Sinéad Louise Farrell, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Kyle Duncan, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, Christopher Jackson, NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Reserch, SOCD, College Park, MD, United States, Laurence N Connor, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, Jacqueline Richter-Menge, US Arctic Research Commission & University of Alaska Fairbanks, Hanover, NH, United States, Stefan Hendricks, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany, Robert Ricker, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany and The ICESat-2 Science Team