Agenda and Venue

The workshop takes place at the premises of CICERO at the CIENS centre in Oslo. Information how to get there you can find here. The easiest is to reach CIENS by public transportation (see directions in English at the link below). Once you enter the CIENS building, ask at the main reception to be directed to the meeting room "Terra", which is located on the main level of the building, just down the stairs and around the corner from the main entrance to the building. Please have a look at the following links for further information:

                                    Map of the University (in Norwegian)      and      Directions in English.

The start of the workshop will be at 10:00am on September, 15th and it will end at 16:00 (4:00pm) on September 16th. Accomodation at the Thon Hotel Astoria is located here. The easiest from the hotel is to walk a block and a half to the central train station ("Jernbanetorget"), and take the subway/metro lines 3 ("Sognsvann"), 5 ("Storo"), or 4 (Ringen) heading West and get off at the stations "Blindern" or "Forskningsparken".

Tentative Agenda:

Monday, 15.9.2008

10:00    Welcome and housekeeping issues

10:15    Introduction and formulation of expectations

10:45    Ella Bouquet and Grete Hovelsrud: S4D Activities and relation to the 'Human Impacts' Topics of SEARCH and DAMOCLES

11:00    Jennifer West and Grete Hovelsrud: 'Human Impacts' Activities in DAMOCLES, state of the research, results, planned work

11:20    Anna Stammler-Gossmann: 'Human Impacts' Activities in DAMOCLES, state of the research, results, planned work, Arctic Centre contributions

11:40    Coffee break

12:15    Michael Karcher: Ice-Ocean Modelling in DAMOCLES WP4 and WP5 with NAOSIM and its link to the 'human impacts' studies

12:45    Setting the stage for the afternoon discussion

13:00    Lunch

14:00    Geir Odd Johansen: The FishExChange programme

14:30    Discussions on the links between phyical changes and fisheries-biology, possibilities for simplified approaches, discussion on gaps (methods, data needs)

15:30    Coffee break

16:00    Ongoing discussions

18:00    End

Evening: Joint dinner


Tuesday, 16.9.2008

9:15     Welcome and wrap up of yesterday

Assessing Economic Impact of Climate Warming – Different ApproaAssessing Economic Impact of Climate Warming – Different Approa9:30     Michael Ebeling: Assessing Economic Impact of Climate Warming – Different Approaches, Different Results?

10:00   Matt Berman: Research on Ecosystem and Social Dynamics of the Bering Sea Region

10:30   Coffee break

11:00   Arne Eide: Fisheries Management and Climate Change in the Arctic

11:30   Discussion on fisheries to economic links and its societetal impacts, non-climatic effects

12:00   Lunch

13:00   Ongoing discussions, determination of needs for future work, planning of future cooperation

14:00   Coffee break

14:30   Ongoing discussions and planning, wrap up of the workshop

16:00   End