6.07.2023 19.00 Seaplane Harbour, Estonian Maritime Museum

PROGRAMME

President of the Estonian Polar Club, climatologist Andres Tarand will give a welcome address

Romain Troublé, Director General of Tara Ocean Foundation

TARA POLAR STATION: Studying the Arctic – a sentinel for the world’s climate
The Arctic Ocean is a remote and extreme environment about which we know very little. We don’t know how the organisms living there cope with the extreme seasonality of light, temperature and sea ice, or how they survive the long polar night and the rapidly changing climate of this polar ocean. Beginning in 2025, the drifting polar scientific base Tara Polar Station will embark scientists from all over the world on a series of successive drifts.

Dr Martin Liira, Senior Geologist of Estonian Geological Survey of Estonia; analyst of University of Tartu

The role of sea-bottom sediments in climate systems and the ecological state of the marine environment, illustrated by the examples of the Baltic Sea and Svalbard.

Timo Palo, polar researcher and adventurer

Looking back at the days of life on the Arctic sea ice in 2007. Memories and outcome from Tara Arctic.

Marcel Babin, CNRS Research director, Université Laval, via Zoom

The arctic ocean and the scientific strategy thinking behind the Tara Polar Station deployments.

Discussion

Moderator Katrin Savomägi, CEO of the Estonian Polar Club

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