Future of Greenland Ice Sheet Science (FOGSS) Workshop 2022: Summary report

• Main Authors: Winnie Chu, Timothy Bartholomaus, Joseph MacGregor, Mathieu Morlighem, Von Walden
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2022
• Subjects: Greenland Ice Sheet; Glaciology; FOGSS; FOGSS Workshop; workshop; Future of Greenland Ice Sheet Science; Arctic; Greenland; Arctic Regional Climate Assessment; Greenland Institute of Natural Resources; Ice Sheet; PARCA; Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2SN0157W

Future of Greenland Ice Sheet Science (FOGSS) represents a refocus on the collaborative, community-driven spirit of early National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment (PARCA) and NSF Greenland Environmental Observatory (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. Over three hours on each of three days, April 6-8, 2022, we hosted a virtual (Zoom) workshop. Approximately 100 national and international researchers from career stages ranging from beginning graduate students to senior scientists attended FOGSS 2022. Participants accomplished the workshop goal through two primary activities: thematic goal setting within breakout groups for the future of science on and around the Greenland Ice Sheet, and geographically-focused discussion to identify opportunities for collaboration and research synergies. Additional presentations added context to the discussion, including from NSF and NASA program officers, the head of Department of Environment and Minerals within the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, and representatives of several large research projects. Workshop participants worked within breakout groups, each focused on different research themes, and prepared a set of slides focused on charting the future of each theme. The organizing committee identified five cross-cutting challenges, distilling the feedback from the major thematic groups: a. Decolonizing U.S. research in Greenland; b. Better integration of observation & models; c. Water remains a unifying unknown; d. Sustained, open polar-observations; e. Projecting Greenland’s contribution to sea-level rise. Following these five challenges, this report presents distilled feedback gained from the post-workshop survey, the workshop agenda, and statistics regarding workshop participants. Complete slide decks produced by eight different thematic breakout groups, complete responses to the post-workshop survey, and instructions for participants are available at the workshop website (fogss-workshop.org).