Topic 2 Annual Meeting - 2024In-Person Event

12 Sept 2024, 11:59 → 13 Sept 2024, 14:30 Europe/Berlin

Henryk Dobslaw (GFZ), Gerrit Lohmann (AWI), Arne Biastoch (GEOMAR)

 

 

 

 

Annual meeting of PoF IV Topic 2: Ocean and Cryosphere in Climate Change

The 2024 annual meeting will focus on the current state of science at AWI, Geomar, and GFZ within the Topic 2 of the research field Earth and Environment.  Approximately 80 scientists are expected to meet at Telegrafenberg in Potsdam to intensify the scientific collaboration between the participating Helmholtz centers. 

Venue of the meeting

GFZ German Research Centre of Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Building H 

How to get there? 
https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/about-us/organisation/directions-and-locations/potsdam

Catering: Vegetarian and vegan food will be available for each registered participant (2x lunch, 1x dinner, snacks & beverages during coffee breaks).

Accomodation: We recommend various centrally located hotels within the usual cost range. Please note that reservation, booking, and payment of the rooms is within the responsibility of each individual participant. 

• Novum Hotels, the niu Amity, Leipziger Str. 1/Block J, 14473 Potsdam, https://the.niu.de/hotels/deutschland/potsdam/the-niu-amity
• B&B HOTEL Potsdam, Babelsberger Straße 24, 14473 Potsdam, https://www.hotel-bb.com
• Mercure Hotel Potsdam City, Lange Brücke, 14467 Potsdam, https://www.mercure-hotel-potsdam.de
• Holiday Inn Express & Suites Potsdam,  Am Kanal 15, 14467 Potsdam, https://www.ihg.com

 

Thanks to all of you for making this meeting a wonderfully lively exchange!

 

Thursday 12 September

11:59 → 12:00 Download group picture of the meeting

Topic-2-Meeting-2024.jpeg

12:00 → 13:00 Welcome reception & lunch

13:00 → 14:15 Plenary: Welcome and highlight talks by early career & senior scientists

Convener: Henryk Dobslaw (GFZ)

13:00 Opening & scope of the meeting

Speaker: Henryk Dobslaw (GFZ)

13:15 Subtopic 2.1: Evolution of the sediment provenance in the North Sea and Skagerrak region based on radiogenic isotopes

(12'min pres. + 3' min disc.)

Speaker: Nina Lenz (GEOMAR)

13:30 Subtopic 2.2: Climatic pacing of extreme Nile floods during the North African Humid Period

(12'min pres. + 3' min disc.)

Speaker: Cécile Blanchet (GFZ)

13:45 Subtopic 2.3: Atlantic Water warming increases melt below Northeast Greenland’s last floating ice tongue

(12'min pres. + 3' min disc.)

Speaker: Claudia Wekerle (AWI)

14:00 Subtopic 2.4: AI for climate science applications

(12'min pres. + 3' min disc.)

Speaker: Nikolay Koldunov (AWI)

14:15 → 14:20 Group picture

14:20 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 15:30 Plenary: Introduction to poster session

Convener: Martin Frank (GEOMAR)

Teaser Talks in 60 seconds for each poster.

15:30 → 16:50 Poster session

Subtopic 2.1
1) Evolution of grounding-line retreat along the mac. Robertson shelf (East Antarctica) over the past 30,000 years: Creating reliable spatiotemporal benchmarks for validating ice-sheet simulations - Janina Güntzel (AWI)
2) Redox Evolution on the Peruvian Margin since the Pliocene: Insights from Geochemical Proxies - Paula Luiza Fraga Ferreira (GEOMAR)
3) Warming on the East Antarctic Plateau based on Borehole Thermometry Measurements - Nora Hirsch (AWI)
4) Impacts of Global Warming on Regional Hydro-Climates in the Eastern Mediterranean - Anais Urban (GFZ)
5) Reconstructing Ethiopian Hydroclimate from a Varved Lake Sediment Core - Björn Hohmeier (GFZ)
6) Effect of Regional Polar Refinements in Global Atmosphere Model Simulations - Raphael Köhler (AWI)
7) Organic carbon dynamics in extreme environments - Pamela E. Rossel (GFZ)
8) Warm moist air intrusions and their impact on the surface energy budget in the Arctic - Sofie Tiedeck (AWI)
9) Natural gas hydrates: the hidden climate risk factor in polar regions -Judith Schicks (GFZ)

Subtopic 2.2
10) Salinity effects on surface currents and ENSO in simplified ocean and coupled models - Lu Chen (GEOMAR)
11) Subpolar eddies from a high-resolution, multi-platform experiments in the Labrador Sea - Fehmi Dilmahamod (GEOMAR)
12) Provenance of detrital sediments in the North Sea and the Skagerrak based on radiogenic Nd-Sr-Hf isotopes and clay mineral compositions: Assessing the impact of coastal and seabed erosion - Nina Lenz (GEOMAR)
13) Is polar amplification in low-frequency temperature variability exaggerated in climate models? - Vanessa Skiba (AWI)
14) Dynamical processes and future development of eastern boundary upwelling systems - Marco Schulz (GEOMAR)

Subtopic 2.3
15) The 2023 Baltic inflow event as observed by SWOT altimetry - Saskia Esselborn (GFZ)
16) The improvement of ITRF through ESA's GENESIS Mission - Robert Henkelmann (GFZ)
17) Astrogeodesy by VLBI Global Observing System for improving the Terrestrial Reference Frame - Minghui Xu (GFZ)
18) Forward Gravity Modelling to Augment High Resolution Combined Global Gravity Field Models - Sinem Ince (GFZ)
19) Connecting NADW transports to ocean bottom pressure - Linus Shihora (GFZ)
20) Treatment of Modern Global Ocean and Atmospheric Tide Atlases in Precise Orbit Determination - Roman Sulzbach (GFZ)
21) Tidal and non-tidal ocean loading signals from a superconducting gravimeter on the North Sea island of Helgoland – Christian Voigt (GFZ)

