................................................................................... 24 Other issues ......................................................................................................................................... 24 Data and web ...................................................................................................................................... 24 Report from the Ny-Ålesund Atmosphere Flagship Group discussion ........................................................ 26 Background .............................................................................................................................................. 26 The symposium ....................................................................................................................................... 26 Outcome .................................................................................................................................................. 27 Appendix 1: Seminar Programme ............................................................................................................... 28 Appendix 2: Seminar Participants ............................................................................................................... 39 Appendix 3: Book of Abstracts .................................................................................................................... 42 2 Summary Eighty-three participants from twelve countries attended the three-day Ny-Ålesund seminar 23- 25 September 2015 at the Fram Centre in Tromsø. The seminar focused on research and monitoring in Ny-Ålesund in particular, and Svalbard in general. The Ny-Ålesund seminar is a biannual meeting for scientists whose research and monitoring activities take them to Ny-Ålesund and Svalbard. The seminar serves the dual purpose of providing a meeting place to exchange scientific results, advances, and ideas and fostering coordination and collaboration among researchers in Ny-Ålesund. The 2015 seminar focused on research and monitoring within the four programme areas established for Ny-Ålesund: the Atmosphere Flagship, the Kongsfjorden System Flagship, the Terrestrial Ecology Flagship, and the Glaciology Flagship. In addition, there was a special session on how to connect the research and monitoring done in Ny-Ålesund with activities in the rest of Svalbard and beyond. This session included keynote presentations on ongoing activities in Hornsund, Barentsburg and Longyearbyen. The seminar had sixty presentations in total, which spanned from space weather to number size distribution of aerosols, from tundra ecosystem monitoring to microbiota, from
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