Arctic PASSION General Assembly 2024

10 Jun 2024, 12:00 → 14 Jun 2024, 12:00 Europe/Helsinki

Sámi Cultural Centre Sajos

Annual meeting of project partners, external collaborators and invited guests of the Arctic PASSION Project.

The meeting is organised by the Alfred Wegener Institute with the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the UKRI British Antarctic Survey, GRID Arendal and  Snowchange, and financed through the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101003472.

Social media hashtag: #arcticpassionGA2024.
 

Certificates of attendance:

Please contact us if you require a certificate of attendance.

Transport_Arctic PASSION GA2024.docx

Tuesday 11 June

Arrival and check in

Convener: Luisa Cristini (Alfred Wegener Institut)

Opening and welcomes

• Michael Karcher: Welcome and Introduction
• Welcome messages from:
  Tauno Ljetoff, Sami Parliament Executive Board
  Jyri Heilimo, Head of Arctic Space Centre
  Gaelle Le Bouler, Project Adviser at European Commission/REA
• Michael Karcher, Luisa Cristini, Tordis Hellmann, Alfred Wegener Institute: Overview of Arctic PASSION activities
• WP9 team: Communication highlights

Convener: Michael Karcher (AWI)

10:30 Coffee break

Breakout session 1: Establishing a comprehensive Arctic observing system - ways forward

GA2024 Breakout session 1: Establishing a comprehensive Arctic observing system - ways forward

https://awi.webex.com/awi-en/j.php?MTID=m7fbcec71da12a4bb57938466f4fd9778

Conveners: Jeremy Wilkinson, Margareta Johansson

Breakout session 2: Shared Arctic Variables (Wildfire, Permafrost, Sea ice, Salmon)

Agenda of the session attached.
Link for the remote participants to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YTBkMmVlNTctYWQwOS00NGIwLWEzODUtMjEzZWU5OTFkMzJk%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22585e9325-4624-41b8-8818-565b541408c4%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%224feb5314-7383-490f-9bd5-f4f7b01f7482%22%7d

Conveners: Illka Matero, Katriina Veijola, Maribeth Murray

SAV_Breakout_Session_GA24.docx

Breakout session 3: Indigenous representatives (1/2)

Conveners: Johanna Roto, Tero Mustonen

Finances and admin clinic

Convener: Tordis Hellmann

13:00 Lunch break

Work Package 1, Work Package 4

WP 1 highlights
WP4: 2-min teaser presentations for innovation exhibition/10 min presentations for non-exhibiting services

15:30 Coffee break & Group photo

Arctic Services EXPO 2024

https://arcticpassion.eu/blog/arcticpassionexpo2024

Convener: Marit Reigstad

Icebreaker reception

Wednesday 12 June

Invited presentations

• Leslie McCartney (UAF) and Kristi Benson (Gwich'in Tribal Council, Department of Culture and Heritage) 'Three Decades of Gwich’in Culture and Heritage Research: An Indigenous Nation’s Contribution to Arctic Passion Events Database'
• Caitlynn Hanna (UAF, Nanook) 'Blending Culture and Science: An Iñupiaq Student's Journey into Understanding River Rusting in the Wulik River Basin'
• Verónica Willmott (AWI): POLARIN: The Polar Research Infrastructure Network
• Otto Habeck (Uni Hamburg): CHARTER (Drivers and Feedbacks of Changes in Arctic Terrestrial Biodiversity)
• Craig Lee (University of Washington, ARORA/Arctic GRA co-chair): The new Arctic Ocean Research Alliance - ARORA
• Harmony Waynor (RNA CoObs): Convening a salmon expert panel with a Community Well-being focus

Convener: Michael Karcher

10:30 Coffee break

Breakout session 6: Indigenous representatives (2/2)

Conveners: Johanna Roto, Tero Mustonen

Breakout sessions 4: Societal benefits (co-organised with US AON)

Conveners: Jaakko Juvonen, Kaisa Juhanko, Sandy Starkweather

Breakout sessions 5: Arctic Data in action

Zoom link to join online: https://uni-bremen.zoom-x.de/j/68387379017?pwd=UMLhBTFa3iOm3t8Zr43fku8Qnbxf9j.1

Agenda:
• 11:00-11:15: Welcome, Introduction and Organisation (Janine)

• 11:15-11:30: Status and next steps of the Arctic PASSION Data Management Plan (Øystein)

• 11:30-11:40: Introduction to actionable data (Øystein)

• 11:40-12:00: FAIR compliant data formats (Øystein)
◦ Nansen Legacy spreadsheet generator for DwCA
◦ CF-NetCDF

• 12:00-12:30: Trusted FAIR data repositories (Janine, Malik, Matias, Øystein)
◦ General guidance on where to archive/publish Arctic PASSION data
◦ Brief introduction on procedures for data submissions to:
▪ PANGAEA
▪ FMI
▪ MET
◦ Note: Post-GA data management support will be coordinated by Malik (malik.naumann@awi.de)

• 12:30-13:00: Discussion and practical guidance for data submitters

• Potential additional themes: SIMPL, CCADI

Conveners: Janine Felden, Øystein Godøy

Finances and admin clinic

Convener: Tordis Hellmann

13:00 Lunch break

Cultural and natural outings (optional, self-funded)

Thursday 13 June

Work Packages 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 highlights

WP2 (20+5 min),
WP3 (20+5 min),
WP5 (20+5 min),
WP6 (20+5 min),
WP7 (20+5 min).

Convener: Kaisa Juhanko

10:30 Coffee break

Synthesis and innovation

• Reports from breakout sessions
• WP8 highlights
• Innovation and Impact (Marit Reigstad, Marije Tempel)

13:00 Lunch break

Closing session

• Periodic Report 2 preparations: technical and financial (Tordis Hellmann)
• Planning 3rd phase: General Assembly 2025 and final symposium, expected results and way forward

Convener: Michael Karcher

15:30 Coffee break

Advisory Board meeting (Lead Team and Advisory Board members only)

Early Career Professionals Walk'n'talk