ALKEKONGE KICK-OFF MEETING 18-19 February 2009
Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences SOPOT
WEDNESDAY 10:00 - START
Short presentations of individual tasks, - results to now - Polish and Norwegian sides
- Task 1
Waldek Walczowski - Generally: about Atlantic Water, changes of properties, connection with climate,
- Task 2
Mirek Darecki - Optical measurements during ALBERT campaign performed by IOPAS
- Task 3
- Marta Gluchowska - Comparison of zooplankton data from
Magdalenefjorden and Hornsund (summer 2007) based on results presented
during China conference: "Still enough Arctic zooplankton for Little
Auks on Spitsbergen...BUT FOR HOW LONG?"
- Sławek Kwasniewski - Preliminary results on zooplankton after ALBERT campaign (Polish part only).
- Rafal Boehnke - Preliminary zooplankton results from Smeerenburg (summer 2008).
- Haakon Hop - Key players in the marine food web of Kongsfjorden
- Task 4
- Kasia Wojczulanis-Jakubas & Darek Jakubas - Little Auk breeding and feeding ecology in Hornsund and Magdalenefjorden
- Adrian Zwolicki & Kasia Zmudczyńska - Ornithogenic tundra studies in Hornsund - preliminary results
- Lech Iliszko - New miniature GPS and T tag devices for Little Auks - technical parameters and state of works
- Joanna Szczucka - Preliminary acoustic research of diving arctic birds
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:30
- Task 5
Joanna Piwowarczyk - Administative information questions - possible answers
- Tasks discussion continued
- ALBERT results and concluding
- Ledang AB, Falk-Petersen S, Svendsen H, , Labat J Ph, Mayzaud P.
2009. ALBERT - Coupled physical and biological processes related to
mesoscale eddy field in Kongsfjorden, Isfjorden and adjacent shelf.
- Dinner in Rucola (Sopot)
THURSDAY 9:00 - 13:00
- Schedule for 2009 and 2010
- Summer campaign OCEANIA - LANCE (joint meeting with BankMOD project)
- Kasia Blachowiak - Zooplankton planning - Oceania campaign for summer 2009;
- Emilia Trudnowska - Introduction to Laser Plankton Optical Counter (LOPC);
- ALBERT results and recapitulation
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:00
- Undertaken tasks - what are we obliged to produce - project indicators Discussion
- 17:00 Adjourn, walk & dinner in Gdańsk