Cryosphere



Monitoring Thermokarst Development and Terrestrial Hydrology and Ecosystem Responses Over the Pan-Arctic with Observations and Models
Primary Convener:  Jing Tao, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Anna Liljedahl
Convener:  Anna Liljedahl, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States and Anna Liljedahl
Primary Liaison:  Jing Tao, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States; University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States and Anna Liljedahl


A Blue Arctic Ocean: Future U.S. Arctic Research and Marine Infrastructure Needs
Primary Convener:  Lauren M Everett, National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Ted A Scambos, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Lawson W Brigham, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Nagruk Harcharek, UIC Science, Anchorage, AK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lauren M Everett, National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board, Washington, DC, United States


Advances in Glacier & Ice Sheet Hydrology
Primary Convener:  Kristin M Schild, University of Maine, Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, ME, United States
Conveners:  Kristin Poinar, University at Buffalo, Department of Geology, Buffalo, NY, United States, Winnie Chu, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States and Colin Meyer, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kristin M Schild, University of Maine, Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, ME, United States


Advances in Observation and Modeling of Forest Snow and Ecohydrological Processes
Primary Convener:  Jessica D Lundquist, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
Conveners:  Tobias Jonas, SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland and Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tobias Jonas, SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland


Advances in UAV remote sensing of the Cryosphere
Primary Convener:  Eric A Sproles, Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States
Conveners:  Daniel McGrath, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Clare Webster, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland and Johnny Ryan, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Eric A Sproles, Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States


Advances in Understanding Ice Sheet and Ice Shelf Surface Mass Balance: Past, Present, and Future
Primary Convener:  Brice Noel, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Conveners:  Luke D Trusel, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States; Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Nander Wever, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, United States and Michalea D King, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Luke D Trusel, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States; Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States


Altimetry of the Polar Regions: CryoSat-2, Operation IceBridge, ICESat-2, and Beyond
Primary Convener:  Helen Amanda Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Isobel R. Lawrence, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, Louise Sandberg Sorensen, National Space Institute, Copenhagen Oe, Denmark and Rachel Tilling, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Primary Liaison:  Helen Amanda Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States


Archives and observations from sub-ice environments
Primary Convener:  Chloe Gustafson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Convener:  Ryan Venturelli, Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, United States
Primary Liaison:  Matthew Siegfried, Colorado School of Mines, Geophysics, Golden, CO, United States


Arctic coastal dynamics: rates, impacts, hazards and implications for the future
Primary Convener:  Anna M. Irrgang, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Conveners:  Louise Melanie Farquharson, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Thomas Ravens, University of Alaska Anchorage, Civil Engineering, Anchorage, AK, United States and Alisa Baranskaya, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Primary Liaison:  Anna M. Irrgang, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany


Arctic Observing and Data Systems
Primary Convener:  Ravi Darwin Darwin Sankar, Longwood University, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Farmville, United States
Conveners:  Maribeth S Murray, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada and Peter Schlosser, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ravi Darwin Darwin Sankar, Stillwater, OK, United States


Arctic Precipitation: Observations, Future Projections, and Impacts
Primary Convener:  Andrew P Barrett, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Mark C Serreze, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States and Michelle McCrystall, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Andrew P Barrett, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States


Artificial intelligence for natural disaster management and relief
Primary Convener:  Thomas Chen, Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Rockaway, NJ, United States
Convener:  Thomas Y Chen, Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Rockaway, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Thomas Chen, Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Rockaway, NJ, United States


Boundary conditions and Earth-ice interactions beneath ice sheets and ice shelves
Primary Convener:  Guy Paxman, Columbia University, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Renata Constantino, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Palisades, NY, United States, Jamin Stevens Greenbaum, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La Jolla, CA, United States and Yasmina M. Martos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Guy Paxman, Columbia University, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States


Classification of Arctic Sea Ice with SENTINEL-1 through machine learning techniques.
Primary Convener:  Jullian Williams, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States; NASA Center for Advanced Measurements in Extreme Environments (CAMEE), University of Texas at San Antonio, USA, Department of Geological Sciences, San Antonio, TX, United States
Conveners:  Hongjie Xie1, Alberto M Mestas-Nunez1 and Stephen F Ackley1,2, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Geological Sciences, San Antonio, TX, United States(2)NASA Center for Advanced Measurements in Extreme Environments (CAMEE), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jullian Williams, NASA Center for Advanced Measurements in Extreme Environments (CAMEE), University of Texas at San Antonio, USA, Department of Geological Sciences, San Antonio, TX, United States


Community tools and products for cryosphere discovery and application
Primary Convener:  Twila A Moon, University of Colorado at Boulder, National Snow and Ice Data Center and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Adam Steer, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromso, Norway, Elizabeth Ultee, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, United States and Tyler C Sutterley, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States; Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Twila A Moon, University of Colorado at Boulder, National Snow and Ice Data Center and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States


Coupled-system Processes of the Central Arctic Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Ocean System: Harnessing Field Observations and Advancing Models
Primary Convener:  Matthew Shupe, CIRES/University of Colorado/NOAA PSL, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Helge Goessling, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, Kirstin Schulz, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany and Patric Simoes Pereira, University of Gothenburg, Department of Marine Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden
Primary Liaison:  Matthew Shupe, CIRES/University of Colorado/NOAA PSL, Boulder, CO, United States


Cryospheric changes and their impact on the High-Mountain Water Cycle
Primary Convener:  David Rounce, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Conveners:  Summer Rupper, University of Utah, Department of Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Nicholas Siler, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Kelly Gleason, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  David Rounce, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States


