National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

UK Polar Network Day

The next UK Polar Network Day will be held at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton on Friday the 27th of November 2009. It is open to students (postgraduates and undergraduates), postdocs and all early-career scientists working in the field of polar research.

The registration (free) is now closed.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

The registration will be from 9.15 until 9.50am. Upon your arrival, please report to the reception on the ground floor. The conference will be held in the seminar room. For people scheduled for the morning talks, please provide us with your presentation during registration to help us switch from one talk to the next. The talks will be 15 minutes including time for questions. Due to the success of the UKPN day, the timing is very tight and we ask all the speakers to respect the time slots allowed. The NOCS poster boards are design for portrait format.

We will have 4 invited talks: The introduction will be made by Dr. Sheldon Bacon and Dr. Alberto Naveira Garabato (NOCS). The three other talks will be made by Dr. Mark Brandon (Open University), Prof. Jane Hart (School of Geography, University of Southampton) and Dr. Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez (NOCS).

THURSDAY NIGHT DINNER: A table has been booked at La Margherita Restaurant, near Town Quay (see map below) for 8.30pm to give time to the people arriving by train to check in before going to dinner.

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Time table & list of abstracts

The abstracts can be downloaded here.

See below for the time table and the list and titles of the talks and the posters.

Time	Name, affilation	Title	Discipline
9.15-9.50	Registration
9.50-10.00	Welcome & introduction
10.00-10.30	Sheldon Bacon & Alberto Naveira Garabato, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton	Introduction	Physical Oceanography
10.30-11.00	Jane Hart, School of Geography, University of Southampton	The investigation of a rapidly retreating glacier using subglacial wireless probes	Glaciology
11.00-11.15	Talk 1: Audrey Wayolle, University of Stirling	Studying soil carbon stocks in two arctic landscapes	Soil Science
11.15-11.30	Talk 2: Margot Saher, University of Plymouth	Changes in Distribution of Benthic Foraminifera in the Central Barents Sea Between the Periods 1965-1992 and 2005-2006	Marine Biology
11.30-11.45	Coffee
11.45-12.00	Talk 3: Catherine Preece, University of Sheffield	The effects of winter icing events on the growth and phenology of sub-Arctic dwarf shrubs	Terrestrial ecology
12.00-12.15	Talk 4: Nihls Ohlanders, University of Sheffield	Hydrological control on carbon fluxes in three subarctic micro-catchments	Geochemistry
12.15-12.45	Mark Brandon, Open University	Autosub under icebergs in the Weddell Sea	Physical Oceanography
12.45-13.30	Lunch
13.30-14.00	Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton	Ocean acidification in the polar seas	Biogeochemical Oceanography
14.00-14.15	Talk 5: Claire MacDonald, University of Leeds	Herbivory in Antarctic Fossil Forests	Paleoecology
14.15-14.30	Talk 6: Jo Browse, University of Leeds	How well do we model Arctic aerosol?	Atmospheric science
14.30-14.45	Talk 7: Thomas Brown, University of Plymouth	IP25: A highly specific sea ice indicator	Paleo-oceanography
14.45-15.00	Talk 8: Alex Tate, British Antarctic Survey	The Polar Data Centre	Data management
15.00-16.30	Posters & Coffee
16.30-16.45	Talk 9: Cedric Chavanne, University Of East Anglia	Synoptic Antarctic Shelf-Slope Interactions study	Physical Oceanography
16.45-17.00	Talk 10: Alex Brearley, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton	The East Greenland Current System South of Denmark Strait	Physical Oceanography
17.00-17.15	Talk 11: Hao Zuo, University of Reading	Simulating the Arctic Ocean using data assimilation in the NEMO model	Physical Oceanography
17.15-17.30	Talk 12: Sudipta Sarkar, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton	Analysis of shallow gas and fluid migration within the gas hydrate bearing sedimentary succession offshore Svalbard using 2D multichannel seismic reflection data	Marine Geophysics
17.30-18.00	Conclusion: What's next?

