| 09:30 | Registration and coffee |
10:00
| Welcome by Peter van Velthoven (KNMI)
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| | Human and Social Sciences |
| 10:05 | Louwrens Hacquebord (RUG)
A special openings lecture about the expeditions of Roald Amundsen  |
| 10:25 | Hidde de Haas (RUG)
The Rise and Fall of Commercial Coalmining on Spitsbergen. A case study on the Dutch participation in the Spitsbergen Mining Boom, 1899-1932 |
10:40
| Erik Jaap Molenaar (UU)
The Developing Legal Regime in the Marine Arctic
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| | Climate: past, present and future |
| 10:55 | Michiel van den Broeke (UU)
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets: how fast do they melt? |
| 11:15 | Bas de Boer (UU)
Past changes in global ice volume: What can we learn from deep-ocean sediment cores and ice-sheet models |
11:30
| Eveline van der Linden (KNMI)
Arctic climate change and governing feedbacks
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11:45
| One minute poster presentations
overview of participants
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12:15
| Lunch break and poster session
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| | Experiences in the (Ant)Arctic |
| 13:30 | Günther Können (former KNMI)
Günther Können, the first Dutchman at the South Pole and Vostok (1989-1990) |
13:50
| Marjolein Admiraal (RUG)
Student life at 78⁰ North
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14:00
| Arend Meerburg
First-hand experience from the 3rd Belgian-Dutch Antarctica expedition (1966)
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| | Atmosphere |
| 14:20 | Pieternel Levelt (KNMI)
Ozone hole: now at both Poles? |
| 14:40 | Célia Sapart (UU)
Understanding the methane budget over the last 3 millennia |
14:55
| Vincent Huijnen (KNMI)
A model study of the transport of chemically active pollutants to the Arctic
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15:10
| Tea break and poster session
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| | Biology |
| 15:50 | Anita Buma (RUG)
Impact of glacial meltwater on coastal marine microbes |
| 16:10 | Corina Brussaard (NIOZ)
Going viral in the Southern Ocean |
16:25
| Stef Weijers (VU)
Dendrochronology in the High Arctic: development of a tree-ring like climate proxy
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| | IPY projects |
| 16:40 | Hein de Baar (NIOZ/RUG)
Distribution, Sources and Cycling of Dissolved Iron in the Polar Oceans | |
| 17:00 | Simon Troelstra (VU)
major results NORCLIM and follow-up | |
| 17:20 | Drinks |
