Workshop Announcement

Sea Ice Mass Budget of the Arctic (SIMBA) Workshop: Bridging regional to global scales

February 28th - March 2nd 2005

The meeting will be held at the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington Seattle: http://www.apl.washington.edu/.

• Agenda [Download Agenda in PDF]
• Travel Information
• Participants

Arctic sea ice has undergone remarkable changes over the last three decades. It is just beginning to be documented how these changes relate to multi-decadal and inter-annual variability of the sea ice pack. The relation of sea ice change to the global system is even less well understood. Changes in the Arctic sea ice cover may have profound effects on Arctic ecology, economic activities in the Arctic and Global climate. This workshop will discuss changes in the sea ice state that affect Arctic wide and Global systems, and seek recommendations of the scales and processes over which the variability of the Arctic sea ice mass budget should be analysed and monitored. We shall discuss current knowledge of Arctic wide sea ice mass balance and variability, and determine where new observation and/or modelling campaigns are required to improve our understanding of the variability of the sea ice thickness distribution and the mechanisms influencing this. A pan-Arctic observing system is anticipated in the future. This workshop will consider the sea ice component of such an observing system, and discuss how to monitor the Northern Hemisphere sea ice mass budget.

We particularly encourage the participation of scientists studying processes integral to the Arctic sea ice mass balance and those studying systems that are influenced by Arctic sea ice processes. Talks are by invitation only and an optional poster session will be provided for attendees to present work and ideas pertinent to the goals of the workshop.

Sponsors:

The workshop is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and will be jointly hosted by the International Arctic Research Center and the University of Washington. It will be held in Seattle, Washington.

Application:

The application deadline for the SIMBA workshop was January 6, 2005.

For general information contact:

Jenny Hutchings
phone: 907-474-7569
email: jenny@iarc.uaf.edu
www: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~jenny/

For travel arrangements contact:

Go to the travel page for travel details

Kathy Glodowski
IARC Travel Coordinator
phone: (907) 474-1960
email: katcam@iarc.uaf.edu

International Arctic Research Center
University of Alaska
P.O. Box 757340
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7340

Funding assistance:

There are limited travel funds available for junior scientists and the economically disadvantaged.