1. WORKSHOP: LESSONS FROM THE 2007 ICE MINIMUM
Agenda
III. Lessons from 2007: Gaps and Needs for Understanding Arctic Change
8:30 a.m. Welcome, review of Wednesday discussions, and today's goal
Martin Miles, ESARC
Jean-Claude Gascard, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
9:00 a.m. Presentations and Discussion focused on:
·        What lessons can be learned from 2007 to guide future science activities?
·        What is needed in additional capacity and plans for observing the season (and beyond) to improve our understanding, and response strategies to arctic-system change? Specific needs relating back to the AON and Lagrangian workhops?
10:00 BREAK
10:30 a.m. Conclusions, recommendations, and next steps:
·        Given the unexpected changes witnessed in 2007, what are the priorities for observing, understanding, and responding to change activities?
·        How should these priorities be addressed? What are the next steps?
Discussion of workshop products (reports, synthesis papers and other products), next steps,
and writing assignments
Myself: Co-Chair of this workshop series, with Hajo Eicken as the Lead Co-Chair of the whole affair. However, I’ve got responsibility for this particular worskhop today and tomorrow morning. I il be be a Moderator of this morning and to be some degree throughout the sessions, however, Jean-Claude Gascard, with Hajo Eicken and others Discussion Leaders, Working Group Leaders and Rapporteurs

2. WORKSHOP: LESSONS FROM THE 2007 ICE MINIMUM
Conclusions, recommendations
and next steps
10:30 a.m. Conclusions, recommendations, and next steps:
Given the unexpected changes witnessed in 2007, what are the priorities for observing, understanding, and responding to change activities?
How should these priorities be addressed? What are the next steps?
Discussion of workshop products (report, synthesis papers and other products), next steps, and writing assignments
Myself: Co-Chair of this workshop series, with Hajo Eicken as the Lead Co-Chair of the whole affair.
My background early career in tow research centres in Norway, sea ice and climate, primarily from long observational time series, instrumental historical and high-resolution paleo …
My earlier work was a series of satellite passive microwave analyses in Norway, ’95, ’97 and ’99. (ice and multiyear ice decrease) not onlythe extent and area. It is nice to see that we were right … though of course had no idea that the rate of change would be a large and abrupt as it appears to be.

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1. Report
State-of-the-art
Gaps
Recommendations
Near-term
Long-term

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1. Report
Issue: Openness
Issue: Process (input and output)
Issue: Writing assignments

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2. Sea-ice Outlook
Issue: SEARCH, DAMOCLES collaboration
Issue: Roles and responsibilities
Issue: Management

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3. Synthesis papers
Issue: Quantity and quality (type and themes)
Issue: Process

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3. Synthesis papers

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Future Plans and Timeline
03/2007
Workshop conclusion
04/2007
Report preparation and circulation
Prediction (“outlook”) development
05/2007
Report delivery to NSF
Produce sea-ice outlook
Research and publication

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Future Plans and Timeline
06-09/2007
Update sea-ice outlook
08-09/2007
Arrange AGU special session
10-12/2007
Retrospective activities, e.g., Workshop
Observations, research and publication