Opening Session    Chair: Ola M. Johannessen 

 Lisbeth Iversen, Commissioner of social affairs, housing and local development, Bergen City Government (Welcome)

 Maurice Borgeaud, Head of Earth Observation Science, Applications and Future Technologies Department,
 European Space Agency

 Jostein Kandal Sundet, Special adviser, Norwegian Research Council

 Terje Wahl, Deputy director general, Norwegian Space Centre

 Announcement of the GC Rieber Funds Fellowship to GC Rieber Climate Institute studying air quality in Bergen city. 

 “A Sense of Adventure” 30 minutes slideshow with sound and music about the life of Fridtjof Nansen

 Scientific Session I    Chair: Ola M. Johannessen

 Key note: Nansen Center 1986-2011: A View from La Jolla.
 Prof. Walter Munk, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Sciences. Scripps Institutions for Oceanography, La Jolla.

 The World Climate Research Program.
 Dr. Ghassem Asrar, Director, World Climate Research Programme, WMO, Geneva

 Sea level change as a science problem.
 Prof. Carl Wunsch. Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston

 Scientific Session II  Chair: Stein Sandven

 The hydrological cycle and climate change – what are the consequences for the Arctic.
 Prof. Lennart Bengtsson, Director Earth Sciences, International Space Science Institute, Bern.

 Climate change mitigation: a key component of global risk management.
 Prof. Klaus Hasselmann, Director Emeritus, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg

 Nansen Group Session I    Chair: Peter Mosby Haugan

 Greenland Ice Sheet: From Fridtjof Nansen’s crossing in 1888 to present.
 Prof. Ola M. Johannessen. Nansen Center/Nansen Scientific Society, Bergen

 The Planetary Boundary Layer impact on the Earth climate and climate change.
 Dr. Igor Esau, G.C. Rieber Climate Institute/Nansen Center, Bergen

 Operational Oceanography at the Nansen Center.
 Prof. Johnny A. Johannessen and Dr. Laurent Bertino. Mohn-Sverdrup/Nansen Center, Bergen

 Acoustic Tomography in the Fram Strait.
 Prof. Stein Sandven. Nansen Center, Bergen

 Detection, tracking and study of Polar Lows from satellites.
 Dr. Leonid Bobylev. Director, Nansen International Center, St. Petersburg

 The Monsoon variability in East Asia – from interannual to interdecadal.
 Prof. Hui-Jun Wang. Director General, Institute of Atmospheric Physics/Nansen-Zhu Center.
 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

 Nansen Group Session II      Chair: Johnny A. Johannessen

  The roles of ocean and El Nino in the active – break cycle of the Asian Summer Monsoon.
 Prof. P.V. Joseph, Nansen Center, Cochin, India

 The Agulhas Current system, its dynamics and climate importance.
 Dr. Bjørn Backeberg, Nansen-Tutu Center, Cape Town

 Climate Mitigation and Adaption in Bangladesh.
 Dr. Atiq Rahman. Director, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, Dhaka

 The present and future role of the Nansen Centers in addressing global issues in the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen.
 Prof. Peter Mosby Haugan. Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen and Nansen Center, Bergen