Wednesday April 8: Workshop Day 1

8:00 – 8:45    Welcome, logistics, and introduction

• 8:00 – 8:10    Welcome and Logistics
• 8:10 – 8:20    Meeting Introduction
• 8:20 – 8:45    CAMAS Project overviews

8:50 – 10:20    Topic III: Biophysical impacts of Arctic marine biogeochemistry

• Jiaxu Zhang (UW): Decade-long moored observations reveal how sea-ice retreat timing shapes the seasonal nitrate cycle in the Chukchi Sea. 
• Antoine Haddon (U. of Victoria): Model-based analysis of sea ice algal physiology and export processes.
• Stephanie Lim (Stanford U). Pan-Arctic increases in sea ice algal habitat, 1985-2018. 
• Courtney Payne (CU Boulder): Potential impacts of Arctic marine cloud brightening on marine ecosystems.

10:40 – 12:10     Topic II: Ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions in a warming Arctic

• Spenser Ross (U. Toronto): The Influence of Taylor Columns on Ocean Dynamics and Sea Ice in the Chukchi Sea.
• Mike Steele (UW): Ekman dynamics in the Arctic Seas.
• Clément Bertin (JPL): Tipping North: Regional changes in Arctic sea ice inform rapid future loss.
• Robin Whincup (U. of Alberta): How does the upper water column respond to cyclonic storms? Analysis of 16 years of Labrador Sea cyclones and a case study in the North Pacific.

13:00 – 14:30    Poster session I

14:45 – 16:15    Topic I: Drivers and impacts of ocean heat and freshwater transport into and out of the Arctic

• Qiang Wang (AWI): Changes in Arctic Ocean connectivity and export in a warming climate. 
• Carlyn  Schmidgall (UW): Diagnosing the pathways of freshwater across the Arctic Ocean via tracer release experiments.
• Carlo Mans (U. of Bergen): Mechanisms and variability of the Arctic overturning circulation.
• Wieslaw Maslowski (NPS): Modeling the Oceanic Exchanges Over the Barents Sea.
  

16:15 – 17:45     Breakout Sessions

​Thursday April 9: Workshop Day 2​

8:00 – 8:15    Introduction to Day 2

8:15 – 8:45     Topical Session on The Arctic Ocean in Earth System Models

• Gokhan Danabasoglu (UCAR): Sources of the Arctic Atlantic Water biases in the Community Earth System Model (invited)
  

8:45 – 10:15     Breakout sessions

10:45 – 11:30     Topical Session (30 min + 10 min discussion)

• Antje Boetius (MBARI): Sea ice loss in the Arctic: ecological impact from surface to seafloor (invited)

11:30 – 11:50     Flash talks for remote participants

• Paul Myers (U. of Alberta): Very-High Resolution Modelling of the Arctic Ocean.
• Annabel Payne (ETH Zurich): Tracing Three Decades of Anthropogenic Carbon in the Canada Basin Using Nuclear Waste Products.
• Mengnan Zhao (Janus Research): Climatology and Interannual Variations in Arctic Winter Sea Ice Leads in the ICESat-2 Era.
• Andrew Hamilton (U. Alberta): Year-round community-led ocean monitoring in the Canadian High Arctic.

13:00 – 14:30     Topical Session on Sea Ice Modeling

• Gillian Cheong (Brown U.): The cyclone influence on sea ice dynamics using a Lagrangian brittle sea ice model
• Delaney Mosier (LANL): Percolation threshold for vertical fluid flow through granular sea ice
• Joseph Rotondo (UW): Sea Ice Albedo Data Assimilation: A Novel Approach to Enhancing Arctic Sea Ice Prediction with Underutilized Observations
• Anupama Raghunathan (Brown U.): Coupled Ice-Ocean Simulations of Submesoscale Mixing from Sea Ice Melt in the Polar Oceans

14:45 – 16:15     Poster session II

16:15 – 16:35     Flash talks for remote participants

• Ruijian Gou (AWI): Abrupt Warming in the Arctic Ocean Trigger by An Increase in Extreme Events.
• Caili Liu (FIO): Oceanic Responses to ex-Typhoon Merbok (2022) in the Bering–Chukchi–Beaufort Region.
• Charlie Zender (UCI): Toward Spectrally Consistent Solar Radiation Across Components in Earth System Models.
• Kent Moore (U. Toronto): Ice Plugs and Flaw Leads and Open Water: Temporal variability of sea ice along Nansen Sound.

