3 6 September 2024 | The Black Diamond | Copenhagen, Denmark
Overview
Polar regions are sentinels of climate change, biodiversity, and human resilience. They have experienced the most rapid rates of warming in recent years. Its expected impacts will exceed those forecasted for many other regions, resulting in significant consequences affecting natural ecosystems and human activities.
Improving our observational capacity and enhancing the basic understanding of the drivers and processes governing those changes, and translating knowledge into solutions for society, are major challenges for the future.
Earth observation from space and Earth system science will represent an essential element in this process. Addressing the major challenge in polar research will require a significant and sustained collaborative effort and an integrated approach to science where the synergistic use of satellite data, in-situ and citizen observations, advanced modelling capabilities, interdisciplinary research and innovative technologies will be essential elements.
This is why the European Commission (Directorate General for Research and Innovation) and the European Space Agency are working together to improve cooperation and to identify and address the grand science challenges in polar research that may drive joint EC-ESA scientific activities in the coming years.
Objectives
The 2nd European Polar Science Week is an important milestone in the cooperation between the European Commission and the European Space Agency. The event will take place from 3 to 6 September, 2024, in Copenhagen.
The overall objective of the European Polar Science Week is to bring together the European polar science community and reinforce European cooperation for polar science.
More specifically, the 2nd Polar Science Week will aim to:
During this week, key scientists and stakeholders of polar science will have the opportunity to discuss the major challenges and opportunities in front of us, promote networking and collaboration across projects and activities advancing the EC-ESA Polar research cooperation.
Themes
Key topics for abstract submission are the following:
1. The current state and forthcoming changes in the polar regions
2. Polar ice, ocean, climate dynamics and tipping points
3. Polar ecosystems, biodiversity and carbon cycles
4. Humans in the Arctic
5. Societal impacts of polar change
6. Polar observations, models and data
7. New methods for understanding the polar regions
Overview Programme
The Queen's Hall, The Black Diamond |
Blixen, The Black Diamond |
The Atrium, The Black Diamond |
DAC Room, Danish Architecture Center |
Tuesday 3rd September
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9:00 | 10:30 | Opening High Level Plenary | |
10:30 | 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00 | 12:30 | Scientific Plenary | |
12:30 | 14:30 | Lunch Break | |
14:30 | 16:00 | European Polar EC - ESA Collaboration Plenary | |
16:00 | 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
16:30 | 18:00 | Copernicus Plenary Copernicus Polar Roadmap for Service Evolution Plenary | |
18:00 | 19:00 | Icebreaker & Poster Session |
Wednesday 4th September
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9:00 | 10:30 | Session 1 Heterogeneity in Subglacial Conditions: a Key Influence on Solid Earth-Ice Sheet Interactions | Session 2 Studying and Managing Arctic Tourism in Transition | Session 3 Enhanced Understanding of Polar Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Interactions Within the Climate System |
10:30 | 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
11:00 | 12:30 | Session 4 Glacier Change Observations for Hydrological and Sea-level Rise Assessments | Session 5 Overwintering Zooplankton, the Seasonal Lipid Pump, and Global Carbon Cycling | Session 6 How Satellite Measurements can help in Better Understanding Dense Water Formation in the Southern Ocean and its Impacts on the Global Circulation and Climate |
12:30 | 14:30 | Lunch Break | ||
14:30 | 16:00 | Session 7 Beyond Borders: Strengthen Global Polar Research through Advanced Research Infrastructures | Session 8 Exploring Polar Dynamics: Insights from the Mid Pleistocene Transition to Future Climate Scenarios | Session 9 From Ice Sheets to Oceans: a Comprehensive View of Arctic Freshwater Fluxes |
16:00 | 16:30 | Coffee Break | ||
16:30 | 18:00 | Session 10 Taking the Pulse of the Southern Ocean: an Internationally Coordinated, Circumpolar, and Year-Round Mission – Antarctica InSync | Session 11 Plastic Pollution in Polar Regions: Sources and Solutions | Session 12 Copernicus Polar Expansion Missions: Preparing the Users for a Quantum Step in Monitoring the Arctic and Antarctica |
