National Institute of Polar Research
The 5th Symposium on Polar Science (2-5 December, 2014)

Special session [S]
Frontiers of polar science: novel developments in Arctic and Antarctic observations

Oral session

Dec. 4 (Thu.) National Institute of Polar Research, 2F Auditorium

Chair:Yasunobu Ogawa (NIPR)
09:00-09:30 A roadmap for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science for the next two decades and beyond Kennicutt, Mahlon C. II (Texas A&M University)
09:30-10:00 The Expanding Core and Co-location Space Geodesy Network and the Importance of High Latitude Sites. *Michael R. Pearlman (CfA), Alexander Ipatov (IAA/RAS), Frank Lemoine (NASA/GSFC), James Long (NASA GSFC), Chopo Ma (NASA/GSFC), Stephen Merkowitz (NASA/GSFC), Ruth Neilan (JPL/CalTech), Carey E. Noll (NASA/GSFC), Erricos Pavlis (UMBC), Harald Schuh (GFZ), Victor Shargorodsky (OJC"RPC"PSI"), David Stowers (JPL/CalTech), Scott Wetzel (HTSI)
10:00-10:25 Role of Grounding Zone processes in Ice Sheet stability *S Anandakrishnan (Penn State University), RB Alley (Penn State University), B Parizek (Penn State University), K Christianson (Penn State University), L Peters1, A Muto (Penn State University)
10:25-10:40 Coffee Break (15 min)
Chair: Yusuke Suganuma (NIPR)
10:40-11:05 Role of Arctic and Antarctic regions in late Neogene climate evolutions *Osamu Seki (ILTS), Jonaotaro Onodera (JAMSTEC), Akira Oka (AORI), Minoru Ikehara (CAMCR)
11:05-11:30 Climate system variations viewed from ice cores of Antarctica and Greenland Kenji Kawamura (NIPR/SOKENDAI/JAMSTEC)
11:30-12:00 Eemian insights and future Greenland ice core projects Bo Vinther (Centre for Ice and Climate, University of Copenhagen)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Chair: Takeshi Tamura (NIPR)
13:00-13:30 Toward coordinated observational and modeling studies on the polar oceans Hiroyasu Hasumi (AORI)
13:30-13:55 Bi-Polar observation by the Japanese research icebreaker Takeshi Tamura (NIPR), Eiji Watanabe (JAMSTEC), Jun Inoue (NIPR), Takahiro Iida (NIPR), Michiyo Yamamoto-Kawai (TUMSAT), Daiki Nomura (ILTS), Makoto Sampei (Hiroshima Univ.), Katsuro Katsumata (JAMSTEC), Jun Ono (JAMSTEC), Kazuo Amakasu (TUMSAT), Kohei Mizobata (TUMSAT), Jun Nichioka (ILTS), Amane Fujiwara (Hokkaido Univ.), Masanobu Yamamoto (Hokkaido Univ.)
13:55-14:20 Biogeochemical study in bi-polar oceans *Daiki Nomura (ILTS, JSPS), Takeshi Tamura (NIPR), Takahiro Iida (NIPR)
14:20-14:35 Coffee Break (15 min)
Chair: Takahiro Iida (NIPR)
14:35-15:05 Resilience of Polar Ecosystems Manfred Boelter (Univ. Kiel)
15:05-15:30 Polar habitats as hot spots for microbio-geography *Takeshi Naganuma (Hiroshima Univ.), Katuhiko Kashihara (Hiroshima Univ.), Ryosuke Nakai (JSPS/NIG), Hironori Niki (NIG), Jun Uetake (NIPR), Sakae Kudoh (NIPR), Satoshi Imura (NIPR)
15:30-16:00 Ecological Significance of the First Year-Sea Ice in the Marine Ecosystem of the High Latitudes Satoru Taguchi (Soka Univ.)
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break (15 min)
Chair: Hiroshi Miyaoka (NIPR)
16:15-16:45 Recent and future projects by Finnish research teams in bi-polar region Esa Turunen (SGO, University of Oulu)
16:45-17:10 Bipolar large radar observations for the study of variability of the earth and geospace systems *Takuji Nakamura (NIPR), Kaoru Sato (Univ, of Tokyo), Hiroshi Miyaoka (NIPR), members of PANSY and EISCAT/JP
17:10-17:35 Interhemispheric Polar Conjugate Observation Network for Solar-Terrestrial Phenomena *Akira Kadokura (NIPR), Hisao Yamagishi (NIPR), Hiroshi Miyaoka (NIPR), Akira Sessai Yukimatu (NIPR), Masaki Okada (NIPR), Yasunobu Ogawa (NIPR), Yoshimasa Tanaka (NIPR), Ryuho Kataoka (NIPR), Yusuke Ebihara (Kyoto Univ.), Makoto Taguchi (Rikkyo Univ.), Keisuke Hosokawa (Univ. Electro-Commun.), Tetsuo Motoba (APL/JHU), Yuka Sato (NIPR)
18:30-20:30
Symposium Banquet (Tachikawa Grand Hotel)

Poster session

Dec. 4 (Thu.) National Institute of Polar Research, 2F Lounge

Sp01 Antarctic Winter Maximum and Arctic Summer Minimum in Sea Ice - Discussions on Their Evidences and Influences - Hiroyuki Enomoto (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Takeshi Tamura (NIPR,SOKENDAI), Masahiro Hori (JAXA), Takashi Yamanouchi (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Naohiko Hirasawa (NIPR,SOKENDAI), Hironori Yabuki (NIPR, JAMSTEC)