FACE-IT was rerpresented at the 2024 European Polar Science Week with several sessions, talks and posters. The conference took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 03 to 06 September 2024. It was a joint venture between the European Commission and the European Space Agency ESA aiming to strengthen the cooperations in polar sciences. FACE-IT contributed or co-organized three sessions and many more colleagues were involved in other sessions. For the closing of the conference, FACE-IT project manager Simon Jungblut (University of Bremen) was asked to present the key messages, major advancements and draft recommendations of all session from the topic “Polar ecosystems, biodiversity and carbon cycles”.

Check out the FACE-IT contributions to the 2024 European Polar Science Week any many impressions below!

 

Parallel Session 2 – Studying and Managing Arctic Tourism in Transition

Wednesday, 4 September, 9:00 – 10:30, Room “Blixen” at The Black Diamond

Chairs: Halvor Dannevig (Western Norway Research Institute) & Carina Ren (Aalborg University)

• Anna G. Sveinsdóttir (Nordland Research Institute): “Sustainable tourism in the Arctic: Examining the potential for adaptive tourism governance in Svalbard and Greenland”
• Ragnhild F. Dale (Western Norway Research Institute): “Contested wilderness – identifying competing narratives about Svalbard futures”
• Julia Olsen (Nord University): “Comparison and cross-case learning in Arctic cruise tourism?”
• Carina Ren (Aalborg University): “Climate change and tourism in Greenland – friction, opportunism and everyday concerns?”
• Kristin Løseth (Western Norway Research Institute): “Socio-ecological perspectives expedition cruise tourism management in Svalbard”
• Halvor Dannevig (Western Norway Research Institute): “Melting ice and last chance tourism – an opportunity for greenwashing or transformation?”

 

Parallel Session 9 – From ice sheets to oceans: a comprehensive view of Arctic freshwater fluxes

Wednesday, 4 September, 14:30 – 16:00, DAC Room at the Danish Architecture Centre

• Johanna Holding (Aarhus University): “Ecosystem perspectives on freshwater fluxes in Arctic fjords – results from EU project FACE-IT”

 

Parallel Session 13 – Towards a three-dimensional monitoring of Greenlandic Marine Ecosystems

Thursday, 5 September, 09:00 – 10:30, The Queen’s Hall, at The Black Diamond

Chairs: Rafael Gonçalves-Araujo (DTU Aqua) & Thomas Juul-Pedersen (Greenland Institute of Natural Resources)

• Thomas Juul-Pedersen (Greenland Institute of Natural Resources): “In situ monitoring of Greenlandic waters”

 

Parallel Session 16 – Developing the Atlantic-Arctic Distributed Biological Observatory (A-DBO): Improved observational capacity in the high Arctic

Thursday, 5 September, 11:00 – 12:30, The Queen’s Hall, at The Black Diamond

• Mikael Sejr (Aarhus University): “The Polar Ocean Mitigation Potential (POMP) project and the A-DBO”

 

Parallel Session 21 – Arctic biodiversity at a crossroads – Research directions along the land-coast-ocean continuum

Thursday, 5 September, 14:30 – 16:00, DAC Room at the Danish Architecture Centre

This session is a collaboration between FACE-IT and its partner projects CHARTER and ECOTIP.

Chairs: Simon Jungblut (University of Bremen) & Bruce Forbes (University of Lapland)

• Marja Koski (DTU Aqua): “Biodiversity and carbon sequestration in the Arctic seas”
• Kai Bischof (University of Bremen): “The collapsing coastal cryosphere: Consequences from ecology to economics”
• Mariana García Criado (University of Edinburgh): “Shifting social-ecological systems, limits to adaptation and biodiversity in a warming tundra biome”
• Annett Bartsch (b.geos GmbH): “Changes of the cryosphere and linkages to space observable biodiversity indicators”
• Larissa Lorinczi (Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission): “Protecting the vulnerable Arctic biodiversity and EU perspective”

 

Photos: Simon Jungblut (University of Bremen)