Workshop on Polar Heat: Transports, Mechanisms, and Global Linkages

Submitted by Joana on Wed, 2025-08-13 05:45
Saturday, February 28, 2026 to Sunday, March 1, 2026
Event City: 
Glasgow
Scotland (UK)
icpo@clivar.org
Event Description: 

   

  

The CLIVAR/CliC Northern Oceans Region Panel (NORP), the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP),
and the CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel (ARP) and Ocean Model Development Panel (OMDP) organized a workshop on:
 
Polar Heat: Transports, Mechanisms and Global Linkages
 
Venue: University of Glasgow, (Scotland) & Online
Date: Saturday 28 Feb - Sunday 1 Mar, 2026
 
Audience: PhD students, early career researchers, postdocs, senior scientists
 
The objective of the two-day workshop focused on synthesizing and improving our understanding of polar ocean heat, its dynamics, and the wide-reaching implications. It consisted of keynote overview talks, breakout sessions, and community discussion, and unite the Arctic, Southern Ocean and global research communities. 
 
Keynotes will  concentrate on three themes:  
  • Polar heat
  • Heat transports and large-scale circulation
  • Local & regional processes in a warming global climate
 
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Anna Wåhlin - University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Dr. David Ferreira - University of Reading, UK
Dr. Igor Polyakov - University of Alaska Fairbanks, US
Dr. Ed Doddridge - University of Tasmania, Australia
Dr. Lars H. Smedsrud - University of Bergen 
Dr. Adele Morrison - Australian National University, Australia
 
Scientific organizing committee 
 
Atlantic Region Panel 
Ben Moat - National Centre of Oceanography 
Feili Li - Xiamen University 
 
CLIVAR/CliC Northern Oceans Region panel 
Benjamin Rabe - Alfred Wegener Institute
Camille Lique - IFREMER 
Hannah Zanowski - University of Wisconsin-Madison 
Lars H. Smedsrud - University of Bergen 
Leo Middleton - University of Gothenburg 
Milena Veneziani - Los Alamos National Laboratory 
Petteri Uotila - University of Helsinki 
Stephanie Waterman - University of British Columbia 
Yueng Djern Lenn - Bangor University / Local host
Xiangdong Zhang - North Carolina State University 
 
Ocean Model Development Panel 
Doroteaciro Iovino - Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
Manita Chouksey - Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde
Paul Spence - University of Tasmania
Torge Martin - GEOMAR, Kiel
 
CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel
Alexander Haumann - Alfred Wegener Institute / LMU Munich  
Alvaro Scardilli - Servicio de Hidrografía Naval 
Carolina Dufour - IFREMER 
Elin Darelius - University of Bergen 
John Krasting - NOAA - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory 
Lu Zhou - Utrecht university 
Yoshihiro Nakayama - Dartmouth College 
 
International CLIVAR Project Office
Joana Gonzalez - Ocean University of China - joana.gonzalez@clivar.org
 
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Comments

Mike Bell (Met ... (not verified)

Tue, 2025-10-07 14:04

Will there be poster sessions? Will all the talks be by invited speakers? 

Ruijian Gou (not verified)

Mon, 2025-10-20 02:11

Hi, I'd like to register for the workshop and I am just graduated this year from PhD.

Joana

Thu, 2025-10-23 09:40

Hi Ruijian, please register throught the link provided by November 30 or Nov 14 if you would like to apply for support.

Regards,

Joana

Thu, 2025-10-23 09:42

Dear Mike,

The workshop format does not include additional talks, except for the keynote speakers. Discussions is prioritized in the breakout sessions.