Polish-Norwegian Research Fund. MINUTES Kick Off Meeting - AWAKE PNRF-234-A I-1/07

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1 MINUTES Kick Off Meeting - AWAKE PNRF-23-A I-1/07 Date: January 11-12, Place: Institute of Oceanology PAS, Poland, Sopot, Powstancow Warszawy 55 Participants: As per the attached attendance list Monday, January 11,, Opening, Welcome and Practical Information (IOPAS) Jan Piechura (IOPAS, AWAKE project coordinator) welcomed the participants. A short introduction about the project overall objectives and the meeting agenda was given. Round table presentation All participants introduced themselves. WP 1 Management (IOPAS) Jan Piechura (IOPAS) introduced the management structure for AWAKE project. Participants were informed that the duties defined for the Project Secretary will be divided between two persons. They are not clearly defined yet, but their contact details will be provided as soon as possible. Project financial officer will be Ms. Katarzyna Machlarz (machlarz@iopan.gda.pl) and Ms. Malgorzata Cisek (gosiak@iopan.gda.pl) will be responsible for scientific reporting. Prepayment (10%) will be divided accordingly to the individual partner total budget and transferred to them as soon as it is received from the Fund Operator (OPI). Participants were asked to submit their ideas for project logo. Scientific Steering Committee is obliged to meet every six months. Jan Piechura (IOPAS) proposed to organize the meeting during the IPY Oslo Science Conference in June. Participants supported the proposal. Arild Sundfjord (NPI) asked for the English version of AWAKE Financial Agreement. It was clarified that document is not available in any other language, but Polish. IOPAS can provide additional explanation on this issue if it required by the NPI Financial Department. Supported by a grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 1/10

2 WP 2 Deep Sea Circulation (IOPAS) Waldemar Walczowski (IOPAS) gave the brief presentation on the general structure of this WP and more detailed with regard to Task 2.1. The main objective of this task is to collect new data on water circulation and the Atlantic Water volume, heat and salt transport by the West Spitsbergen Current. The presentation will be made available to the project participants on the project web page that will soon be launched. Jan Piechura (IOPAS) clarified the schedule of r/v Oceania cruise for this summer field campaign. The ship departs from Gdansk (Poland) on June, 8 th, arrives in Tromsø (Norway) on June 18 th and starts the month-long deep ocean measurements. The deep sea part finishes on July 20 th in Longyearbyen. Then the fjord part of the measurements begins. The measurements will include CTD, ADCP and high resolution transects on deep ocean, shelf break and the shelf itself. Waldemar Walczowski (IOPAS) informed that two persons will be left in Horsund to maintain the mooring deployed in the fjord during the cruise. Answering the question of Rajmund Przybylak (UMK) it was clarified that there is no possibility to use r/v OCEANIA to support UMK in their research within AWAKE project. Stanisław Massel (IOPAS) suggested that it might be possible next year after the ship is modernized. Rajmund Przybylak (UMK) noted that unfortunately time of UMK observations (end of July end of August) differs much from IOPAS one and therefore not many datasets can be directly compared. Hanne Sagen (NERSC) informed about the changes in Task 2.2. Due to the budget cut and long interval between submitting the proposal and funding decision, Stein Sandven (NERSC, not attending the meeting) has previously delivered the revised work plan. The originally planned activities of Alexander Korablev (NERSC) are withdrawn from the project. The work is undertaken by NERSC under the ARCWARM project. The results of ARCWARM will be available for AWAKE, and be used in the Synthesis work in Task 7. The revised Task 2.2 will focus on new data collection from the Fram Strait, and in particular the West Spitsbergen Current, using moorings (tomography) and CTD sections. NERSC activities will mainly focus on using acoustic systems, CTD surveys, modelling and data assimilation in the Fram Strait to estimate temperature and currents in the strait. Field work was carried out by RV Håkon Mosby and KV Svalbard in 2008 and 2009, and this will continue in and All the oceanographical data from these cruises will be available for AWAKE.. Waldemar Walczowski (IOPAS) proposed to establish one data format for internal use and communication routine within the project. Arild Sundfjord (NPI) underlined that such a solution is used within ALKEKONGE project. It was accepted that it should also be adopted in AWAKE project. The participants directly involved in data exchange (IOPAS, NERSC, NPI) should decide about the format as soon as possible. During the summary session on Tuesday, January 12 th,, Waldemar Walczowski (IOPAS) clarified that IOPAS measurements in summer will include CTD, ADCP and Supported by a grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2/10

