2025 Post-Field Season Meeting: Co-Hosted by Field Operations, Marine Ecosystems, Data Management, and Sea Ice Communities of Practice

The annual post-field season meeting was open to federal and non-federal partners, researchers, local and Indigenous community members, and anyone else interested in the 2025 research season. We heard lightning-talk presentations from principal investigators, community observers, graduate students and early-career researchers who participated in research expeditions in Alaska and Arctic waters during the 2025 field season. A group discussion followed.  

By sharing experiences, observations, successes and challenges, this meeting aimed to enhance collective understanding of the state of the Arctic environment and marine ecosystems, create opportunities for future collaborations, and provide broad awareness of research activities in the region. 

This meeting was hosted by the Field Operations, Sea Ice, Marine Ecosystems, and Data Management communities of practice.

Photo: NOAA

Meeting Materials

Agenda:

• Welcoming remarks

• Opening and meeting goals

• Lightning Talks - Set 1 and Q&A

  • Jim Murphy: EMA Northern Bering Sea Ecosystem Surface Trawl
  • Susanne McDermott: Gulf of Alaska Biennial Bottom Trawl Survey
  • Madison Smith: Arctic Freeze-Up 2025
  • Chris Maio: Alaska Coastal Cooperative Convergence Science Cruise
  • Phyllis Stabeno/Heather Tabisola: EcoFOCI Fall and Spring Mooring Cruises; Arctic Moorings
    
• Lightning Talks - Set 2 and Q&A
  • Rebecca Woodgate: Bering Strait Moorings
  • Sheyna Wisdom: Backyard Buoys
  • Jessica Crance: International Whaling Commission POWER survey
  • Bill Beatty: Pacific Walrus Population Dynamics
  • Jackie Grebmeier: SKQ25: The Arctic Collaborative Ecosystem Cruise; SWL25: Annual Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) Cruise
• Group discussion

• Wrap up and closing