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) invite you to attend a workshop on:
 
Polar Heat: Transports, Mechanisms and Global Linkages
 
Venue: University of Glasgow, (Scotland) & Online
Date: Saturday 28 Feb - Sunday 1 Mar, 2026
 
Registration for Online participation is still open / Registration fee: Online £40  Registration link
Early Career Researchers (within 10 years of completing their PhD) - Registration fee is waived (£0)
 
Audience: PhD students, early career researchers, postdocs, senior scientists
 
The objective of the two-day workshop focuses on synthesizing and improving our understanding of polar ocean heat, its dynamics, and the wide-reaching implications. It will consist 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. Léon Chafik - Stockholm University, Sweden
Dr. Adele Morrison - Australian National University, Australia
 
They will cover large-scale variability and local-scale processes in both polar regions, including heat budgets, polar amplification of global warming, and feedbacks between the atmosphere, liquid ocean and the cryosphere in the form of both ice shelves and sea ice.
The remainder of the workshop will be organized in breakout groups and a few plenaries to discuss the themes in detail and plan for 1-2 review papers as well as a CLIVAR report. The workshop will be a separate event immediately after the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting.
Attendance will be free for early-career researchers and a small registration fee of 100 GBP will be requested from other participants. There is limited funding available for early-career* participants to support their two-day stay during the workshop; please apply through the registration form by 14 November (now closed). 
 
Scientific organizing committee 
 
Atlantic Region Panel 
Ben Moat - National Centre of Oceanography 
Feili Li - Xiamen University 
 
CLIVAR/CliC Northern Oceans Region panel 
Amy Solomon -  CIRES/NOAA 
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.