Project Description
The Arctic is a rapidly changing environment that poses unique challenges to the monitoring and prediction of such changes. This proposal builds off the international Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS) effort to collect "snapshots" of the state of the Arctic at roughly 10-year intervals, serving to monitor the longterm changes in the Arctic ocean, atmosphere, and cryosphere. The first effort and collection of data took place over 2020-2022, with the next effort, SAS2, planned for ~2030. To maintain continuity between past and future efforts, this proposal seeks to facilitate the continued involvement, support, and training of international early-career researchers (ECRs) for SAS2, a primary goal set forth by the SAS program. Through working with the Marine, Atmosphere, and Cryosphere Working groups of IASC, ECRs will develop an informed strategy to establish an international group of ECRs within the SAS, identify research needs and goals, and plan the contribution of ECRs in the collection of relevant ocean, ice, and atmospheric data during SAS2 and beyond. This strategy will be discussed at a 2-day hybrid ECR workshop at the Arctic Science Summit Week 2026, where funding from this proposal will be utilized for travel support (with priority given to applications from Indigenous ECRs). In the longer term, ECRs will implement the prepared data collection plan on an ECR training cruise expected to take place before SAS2.
Date and Location
25 March – 1 April 2026 (ASSW 2026) | Aarhus, Denmark
IASC Working Groups funding the project
- Atmosphere WG
- Cryosphere WG
- Marine WG
Project Lead
Clare Gaffey (Oregon State University, USA)
Year funded by IASC
2025