16:35 – 17:35    Topic: Special Session on Sediments in the Arctic System

• MacKenzie Jewell (OSU): Sediment-laden sea ice formation from numerical modeling and field observations during autumn freeze-up in Harrison Bay, Alaska.
• Julia Moriarty (UC Boulder): Sediment Dynamics on the Alaskan Beaufort Shelf.

Friday April 10: Workshop Day 3

8:00 – 8:15    Introduction to Day 3
 
8:15 – 8:45    Topical session on Arctic Marine Observations

• Morven Muilwijk (Norwegian Polar Institute; remote): Two Years of Direct Observations of Ice–Ocean Momentum Exchange and Mixed Layer Dynamics in the Eurasian Arctic (invited)

8:45 – 9:15    Topical section on Arctic Marine Process-Oriented Modeling

• Mike Wood (San Jose State U.): Investigating drivers of an exceptional sea surface salinity anomaly in the Chukchi Sea during late summer 2024 (invited)
  

9:15 – 10:15    Breakout sessions

10:30 – 12:00    Wrap-up

• 10.30 – 11.30 Working Groups Report Out
• 11.30 – 12.00 Next Steps and Conclusion

Poster Presentations

• Sawyer Brand (LANL): Drivers of Ocean Heat Transport into the Arctic in a High-Resolution Model.
• Yuanxin Zhang (Tohoku U.): Effects of Carbon Release from Seafloor Sediment on Arctic Ocean CO2 Uptake.
• Milena Veneziani (LANL): Processes driving variability of deep convection in the Nordic Seas from an ensemble of Earth system model historical simulations.
  
• Clare Gaffey (OSU): Fresh phytoplankton bloom growth in the fall and its control on ocean heating in the Pacific Arctic region
• Harry Stern (UW): Do models capture the observed regime shift in Arctic sea-ice extent and thickness?
  
• Sergey Molodtsov (UAF): Causal relationships between oceanic heat content variability and its drivers in the Nordic Seas.
• Jacob Cohen (UW): Predicting an acceleration of Arctic sea ice decline.
  
• Lauren Dulle (NPS): Secondary Sound Channels in the Fram Strait.
  
• Tahya Weiss-Gibbons (U. of Alberta): Freshwater Processes in the Central Arctic in Regional Ocean Model Configurations.
  
• Molly Wieringa (UCAR): How to be "good": exploring model fitness-for-purpose in the context of Arctic Ice Management.
  
• Katherine Smith (LANL). Title: Wave Effects on Arctic Biogeochemistry. 
  
• Zoë Bolling (U. of Alaska): Parameterizing fine-scale benthic processes for modeling application.
  
• Luke Dorrian (Scripps): Changes in Eurasian Basin Atlantic Waters in an Ultra-High Resolution Ocean/Sea-Ice Model. 
  
• Carenza Williams (Johns Hopkins): Two phase freshening of the Beaufort Gyre between 2003 and 2016. 
• Marie Zahn (JPL): Why is Ocean Salinity Important for Arctic Sea Ice? 
  
• Isabela Le Bras (WHOI): Constraining the Arctic freshwater budget from observations.
  
• Hailong Wang (PNNL): Regionally Refined Modeling of Cloud Processes and Atmosphere–Ocean–Ice Interactions in the Arctic.
• Romina Piunno (U. of Toronto): Evaluating Labrador Sea convection in the Arctic regionally refined E3SM Model. 
• Xinyue Li (Max Planck Institute): High-latitude mesoscale eddies in a warming climate. 
  
• Stephanie Lim (Stanford U). Bridging scales from cell-level sinking dynamics to large-scale export in the Chukchi Sea.
• Aidan Parfett (UBC): The relative roles of different vertical mixing parameterizations in setting modelled Beaufort Gyre stratification.
• Madeline Kovaleski (UW): Spatial Characteristics of Seasonal Ice Breakup Events in Kobuk Lake.
• Sylvia Cole (WHOI): Conundrums from scale-aware observations: How is the Arctic Stirred?
• MacKenzie Jewel (OSU): Observations of warm water upwelling in a recurring Beaufort Shelf polynya.