Polar early-career as well as senior researchers from Japan and Finland will come together to make new connections. In the first part of our meeting, we will introduce each other to our research. Then we will hear about experiences from senior polar researchers and have an open discussion about careers in the polar regions. Lastly we will discuss possibilities for collaborations.

The event will start at 9 am at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Kumpula Campus, Helsinki University. Anyone can come to listen and join the discussions as long as there is space available in the meeting room (tbc). Access to the meteorological institute requires a visitor pass, so you need to be on time to receive this from us. If you are interested to join, the best would be to contact us in advance so that we can arrange the visitor pass for you.

The full workshop program you can download here. 

Finnish-Japanese Early Career Arctic Scientists (ECASs) Workshop, Helsinki, 17.10.2016

The Finnish-Japanese early career arctic scientists (ECASs) workshop is organized by the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) Finland and APECS Japan. It aims to shed lights on career planning and international collaboration for ECASs in Japan and Finland.

Register here

(We kindly ask you to register on the doodle poll to be able to get the name badge from the reception and enter the venue. This is also necessary for the preparation of coffee and refreshments. We also encourage you to bring your own posters for a casual poster session.)

Time: October 17 2016
Venue: Room Aura, Dynamicum, Erik Palménin aukio 1, Helsinki

Program:

9:00~9:10 Welcome speech

9:10~10:10 ECASs presentation session I

                Shunsuke Tei (Arctic research center, Hokkaido Univ.)

                Spatio-temporal variation of forest ecosystem response to climate changes in circum-arctic region; a multiple approach using field observations, satellite images and a vegetation model

                Yumiko Miyamoto (Arctic research center, Hokkaido Univ.)

                Effects of climate change on biodiversity and carbon stocks in forest soils

                Naoya Kanna (Arctic research center, Hokkaido Univ.)

                Ocean observations at the ice-ocean interface of the marine-terminating glacier in the northwest Greenland (The Arctic Challenge for Sustainability project,

                Yuka Oishi (Center for Northeast Asian studies, Tohoku Univ.)

　            Expansion of no-fishing area in North-Western Siberia and the changing livelihood of the indigenous people

10:10~10:30 Break and poster session (Coffee and refreshments are provided)

 

10:30~11:45 ECASs presentation session II

                Yongmei Gong (Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Helsinki Univ.)

                Numerical simulations on a fast-flowing marine-terminating glacier in Austfonna, Svalbard

                Arttu Jutila (Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Helsinki Univ.)

　            Interaction between the glacier surface layer and the atmosphere in the Indian glaciers - experiences in pictures.

                Ilona Välisuo (Finnish Meteorological Institute)

                Atmospheric variables controlling inter-annual variability of surface melt in Greenland.

                Iina Ronkainen (Finnish Meteorological Institute)

                Sea ice changes in the Baltic Sea – analysis of observations and model results

                Alexandru Gegiuc (Finnish Meteorological Institute)

                SAR processing and applications in Sea ice

11:45~13:15 Lunch break

13:15~13:45 ECASs presentation session III

                Friederike Gehrmann (Department of Biosciences, Helsinki Univ.)

                The role of snowmelt timing for subarctic and arctic plants

                Lauri Lindfors (Department of Biosciences, Helsinki Univ.)

                Survival of woody plants in low temperatures of the Arctic region

13:45~14:15 The invited talks from junior researcher

                Marius Jonassen (Associate Professor,The University Centre in Svalbard, Bergen Univ.)

                Polar meteorology and career opportunities in Svalbard

 

14:15~16:15 The invited talks from senior researcher

 

                Yasushi Fukamachi (Deputy Director, Arctic research center, Hokkaido Univ.)

                My career experience and involvement to international projects, and introduction to a Japanese Arctic Research project

                Matti Leppäranta (Professor in Geophysics, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Helsinki Univ.)

                Finnish-Japanese collaboration in sea ice research in the Baltic Sea and Sea of Okhotsk

               

                Eero Rinne (Head of group, Polar Oceanography and Sea Ice, Finnish Meteorological Institute)

                Surviving the European academia as an early career scientist

16:15~16:30 Break

16:30~17:00 Discussion for future collaboration between Japanese and Finnish early career scientists.

Coordinators

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