List of posters:

Name, affilation	Title	Discipline
Povl Abrahamsen, British Antarctic Survey,	Tracer-derived Freshwater Composition of the Siberian Continental Shelf and Slope	Physical oceanography
Aine Ni Bhreasail, Imperial College,	The micromechanics of permafrost thaw	Soil mechanics
Philip Blaen, University of Birmingham	Linking ecological responses to hydrological change in the High Arctic (Svalbard)	Hydroecology
Pete Brown, University Of East Anglia/British Antarctic Survey,	Accumulation of transient tracers in the Weddell Gyre over the last 20 years	Chemical Oceanography
Nuala Carson, University ofLiverpool	The Thermodynamic Formation and Growth of Sea Ice	Sea-ice dynamics
Anne Chabert, National Oceanography Centre	Seismic modelling of gas hydrate and free gas in sediments, from ocean-bottom seismometer data along the continental margin of Western Svalbard	Marine Geophysics
Abigail Clifton, University of Leeds	Fossil Plants From Svalbard and Their Climatic Significance	Paleoclimatology
Katharine Cox, National Oceanography Centre	Stable Isotopes for Freshwater Additions to the EGC and EGCC	Physical Oceanography
Gillian Damerell, University Of East Anglia	Temporal Variability in Diapycnal Mixing in the Southern Ocean	Physical Oceanography
Ella Darlington, National Oceanography Centre	Impact of freshwater ice melt on surface circulation in the Barents and Kara Seas	Physical Oceanography
Matthew Donnelly, University of Liverpool	Spatial and Temporal Variability in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current	Physical Oceanography
Nicola Greene, University of Loughborough	Water and Sanitation in Cold Climates	Water Sanitation
Claudia Halsband-Lenk, Plymouth Marine Laboratory	Copepod siblings in arctic fjords	Marine Biology
Leon Hermanson, University of Reading	Multi-year Predictability of Greenland Sea Late Winter Sea ice Volume in a Coupled Climate Model	Sea-ice modelling
Anna Kaczmarska, National Oceanography Centre	Long term sea surface height variability in the Nordic Seas	Physical Oceanography
Eva Koller, University of Sheffield	Does earlier leaf development in spring result in more growth in summer in subarctic dwarf shrubs?	Terrestrial Biology
Jonathan Lauderdale, National Oceanography Centre	Sensitivity of oceanic carbon uptake to Southern Ocean physics	Physical Oceanography
Amber Leeson, University of Leeds	TBC	Glaciology
Jamie Rae, Met office	The Ice2sea Project	Ice sheet modelling
Rogers Roland, National Oceanography Centre	The Application of the Legal Regime of Marine Scientific Research in Arctic Waters	Polar law
Nina Rothe, National Oceanography Centre	Biogeography and Systematics of Deep Weddell Sea Gromiids	Marine Biology
Deb Shoosmith, British Antarctic Survey	Physical Oceanography of the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica, Summer 2007	Physical Oceanography
Victoria Sloan, University of Sheffield	Contrasting Phenology of Roots and Shoots in Arctic Tundra Plant Communities	Terrestrial Biology
Emma Thompson, British Antarctic Survey	The Infuence of Bottom Slope on the Dynamics of Jets and Eddies in an Idealised Model of the Southern Ocean	Physical Oceanography
Takamasa Tsubouchi, National Oceanography Centre	An inverse diagnostic of the circulation and heat and freshwater ﬂuxes across the rim of the Arctic Ocean in summer 2005	Physical Oceanography
Paul Tyler, National Oceanography Centre	Glacier influenced topography on the zonation of deep sea megabenthos west of the Antarctic Peninsula	Marine Biology
Stephanie Waterman, National Oceanography Centre	The Southern Ocean Fine Structure (SOFine) Project	Physical Oceanography
Chun Wong, University of Oxford	Modelling Seabird Habitat Suitability: Assessing at sea observation data quality for conservation	Bird ecology

If you are presenting your work in any of the upcoming conferences (AGU, ASLO, etc), this forum offers you the opportunity to practice. Do not hesitate to register!

For further information, please contact Sinhue sinhue@noc.soton.ac.uk or Loic l.jullion@noc.soton.ac.uk.

The UK polar Network is a group of early career polar researchers that was founded as part of the 2007-2009 International Polar Year (IPY) and is the UK branch of the Association for Polar Early Career Scientists. You can find out more about who they are and what they do by exploring the Polar Network website.

Practical Information:

Nearby hotels:

The Star Hotel : This is the closest hotel from NOCS (Within walking distance). This is the hotel we recommend as it is centrally located on Southampton High Street.
Etap Hotel : Near the train station and within walking distance from NOCS
Travelodge Southampton : Located near the Uni-Link Bus running between the Airport, the train station and NOCS.

Bus timetable:

Unilink : Connects the airport, the train station and NOCS.
City Link : Operated by blue star. Free bus connection between the train station and the Town Quay (going by High street).

How to go find NOCS