18:00 | 19:00 | Light Aperitivo & Poster Session |
Thursday 5th September
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9:00 | 10:30 | Session 13 Towards a Three-Dimensional Monitoring of Greenlandic Marine Ecosystems | Session 14 Gaps and Opportunities of Future Sensors in Monitoring Ice Sheet Dynamics, Discharge and Surface Processes | Session 15 Arctic Navigation - Practical Application of Sea Ice Information in Current and Future Maritime Operations |
10:30 | 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
11:00 | 12:30 | Session 16 Developing the Atlantic-Arctic Distributed Biological Observatory (A-DBO): Improved Observational Capacity in the high Arctic | Session 17 A New Era of Polar Observations: The Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) for Polar Ocean, Sea Ice, Snow, Land and Climate Change Monitoring | Session 18 Challenges with Implementing Technologies in the Arctic |
12:30 | 14:30 | Lunch Break | ||
14:30 | 16:00 | Session 19 The ESA-NASA Arctic Methane Permafrost Challenge (AMPAC) – Moving to the Future | Session 20 From Circulation Change to Sea Level Rise: the Polar Regions in the Earth System | Session 21 Arctic Biodiversity at a Crossroads - Research Directions Along the Land-Coast-Ocean Continuum |
16:00 | 16:30 | Coffee Break | ||
16:30 | 18:00 | Session 22 Ice-ocean-atmosphere Interactions – Focus on Antarctic Ice Shelves | Session 23 Machine Learning for Observing and Forecasting Sea-Ice | Session 24 Space-borne Studies of Permafrost in the Arctic |
18:00 | 19:00 | Poster Session |
Friday 6th September
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9:00 | 10:30 | Session 25 The Role of the Solid Earth for the Evolution of the Polar Ice Sheets | Session 26 Strategies for Arctic observing - The importance of ground observations |
10:30 | 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00 | 12:30 | Session 27 The Real-World Impact of AI in the Polar Regions | Session 28 FAIR Scientific Data in Support of Polar Monitoring and Assessment Efforts |
12:30 | 13:30 | Wrap Up & Closing Plenary |
Detailed Programme & Poster List
DAY 1: TUESDAY, 3 SEPTEMBER
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DAY 2: WEDNESDAY, 4 SEPTEMBER
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DAY 3: THURSDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER
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DAY 4: FRIDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER
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PARALLEL SESSIONS IN THE DANISH ARCHITECTURE CENTER (DAC)
Please access the DAC room from floor -2, on the river side. The DAC room is on the 2nd floor.
POSTER LISTS
- DAY 1 (Tuesday 3 September 2024) Poster List: Please download it here.
- DAY 2 (Wednesday 4 September 2024) Poster List: Please download it here.
- DAY 3 (Thursday 5 September 2024) Poster List: Please download it here.
If you have a poster presentation, kindly be reminded that posters will be rotated on a daily basis. You are therefore invited to remove your poster at the end of the day this is scheduled, otherwise this will be disposed accordingly.
JUSTNORTH Documentary Streaming
The JUSTNORTH documentary will be streamed on 4 September, at 18:00 in the Queen's Hall.
D7.6 JUSTNORTH Documentary Synopsis
A documentary about the challenges for sustainable development as climate action in the Arctic.
The world is facing a climate crisis and climate action is desperately needed.
This causes many different eyes to watch the Arctic with different intentions. With the Arctic warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, there are those who are watching the effects of climate change on the landscape with worry. Others are looking at opportunities for economic development and resource exploitation. In all of this, the resources and landscapes of the Arctic are increasingly seen as important for supporting the Green Transition and climate action, especially in the European context.
The climate crisis has been caused by a system that hasn't accounted for its effects on the environment or social well-being of future generations. Unfortunately, the development of resources in the Arctic is no magic solution to resolving the climate crisis or making the green transition. This is because doing economic development in the same way that is it has always been done will not get different results for the Arctic climate or suddenly bring sustainability for Arctic or European citizens.
Something must change. If Arctic economic development is going to be sustainable, it needs to be built around more than 'green' technologies. It needs to be built on just and ethical decision-making.
The JUSTNORTH project asked people who live in the Arctic about the barriers, risks and costs of economic development of the region. The JUSTNORTH documentary presents the issues and challenges that decision-makers must understand if they wish to pursue economic development that is also sustainable development.
These challenges include:
· Challenge 1: Climate change and environmental consequences of development
· Challenge 2: Legacies of colonialism, past social harms and injustices
· Challenge 3: Globalised economies/Lack of economic diversification
· Challenge 4: Competing land use and lack of meaningful participation in decision-making
· Challenge 5: Intergenerational inequities
In the JUSTNORTH Documentary, these issues are traced across the Arctic, where JUSTNORTH researchers did fieldwork to frame pathways towards just and ethical sustainable development in the Arctic. In this, there is a discussion about the distribution of environmental and economic harms and benefits, meaningful participation in decision-making processes and recognition of rights and stakes to development of the Arctic.
See the JUSTNORTH website at www.justnorth.eu for more project results.
Photography Exhibition
'STORIES TRAPPED IN ICE - POLAR OBSERVATIONS' - Open Air Photography Exhibition
WHAT -
'Stories Trapped in Ice—Polar Observations' is a visual journey through the latest polar research and climate change monitoring. It's a unique opportunity for the public, science enthusiasts, and scientists to engage with and learn about cutting-edge research and efforts to understand climate change.
Research and monitoring of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets is vital to our understanding of the Earth's climate system. Due to their sensitivity to temperature and other environmental changes, they are critical indicators of climate change. 60% of the world's freshwater is locked within Antarctica's ice mass, which covers approximately 14 million square kilometres. Greenland, covering more than 2 million square kilometres, is the world's largest island and home to the second-largest ice sheet after Antarctica. Over the last century, the ice loss from these two ice sheets alone contributed 50% to the rise in the global sea level.
This exhibition showcases scientific efforts to understand and monitor our planet's polar regions. It includes groundbreaking field and lab work by leading European institutions and the latest satellite images and data from Copernicus Sentinel and Cryosat, two of the European Space Agency's most ambitious and significant Earth observation programs.
WHERE -
3-8 September 2024 Sören Kirkegaards square - Black Diamond, Copenhagen DENMARK
9-17 September 2024, Bryghuspladsen square - BLOX, Copenhagen DENMARK
The exhibition is an initiative by LWimages, created in collaboration with the European Space Agency. Designed and produced by UpOnWalls.
Session Proposal Submission
The Session Proposal Submission is now closed.
Note: Session overview length should be maximum 500 words. Your Session proposal should include proposed Chairs and their email addresses, proposed Speakers and their email addresses, a Session agenda proposal together with the time required for each talk, and any references or comments, if some.
The maximum time allowed for sessions is 90 minutes.
Information about the co-authors (name, last name, affiliation) and the presenter is required.
Poster Submission
Poster Submission is now closed.
Poster will then be reviewed by the Scientific Committee and the Notification of Poster acceptance is 13 June 2024.
Registration
Registration is now closed.
Due to high-demand, the registration portal closed on Saturday 20/07 at 23:59PM, to avoid exceeding the maximum capacity of the venue.
Treedom Forest
As a symbol of the event, a Treedom forest named the European Polar Science Forest has been created. There are only 200 available, so if you have participated in the event, please get in touch with events.organisation@esa.int for your unique redeem code, which will enable you to adopt one of these trees!
Deadlines
Milestones | Date |
Call for Sessions | 9 February 2024 |
Call for Posters opening | postponed to 30 April 2024 |
Call for Sessions deadline | 15 March 2024 |
Call for Posters deadline | postponed to 6 June 2024 |
Notification of Sessions acceptance | postponed to 30 April 2024 |
Notification of Posters acceptance | 13 June 2024 |
Registration Opening | 2 May 2024 |
Registration Closing | |
Publication of Draft Programme | 2 May 2024 |
Organisation
The European Polar Science Week is organised by the European Space Agency and the European Commission together with REA (Research Executive Agency), CINEA (European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency) and EPB (European Polar Board), as well as EU-PolarNet.
The European Polar Science Week will contribute to the implementation of several major policy initiatives and global assessments.
