Confirmed Participation

28    Climate of the Arctic and its role for Europe/Arctic System  Reanalysis

         Héðinn Valdimarsson, Marine Research Institute

30    The dynamic response of Arctic glaciers to global warming  (GLACIODYN)

         Helgi Björnsson, Science Institute, University of Iceland

36    ARCTIC OCEAN WARMING IN THE PAST

         Jón Eiríksson, University of Iceland

37    The dynamic response of Arctic glaciers to global warming

         Helgi Björnsson, University of Iceland

39    Arctic Palaeoclimate and its EXtremes

         Ólafur Ingólfsson, University of Iceland

50    Permafrost Observatory Project: A Contribution to the Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP-125)

         Ólafur Ingólfsson, University of Iceland

58    Change and variability of Arctic Systems Nordaustlandet, Svalbard

         Ólafur Ingólfsson, University of Iceland

59    Terrestrial ecosystems in ARctic and ANTarctic: Effects of UV Light, Liquefying ice, and Ascending temperatures   

         Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir

62    IACSI: International Association of Circumpolar Sociocultural Issues

         Helgi Gunnlaugsson, University of Iceland

72    Network for ARCtic Climate and Biological DIVersity Studies

Hilmar Malmquist, Natural History Museum of Kopavogur and Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir

76    Atmospheric Monitoring Network for Antropogenic Pollution in Polar Regions

         Kristín Ólafsdóttir, University of Iceland

99    Ozone layer and UV radiation in a changing climate evaluated during IPY

         Hreinn Hjartarson, Icelandic Meteorological Office

118  The Greenland Ice Sheet – Stability, History and Evolution

         Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson, National Energy Authority

120  Northern High Latitude Climate variability during the past 2000 years: implications for human settlement

         Orri Vésteinsson and Áslaug Geirsdóttir, University of Iceland

121  Improved numerical weather forecasting and climate simulations by exploitation of in-situ, airborne remote-sensing and satellite data, advanced modelling systems and basic research into polar processes and into polar-global interactions.

         Haraldur Ólafsson, Icelandic Meteorological Office

122  ECOSYSTEM WEST GREENLAND

         Hjálmar Vilhjálmsson, Marine Research Institute

130  Bipolar Climate Machinery - A study of the interplay of northern and southern polar processes in driving and amplifying global climate as recorded in paleoclimate archives and their significance for the generation of realistic estimates of future climate and sea level development.

         Þorsteinn Sæmundsson, Natural Research Centre of North-western Iceland

133  Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program

         María Victoría Gunnarsdóttir, CAFF and Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir

140  Hydrological Impact of Arctic Aerosols

         Árni Snorrason, National Energy Authority

155  Ecosystem Studies of Subarctic and Arctic Regions

         Ólafur Ástþórsson, Marine Research Institute

157  Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions

         Níels Einarsson, Stefansson Arctic Institute

160  Arctic Change: An Interdisciplinary Dialog Between the Academy, Northern Peoples, and Policy Makers

         Níels Einarsson, Stefansson Arctic Institute

169  Network for present and future circumpolar freshwater lake research and data management

         Hilmar Malmquist, Natural History Museum of Kopavogur

188  International Tundra Experiment (ITEX): impacts of long-term experimental warming and climate variability on tundra ecosystems

Borgþór Magnússon, Icelandic Institute of Natural History and Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir

189  The University of the Arctic: Providing Higher Education and Outreach Programs for the International Polar Year

Stefansson Arctic Institute, University of Akureyri and Iceland University of Education

210  Global Change - Social Challenges Processes of socio-economic changes in the Circumpolar North, with focus on gender and inter and intra-generational relations.

         Anna Karlsdóttir, University of Iceland

214  Retrospective and Prospective Vegetation Change in the Polar Regions: Back to the Future

Borgþór Magnússon, Icelandic Institute of Natural History and Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir

227  The Political Economy of Northern Development

Ívar Jónsson, Bifröst University and Joan Nymand Larsen, Stefansson Arctic Institute and University of Akureyri

247  Bering Sea Sub-Network of Community-Based Environmental Monitoring, Observation and Information Stations

         María Victoría Gunnarsdóttir, CAFF

262  Response of Arctic and Subarctic soils in a changing Earth: dynamic and frontier studies

         Ólafur Arnalds, Agricultural University of Iceland

287  South Greenland Environment Change – Ice, Land and Ocean

         Árný Erla Sveinbjörnsdóttir, University of Iceland

303  Integrated Arctic Social Observation System : for circumpolar socio-environment assesment implementation (CASEAS # 899)

         María Victoría Gunnarsdóttir, CAFF

305  Consortium for coordination of Observation and Monitoring of the Arctic for Assessment and Research

         Soffía Guðmundsdóttir, PAME

312  Barents Women/Gender Watch - a network for gender perspectives on socio-economic relations in the North

         Anna Karlsdóttir, University of Iceland

318  TUNU-Programme: MARINE FISHES OF NE GREENLAND – diversity and adaptation

         Snæbjörn Pálsson, University of Iceland

356  A circumpolar study of new contaminants in women of reproductive age; an assessment in human blood, dietary sources and possible associations to pregnancy outcome.

         Kristín Ólafsdóttir, University of Iceland

379  IPY Operational Oceanography for the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas

         Héðinn Valdimarsson, Marine Research Institute

383  Circum-Arctic Terrestrial Biodiversity Initiative

         Þóra Ellen Þórhallsdóttir, University of Iceland and Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir

388  ARCTIC PORTAL DEVELOPED BY ARCTIC COUNCIL AND AFFILIATES

Ragnar Baldursson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Halldór Jóhannsson, Teikn á lofti ehf.; Björk Sigurgeirsdóttir, RHA-University of Akureyri; Jón Haukur Ingimundarson, Stefansson Arctic Institute; Ævar Petersen, Icelandic Institute of Natural History; Árni Snorrason, National Energy Authority

402  International School Education on Polar issues

         Jóhann Guðjónsson, GLOBE Iceland Arctic

433  Pressures and Impacts on the Health and Well-being of Indigenous People of the Arctic: Invitational International Symposium and Symposium Publication

         Kristín Ólafsdóttir, University of Iceland

448  People and wilderness resources in arctic. Is local subsistence harvest and exclusive wilderness tourism a road to sustainable well-being or a source of conflict

         Ólafur Nielsen, Icelandic Institute of Natural History

Arctic Social Indicators

Joan Nymand Larsen, Stefansson Arctic Institute and University of Akureyri