Association of Polar Early Career Scientists

 
Thursday 23 May 2019
Location: Main building, NarFU, room 1432
09:00 - 09:10 Welcoming remarks and introductions from the Organizing Committee

09:10 - 09:30

Presentation about APECS and its activities

09:30 - 10:00

Beyond ecology: one scientist's experience of the ARctic as socio-ecosystem

Speaker: Professor Mary Edwards, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

10:00 - 10:30

Sustainability in the Arctic

Speaker: Dr Andrey Petrov, President of IASSA, ARCTICenter and Department of Geography University of Northern Iowa, USA

10:30 - 11:00

Networking and Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30

IASC’s interdisciplinary projects and cross-cutting initiatives

Speaker: Dr Thomas Spengler, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway

11:30 - 13:00

Work within the break-out groups:

Group 1 – Human security in the Arctic – Q: What are the integral components of human security in the Arctic? How such components interact with the environment and what are the directions for sustainability?

Group 2 – Environmental security in the Arctic - Q: What are the integral components of environmental security in the Arctic? How such components interact with Arctic society and what are the directions for sustainability?

Group 3 – Sustainability pathways - Q: What does sustainability in the Arctic stand for? How we can shape and foster its pathways and components?

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00

Reporting from Breakout groups and the general discussion of the results

15:00 - 15:30

Sustainable Arctic Observing Networks: Activities and priorities

Speaker: Jan Rene Larsen, SAON Secretariat, Norway

15:30 - 16:00

White papers and scientific statements: what, why and where it comes from?

Speaker: Dr Nicole Biebow, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), EU-PolarNet project manager, ARICE coordinator, Germany

16:00 - 16:20

Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:00

Work within the break-out groups

Target: Based on previous discussions and presentations to put together messages from each group to be included in the general APECS Workshop Statement

 17:00 - 18:00

Quick reporting from the groups and development of APECS Workshop Statement

Concluding remarks and feedbacks

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UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Huginbakken 14
9019 Tromsø
Norway
Email: info(at)apecs.is

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