Theme of the day: Opening the Arctic – Challenges and opportunities
The Arctic is becoming increasingly accessible due to technological developments and climate change, providing opportunities for expansion of human activities such as fisheries, petroleum activities and tourism. At the same time there are challenges in managing, and understanding, these changes so as to protect social and biological values. This year's Arctic Day presents insights from recent research on the natural and social-economic systems in the Arctic - interdisciplinary knowledge needed to manage the opening Arctic to the best of future generations.
Registration
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Programme
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12:00 |
Registration and light lunch |
| 13:00 |
Welcome and introduction of today's moderator Erik R?s?g - Nils Chr. Stenseth |
| 13:15 |
From Viking-age archaeology to 21st-century DNA sequencing: Discovering the legacy of Atlantic cod exploitation using ancient DNA James Barrett, Cambridge and Bastiaan Star, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo |
| 14:00 |
Non-photosynthetic light harvesting - a feature of high arctic marine ecosystems Kjetill Sigurd Jakobsen, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo |
| 14:15 | Coffee and fruit |
| 14:45 |
The Arctic is not an 'evolutionary freezer': high speciation rates in Arctic plants Christian Brochmann, Natural History Museum , University of Oslo |
| 15:00 |
Opening a new Arctic. A voyage through time and space Grace Shephard, Faculty of Mathematics and natural Sciences, University of Oslo |
| 15:15 |
The Guardians of the Arctic – and their Guardians Erik R?s?g, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo |
| 15:30 |
Uses of the Arctic: Resources and Discourses Ulrike Spring and Johan Schimanski, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo |
| 15:45 |
A home for science: Anthropological perspectives on an Arctic field station Paul Wenzel Geissler, Faculty of Social SciencesI University of Oslo |
| 16:00 | Coffee and cake |
| Programme for the Fridtjof Nansen Lectures on Ocean Life | |
| 16:15 |
The annual UiO Day of the Arctic Rector Svein St?len, University of Oslo |
| 16:30 |
Physical oceanography - the legacy of Nansen and Helland- Hansen Cecilie Mauritzen |
| 16:50 |
The Nansen Legacy Marit Reigstad, University of Troms?, the Artic University of Norway |
| 17:10 |
The Fridtjof Nansen Lectures on Ocean Life: Reconciling Energy Resource Extraction with Ecosystem Health – Lessons from Deepwater Horizon Marcia McNutt, US Academy of Sciences |