3 meteorological measurements as well as measurements of oxygen, solar radiation and high resolution transects. Two ARGO floats will also be deployed during summer r/v Oceania cruise. Hanne Sagen (NERSC) presented two NERSC summer cruises planned for the AWAKE project: Fram Strait experiment - r/v Mosby (July 21 st to August 7 th ) moorings deploy, tomography, passive acoustics and CTD measurement, - mooring deployment, tomography, passive acoustics and CTD data using KV Svalbard in the Marginal Ice Zone in the Fram Strait Øyvind Nordli (Met.no) asked for the possibilities to use r/v Oceania to set up automatic weather stations (AWS) on Sørkapp. Jan Piechura (IOPAS) promised to consider the issue when more information on the station itself and setting procedure is available. WP 3 Climate Change in the Atlantic Arctic During the last 200 Years and its Causes (UMK) Rajmund Przybylak (UMK) gave the presentation about the general structure of WP 3 and described the methodology to be used as well the suggested locations of Norwegian and Polish meteorological stations on Svalbard - Task 3.1. Øyvind Nordli (Met.no) provided information on Task 3.2 on the planned campaign measurements by automatic weather stations (AWS) at four historical sites on Svalbard. Historical data are available from Norwegian hunting expeditions and covers the period before Met.no main tasks for are: quality control and homogenisation of the old meteorological measurements and designing, controlling and establishing of the new meteorological measurements. Both presentation will be made available to the project participants on the project web page that will soon be launched. Task 3.3 Century analysis of air temperature, led by O. M. Johannessen at NERSC, is ongoing work to build a database of circumpolar data. This work is funded by other projects and results will be available for AWAKE. The first results have been published by Kuzmina et al.(2008): High northern latitude surface air temperature: comparison of existing data and creation of a new gridded data set Tellus, Vol. 60A, pp , 2008 It was also clarified that Met.no will establish four AWS with direct data transmission. They should be operating in mid July. Met.no meteorological data base is also available for the project partners. Rajmund Przybylak (UMK) showed the preliminary results of previous UMK research that will be used within AWAKE project. He also clarified that there are many meteorological data sets gathered through literature studies, but since many of the papers are in Norwegian only, support from Norwegian partners is strongly required. Øyvind Nordli (Met.no) volunteered to help. Data search for Greenland area will be done in Copenhagen (Denmark). There are some difficulties to obtain Russian data. Supported by a grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 3/10

4 WP Shelves & Fjords (IOPAS) Waldemar Walczowski (IOPAS) instead of Frank Nilsen (UNIS, not attending the meeting) gave the presentation of Task.1 objectives. The main objective of this task is to collect oceanographic data in fjords and shelves and study exchanges with the deep sea. The schedule for field campaign were presented. Spring and summer campaign is planned for the year. Spring-autumn campaign will take place in the year There is a possibility to have winter campaign this year, but neither the final decision has been made nor any further details are available. It was also decided that mooring measurements will be made in cooperation with ALKEKONGE project, which representatives were present at the meeting: Joanna Szczucka ALKEKONGE project coordinator from IOPAS and Joanna Piwowarczyk Project Secretary. This solution will allow to use the equipment more efficiently and collect more data needed for both projects. Arild Sundfjord (NPI) and Waldemar Walczowski (IOPAS) will provide the details about new field sites where moorings are to be deployed. Arild Sundfjord (NPI) gave the short presentation on numerical modeling. NPI will set up a fine scale model for the Hornsund fjord and the adjacent shelf area. The model to be used is ROMS (Regional Ocean Modelling System). We have already collected the necessary bathymetry data from the Norwegian Hydrographic Service. Within the first six months of we will produce an operational grid of horizontal resolution between 100 and 160 m. By the end of the year we will make initial simulations with this grid, and analyze these first results. The first simulations will use idealized hydrography and boundary conditions, including tidal components from the AOTIM-5 model. Both presentation will be made available to the project participants on the project web page that will soon be launched. UNIS input to the project was described by Jan Piechura (IOPAS) basing on the mail received on January 7 th,. The main tasks to be completed by UNIS in are: CTD sections in Isfjorden and the adjacent shelf area in April, CTD sections in Hornsund, Isfjorden and Kongsfjorden and the adjacent shelf areas in, deployment a mooring ( ) close to Kapp Linne on the southern side of the Isfjorden mouth area in order to monitor available AW water in the shelf, to deployment a mooring ( ) on the northern side of the Isfjorden through, close to Prince Karl's Forlandet, in order to monitor the through circulation and possible water masses from Isfjorden to the shelf, modeling: a quasi-geostrophic dynamics study in the Isfjorden Through will be done to capture the barotropic flow pattern on the West Spitsbergen Shelf; a combination of analytical and numerical solutions Task.2 Freshwater on the Greenland Shelf, led by NERSC, is removed from the project because the field work was completed in 2009, and new field investigations are not planned for The results of the previous field work will be available for AWAKE. The field work by RV Håkon Mosby will take place in the Fram Strait/West Spitsbergen Current in , as described in Task 2.2. NERSC will focus on satellite remote sensing work for the shelves and fjords (described in Task 5). Supported by a grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism /10

