This webinar included a discussion of the 2016 Sea Ice Outlook (SIO) with a focus on the lessons learned from this season, what was new this season, and what areas could be improved for the future. Presentations included a review and analysis of the outlooks contributed from 2008 to 2016, discussion of the 2016 summer sea-ice conditions that lead to the minima this year, and discussion of the SIO success and challenges at the local scale. Time for community discussion followed the presentations.

Real-time community discussion was supported on twitter with hashtag: #SIPN

Presentations by SIPN Leadership Team Members:

Larry Hamilton
University of New Hampshire

Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth
University of Washington

Bios:
Lawrence (Larry) Hamilton is a Carsey Senior Faculty Fellow and professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire. Integration across social and natural science has been a common theme in Larry's research on environment and social change. Since 1992, he has conducted interdisciplinary studies around the circumpolar North, supported by a series of grants from the National Science Foundation.

On New Hampshire's statewide Granite State Poll, which interviews random samples of 500 people four times each year, Larry has been tracking public perceptions of science, the environment and climate. Combining his Arctic and survey interests, some recent studies explore what the general public knows and believes about polar regions. More details about his research can be found on his personal home page.

Edward Blanchard Wrigglesworth is a Research Associate in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. His research interest include atmosphere-sea ice-ocean interactions, Arctic Sea ice predictability, and snow on sea-ice in the Arctic.

Edward has recently presented talks including "Lessons from a multi-model SIO experiment" to the 2016 Polar Predictability Workshop, "Arctic sea ice forecasting: an update from the trenches' to the CESM Polar Climate Working Group 2016 annual meeting. More information is available on his website.