The CLIVAR/CliC Northern Oceans Region Panel (NORP), the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP), and the CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel (ARP) and Ocean Model Development Panel (OMDP) invite you to attend a workshop on:

Polar Heat: Transports, Mechanisms and Global Linkages

Location: Central Glasgow - Scotland (UK), Venue to be confirmed

Date: Saturday 28 Feb - Sunday 1 Mar, 2026

Registration deadline: November 30, 2025

-  November 14 deadline for ECRs to apply for support for their stay. - Requests for support are now CLOSED. 

-  November 30 deadline for other participants who are not applying for support.

Registration fee:

In person £100

Online £40

Early Career Researchers (within 10 years of completing their PhD) - Registration fee is waived (£0)

Audience: PhD students, early career researchers, postdocs, senior scientists

The objective of the two-day workshop focuses on synthesizing and improving our understanding of polar ocean heat, its dynamics, and the wide-reaching implications. It will consist of keynote overview talks, breakout sessions, and community discussion, and unite the Arctic, Southern Ocean and global research communities. 

Keynotes will  concentrate on three themes:  

• Polar heat

• Heat transports and large-scale circulation

• Local & regional processes in a warming global climate

Keynote speakers:

Dr. Anna Wåhlin - University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Dr. David Ferreira - University of Reading, UK

Dr. Igor Polyakov - University of Alaska Fairbanks, US

Dr. Ed Doddridge - University of Tasmania, Australia

Dr. Léon Chafik - Stockholm University, Sweden

Dr. Adele Morrison - Australian National University, Australia

They will cover large-scale variability and local-scale processes in both polar regions, including heat budgets, polar amplification of global warming, and feedbacks between the atmosphere, liquid ocean and the cryosphere in the form of both ice shelves and sea ice.

The remainder of the workshop will be organized in breakout groups and a few plenaries to discuss the themes in detail and plan for 1-2 review papers as well as a CLIVAR report. The workshop will be a separate event immediately after the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting.

Attendance will be free for early-career researchers and a small registration fee of 100 GBP will be requested from other participants. There is limited funding available for early-career* participants to support their two-day stay during the workshop; please apply through the registration form by 14 November (now closed). 

Scientific organizing committee 

Atlantic Region Panel 

Ben Moat - National Centre of Oceanography 

Feili Li - Xiamen University 

CLIVAR/CliC Northern Oceans Region panel 

Amy Solomon -  CIRES/NOAA 

Benjamin Rabe - Alfred Wegener Institute

Camille Lique - IFREMER 

Hannah Zanowski - University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Lars H. Smedsrud - University of Bergen 

Leo Middleton - University of Gothenburg 

Milena Veneziani - Los Alamos National Laboratory 

Petteri Uotila - University of Helsinki 

Stephanie Waterman - University of British Columbia 

Yueng Djern Lenn - Bangor University 

Xiangdong Zhang - North Carolina State University 

Ocean Model Development Panel 

Doroteaciro Iovino - Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

Manita Chouksey - Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde

Paul Spence - University of Tasmania

Torge Martin - GEOMAR, Kiel

CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel

Alexander Haumann - Alfred Wegener Institute / LMU Munich  

Alvaro Scardilli - Servicio de Hidrografía Naval 

Carolina Dufour - IFREMER 

Elin Darelius - University of Bergen 

Lu Zhou - Utrecht university 

Yoshihiro Nakayama - Dartmouth College 

International CLIVAR Project Office staff:

Joana Gonzalez - Ocean University of China - joana.gonzalez@clivar.org

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