5 WP 5 Sea ice processes (NERSC) Hanne Sagen (NERSC) gave a short presentation on remote sensing and satellite monitoring of polar region. Data sets provided by NERSC with include SAR, IR and optics data. Activities performed within AWAKE project will be done with collaboration with other ongoing project at NERSC MyOcean and Arctic Marine Forecasting Centre in particular. NERSC will study two aspects of sea ice in the regions, the ice drift in the Fram Strait and freezing-melting and dynamics of sea ice in Storfjorden. The ice drift and flux in the Fram Strait has been monitored by satellite SAR and passive microwave data for about a decade, showing seasonal and interannual variability in ice area flux. In Storfjorden, SAR data in combination with IR and optical images are used to study ice types, polynya dynamics in Storfjorden during the ice season. In this work will be done in cooperation with field studies and modeling work by UNIS and IOPAS, as described in Task. Sea ice processes: the Isfjorden polynya model (Nilsen et al., 2008) will be used to continue the time series of ice production and salt release in Isfjorden. CTD profiles from Billefjorden at the head of the Isfjorden system will be used to verify the interannual variation in ice production. The transformation of local water masses during winter determines the geostrophic controlled exchange between the fjord and the shelf. WP 6 Ice sheets and glaciers (IOPAS) No input was received from Jacek Jania (US, not attending the meeting), leader of WP 6. Hanne Sagen (NERSC) informed that due to the budget cuts, it is suggested to focus on Svalbard area only. All the participants supported the idea, but that need to be consulted with the Fund Operator (OPI). IOPAS will inform the partners about the results of this inquiry. The work in Task 6.1: Changes in the Greenland ice cover, led by NERSC, will continue with funding from other projects, and results will be available for AWAKE. In order to better integrate activities in Task 6, NERSC proposed to use funding from AWAKE to carry out satellite remote sensing analysis of Svalbard glaciers in cooperation with University of Silesia in Task 6.2. Task 6.2: Jacek Jania (US, not attending the meeting) provided the following: New, up-to-dated inventory of Svalbard tidewater glaciers has been developed basing upon ASTER satellite images and aerial photos by team from University of Silesia in late 2009 (within frame of the IPY GLACIODYN project). It is good background for preparation of complete inventory covering also land based glaciers for Spitsbergen. J. Jania, M. Blaszczyk & L. Kolondra will prepare the first part of such inventory for the Hornsund glaciological basin and S Spitsbergen. Satellite maps with glacier outlines and associated table with morphometric data of glaciers will be one of deliverable in. Total volume of land ice masses is planned to be estimated. Series of satellite ortophoto maps will be prepared as the base maps for compilation of all observational data and modeling (L. Kolondra, M. Blaszczyk) Supported by a grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 5/10

