October is MOSAiC Month on IARPC Collaborations!
September 30, 2020
By Liz Weinberg
Lianna Nixon/Alfred Wegener Institute (CC-BY 4.0)
Throughout October, Collaborations will be bringing together a number of events focused on the Expedition. Led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate () expedition is the first year-round expedition into the central Arctic exploring the Arctic climate system.
Since September 2019, the German icebreaker Polarstern has been locked in the Arctic ice and drifting through the Arctic Ocean. Hundreds of researchers from 20 countries have joined the expedition to gain fundamental insights key to better understanding global climate change. Join Collaborations for a series of webinars and meetings focused on :
October 1, 1pm ET / 9am AKT: Physical Oceanography Team Meeting focused on physical oceanography research during
- Céline Heuzé is co-lead of Team Ocean, and will give us an overview of the Physical Oceanography activities during . Tim Stanton will discuss deployment of flux buoys in the Distributed Network and present some AOFB/ITP results.
- To join this Collaboration Team meeting, request a free account on Collaborations. If this poses a barrier to you, please contact web manager & community coordinator Liz Weinberg at liz@iarpccollaborations.org.
October 8, 2pm ET / 10am AKT: Public Webinar Series – Expedition Overview
- Matthew Shupe will give an overview of the expedition, and Benjamin Rabe will describe the Distributed Network and work conducted by Team Ocean.
- An Collaborations account is not required to join this webinar.
October 19, 2pm ET / 10am AKT: Public Webinar Series – Early-Career Researcher Lightning Talks
- Early-career researchers and participants Madison Smith, Carolynn Harris, Ying-Chih Fang, Gina Jozef, and Michael Angelopoulos will each give 3-5 minute talks on their research while on . Researchers of all career stages are encouraged to attend this webinar.
- An Collaborations account is not required to join this webinar.
October 19, 4pm ET / 12pm AKT: Joint Collaboration Team Meeting on Air-Ice-Ocean interactions – initial report backs from
- Matthew Shupe, Christopher J. Cox, and Don Perovich will give updates on Arctic air-ice-ocean interactions as observed on the MOSAIC expedition.
- To join this Collaboration Team meeting, request a free account on Collaborations. If this poses a barrier to you, please contact web manager & community coordinator Liz Weinberg at liz@iarpccollaborations.org.
We hope to see you at many of these events!
If you have questions or suggestions for a future Collaborations themed month, please contact liz@iarpccollaborations.org.
Thumbnail image by Michael Gutsche/Alfred Wegener Institute (CC-BY-4.0)