Event Timing: 18th to 21st October 2022
Event Address: The University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen (+ digital)
Contact details: Kim Senger, +47 95 29 15 92,
kims@unis.no and
svalclime@gmail.com Project website:
https://www.svalbox.no/svalclime-proposal-deep-time-arctic-climate-archives-high-resolution-coring-of-svalbards-sedimentary-record/ Preliminary agenda:
Day 1 (everybody) – Tuesday 18 October 2022
Afternoon: Arrival in Longyearbyen in the afternoon.
Evening: Icebreaker and poster session at UNIS. Virtual field trip to Festningen.
Workshop introduction in Lassegrotta auditorium.
Day 2 (everybody) – Wednesday 19 October 2022
Morning: Status review of paleoclimate research in Svalbard and the Arctic.
Extended lunch: Excursion to Endalen core storage and CO2 lab site in Adventdalen.
Afternoon: Existing data sets – what cores exist already, and where are the knowledge gaps?
Afternoon: Proxies for deep-time paleoclimate from Snowball Earth to PETM.
Day 3 (everybody) – Thursday 20 October 2022
Morning: Knowledge gaps discussion – where to drill for high-resolution cores?
Cryogenian and Ediacaran glaciations, Carboniferous-Permian, Middle Triassic, HALIP
intrusions/background trends, Aspelintoppen Formation etc.
Extended lunch break: Excursion to Carolinefjellet Formation along airport road in
Longyearbyen
Afternoon: Synthesis and proposal discussion.
Afternoon: Breakout-sessions on specific drilling proposals. Work package sessions led by 6
leaders as identified above.
Evening: Conference dinner at UNIS canteen
Day 4 (organizers and session chairs) – Friday 21 October 2022
Morning and afternoon: Workshop report, proposal drafting, task distribution to participants.