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WORKSHOP ON ORGANIZING THE PERGAMON SUMMER SCHOOL

WORKSHOP ON ORGANIZING THE PERGAMON SUMMER SCHOOL. Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale. Trieste, Italy. October, 15-16 2012.

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WORKSHOP ON ORGANIZING THE PERGAMON SUMMER SCHOOL

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  1. WORKSHOP ON ORGANIZING THE PERGAMON SUMMER SCHOOL IstitutoNazionale di Oceanografiae di GeofisicaSperimentale Trieste, Italy October, 15-16 2012

  2. Workshop Objective: To define venue, program and logistical aspects for the PERGAMON Training School to be held in a European polar research station in Summer 2013 Organizing Committee: Ali Nadir Arslan, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki Angelo Camerlenghi, OGS, Trieste Jens Greinert, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel Josep Anton Morgui, Catalan Climate Institute, Barcelona Ilia Ostrovsky, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Migdal JacekPiskozub, The Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot Torsten Sachs, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geoscience UmbertaTinivella, OGS, Trieste Tina Treude, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

  3. COST ACTION PROFILE (1) MEETINGS (2) SHORT TERM SCIENTIFIC MISSIONS (STSMs) (3) TRAINING SCHOOLS (4) PUBLICATIONS, DISSEMINATION, OUTREACH, WEBSITE OTHERS

  4. PERGAMON COST ACTION MOU: Several urgently needed benefits to be achieved with this COST Action are to: • Provide a forum for scientific knowledge transfer with respect to the topic. • Help to bridge the gap between terrestrial and marine scientists studying methane fluxes. • Organize field campaigns in such a way that they complement one another, ultimately leading to long-term monitoring. • Organize joint field campaigns to increase COST-effectiveness and maximise the scientific return, in terms of the completeness of data sets. • Increase research knowledge, skills and technological know-how and distribute it among the partners • Promote training and multidisciplinary interaction between senior and early-stage researchers to pass on and enhance our understanding about the Arctic and build the base forthe establishment of long-term monitoring stations.

  5. The PERGAMON Action explicitly encourages cross-WG interactions which develop naturally as the final goal,the assessment of how much methane from sub-seafloor and terrestrial sources reaches theatmosphere, can only be made in a joined, communicative and multidisciplinary way. The WGs areexpected to: • Define detailed objectives and deliverables during their first assembly • Help the MC setting the milestones throughout the course of the Action • Contribute to the organization of the annual WG meeting and of conferences • Establish a network within the Working Groups of top-level high impact research groups • Promote scientific interactions, privileged dissemination of information and exchange of materials • Encourage multidisciplinary collaborations • Promote exchange of early-stage researchers with an emphasis on methodological training, and state–of-the-art science during STSMs.

  6. ………………. MC Meeting on Wednesday

  7. TRIESTE WORKSHOP AGENDA ITEMS PERGAMON TRAINING SCHOOL LOCATION DATE PROGRAM AND DURATION CALL FOR PARTICIPATION PARTICIPANTS SELECTION CRITERIA COSTS ACTIONS AND DEADLINES

  8. LOCATION • In the Arctic Environment • If not too difficult or expensive. For organization purposes we need a HOST possibly in the organizing committee. • 4 locations considered: • SodankylaStation, Finland • UNIS, Longyerabyern, Svalbard • OulankaResearch Station, Finland • Abisko Station, Sweden

  9. SodankylaStation Arctic Research Centre of the FMI in Arctic Research Centre, Finland.http://fmiarc.fmi.fi Contact and candidate host: Ali Nadir Arslan Accommodation: Arctic Research Centre Maximum 24 persons, 25 € per person Hostel in centre of Sodankyla(6 km away) 15 persons, 35 € per person Two hotels in centre of Sodankyla(6 km away) 115 €

  10. Bus transfers can be arranged daily (extra cost) Meal costs on site: 6 € . Classroom facilities. Seminar room at no extra cost Laboratory facilities Yes Field excursion. visit to data collection facilities on land Missing Marine data collection and aircraft data collection. Locals can help. Transportation from Europe to Arctic Research Centre Flight to Helsinki Flight (or train) from Helsinki to Rovaniemi 1.5 hour drive to Sodankyla (public transportation 20€)

  11. UNIS - The University Centre in Svalbard http://www.unis.no/ Information provided by AneHammervollBjørsvikAne.Hammervoll.Bjorsvik@unis.no Need a local contact. JuergenMienert? Othersfrom the Norwegian scientific Communuty? Possibly riko.noormets@unis.no Accommodation: UNIS guest house where we accommodate our PhD-students, guest researchers and guest lecturers. 600 NOK-day (≈81 € ) Also rent out rooms if we have the capacity. Contact Trine Fjerdingøy and SølviLervik at booking@unis.no

