Welcome to INTERACT 2nd Annual MeetingSalekhard, Russia

24-28 September 2018

INTERACTs First Meeting in Russia!

If you get an invitation to this, who can resist?

Local Organisers

Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District

Introduction to the meeting

The meeting consists of three different components:1) General Assembly2) Mid Term Review3) 4th Station Managers’ Forum

Aims of the meetings are to:1) discuss current development and future plan within

our current project2) assess past development3) plan for the future beyond our current H2020

project

Monday 24 September

09:30 Opening of the meeting

Margareta Johansson

09:35 Welcome addresses

Deputy Governor of the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district

Director of the Department of Science & Innovations

09:50 Introduction to the meeting

Margareta Johansson

09:55 Round table introduction

10:05 Short break

WP presentations describing progress and way forward

10:10 WP 1 - Coordination and Management

Margareta Johansson, Luisella Bianco

10:30 Coffee break + Meeting with mass media

11:00 WP2 - Scientific coordination, mentoring and education

Terry Callaghan

11:20 WP3 - Station Managers Forum

Morten Rasch/Elmer Topp Jorgensen

11:40 WP4 - Data Forum

Øystein Godøy

12:10 WP5 - TA, VA, Giving Access to INTERACT

Kirsi Latola

12:40 WP6 - Rapid response to environmental emergency alerts

Alexandra Bernardova/Marie Sabacka

13:00 Lunch at the Café in the Yamal-Nenets Governmental Building

14:00 WP 7 - Improving and harmonizing biodiversity monitoring

Kári Fannar Larusson

14:30 WP8 - Developing technology for drones for scaling up from research stations

Tomas Gustafsson/Eskil Bendz

15:00 WP9 - Adapting to environmental change

Anders Oskal

15:30 Summary of the day

16:00 Coffee break

18:00 “Late” Icebreaker

19:00 Dinner at the Hotel restaurant

Tuesday 25 September

Mid-term Review

09:00INTERACT in progress

Margareta Johansson, Terry Callaghan

WP presentations describing progress and highlights

09:10 WP 1 - Coordination and Management

Margareta Johansson, Luisella Bianco

09:25 WP2 - Scientific coordination, mentoring and education

Terry Callaghan

09:40 WP3 - Station Managers Forum

Morten Rasch/Elmer Topp Jorgensen

09:55 WP4 - Data Forum

Øystein Godøy

10:10 WP5 - TA, VA, Giving Access to INTERACT

Kirsi Latola

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 WP6 - Rapid response to environmental emergency alerts

Alexandra Bernardova

11:15 WP 7 - Improving and harmonizing biodiversity monitoring

Kári Fannar Larusson

11:30 WP8 - Developing technology for drones for scaling up from research stations

Tomas Gustafsson

11:45 WP9 - Adapting to environmental change

Anders Oskal

12:00 Midterm review immediate feedback

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Midterm review immediate feedback (continued)

15:00-16:30 Drone demonstration and coffee break

18:00 Transfer to the open air ethnographic complex Gornoknyazevsk

19:00 Dinner with national cuisine /rituals

09:00 INTERACT Future

Upcoming call from EU “Infraia-01-2019”

INTERACT Foundation

Margareta Johansson / Luisella Bianco/Morten Rasch/Terry Callaghan

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 INTERACT Future (continued)

12:30 Wrap up and ways forward

Margareta Johansson / Terry Callaghan

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Excursion to The Arctic Research Station (former Labytnangi Field Station)

(across the river Ob)

19:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday 26 September

Thursday 27 September

09:00 Welcome and introduction

Morten Rasch/Elmer Topp-Jørgensen

09:15 Task 3.2 - Awareness of the scene: Identification of network representatives

within INTERACT

Terry V. Callaghan

09:30 Network presentations (by station managers already belonging to networks)

09:40 Network presentations (by station managers already belonging to networks)

09:50 Network presentations (by station managers already belonging to networks)

10:00 Breather presentation – The Arctic Research Station (formerly Labytnangi Station)

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Task 3.5 – 0-emission: Draft report for discussion and input from station managers to

idea catalogue (examples of emission reduction initiatives)

Gigi Nighat Johnson-Amin

12:00 Task 3.3 - First Class Science Support: Station Manager Course II

Ann Christin Auestad

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Task 3.3 - First Class Science Support: Station Manager Course II (continued)

Ann Christin Auestad

15:00 Task 3.6 - INTERACT GIS: INTERACT GIS status and use for INTERACT Station Catalogue

2019

Elmer Topp-Jørgensen, on behalf of Tomas Thierfelder

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Task 3.6 - INTERACT GIS: INTERACT GIS status and use for INTERACT Station Catalogue

2019 (continued)

Elmer Topp-Jørgensen, on behalf of Tomas Thierfelder

17:30 Excursion to the Shemanovsky Museum & Exhibition Center (the world-famous baby

mammoth Luba)

19:00 Dinner

09:00 Task 3.4 - Fieldwork planning handbook and practical field guide: Feedback on

draft report

Fiona Tummon

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Open Floor

11:30 End of meeting

Friday 28 September

Round table introduction

Sarah and William