09.00-09.15

Welcome - Olivier Arino (ESA)

09.15-09.30

Objectives of the meeting - Hibbard (AIMES)

09.30-10.00

Overview from recent NEESPI workshop - Hibbard

10.00-10.30

Overview of Permafrost And Carbon Emissions (PEACE) - Plummer

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break

11.00-12.30

Terrestrial Processes

•	The role of disturbance in northern high latitudes cycle; key issues and uncertainties - Flannigan
•	Integrating surface station networks and satellite observations for assessment of the NHL terrestrial carbon budget – Oechel
•	Title TBD – Shvidenko

12.30-13.40

Ocean/Atmosphere Dynamics

•	Understanding NHL ocean and sea ice dynamics: implications for land-ocean-atmosphere coupling – Ridley
•	Progress in and Requirements for improved simulation of the Northern High Latitude Ocean Circulation and Sea Ice Variability – Maslowski

13.40-14.40

Lunch Break

14.40-15.30

Remote Observations

•	Observational Evidence for a changing NHL: integrating passive and active sensors – Schmullius
•	Integrating imaging spectroscopy with biophysical and biogeochemical processes: implications from local to global scales - Schaepman-Strub

15.30-16.00

Coffee Break

16.00-17.30

Modelling and Data Assimilation

•	Modeling permafrost and processes in NHL in the NCAR Earth system model – Hibbard
•	The role of data assimilation for improving global model representation of the NHL – Lahoz
•	Assimilating EO data into ecosystem models of the high latitudes across scales - Disney

17.30-18.30

Discussion: Issues raised during plenary for breakout groups

09.00-12.00

Break-out Sessions
Key issues of the current and likely change in distribution and variability of permafrost, peatland, fire, biophysical variables, sea ice and sea level will be addressed as well as the impact on and of anthropogenic processes, representation of these elements within regional and global models and the role of and problems associated with in situ and Earth observation in providing data constraints for such models.

12.00-13.40

Reports back to Plenary

13.40-14.40

Lunch Break

14.40-17.30

Break-out sessions

09.00-10.30

Reports of Break-outs to Plenary

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break

11.00-12.00

Reports of Break-outs to Plenary

12.00

Future Directions - Discussion