  12. Several barracks owned and coordinated by the Student housing organization in Tromsø. UNIS students are given priority, but if there are available rooms you would be able to rent them. more information: http://www.sito.no/english/housing/svaldbard/svalbard Short time rental (only Unis courses): 1 week NOK 1800 (242 € ) 2 weeks NOK 2800 NOK 250 (≈34 € ) per day after that. Classroom facilities Room Rental at UNIS 3,000 NOK (≈404 € ) per day. Laboratory facilities Well equipped Have to enquire on costs

  13. Field excursion Glacial geology, permafrost. Terrestrial methane flux measurement stations Transportation from Europe to Longyearbiern Flight to Oslo or Tromsø Flight To Longyearbiern Open questions: LOCAL SUPPORT WITHIN PERGAMON NEGOTIATE CHEAPER PRICES FOR FACILITIES

  14. Oulanka Research Station, Oulu University, FInland http://www.oulu.fi/oulanka/en_index.html Abisko Scientific Research Station, Sweden http://www.polar.se/en/abisko Similar situation as SodankylaStation, but without a local contact in the Organizing Committee.

  15. DATE Considered the availability the members of the organizing committee: Last two week of September / first week of October (September 23 – October 6)

  16. PROGRAM AND DURATION • In order to guarantee multidisciplinarity, we suggest to divide the program according to PERGAMON Structure plus adds on: • General scheme • Two sessions of 4 hours each day • Arctic general introduction • Formal lectures according to PERGAMON WGs (45 min) • Case studies (scientists showing a real study through a scientific presentation after theoretical presentations (30 min) • Student-student communications (8 min on own research) • Exercises • Field work/trip • Trial proposal exercise • Use rotations to decrease the size of the groups for field and lab work

  17. DAY 0 = travel and arrival • Evening: ice breaking party • DAY 1 - Introductions • Morning • Welcome, logistics • Introduction to PERGAMON (Jens) 15 min • Introduction by the host (tba) 15 min • Arctic: general introduction • Arctic environment and climate (ask APECS, ask the host) 30 min • Arctic climate change (including global picture.ask APECS, ask the host. also JacekPiskozub) 30 min • Polar regions and the IPCC (Policy-oriented. Asked YannickBeaudoin, UNEP-GRID Arendal, provided by Tina) 30 min • Methane in the carbon cycle (Tina) 30 min • Afternoon • Introduction to PERMAFROST field trip and measuring facilities (tba) • 10 Students to students communications (8 minutes each) • Arctic Culture lecture (Ask IASC? Ask Juergen, other suggestions?)

  18. DAY 2 WG A Methane in marine sediments and permafrost • Morning • Marine sedimentary systems in the Arctic (A. Camerlenghi) • Permafrost in marine and terrestrial environment (T. Sachsor other local expert) • Gas hydrates in the natural environment (marine and terrestrial) (U. Tinivella) • Case study (by one of the lecturers) • Afternoon • Seismic methods including exercise (1.5 hours) (U. Tinivella – A. Camerlenghi). Introduction about seismic data and data organization (seg-y file). Introduction about the main seismic characteristics in presence of hydrate and free gas. Introduction about seismic visualization. Introduction about the meaning and use of the BSR. Example of seismic line in which the BSR is evident. • Exercise: estimate geothermal gradient from the BSR depth and hydrate stability curve. • 10 Students to students communications (8 minutes each)

  19. DAY 3 WG B1 Biogeochemical processes in the seafloor • Morning (Tina Treude, HelgeNiemann, AlinaStadnitskaia) • Gas hydrate dissociation and methane transport in the sediment • Microbial consumption of methane released from dissociating gas hydrates in the sediment • Biogeochemical reactions resulting from methanotrophy in sediments (e.g. chemosynthetic communities and authigenic carbonates) • Case study (by one of the lecturers) • Afternoon • Introduction into biogeochemical methods applied to methane seeps studies (Tina, Helge, Alina): • Sediment sampling with MUC, GC, ROV/Submersible (including videos) • Porewater extraction and analyses • Microsensor measurements • Radiotracer techniques • Lipid biomarker analyses • CARD-FISH • Carbonate analyses • Exercises: • Display of some instruments and samples (e.g. cores, rhizones, microsensors, sediment slurries, carbonates, clams/tubeworms) • Discussion of pro and cons of methods (time for detailed questions) • Diffusive flux calculations from oxygen, methane, sulfate profiles • Calculation of AOM and SR rates from time series (sulfide production) and radiotracer measurements

