Speaking: Andy Mahoney and Melinda Webster, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Update: ACCAP has rescheduled VAWS webinar, A Tale of Two Ice Floes . The webinar had to be pushed back one day due to a scheduling conflict with one of the speakers. It will now occur on November 18th at 11am AKST. Those who have already registered do not need to re-register and can use the original link. Those who are unable to attend the webinar on this new date can find the recording posted to the webinar webpage after the event.
During the winter of 2019-2020, two drifting ice floes, thousands of miles apart, formed the temporary homes for two different Arctic operations. In late 2019, the icebreaker Polarstern was frozen into sea ice in the Central Arctic as the centerpiece of the year-long MOSAiC expedition. And, in February 2020, an ice camp was established roughly 150 miles offshore in the Alaska Beaufort Sea as the base of on-ice activity for the U.S. Navy’s biennial ICEX exercise. In this webinar, we will discuss the weather and ice conditions at each location and how this impacted the science and logistics. In the process, we will introduce some of the science that was carried on these two ice floes and reflect on how the unexpected weather and ice conditions can create challenges, but also offer new insights.
Please follow the link above for more information and to register.