6 Already collected radio-echo soundings of couple of glaciers in different part of Spitsbergen will be examined to obtain picture of glacier ice hydrothermal structure. Stage 1 for the southern Spitsbergen area will be prepared in (M. Grabiec). Two field campaigns are planned in and similarly in 2011 to prolong instumental observations of mass balance, water balance and dynamics of target glaciers (Hansbreen tidewater glacier and Werenskioldbreen land based glacier). The following elements of water balance and iceberg calving process will be surveyed and / or continuously recorded: o Hans Glacier ice flow velocity by repeated precise GPS survey and time lapse stereoscopic pictures (continuation of monitoring, using new, more sensitive time lapse cameras fall ), also for monitoring of glacier ice-cliff changes (J. Jania, L. Kolondra, D. Ignatiuk) o Subglacier water pressure underneath of Hansbreen using recovered Polish- Canadian stations or new sensor implanted underneath of glacier by drilling o Registration of glacier mass balance for Werenskioldbreen and Hansbreen together with ice surface energy balance basing upon new installed in AWS record will be used for calculation of water balance components empirical data (D. Ignatiuk, T. Budzik). o Registration of melting intensity by SR50 sensors and record of meteorological conditions on Hansbreen by the AWS for modeling of meltwater production (T. Budzik, D. Ignatiuk, A. Piechota). Previous estimations and model by B.A. Piwowar et al. will be tested and verified in and Terrestrial laser scanner combined with satellite imagery is planned to be employed for analysis of dynamics of frontal part of tidewater glaciers in western Spitsbergen fjords. Calving intensity will be calculated () and later modeled using comprehensive data from different levels and sources (2011) J. Jania, M. Blaszczyk, M. Grabiec, L. Kolondra, A. Piechota. Model of water drainage of glaciers, including internal drainage system will be developed on basis of field observations and survey in 2011 (A. Piechota, J. Jania). Modeling of general evolution of glaciers due to climate warming will be done after collection of requested field, satellite data and partial models of key processes ( ). Indicators (IOPAS) Jan Piechura (IOPAS) presented the project logical matrix and all the indicators that have to be achieved by the end of the project implementation. They were discussed one by one and the general strategy was proposed. More detailed discussion about the project indicators will be continued at further stages of the project implementation. Following solutions were proposed so far: Joanna Szczucka (ALKEKONGE) suggested to adopted report approach used in ALKEKONGE for the overall objectives accepted by the participants, Jan Piechura (IOPAS) suggested to organize special workshops for IOPAS PhD students covering the AWAKE areas of interests accepted by the participants, Supported by a grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 6/10

7 Joanna Piwowarczyk (ALKEKONGE) and Arild Sundfjord (NPI) suggested organizing a joint workshop for young scientists in the cooperation with Arctic Frontiers Young Scientists Forum; the workshop would be co-organized by AWAKE and ALKEKONGE projects; Arild Sundfjord (NPI) will check the possibilities with Arctic Frontiers Young Scientists Forum organizers accepted by the participants. Presentation of ALKEKONGE project (IOPAS) Joanna Szczucka (ALKEKONGE) presented the ALKEKONGE project. Both projects: AWAKE and ALKEKONGE are funded by Polish-Norwegian. The presentation will be made available to the project participants on the project web page that will soon be launched. The participants were looking for some connecting points between both projects that would allow the smooth collaboration and more efficient fund use. It was noticed that ALKEKONGE Task 1 covers the area of interests of AWAKE WP 2 and. Cooperation is possible with regard to the following issues: data sharing, common deploying of the mooring system, good practices exchange on noise measurements (NERSC and IOPAS). Tuesday, January 12, WP 7 Synthesis (IOPAS) Jan Piechura (IOPAS) presented the main objectives. Hanne Sagen (NERSC) informed that Ola Johannessen is now retired and Stein Sandven (NERSC) is responsible for tasks previously assigned to Ola. WP 8 Dissemination and education activities (IOPAS) Jan Piechura (IOPAS) gave the brief introduction of the WP main objectives. IOPAS will soon open the project web page and place there all the presentations given during Kick Off Meeting. The person responsible for maintaining the web page will be Malgorzata Cisek (IOPAS). IOPAS will also prepare presentation about AWAKE for Scientific Picnic. This event aimed at general public is organized every year in May in Gdynia. Joanna Szczucka (ALKEKONGE) proposed to cooperate on this issue what was accepted by the meeting participants. Jan Piechura (IOPAS) reminded to send the AWAKE logo ideas. The best one chosen by all the participants will become official one. WP 1 Management (IOPAS) Supported by a grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 7/10

