Program

The program of the summer school consisted of lectures by world-leading experts in a broad variety of fields, some computer exercises, and poster sessions. Lectures covered, among others,

Ice–air–sea interaction in the Arctic and in the Antarctic
The heat budget of sea ice
Biogeochemistry of sea ice
Growth, structure and decay of sea ice
Sea-ice related biology
Ice–atmosphere interaction
Ice–ocean interaction
Sea-ice dynamics
Snow on sea ice
Gas transport through sea ice
The sea-ice-thickness distribution
Analytical sea-ice models
Numerical sea-ice models
Mesoscale modelling
Remote sensing of sea ice
Sea-ice reconstruction from paleo proxies
Iceberg–ocean interaction
Sea ice and offshore structures
A historical overview of Russian polar research
The future of sea ice

The following lecturers held lectures at the school:

Knut Aagaard	University of Washington	USA	web
Cecilia Bitz	University of Washington	USA	web
Hajo Eicken	University of Alaska	USA	web
Christian Haas	Alfred-Wegener-Insitute	Germany	web
Eystein Jansen	Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research	Norway	web
Pat Langhorne	University of Otago	New Zealand	web
Matti Leppäranta	University of Helsinki	Finland
Aleksey Marchenko	University Centre in Svalbard	Norway	web
Miles McPhee	McPhee Research Company	USA
Igor Melnikov	Russian Academy of Science	Russia	pdf
Jamie Morison	University of Washington	USA	web
Frank Nilsen	University Centre in Svalbard	Norway
Dirk Notz	Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology	Germany	web
Don Perovich	CRREL	USA	web
Leif Toudal Pedersen	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	web
Sergey Priamikov	Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute	Russia
Heinke Schlünzen	University of Hamburg	Germany	web
Kunio Shirasawa	Hokkaido University	Japan	web
Anna Sjöblom	University Centre in Svalbard	Norway	web
David Thomas	University of Wales	UK	web
Jean-Louis Tison	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Belgium	web
John Wettlaufer	Yale University	USA	web
Grae Worster	Cambridge University	UK	web

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