Reporting Progress Toward Arctic Research Plan Deliverables
This page is for anyone who wishes to report on an Arctic Research Plan 2022-2026 implementation deliverable. It gives an overview of the Arctic Research Plan Implementation reporting process.
Members of the Collaborations community may report on actions they have taken that support deliverables at any time. Tagging your work with a deliverable helps highlight it for federal agencies and other Arctic research entities. Your reports are also used by team leaders and the Secretariat to track progress toward the implementation of the Arctic research plan.
Team and community leaders report on their progress on an ongoing basis. In fall 2026, team and community leaders will use these reports to develop statements summarizing the impact of advanced research and how it ties to the goals of the Arctic Research Plan
You can view all the deliverables by reading the Biennial Implementation Plan 2022-2024 or visiting the Deliverables section of Collaborations.
For questions on reporting please contact Sorina Stalla, Implementation Director (sorina@iarpccollaborations.org).
There are two ways to report on deliverables on Collaborations. Click each of the links to be taken to detailed instructions.
- Tagging posts (updates, events, and documents). Any member of the Collaborations community can use this process when you are sharing work that is tangentially related to the deliverables. For example, if you are posting about a webinar that your organization is hosting, and the webinar happens to connect to one of the deliverables but was not designed with the deliverables in mind.
- Adding actions on the individual deliverables pages. Any member of the Collaborations community can use this process to report on activities that are directly connected to deliverables. Community of practice leaders and agency representatives should use this process to report on relevant activities.
Tagging posts
Any member of the Collaborations community can use this process when you are sharing work that is tangentially related to the deliverables. For example, if you are posting about a webinar that your organization is hosting, and the webinar happens to connect to one of the deliverables but was not designed with the deliverables in mind.
What should I tag?
Please tag anything that supports progress toward one or more deliverables. It does not have to be an official event or product. Examples of things that might be reported on include:
- A meeting, webinar, or workshop you held or are holding
- A paper you or a colleague have published
- A product produced used to communicate research findings
- A new relationship established
- New data products produced (this could include maps, models, etc.)
- Information or collaborative efforts from relevant conferences or workshops
- Progress/updates on a relevant project or program
How to tag a post with a deliverable
To capture your activities that have supported one or more deliverables, make a post on Collaborations and tag those deliverables.
Step 1: From the Collaborations homepage, select “Post Update,” “Upload Document,” or “Schedule Event.” (Not sure which one to choose? Check out the FAQ.)
Step 2: Include the relevant deliverable(s) in your post. Fill out the text of the post, including a title, relevant topics, teams, and a brief description. In the deliverables field, type in the number or a key phrase from the relevant deliverable.
You can also tag more than one deliverable.
Adding actions to deliverables
Any member of the Collaborations community can use this process to report on activities that are directly connected to deliverables. Community of practice leaders should use this process to report on their groups’ activities.
What should I report and when?
Actions may include a relevant meeting including speakers and outcomes; information on relevant projects, papers, or relationships built; and/or relevant links to info or data.
Reporting actions on deliverables is done continually through the Collaborations website; step-by-step instructions are below. These reports can be made at any time and we encourage team and community leaders to report actions soon after they have occurred. If you have significant findings or achievements, please communicate them to the Secretariat by emailing Sorina Stalla (sorina@iarpccollaborations.org).
What should actions include?
Your action should include:
- A 1-3 sentence summary of the action, how it applies to the deliverable, and why it is meaningful/unique
- Relevant links and/or citations
- Names of any individuals/groups who contributed to the action
- Who is funding the action
Example action:
In the most recent meeting (on April 27, 2023), Modelers CoP invited Nicole Feldl (University of California – Santa Cruz) and Ivy Tan (McGill University) to present their recent studies of from a modeling perspective, with a unique focus on identifying significant physical processes and feedbacks involving sea ice, moisture and cloud ice nucleation. Feldl’s studies (Feldl and Merlis, 2021; Chung and Feldl, 2023), mostly supported by , revealed that the primary mechanism of wintertime polar warming is associated with summer sea ice retreat/thinning, while ocean-atmosphere energy exchange and sea ice thermodynamics promote seasonal . Tan’s studies (Tan and Storelvmo, 2019; Tan et al., 2022), supported by and , found that representation of ice nucleation in climate models has a large impact on via interactions with Arctic Sea ice. They suggest that an increased emphasis on cloud-level observations of ice-nucleating particles would be needed for better representation of cloud processes. This in turn should enable a better model representation of .
Example action
Collaborative Walrus Field Work in Alaska. Alaska Science Center and Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center research wildlife biologist William Beatty will be co-principal investigator on a Pacific walrus research cruise on the RV Norseman II, which will occur from June 5 - July 2, 2023. In collaboration with the Eskimo Walrus Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (), the overall goal of the research cruise is to collect data to study Pacific walrus population dynamics. crews will collect information on the age structure of the walrus population while crews will collect biopsies from walruses hauled-out on sea ice. Three Alaska Native walrus experts from St. Lawrence Island will be on board the cruise vessel to advise on walrus behaviors, environmental conditions, and travel in sea ice. Data collected will eventually be combined into one population model to estimate Pacific walrus population abundance, survival, and population trend. More information about the cruise can be found here. Contact: John Pearce, jpearce@usgs.gov, Anchorage, AK
How do I add an action?
Step 1: Click on “Objectives and Deliverables” under the “Arctic Research Plan” drop down menu.
Step 2: Click on the team you are reporting on deliverable progress for.
Step 3: Click on the deliverable you are providing an update on.
Step 4: Click on “Add Action.”
Step 5: Fill in action towards deliverable details. The deadline and complete options are not relevant unless you are adding an incomplete action with an expected deadline. Most people add actions that are already completed.
