The Cryosphere and Polar Processes

May 17 at 10:45–12:30, room Vingen 6+7

Your session chairs

Margareta Johansson and Gustaf Hugelius

Keywords describing this session: Sea ice, snow, glaciers, ice sheets, permafrost, Arctic carbon cycle.

Program

10:45-10:50      Welcome – Gustaf Hugelius, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University & Margareta Johansson, researcher at the Department of Physical geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University

10:50-11:10     Keynote: Rhizosphere priming in permafrost systems: Can plants accelerate CO2 emissions? – Birgit Wild, Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University

11:10-11:30      Keynote: The solar signal stored in ice sheets – Raimund Muscheler, Professor at the Department of Geology, Lund University

11:30-11:45      Increased methane oxidation in Swedish tundra ecosystems – Mats Björkman, researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg

11:45-12:00      Sea ice thickness and production in Weddell Sea polynyas – Lu Zhou, researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg

12:00-12:15      Increasing impacts of extreme winter warming events on permafrost – Didac Pascual, PhD Student, at the Department of Physical geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University

12:15-12:30      The permafrost carbon budget – Justine Ramage, researcher at Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University