The Arctic Ocean Dynamics Workshop 2025

Program

This year's program features five themes over three days:

• Arctic Ocean Circulation and Structure — Exploring the spatial patterns, variability, and dynamical drivers of Arctic Ocean circulation and mixing.
• Sea Ice–Ocean Coupling and Polar Connections — Interactions between sea ice and ocean processes, from floe-scale coupling to large-scale polar variability.
• Freshwater and Overturning Circulation — Linking freshwater pathways, stratification, and overturning dynamics to the evolving Arctic–Atlantic system.
• Beaufort Gyre Dynamics and Variability — Processes controlling the stability, structure, and energy pathways of the Beaufort Gyre under changing wind and ice conditions.
• Arctic meets Antarctic — Two talks aimed at bridging the communities studying the Antarctic and Arctic Oceans.

Monday

Please plan for 20 minutes talks, followed by 10 minutes of questions

08:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast
09:00 - 09:30 | James Morison — AO, AOO, Arctic Ocean Surprises?
09:30 - 10:00 | Qiang Wang — Emerging regime shift in Arctic Ocean circulation
10:00 - 10:30 | Zoë Koenig — Characteristics of the oceanic Transpolar Drift and its influence on the water column in the central Arctic Ocean
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 | Francis Poulin — Instability in the Beaufort Gyre
11:30 - 12:00 | Anna Lina Sjur — Nonlinear dynamics of Arctic Ocean circulation
12:00 - 12:30 | Discussion
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 | —TBD
15:00 - 15:30 | Stephanie Waterman — Filling in the Map: Understanding Arctic Ocean mixing rates, mechanisms, space-time variability and decadal-scale trends from ocean observations
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30 | Johan Nilsson — Is the surface Arctic Ocean circulation topographically steered by the deep currents?
16:30 - 17:00 | Michael Spall — Upside-Down Bathymetry: Ice Thickness as a Constraint on Arctic Circulation
17:00 - 17:30 | Pål Erik Isachsen — Wave topography interactions in the North and the South
17:30 - 18:00 | Discussion
 
Tuesday

Please plan for 20 minutes talks, followed by 10 minutes of questions

08:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast
09:00 - 09:30 | Rodrigo Caballero — Sea ice bifurcations and atmospheric noise: a simple stochastic model
09:30 - 10:00 | Romain Caneill — On the solid turbulence of sea ice dynamics
10:00 - 10:30 | David Ferreira — Impact of ocean heat transport on sea ice changes
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 | Mukund Gupta — Ocean–sea ice coupling at the floe scale: melt, dynamics, and energetics
11:30 - 12:00 | Jacqueline Boutin — Remote sensing of sea surface salinity in the Arctic Ocean: SMOS and CryoRad missions
12:00 - 12:30 | Discussion
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 | Casimir de Lavergne — Mixing and upwelling in the Southern Ocean: on the fate of subsurface ocean warmth
15:00 - 15:30 | John Marshall — Natural Decadal Variability of Antarctic Sea Ice Modulated by Mesoscale Ocean Memory
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30 | Thomas Haine — Thoughts on Arctic Overturning and Horizontal Circulation
16:30 - 17:00 | Marius Årthun — Atlantification drives recent strengthening of the Arctic overturning circulation
17:00 - 17:30 | Jakob Dörr — Lagrangian decomposition of the Arctic overturning circulation
17:30 - 18:00 | Discussion

Wednesday

Please plan for 20 minutes talks, followed by 10 minutes of questions

08:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast
09:00 - 09:30 | Isabela Le Bras — Constraining the Arctic freshwater budget from observations
09:30 - 10:00 | Laura de Steur — Observed sustained increase in freshwater export through Fram Strait since 2020
10:00 - 10:30 | Marta Faulkner — Insights into Arctic freshwater dynamics from the potential vorticity budget of an idealized model
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 | Kjetil Våge — Wintertime shipboard measurements from the marginal ice zone in the western Nordic Seas
11:30 - 12:00 | Discussion
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:00 | Mary-Louise Timmermans — Transitions in Beaufort Gyre freshwater and heat content from 2003 to 2025 in response to changing wind forcing and sea ice conditions
14:00 - 14:30 | Florian Sevellec — Maintenance of the ocean vertical thermohaline structure by the mesoscale turbulence in the Beaufort Gyre
14:30 - 15:00 | Jennifer Kosty — Dynamic modes and energy pathways in the changing Beaufort Gyre
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00 | Gianluca Meneghello — The disequilibrated Beaufort Gyre: constraining variability under current and future sea-ice scenarios
16:00 - 16:30 | Discussion and concluding remarks