October 2, 2006:
Plenary Session: Transatlantic Collaboration
Chair: Rolf L. Larsen, Dep. Director General, Ministry of Education and Research
• Grethe S. Bratlie, Deputy Director General, Ministry of Education and research: “Reforging the Ties – Elements of a National Strategy for Cooperation in Higher Education”
• Knut Brautaset, Chair, Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higer Education (SIU): “Overview and Views on Student Mobility Norway – USA”
• Knut Hove, Rector, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB): “Building transatlantic research teams: Institutional Approach and Examples of Dream Teams"
• Kari Kveseth, International Director, The Research Council of Norway: “Summing Up – Connections Between Education and Research”
LUNCHEON
Speaker: Tom Hinton, Senior Research Scientist, University of Georgia: "Multiple Stressors: When 1 + 1 Can Equal 3"
Plenary Session: Arctic Meltdown – Global Effects
• Chris Field, Director, Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution: “Arctic Tipping Points”
• Bo N. Andersen, Director, Norwegian Space Centre: “Information from Space – Basic Science to Geopolitics”
• John Calder, Director, Arctic Research, NOAA: “International Approach to an Arctic Observing System”
Workshop A: Arctic Meltdown – Global Effects
Chairs: Chris Field, Director, Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution
Eystein Jansen, Director, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Workshop B: Environmental Risks of Multiple Stressors
Chairs: Tom Hinton, Senior Research Scientist, University of Georgia
Brit Salbu, Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)
October 3, 2006:
Plenary Session: Arctic Life, Science and Technology
• William Fitzhugh, Director, Arctic Studies Centre, Smithsonian Institute: “Culture and Subsistence of Arctic People”
• David Newman, D.Phil, Natural Products Branch, NIH: “Biodiscovery in Marine Areas”
Workshop C: Arctic Dimensions in Space Research
Chairs: Bo Andersen, Director, Norwegian Space Centre
Roger Smith, Director, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Workshop D: Resources and Technology and Governance
Chairs: David Newman, D.Phil, Natural Products Branch, NIH/NCI
Gunnar Sand, Director, The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)
LUNCHEON
Speaker: Andrew Revkin, NY Times: “The North Pole Was Here”
Round Table: Climate Change - Arctic and Global Scenarios
Chair: John Calder, Director, Arctic Research, NOAA
Introductory remarks by speakers and panel members:
1. “Arctic Scenarios”
2. “Cracking the Climate Codes”
3. “Positive Action for Our Future”
Panel Discussion With the Following Members:
• Igor Krupnik, Curator, Arctic Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution
• Gunnar Sand, Director, The University Centre in Svalbard
• Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist, Climate Institute
• Olav Orheim, Research Council of Norway
• Keith Dixon, NOAA, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
• Neil Swanberg, Program Director, Arctic System Science, National Science Foundation
• Jay S Fein, Program Director, Climate and Large Scale Dynamics, National Science Foundation
• David Hik, Executive Director, Canada IPY Secretariat
Wednesday, October 4:
Arctic Exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
Lectures and tour: Igor Krupnik, Curator, Arctic Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution
LUNCHEON at the Carnegie Institution
Speaker: Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen, Photojournalist: ”Life and Culture of the Saami Reindeer People of Norway”. His award-winning photographs of indigenous arctic life and culture are part of the Visual exhibition (see Additional program below)
Transatlantic Collaboration and the Way Ahead
Keynote speaker: Debra W. Stewart, President, Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)
Panel Discussion and Summing Up: “How strategies for Higher Education and for Fesearch and Technology must Work Together to Increase Transatlantic Exchange.”
Chair: Kari Kveseth, International Director, The Research Council of Norway
Panel Members:
• Debra Stewart , President, Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)
• E. Stephen Hunt - Senior International Affairs Specialist, Manager, USNEI U.S. Department of Education
• Arvid Hallén, Director, The Research Council of Norway
• Rolf L Larsen , Dep. Director General, Ministry of Education and Research, Norway
• Jozef Pacyna, Director, Center for Ecological Economics at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU). Current resident at Yale.
• Tor Egil Eide, Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund (NSELF)
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