Workshop Announcement
Arctic Sea Ice Thickness: Past and Present
Copenhagen, Denmark
8-9 November 2005
For further information, please contact:
Olivia Low
E-mail: o.low [at] damtp.cam.ac.uk
The recent European Union GreenICE project (Greenland Arctic Shelf Ice
and Climate Experiment) established an ice camp north of Alert in spring
2004 and achieved a successful blend of mapping current sea ice
thickness (using tiltmeter buoys, airborne laser, and EM) and
investigating sea ice conditions over the past 120,000 years by seabed
coring using lightweight equipment. The results need to be seen within
the wider context of how the international community is planning to
monitor arctic sea ice in this period of rapid change and of what
observations and models are telling us about how the arctic sea ice
cover fluctuated in the past.
This international workshop is intended to be a forum in which
scientists in this field can present their latest results and can
discuss how the community can work together to achieve a more integrated
approach to arctic ice thickness mapping in the future. The workshop
will be held at Rungstedgaard conference centre and hotel, on the coast
just outside Copenhagen on 8-9 November 2005. It will immediately
precede the ICARP-II conference (International Conference on Arctic
Research Planning). The workshop organizers hope that many delegates
will choose to attend both meetings.
If you are interested in attending the workshop and especially if you
wish to present a paper or a poster, please notify:
Olivia Low
E-mail: o.low [at] damtp.cam.ac.uk
The Scientific Committee for the workshop consists of Peter Wadhams
(Cambridge), Naja Mikkelsen (GEUS, Copenhagen), Rene Forsberg (Danish
Space Center), Leif Toudal (Danish Technical University), Christian Haas
(Alfred Wegener Institute), Yngve Kristoffersen (University of Bergen),
and Rashpal Gill (Danish Meteorological Institute).