Here are the session names for The 31th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting 2014:

Hydrogeology/environmental geology

• Open session: Hydrogeology/environmental geology
• Different types of springs in the Nordic countries and their use during history, Conveners: Torgny von Wachenfeldt, Per Wedel, Gert Knutsson
• Conflicts between groundwater supply and aggregate extraction or underground constructions, Conveners: Bo Olofsson, Gert Knutsson
• Hydrogeological aspects on storing nuclear waste in different type of rocks, Convener: Gert Knutsson
• Implementation of the Water framework directive in the North, from the scientific and practitioners perspective, Convener: Jenny McCarthy
• Geohazards in the Nordic and Arctic. Conveners: Þorsteinn Sæmundsson and Reginald Hermanns.

Engineering Geology

• Open session: Engineering geology
• Data collection and Rock Mass Characterization.
• Tunneling and underground space technology.
• Discussion Session - Improving communication between geologists and engineers.
• Engineering and environmental geophysics.
• Geological construction materials.

Economic and Petroleum Geology

• Open session: economic geology
• Open session: Petroleum geology
• Fennoscandian Metallogeny
• Mineral deposits and exploration in Greenland
• Ore-forming processes
• Natural stone in the present and past. Convener: Kari Aslaksen Aasly

Lundadagarna i Historisk geologi och paleontologi

• Open session: Sedimentology/ Stratigraphy 
• Open session: Paleontology
• Weathering horizons - their formation, later reworking and final deposition, Conveners: Henning Dypvik and Lars Riber

Petrology

• Open session: Petrology (Igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary)
• Modeling of P-T-fluid conditions in metamorphic studies, Conveners: Alasdair Skelton and Charlotte Möller
• 100 years of modern metamorphic petrology – celebrating the centennial of Eskola’s Orijärvi Bulletin
• Chronology and Rates of Metamorphism and Deformation. Conveners: Bernard Bingen, Matthijs Smit.
• The geology of North Atlantic and high-arctic large igneous provinces. Conveners: Christian Tegner, Romain Meyer, Sverre Planke

Geochemistry/Mineralogy/Geochronology

• Open session: Geochemistry, mineralogy, geochronology
• Progress of laser ablation ICP-MS in Earth Sciences. Conveners: Thomas Zack and Ellen Kooijman.
• The zircon messenger – nature and experiment

Structural geology/tectonics

• Open session: Structural geology and tectonics
• Trans-Baltic Precambrian Correlations: Regional and Global Tectonic Reconstructions, Conveners: Svetlana Bogdanova, Grazina Skridlaite and Alvar Soesoo. 
• Orogens and orogen dynamics. Convener:Arild Andresen
• Evolution of the continental crust – making to breaking. Conveners: Anders Scherstén, Ulf Söderlund & Andreas Petersson.
• (Scientific) drilling in the Nordic countries: exploring the subsurface. Conveners: Henning Lorenz and Ian Snowball

Geomorphology and glacial Geology

• Open session: Geomorphology and glacial Geology
• Scandinavian bedrock landscapes: tectonic and glacial implications, Conveners: Karna Lidmar Bergström and Mats Olvmo
• Using LiDAR in geomorphology, Conveners: Clas Hättestrand and Mark Johnson
• Dynamics of modern glaciers – glaciological and glacial geological processes, Conveners: Anders Schomacker, Ívar Örn Benediktsson and Jeremy D. Everest.
• Glacial History of Scandinavia, Convener: Martin Jakobsson and Atle Nes

Quaternary Geology

• Open session: Quaternary geology
• Land-sea interactions in a long time perspective, Conveners: Helena. Filipsson, Anne Birgitte Nielsen & Anneli Poska.
• Chronology and development of landforms and deposits formed by chemical weathering , Convener: Stein-Erik Lauritzen
• Recent developments in Quaternary dating methods, Conveners: Frank Preusser & Stefan Wastegård

Geobiology and astrobiology

• Geobiology. Conveners: Sara Holmström and Nils Holm.
• Astrobiology. Conveners: Vivi Vajda and Nils Holm

Geophysics and volcanoes

• Open session: geophysics
• Open session: volcanoes
• Impact structures, Conveners: Carl Alwmark, Sanna Holm and Jens Ormö 
• Volcanic plumbing systems
• Tephra studies – Tephrochronology. Conveners: Esther Ruth Guðmundsdóttir, Bergrún Arna Óladóttir.

Outreach and education

• Reaching out with geology – WOW to the many 
• Geology in school, Convener: Elisabeth Einarsson
• Geoheritage – conservation and tourism, Convener: Linda Wickström

History of Geology and Geoscience

• General contributions to the History of Geology and Geoscience
• What do we learn from studying the history of geology? 
• Nordic profiles in the history of geosciences
• The 19th century history of geology in the Nordic countries
• "Sea floor spreading": The beginning of the plate tectonics revolution – 50 years later