Peter Schlosser, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Alice Bradley, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, United States, Ravi Darwin Sankar, Stillwater, OK, United States, Hajo Eicken, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Larry D Hinzman, University of Alaska Fairbanks; IASC President, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Eva Kruemmel, Inuit Circumpolar Council, Ottawa, Canada, Jan René Larsen, Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks, Oslo, Norway, Maribeth S Murray, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, Roberta Pirazzini, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, Allen Pope, International Arctic Science Committee IASC Executive Secretariat, Akureyri, Iceland, Thorsteinn Gunnarsson, Icelandic Centre for Research, Reykjavík, Iceland and Peter L Pulsifer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States