Co-organisers:
Scientific and Organising Committee
Organising Committee | Scientific Committee |
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School Labs at EU Polar Science Week 2024
Education Activities for Primary and Secondary Schools
Through ESERO DK, a project between ESA and national partners, funded also by the Danish Minister of Higher Education and Science and implemented under the leadership of the House of Natural Sciences, contacts has been established with primary and secondary schools in the area of Copenhagen to show how experts work to solve societal challenges and engage students in practical activities in which they can “learn by doing” about Polar research.
The ESERO DK team will offer the opportunity to classes of Danish primary and secondary students to meet researchers, participate in workshops, and see the practical applications of research. The educational activities in connection with the EU Polar Science Week 2024 conference are designed to directly link students' experiences to the conference's scientific content, issues, or methods, so students not only hear about and see the researchers' work but also understand its relevance and application to real societal challenges.
This connection should strengthen students' understanding of how scientific research contributes to solving global climate challenges. More specifically, we aim to communicate that the polar region plays a special role in solving climate challenges, and that satellites are among the best tools we have to find scientific solutions.
ESERO DK will inspire students with hands-on experiments involving several practical experiments that link primary school curriculum with the topics discussed at the EU Polar Science Week 2024.
Primary School Programme
Three workshops per day over two days for primary school classes at the middle school level (4th-5th grade). Workshops to be held at local schools.
Secondary School Programme
September 3, 9:00 AM – 4 PM
Open to secondary school classes (limited availability)
Location: Holberg room, The Black Diamond
ESERO DK will engage students with hands-on experiments involving several practical experiments that link secondary school curriculum with polar research and specifically the topics discussed at the EU Polar Science Week 2024.
They will have the opportunity to meet Danish and international Polar Science experts.
For more information about the activities, please contact the ESA-ESERO Denmark point of contact:
Simon Olling Rebsdorf
Email: sor@nvhus.dk
2024 European Polar Science Week Code of Conduct
Statement of Intent
The organisers are committed to maintaining a safe, welcoming, productive, and trusted meeting environment for all participants (including attendees, speakers, volunteers, exhibitors, committee members, management and staff, service providers, and others). As we gather to discuss and share science and different knowledge bases, we must remember to come with a willingness and open mind and foster good spirit (in multiple languages) so that we can create a sense of community. The purpose of the Code of conduct is to communicate that all meeting participants are expected to conduct themselves in a professional, respectful, and responsible manner at all times. Harassment in any form will not be tolerated. Let’s weave our shared values into our actions - Lets be open, be welcoming, creating a sense of community.
Engagement Principles and Guidelines
All participants are treated with respect and consideration, valuing a diversity of views and opinions - value a diversity of views and opinions - speak without judgement or argument - strive for inclusive, transparent, and open communication.
Don't prioritise or value some knowledge over others- be respectful and aware of diverse experiences and histories as current relationships and collaborations are shaped by colonial histories. Please respect your fellow participants by using good practices for intercultural collaborations.
Please ask people, including Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge Holders, for explicit permission to use stories, ideas, and information shared during this meeting or future collaborations.
Examples of unacceptable behaviour during the conference include, but are not limited to, verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, national origin, inappropriate use of nudity and/or sexual images in public spaces or in presentations, or threatening or stalking any attendee, speaker, volunteer, exhibitor, staff member, service provider, or other meeting guest.
Working Together for a Successful Meeting
It is important that all attendees feel safe and supported. All should be empowered to find an ally that they trust so that nobody is left to deal with issues alone. We hope that you feel free to reach out to EPSW leadership with any comments or concerns.
We acknowledge that this Code of Conduct was based on
the one used by the Arctic Science Summit Week conferences.
Venue
Restaurants in Copenhagen
Llama Restaurant, Copenhagen
NYHAVN
Nyhavn is one of Copenhagen's iconic sights - a waterfront, canal and entertainment district. It is around a 15-20 minute walk from The Black Diamond, and has many restaurants to choose from.
Contacts
ESA-ESRIN
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00044 Frascati (RM) Italy
events.organisation@esa.int
T +39 06 94 188 495
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