Report on the 2023 Future of Greenland ice Sheet Science (FOGSS) Workshop: Unifying Themes, Cross-Cutting Priorities, and Future Directions

• Main Authors: Winnie Chu, Timothy Bartholomaus, Joseph MacGregor, Mathieu Morlighem, Von Walden
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2023
• Subjects: Greenland Ice Sheet; glaciology; NASA; NSF; Greenland; greenlander*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A24746T12

The Future of Greenland ice Sheet Science (FOGSS) 2023 workshop was a hybrid meeting held March 22-24, 2023, at the Georgia Tech Institute for Technology with over 70 in-person participants and up to 150 online participants from across the U.S. scientific community studying the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS). Through a series of presentations and breakout groups, two unifying themes were identified: 1. United States (U.S.)-based scientists studying the GrIS must better engage with Greenlanders and their research needs; and 2. Open science will accelerate GrIS research, but data repository consolidation is needed. Previously identified major cross-cutting challenges in GrIS research were refined, including tighter integration of observations and models, quantification of meltwater fluxes, and ice-sheet modeling that is more responsive to the needs of Greenland communities. This research community is growing but needs to better synthesize progress in meeting community goals, and to reach consensus on its next major initiatives to clarify the future of the GrIS.