Subtopic 2.4
22) Gravity field recovery using co-estimation of background model errors to improve de-aliasing capabilities of the MAGIC double-pair constellation - Josefine Wilms (GFZ)
23) Constraining the Equatorial Pacific barium cycle with stable barium isotope - Bianca Liguori, Zhouling Zhang, Christopher Siebert, Martin Frank (GEOMAR)
24) Next Generation Gravity Mission design: will new satellite constellations be able to resolve sub-monthly mass change events in Greenland? Ingo Sasgen (AWI)

others:

25) Unlocking soil organic carbon dynamics in degrading Himalayan Permafrost and Alpine Meadows - Sarwar Nizam (GFZ)
26) Important findings from the TephroMed project I: The cryptotephras of the ICDP Dead Sea deep core during the last 30-130kya - Rebecca Kearney (GFZ)

=> Please also see the attached pdf with the abstracts of all posters!

List-of-Poster_Topic-2-AnnualMeeting-2024.pdf

16:50 → 17:00 Getting to the guided tours

17:00 → 18:00 Guided Tours

Please sign up for one of the three guided tours when you register online to facilitate our planning.

18:00 → 19:00 Dinner

19:00 → 20:00 Evening lecture

Convener: Barbara Neumann (RIFS)

19:00 Turquoise Transitions: Sustainable Ocean Use and Blue-Green Innovation

How can we advance sustainable ocean use that contributes to climate mitigation, adaptation and ecological conservation?
How can we transfer findings from ocean science into transformative application?
What transition pathways can we identify for current, often unsustainable, ocean use by sectors such as tourism, fisheries, energy, water and transport?
How can coastal regions provide for long term sustainable development, decarbonise marine transport and infrastructure and scale marine renewable energy?
Can sector-coupling and technological innovation help accelerate required transitions?
The session will discuss potential innovation strategies for a sustainable blue-green economy.

Speaker: Florian Lennert (RIFS)

20:00 → 21:00 Drinks

Friday 13 September

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee

09:00 → 09:30 Plenary: Short introduction to breakout session

Each chair promotes the topic of their breakout session in about 2-3 minutes.

Convener: Gerrit Lohmann (AWI)

09:30 → 11:15 Discussion: Scientific breakout sessions

09:30 Breakout 1: Paleoceanographic research

One "paleo session" with topics such as paleo-climate, southern ocean, arctic chronologies and reference cores.

Speakers: Martin Frank (GEOMAR), Frank Lamy (AWI), Florian Adolphi (AWI), Cecile Blanchet (GFZ), Rik Tjallingii (GFZ)

09:30 Breakout 2: Sea level: bridging the scales between remote forcing and coastal impacts

We would like to take a look at fingerprints of sea level change (e.g. related to ice sheets, AMOC, etc) and their manifestation along the ocean margins.

Speaker: Torsten Kanzow (AWI)

09:30 Breakout 3: From data to products - needs & barriers

Scientists often produce data products as part of their research, e.g. ocean state indicators from time series data or via gridded fields.
It is of interest in Topic 2 to discuss how disclosure and access to such data products is achieved, what limitations exist and how access can be improved. The discussions are linked to milestones and results of PoF IV.

Speakers: Johannes Karstensen (GEOMAR), Wilken von Appen (AWI)

09:30 Breakout 4: Changing surface accumulation in Antarctica

Surface mass balance in Antarctica has been changing. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet became a mitigator of sea level rise. The beakout session will discuss our state of knowledge from observations and models, identify needs and present eventually where research efforts should be focused on for the remainder of the PoV IV period.

Speaker: Olaf Eisen (AWI)

09:30 Breakout 5: Harnessing AI for Climate Science

Recent years have seen significant advancements in climate science through the use of AI, including machine learning models that outperform traditional weather forecasting methods, automated analysis of vast amounts of satellite data, and the exploration of data-driven insights into climate processes. In this breakout group, we will discuss the current applications of AI in climate science within Topic 2, explore new directions, and foster interdisciplinary collaborations.

Speakers: Nikolay Koldunov (AWI), Nils Hutter (GEOMAR)

09:30 Breakout Session 6: Picturing our Future in a 2.5 degree world

While we are all familiar with physical maps projecting temperature changes by 2100, imagining the possible implications of these changes is challenging. Do they signal a significant risk for civilization, or a future where challenges that already exist, like heatwaves, become more intense or frequent but yet manageable through adaptation?
Climate science struggles not only with estimating probabilities but also with effectively communicating them, especially when it comes to low-probability, high-impact events or slow-moving yet inevitable processes. Equally important is moving beyond the current one-way communication. What kind of information is actually needed for society to understand and relate to the problem? What kind of information is needed for decision-makers to take action, why is taking action and decision making in itself a complex field? How can there be better "integration" and effectiveness of climate science for society?
“Picturing Our Future” seeks to establish a scientific approach that goes beyond one-way communication and includes diverse stakeholders, forming evidence-based images and communication strategies to support decision making in the climate crisis.

Speakers: Maria Hörhold (AWI), Thom Laepple (AWI), Barbara Neumann (RIFS)

11:15 → 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 → 12:45 Plenary: Summary of breakout sessions

Short summary of the results of the breakout session (max. 5-10' for each session).

Convener: Gerrit Lohmann (AWI)

12:45 → 13:00 Plenary: Wrap up and farewell

• Outlook for PoF V
• Upcoming events and meetings

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch