PAST GATEWAYS - Third International Conference and Workshop

PAST Gateways (Past Spatial and Temporal Gateways) is a network with the overall goal to understand and reconstruct Arctic environmental changes, focusing on the period preceding instrumental records and from decadal to millennial timescales. It is six-­‐year program aiming to understand the nature and significance of Arctic spatial and temporal gateways, with special interest on the transitions between major Late Cenozoic climate events such as interglacial to full glacial and full glacial to deglacial states, as well as more recent Holocene fluctuations. Scientists from Europe, Russia, Canada and the USA are involved in this program and they meet every year in a multidisciplinary International Meeting to discuss new research results and improvements in the understanding of Arctic environmental change. I attended the third meeting of the Past Gateways program, its main topics were a) Growth and decay of Arctic Ice Sheets, b) Arctic sea-­‐ice and ocean changes, c) non-­‐glaciated Arctic environments including permafrost change and d) Holocene Arctic environmental changes. I presented a poster with the title ‘Mid to Late Holocene evolution of sea-­‐ice distribution and primary production on the East Greenland Shelf and the NE Fram Strait’ showing preliminary results of my PhD project. It was included in the ‘Poster Session 1’. During this poster session as well as over the whole period of the conference many scientists were interested in my poster and the results shown there.