8 The final decision on Scientific Steering Committee meeting was made. It will be held on Monday, June 7 th, one day before IPY Oslo Science Conference. The meeting is to start at 2 p.m. Øyvind Nordli (Met.no) volunteered to take care of the SSC venue. Annual project meeting will be organized by IOPAS back to back with ARCTICROOS (3- November). Details will be agreed later. Summary (IOPAS) The schedule for the year was once again summarized. Additional comments can be found in the relevant WP sections. General discussion was aimed at obtaining the Sysselmann permission to operate in the marine protected areas. After the long discussion, it was agreed that each partners will apply separately for the permission. However Hanne Sagen (NERSC) will check if Norwegian partners can be granted the permission for the whole AWAKE consortium. Table of actions () WP 1 Action Appointment of AWAKE project management team (project secretary) 1 Creation of the AWAKE logo Partner responsible IOPAS IOPAS (with support from all the partners) Deadline January February 1 Organizing Scientific Steering Committee Meeting IOPAS/Met.no June 1 Web page launch IOPAS March 1 Organizing Project Annual Meeting IOPAS November 2 2 Establishing data format for internal use and communication routine R/v Oceania summer cruise including CTD, ADCP, meteorological measurements and measurements of oxygen, solar radiation and high resolution transects on deep ocean, shelf break and the shelf itself IOPAS (with support from NERSC and NPI) June IOPAS August 2 Deploying two ARGO floats IOPAS August 2 R/v Håkon Mosby Fram Strait experiment mooring deployment, tomography, passive acoustics and CTD measurement. This cruise will take place from 31 July to 07 August. NERSC August KV Svalbard: Fram Strait experiment - mooring deployment, tomography, passive acoustics and CTD measurement. Cruise period is from about Historical data collection and reconstruction - colleting Norwegian, Danish and Russian meteorological datasets Meteorological observations at the west-east cross-section through Prins Karls Forland, Forlandsundet, Kaffioyra and Waldemar Glacier as well as in the St. Jonsfjorden region Launching automatic weather stations (AWS) at four historical sites in Svalbard NERSC UMK UMK October Met.no July Supported by a grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 8/10

9 3 Quality control and homogenisation of the old meteorological measurements, designing, controlling and establishing of the new meteorological measurements Met.no October Hornsund spring campaign mooring deployment IOPAS May Hornsund summer campaign mooring deployment, hydrology (CTD, termistor strings from ice and rubber boat), radiation balance (radiometers), sensible and latent heat balance (fast anemometer and hygrometer), measurements of air and water temperature, wind speed, humidity (bulk formula) IOPAS August Performance from the Hornsund Station year round measurements of radiation balance, air-sea-ice fluxes, sea-ice dynamics, ocean-glaciers interactions, evolution of glaciers, freshwater production and advection IOPAS December Sites selection for mooring deployment (cooperation with February IOPAS, NPI ALKEKONGE project) Mooring deployment in fjords NPI July Modelling bathymetry ready NPI June Initial simulations with the grid and analyzing these first December NPI results TD sections in Isfjorden and the adjacent shelf area UNIS April CTD sections in Hornsund, Isfjorden and Kongsfjorden and UNIS the adjacent shelf areas Deploying mooring close to Kapp Linne on the southern side of the Isfjorden mouth area in order to monitor available AW UNIS water in the shelf Deploying mooring on the northern side of the Isfjorden through, close to Prince Karl's Forlandet, in order to monitor the through circulation and possible water masses from Isfjorden to the shelf UNIS 6 GPS surrey of ice flow velocity US 6 Measurements of subglacier water pressure underneath of April US Hansbreen 6 Installation of AWS with SR50 sensors US April 6 Clarification the work plan changes (giving up Greenland area and focusing the research on Svalbard only) IOPAS/NERSC March 8 Project presentation for Scientific Picnic IOPAS May 8 Special workshop for IOPAS PhD students covering AWAKE October IOPAS area of interests 8 Preparation a joint workshop for young scientists with October cooperation with ALKEKONGE project and Arctic Frontiers IOPAS, NPI Young Scientists Forum (to be confirmed) Scientific Reporting (IOPAN) Malgorzata Cisek (IOPAN) presented the guidelines for scientific reporting and publicity requirements for the Polish-Norwegian. Reporting forms will be sent to partners no later than 2-3 weeks before the end of each reporting period, which is equal to calendar quarter. Supported by a grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 9/10

10 The publicity guidelines and program logos can be found on the program web page - They will also be available on the AWAKE web site or sent to partners upon request. The presentation will be made available to the project participants on the project web page that will soon be launched. Financial reporting (IOPAS) Katarzyna Machlarz presented the financial obligations and reporting forms. The details can be found in the presentation itself that will be made available to the project participants on the project web page. Partners should also comply with Partnership Agreement and documents published by the Fund Operator ( Meeting closure All participants thanked Jan Piechura and his team for the well-organized meeting. Supported by a grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 10/10