Forcing and Response of Grounded Ice at the Ice-Ocean Interface
Primary Convener:  Anna J Crawford, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Karen E Alley, University of Manitoba, Environment and Geography, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Peter E D Davis, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom and Ted A Scambos, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Anna J Crawford, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom


How stable is the Greenland Ice Sheet? Past, Present and Future
Primary Convener:  Joerg M Schaefer, Columbia University - Lamont, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Jason P Briner, University at Buffalo, Department of Geology, Buffalo, NY, United States, Sophie Nowicki, University at Buffalo, Department of Geology, Buffalo, United States, Nicolas E. Young, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Benjamin Andrew Keisling, Columbia University - Lamont, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joerg M Schaefer, Columbia University - Lamont, Palisades, NY, United States


Ice Core Records of Environmental Change
Primary Convener:  Vasilii V Petrenko, University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States
Conveners:  Peter D Neff, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Alison S Criscitiello, University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Bess G Koffman, Colby College, Department of Geology, Waterville, ME, United States
Primary Liaison:  Vasilii V Petrenko, University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States


Integrating Observations and Models to Better Understand a Changing Arctic System
Primary Convener:  Donald K Perovich, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States
Conveners:  Marika M Holland, Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Alice K DuVivier, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Jennifer E Kay, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marika M Holland, Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States


Modeling of the Cryosphere: Glaciers and Ice Sheets
Primary Convener:  Mauro A Werder, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland; Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Conveners:  Helene L Seroussi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Marianne Haseloff, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom and Stephen F Price, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mauro A Werder, Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland


Modeling of the Cryosphere: Seasonal Snow
Primary Convener:  Mark S Raleigh, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Vincent Vionnet, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Environmental Numerical Prediction Research, Dorval, QC, Canada, Marie Dumont, Météo-France -CNRS CNRM/CEN, Saint Martin d'Hères, France and Tobias Jonas, SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Mark S Raleigh, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States


Observations and Modeling of Polar Firn
Primary Convener:  Kaitlin M Keegan, University of Nevada, Reno, Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, United States
Conveners:  Colin Meyer, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States and Elizabeth M Morris, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Kaitlin M Keegan, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States


Observations and Models of Glacier Change
Primary Convener:  Brian Menounos, University of Northern British Columbia, Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Institute and Geography Program, Prince George, BC, Canada
Conveners:  Caitlyn Florentine, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, Alex S Gardner, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Bruce H Raup, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Caitlyn Florentine, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States


Observing and modeling of earth surface cryogenic processes and the state of permafrost
Primary Convener:  Dmitry Nicolsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Convener:  Elchin E. Jafarov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dmitry Nicolsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States


Processes involved in the rapid retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Primary Convener:  Tun Jan Young, University of Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Helen Ockenden, University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Jowan Menhinick Barnes, Northumbria University, Geography and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom and David G Vaughan, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Tun Jan Young, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom


Quantifying Spatial and Temporal Variability of Snow and Snow Processes
Primary Convener:  Jeffrey S Deems, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Ernesto Trujillo, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, Steven R Fassnacht, Colorado State University, Watershed Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Jesus Revuelto, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Zaragoza, Spain
Primary Liaison:  Jeffrey S Deems, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States


Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Sea Ice
Primary Convener:  Walt Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Ludovic Brucker, NASA GSFC / GESTAR USRA, Cryospheric Sciences Lab., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Randall K Scharien, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Walt Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States


Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Seasonal Snow
Primary Convener:  McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Conveners:  Carrie Vuyovich, University of New Hampshire, Hanover, NH, United States, Kat J Bormann, Airborne Snow Observatories Inc, Pasadena, CA, United States and Andrew R Hedrick, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
Primary Liaison:  McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States


Rheology and microstructure of the cryosphere: from the scale of dislocations to ice sheets
Primary Convener:  Andrew J Cross, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Conveners:  Chao Qi, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, David L Goldsby, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States and David John Prior, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Primary Liaison:  Andrew J Cross, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States


The “Great Tartary” project is a prototype of the continuation of our civilization without conflicts between people and Real Nature.
Primary Convener:  Vladimir A Kontar, Federal GEOS Funding, Phoenix, AZ, United States
Convener:  Lyubov M Shlafman, Federal GEOS Funding, Phoenix, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Evgeny Egorov, Federal GEOS Funding, Phoenix, AZ, United States


Understanding Ice-Shelf Processes
Primary Convener:  Martin Wearing, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Sammie Claire Buzzard, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Alison F Banwell, University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Susheel Adusumilli, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Martin Wearing, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom


Using NASA SnowEx Data for Algorithm Development and Modeling to Estimate Seasonal Snow and Snow Water Equivalent
Primary Convener:  Megan Mason, ATA Aerospace, Boise, ID, United States
Conveners:  Rhae Sung Kim1, Carrie Vuyovich1 and Hans-Peter Marshall2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
Primary Liaison:  Megan Mason, ATA Aerospace, Boise, ID, United States


Causes and Consequences of Polar Amplification
Primary Convener:  Lantao Sun, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, US
Conveners:  James Screen, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, Yutian Wu, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Qinghua Ding, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lantao Sun, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States


Climate change and extreme winter weather: insights from the US cold wave of February 2021.
Primary Convener:  Judah Levi Cohen, Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States
Conveners:  Jennifer Francis, Senior Scientist, Falmoth, MA, United States; Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmoth, United States, James Screen, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom and Jason Furtado, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer Francis, Senior Scientist, Falmoth, MA, United States; Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmoth, United States


Extratropical and High-latitude Storm Tracks, Circulation Dynamics, and Extreme Events in the Context of Rapidly Changing Arctic and Antarctic Climate
Primary Convener:  Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Conveners:  Kent Moore, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and James E Overland, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xiangdong Zhang, Univ Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States