Future of Greenland ice Sheet Science Workshop
Mapping actionable priorities for Greenland Ice Sheet Science to inform U.S. funding agency planning
April 3-4, 2024
with optional software tutorials and practicum
on Friday, April 5
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID + online
Vision
for the Future of Greenland ice Sheet Science (FOGSS) Workshops and Community
FOGSS workshops are the forum where the community maps out actionable priorities for Greenland Ice Sheet Science that inform U.S. funding agency programmatic planning.
FOGSS is the mechanism by which interested community members can openly self-organize into groups that initiate and carry out prioritized work.
Sponsors: NASA Cryospheric Sciences & NSF Arctic Natural Sciences
Conveners: Timothy Bartholomaus, Winnie Chu, Mathieu Morlighem, Von Walden, Joseph MacGregor
What
NASA’s long-running annual PARCA meeting has merged with the NSF GEOSummit meeting to become the Future of Greenland ice Sheet Science (FOGSS) Workshop. The first, online-only workshop was April 6-8, 2022; the second workshop was hybrid and hosted at Georgia Tech March 22-24, 2023, and the third workshop will be at the University of Idaho on April 3-5, 2024. Subsequent hybrid workshops will be at Dartmouth College in 2025.
Purpose
FOGSS represents a refocus on the collaborative, community-driven spirit of early NASA PARCA and NSF GEOSummit workshops. The workshop’s mission is to identify and advise on medium-to-long-term priorities for U.S. research on the Greenland Ice Sheet. We envision an open and interactive annual forum that advances this mission through assessment of the current state of knowledge regarding the Greenland Ice Sheet, especially on the unknown and poorly constrained processes impacting its mass balance, geophysical characteristics, and future behavior. Additionally, we anticipate collaborative field research planning and the sharing of field best practices.
Past workshops and what to expect moving forward
The focus for this workshop is to discuss the Future Of Greenland ice Sheet Science. As such we expect all participants, from students to senior scientists to participate in discussions about these future directions, and contribute during the workshop in preparing a guidance document for future ice sheet research. In advance of the workshop, participants were asked to submit a single slide giving their perspective on the big unknowns regarding the processes and mass change of the Greenland Ice Sheet. We do not solicit traditional research talks regarding past or in-process research activities at this year’s workshop.
The workshop in 2022 took place over 3 days, for 3 hours each day: April 6-8, from 1-4 pm EDT.
The workshop in 2023 took place over two days: March 22-23, 2023, hybrid, hosted at Georgia Tech, with a 3rd day of software tutorials.
Details for workshop participants and necessary links and resources may be found at the password-protected workshop “Grand Central” page, which serves as a guide for all. The password to access this page was emailed to registered participants on Tuesday evening, April 5th. If you would like access or cannot find what you are looking for at “Grand Central,” please contact one of the workshop organizers.