  20. DAY 4 WG B2 Methane fluxes from the sea/lake-floor into the atmosphere (3 among: GregorRehder, Jens Greinert, HelgeNiemann, Ilia Ostrovsky, IngeborgBussmann) • Morning • From sediments through water column • gas bubble transport and methane dissolution • microbial methane consumption • Methane sea-air fluxes (Jacek) • Case study (by one of the lecturers) • Afternoon (Methods) • Methods of measurements of bubble flux from the bottom: overcoming spatiotemporal heterogeneity problem (gas traps and hydroacoustic techniques) (Ilia) • Methods of measurements of methane flux at the water-air interface (drifters, eddy correlation, gas balance approach) (Ilia, others?) • Methods of determination of aerobic methane oxidation rates in the water column (Helge, Ingeborg) • Single bubble dissolution model: the fate of gaseous methane in the water column (Jens or Dan McGinnis) • DAY 5 FIELD TRIP

  21. DAY 6 WG C-1: Methane fluxes from the terrestrial environment (wetlands, tundra, Arctic-lakes) • Tbd: Organize by method or topic/question? (or by spatial scale, direction of flux, whatever) • Production and consumption of methane in permafrost (Dirk Wagner) • Vertical transport of methane from soil through vegetation to atmosphere (Patrick Crill, Torben R. Christensen, Torsten) • Methane in regions of the freshwater marine interface (lateral) (IngeborgBussmann, Natalia Shakhova) • Case study (one of the lecturers) • Afternoon • Methods and exercises • Quantification of methane fluxes from tundra environments (vertical) (Patrick Crill, Torben R. Christensen, Torsten) • Closed chambers + isotopes --> plot scale • Eddy Covariance + tall towers (tower) --> local-regional scale • Eddy Covariance (airplane) --> regional scale • Modeling methane flux in Permafrost (vertical) (Ko van Huissteden, Christian Beer)

  22. DAY 7 WG C-2 Atmospheric methane monitoring and global implications for current and future Arctic warming (Ask Philppe to provide additional names; Josep Anton proposes Rebecca Fisher, Royal Holloway) • Global methane circulation patterns (????) • Implications for climate • Case study (by one of the lecturers) • Afternoon • Methods and exercises • Atmospheric methane monitoring (towers, column measurements, satellite, Aircraft) • Transport/Inversion modeling (Philippe Bousquet) • Column methane measurements (Ali) (presenting the measurement station if hosted in Finland)

  23. DAY 8 – Wrap-up day • Morning • Future directions for Arctic science (tda). • Lecture about EU funding (H2020, Marie Curie etc. with following discussion and time for questions (lecturer: maybe someone from COST, APECS?). • Students split up in 4 groups (mixed disciplines) and prepare a proposal (Powerpoint presentation) for a study they want to conduct under the umbrella of PERGAMON (according to general scientific proposal guidelines) • Afternoon • Presentation of the 4 proposals (each 15 min) and vote for the best proposal (by students and lecturers; one cannot vote for the own proposal). Price for the best proposal? • Closing party…. • DAY 9 - Departure

  24. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Open call Publicity mainly trough PERGAMON participants Need to draft a flyer/circular and put it also on the PERGAMON Web page. Start right after the PERGAMON Gent Meeting) ENQUIRE WITH COST ABOUT EARLY STAGE RESEARCHERS (< 8 YEARS DOCTORATE DEGREE) AS DEFINED BY COST. We would like to include PhD students, but limit the spread in knowledge between Students and ESR Ask Svetato develop an online application form with possibility to upload attachment files.

  25. PARTICIPANTS SELECTION CRITERIA • Applicants Selection Committee: • Organizing Committee + Edna + Svetlana • We propose that the Applicants Selection Committee is delegated by the MC to select applicants independently. • MC will have to approve? • APPLICATION SELECTION Criteria: • Criteria should be used with flexibility and should guarantee the widest possible spectrum of: • Country • Discipline • Advisor (no more than on per advisor?)

  26. Ensure Gender balance • Allow for participation of applicants from outside COST countries and Lappland applicants, if any. • Final criteria do select individuals will be: • Motivation letter • Closeness to PERGAMON science • Reference letter • Past scientific activity. • CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE (official templates from COST Office?)

  27. COSTS

  28. CO-SPONSORS IASC (International Committee for Arctic Scientific Research) IFM GEOMAR Future Ocean

  29. ACTIONS AND DEADLINES • Today • Report to Pergamon scientific and MC meeting • Decide on location and book site with final dates • Decide how to begin advertisement in PERGAMON Web Page before the end of November • End of november • Book site • Begin advertizement • January 2013 • Close budget

  30. March 3013 Deadline for applications Close program May 2013 Accept candidate participate September 2013 Run Training School October 2013 Reporting and administration before project ends

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