News Archive

The February 2023 issue of Witness Community Highlights is now available online. This issue includes three articles: USARC Releases Report on the Goals and Objectives for Arctic Research 2023–2024, highlighting the research goals and cross-cutting themes that will inform decision-makers and advance efforts outlined in the United States' Arctic policies, strategies, and plans; Caribou Migrations in a Changing Arctic, an overview from the National Park Service on how climate change impacts caribou migratory routes; and Celebrating 75 Years of Arctic Research in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, a summary of the five-day event focused on science and engineering in the North Slope region over the last 75 years and envisioning a framework for Arctic science, engineering, and education in the future.

For questions, or to suggest topics for future articles, please contact Betsy Turner-Bogren, ARCUS (betsy [at] arcus.org).

The January 2023 issue of Witness Community Highlights is now available online. This issue includes two articles: New Observatory Supports Broader Understanding of Climate-Change and Infrastructure Impacts to Ice-Rich Permafrost Systems, highlighting research efforts at the new Natural Ice-Rich Permafrost Observatory near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska that seek to understand what has happened in areas of the oilfield that are mainly affected by climate change in the absence of infrastructure; and The 2022 Arctic Report Card, a summary of the annual view into the state of the Arctic highlighting an Arctic in transition.

For questions, or to suggest topics for future articles, please contact Betsy Turner-Bogren, ARCUS (betsy [at] arcus.org).

Join PolarTREC this Wednesday, 18 January at 9:00 am Alaska time, for a live PolarConnect event with educator Elaine Krebs and the IceCube and Askaryan Radio Array team. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is located at the South Pole and records the interactions of a nearly massless sub-atomic messenger particle called the neutrino. IceCube searches for neutrinos from the most violent astrophysical sources: events like exploding stars, gamma ray bursts, and cataclysmic phenomena involving black holes and neutron stars. The observatory is a powerful tool to search for dark matter, and could reveal the new physical processes associated with the enigmatic origin of the highest energy particles in nature.

You must register to attend this free event.

On behalf of all of us here at the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S., Happy Holidays! As we near the end of the year, we want to thank everyone in our community for your work, collaboration, support, and friendship!

The 2022 Sea Ice Outlook (SIO) Post-Season Report is now available online. The (SIO) is a community network activity led by the Sea Ice Prediction Network-Phase 2 (SIPN2) Project Team with contributions from key partners. This report includes discussions of the 2022 observed Arctic sea-ice, atmospheric, and ocean heat conditions during the sea-ice retreat season; a review of the 2022 contributed forecasts for the pan-Arctic sea-ice extent and extent anomalies, pan-Arctic sea-ice probability, and sea-ice extent forecasts for Alaska regional seas and the Antarctic; a summary from the 2022 Sea Ice Drift Forecast Experiment (SIDFEx); and brief discussion of next steps for the SIO and SIPN project.