| Monday, 14 April 2008 | 10:00–11:00 | UN International Year of Planet Earth (in German) | Gerald Ganssen; Dick van der Wateren; Christian Mutschlechner; Thomas Hofmann |
| 14:00–15:00 | Will the world's mountains still quench our thirst in 50 years? | Wouter Buytaert; Carmen De Jong; Philip Mote; Daniel Viviroli |
| Tuesday, 15 April 2008 | 09:00–10:00 | Will Planet Earth become Planet Ocean? | Svetlana Jevrejeva; Philip Woodworth; Lesley Rickards; Simon Holgate; Mark Tamisea; Robert Nerem |
| 10:00–11:00 | Outer planets and satellites | Athena Coustenis; Hunter Waite; Ralf Jaumann |
| 11:00–12:00 | Greenhouse climates in the past: what the past can tell us about our future | Henk Brinkhuis; James Zachos; Appy Sluijs; A. Winguth |
| 14:00–15:00 | State of the Cryosphere: what's up with the ice? | Matthias Braun; Graham Cogley; Angelika Humbert; Julienne Stroeve |
| 15:00–16:00 | The International Polar Year 2007-2008 | Marco Tedesco; Robert Bindschadler; Ted Scambos; Charles Zender |
| 16:00–17:00 | Artificial Snow: Quo vadis? | Carmen de Jong; Luca Cetara; Christian Rixen; Ulrich Strasser |
| Wednesday, 16 April 2008 | 09:00–10:00 | ANDRILL – drilling into Antarctica's dynamic past | Tim Naish; Fabio Florindo; Richard Levy; David Harwood |
| 10:00–11:00 | Venus Express – the second year | Hakan Svedhem; Fred Taylor; Dmitri Titov |
| 11:00–12:00 | Cosmic Vision: great questions in the Solar System and how to answer them
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| 12:00–13:00 | CARBOOCEAN: How much man-made CO2 can the ocean absorb? | Ute Schuster; Marion Gehlen; Christoph Heinze |
| 15:00–16:00 | Tsunamis | Stefano Tinti |
| 16:00–17:00 | Wildfires, Weather and Climate | |
| Thursday, 17 April 2008 | 10:00–11:00 | Carbonate production from reefs and platforms: biotic and abiotic controls | Christian Dullo; Luis Pomar |
| 12:00–13:00 | Drilling into the seismogenic zone: latest results from NanTroSEIZE | Masataka Kinoshita; Harold Tobin |
| 13:00–14:00 | Mars Science & Exploration | A. Chicarro; A. Safaeinili |
| 14:00–15:00 | Astrobiology, Mars and robotic exploration | cancelled, but see note below * |
| 15:00–16:00 | Shaping the surface of Earth and terrestrial Planets from the Inside Out | Sierd Cloeting; Josep Gallart |
