– a research program to understand climate change in the Arctic Ocean
Carin Ashjian and Jackie Grebmeier will present SAS in a town hall meeting at the upcoming Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
TH33O – Town Hall: The International Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS) Program—Accomplishments to Date and Planning for SAS2030
Wednesday, 21 February 2024 at 12:45 – 13:45
in room 217-219, Second Floor (NOLACC)
We hope to see you there!
On March 6-10, 2023, the Seventh International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-7) will take place in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan.
SAS has organized a special session (S4) to discuss the results from SAS cruises and provide an opportunity to start the synthesis phase.
All researchers related to SAS are encouraged to attend the SAS session. Please submit your abstract at the ISAR-7 webpage before October 31, 2022:
https://www.jcar.org/isar-7/abstract/
We hope to see you in Tokyo next year!
ISAR-7 session description:
(S4) Synoptic Arctic Survey – international collaboration for Arctic Ocean transdisciplinary studies
Main convener: Shigeto Nishino; Co-conveners: Carin Ashjian, Kumiko Azetsu-Scott, Kyoung-Ho Cho, Jacqueline Grebmeier, Jianfeng He, Motoyo Itoh, Sung-Ho Kang, Are Olsen, Øyvind Paasche, William Williams, Michiyo Yamamoto-Kawai
Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS) is a coordinated multi-ship, multi-nation, pan-Arctic, ship-based sampling campaign during 2020-2022 to study pan-Arctic ocean-circulation, biogeochemical cycles, and marine ecosystems. In this session, we discuss the results from SAS cruises and transdisciplinary scientific issues ultimately to assess risks and to develop policies that allow effective management.
A Synoptic Arctic Survey community meeting was held on March 31st, in conjunction with the Arctic Science Summit Week in Tromsø. This was a hybrid meeting, with altogether approximately 40 scientists, program managers and early career scientists attending. Everyone thought it was really nice to meet and interact in person again, after two years with only virtual meetings.
The SAS has evolved into a massive effort with a lot of cruises conducted in 2020 and 2021, and some planned for 2022. Partners from Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, South Korea, Sweden and the USA presented past and future cruises. We were in particular impressed by the unique data collected on the German/Russian/Swiss “Arctic Century expedition” to the Barents and Laptev Seas, and troubled by the challenges that this important collaboration is facing in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
We further discussed how to proceed with the synthesis phase that the Synoptic Arctic Survey is now entering. Data sharing and authors for the different papers are issues that need to be resolved in the coming year. We ended the day by enjoying freshly caught cod – or skrei – from the Lofoten area.
The report from the meeting is available here and most of the presentations are available below: