IARPC Collaborations Teams and Communities of Practice
IARPC’s enabling legislation includes mandates both for interagency coordination and for collaboration with non-federal research and Arctic communities. IARPC Collaborations teams and communities of practice support this collaboration.
The Arctic Research Plan 2022-2026 outlines four priority areas with identified goals and five foundational activities. The Biennial Implementation Plan articulates specific objectives and deliverables towards achieving the priority area goals and advancing the foundational activities. IARPC has established collaboration teams to coordinate work toward these goals. In addition, disciplinary communities of practice—many of which were established under the Arctic Research Plan 2017-2021—support this work.
Collaboration teams and communities of practice are open to anyone who can contribute. If you would like to get involved, please request an account.
Priority Area Collaboration Teams
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Arctic Systems Interactions
Enhancing our ability to observe, understand, predict, and project the Arctic’s dynamic interconnected systems and their links to the Earth system.
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Community Resilience and Health
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.
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Risk Management and Hazard Mitigation
Securing and improving quality of life through research that promotes an understanding of disaster risk exposure, sensitivity to hazard, and adaptive capacity.
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Foundational Activity Collaboration Teams
Communities of Practice
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Atmosphere
Advancing process and understanding of the changing composition and dynamics and the resulting changes to surface energy budgets.
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Coastal Resilience
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.
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Cold/High Anaerobic Digestion
Evaluating the potential to use poop pathogen reduction as an energy resource for remote cold/ high altitude communities. Can the energy balance for anaerobic digestion work?
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Diversity & Inclusion
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.
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Early Career
A collaboration space for anyone wishing to connect with the early career community. This community encourages sharing information, news, and events relevant to early career development and to foster connections within the Arctic sciences.
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Field Operations
Coordinating and collaborating among organizations supporting field operations and campaigns to collect Arctic data
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Glaciers & Sea Level
Improving the understanding of glaciers, ice caps and the Greenland Ice Sheet to resolve the forcings for and impacts of mass balance changes.
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Marine Ecosystems
Increasing understanding of the structure and function of Arctic marine ecosystems and their role in the climate system and advancing predictive capabilities.
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Modelers
Enhancing understanding of the integrated Arctic system through the use of regional and global earth system models.
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Observations
Equitable 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).
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Permafrost
Advancing understanding of processes controlling permafrost dynamics and the impacts on ecosystems, infrastructure, and climate feedbacks.
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Sea Ice
Enhancing understanding and improving predictions of the changing Arctic sea ice cover.
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Terrestrial Ecosystems
Developing a landscape-scale understanding of the drivers and impacts of terrestrial ecosystem change.
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