Enhancing our ability to observe, understand, predict, and project the Arctic’s dynamic interconnected systems and their links to the Earth system.

Improving community resilience and well-being by strengthening research and developing tools to increase understanding of interdependent social, natural, and built systems in the Arctic.

Securing and improving quality of life through research that promotes an understanding of disaster risk exposure, sensitivity to hazard, and adaptive capacity.

Observing and understanding the Arctic’s natural, social, and built systems to promote sustainable economies and livelihoods.

Applying modern cyberinfrastructure to improve capabilities for integrating and blending data.

Connecting STEM education organizations that leverage Arctic science.

Integrating and improving monitoring, observing, modeling, and prediction efforts to advance Arctic research

Supporting meaningful and equitable collaborations among Arctic Indigenous communities and researchers

Enabling, accelerating, and delivering accurate information and products to Arctic residents and researchers

Making the Arctic Ocean a safer place for work and recreation.

Advancing process and understanding of the changing composition and dynamics and the resulting changes to surface energy budgets.

Strengthening coastal community resilience and advancing stewardship of coastal natural and cultural resources by engaging in research related to the interconnections of people, natural, and built environments.

Recognizing the value of diversity and inclusiveness in Arctic science, this team encourages open conversations on how to increase inclusion and equity in scientific research to enhance problem solving and improve innovative solutions.

A collaboration space for anyone wishing to connect with the early career community. This forum encourages sharing information, news, and events relevant to early career development and to foster connections within the Arctic sciences.

Coordinating and collaborating among organizations supporting field operations and campaigns to collect Arctic data

Improving the understanding of glaciers, ice caps and the Greenland Ice Sheet to resolve the forcings for and impacts of mass balance changes.

Enhancing understanding of health determinants and improving the well-being of Arctic residents.

Advancing polar science and technology through international cooperation

Increasing understanding of the structure and function of Arctic marine ecosystems and their role in the climate system and advancing predictive capabilities.

Enhancing understanding of the integrated Arctic system through the use of regional and global earth system models.

Assessment, planning, and integration of environmental and socioeconomic observing to understand Arctic system change. This open team supports the US AON and meets periodically as the U.S. Committee to Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON).

Advancing understanding of processes controlling permafrost dynamics and the impacts on ecosystems, infrastructure, and climate feedbacks.

Coordinating research of the physical oceanography of the Arctic Ocean

Enhancing understanding and improving predictions of the changing Arctic sea ice cover.

Developing a landscape-scale understanding of the drivers and impacts of terrestrial ecosystem change.

The U.S. delegation to IASC aims to increase two-way communication with the US Arctic research community through IARPC Collaborations.