Edward Plumb Well, good morning and good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to today's ACCAP webinar. Introduction to IARPC, Collaborating to Enhance Arctic Research. Today's event is being hosted by the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Preparedness. We're also known as ACCAP. We're located at the International Arctic Research Center on the University of Alaska Fairbanks Troth Yeddha’ Campus. ACCAP is part of the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments program, which is funded by the NOAA Climate Program Office, for nearly 20 years, ACCAP has worked with communities, tribal organizations, and researchers and other partners across Alaska to provide weather and climate information that supports preparedness, resilience, and adaptation to a changing environment. Actually, just one moment, let me turn off the waiting room. I realized I've got that on, so I don't have to keep letting people in. Alright, so thank you all for joining us today. One of the challenges of Arctic research is that so many of the issues being worked on are so interconnected, from changes in permafrost and ecosystems to coastal resilience, emerging technologies, and the impacts of environmental change on Arctic communities. Addressing these challenges takes collaboration across disciplines, organizations, and communities. And that's really what today's webinar is all about. The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee, also known as IARPC, brings together representatives from 18 different agencies, departments, and offices to coordinate Arctic research priorities. But its collaborative network extends well beyond just the federal government, connecting researchers, Arctic communities, tribal organizations, and other partners working on a wide range of Arctic issues. So today, we'll learn a little bit more about IARPC and how it works, and the opportunities it provides for collaboration. We'll hear from a series of short lightning talks highlighting some of the work happening across IARPC's collaboration teams and communities of practice. These will touch on everything from terrestrial ecosystems and permafrost to coastal resilience, technology innovation, Tribal consultation, and risk management and hazard mitigation. So, this should be a great opportunity, for us to get a quick look at all the work underway across IARPC, and learn more about the people and how the organizations connect and collaborate. Before we get started, just a few quick webinar logistics. You've all been muted and your video's turned off. We will have a Q&A session in the last 5 or 10 minutes or so, and at that time, I'll allow you to unmute yourself and turn on your video if you'd like to ask questions directly to the speakers. But please feel free to drop any questions or comments into the chat. Since we have a number of the speakers on the call here, if you can answer a question that pops into the chat, feel free to do that. The webinar is being recorded, and I will send out an email later today, with the link to the recording. So, at that, my name is Ed Plumb, and I'm the Weather and Flood Hazards Specialist here at ACCAP. We have a great lineup of speakers joining us today from across the IARPC network, representing a wide range of research areas and collaborative efforts. Because we're featuring a number of lightning talks today, rather than me going through individual speaker introductions at the beginning, we'll have each researcher briefly introduce themselves and their role as we move through the webinar. First off, though, we'll begin with Toni O'Boyle, the Director of IARPC Collaboration Team Activities with the IARPC Secretariat, who will give us an overview of IARPC and its collaborative network. And from there, we'll hear from representatives from 7 different collaboration teams and communities of practice, each offering a brief look at their work, priorities, and opportunities for engagement. Well, we're pleased to have so many of you joining today, to share your work, and I'm really looking forward to this discussion. So with that, Toni, I am going to turn it all over to you and, stop talking. You've got the floor. Toni O'Boyle Thank you, Ed, and thank you for having us today. Hello, everybody, thanks for joining. As Ed said, my name is Toni O'Boyle, the Director of Collaboration Team Activities with the IARPC Secretariat. Ed gave us a good overview of our goals for today. We're joined by several of our collaboration team and community practice leads to hear a little bit more about each of those groups' focus areas and work. But I'm here just to context set a little bit and give you some background on IARPC as an organization, how folks can get involved if they're interested, before I turn it over to our leads. So, Sorina, we can go to the next slide. So again, a little context setting, as Ed noted, so we're tasked by the Arctic Research and Policy Act with enhancing research in the Arctic by bringing together our federal agencies to coordinate their work. So, there's leaders from 18 different agencies, departments, offices, across the government, we see those logos here, and the work of IARPC and these agencies and the way they're collaborating is organized into 5-year Arctic research plans, which outline a set of Arctic research needs and priorities, and coordinates our federal agency efforts around those issues. We can go to the next slide. But while the Arctic Research Plan is a U.S. federal plan, it cannot be accomplished without the support and efforts of the broader Arctic research community, as well as just communities, you know, living and working in the Arctic. So to that end, we also run IARPC Collaborations, which is our website, a web platform that serves as a hub for building connections, facilitating collaboration between federal agencies, between agencies and non-federal partners with interest in the region, so that's everything from academics, tribal organizations, private sector, nonprofits, you know, again, anyone who lives, works in, or researched the Arctic, both in the U.S. and internationally. So, our site is where we host our collaboration teams and communities of practice that are organized around the goals set out in that Arctic Research Plan, and where they host their regular meetings to work towards those goals. It's where we track our progress towards Arctic Research Plan goals, and it also serves as a forum for all of our members, anybody who has an interest in Arctic research, to share information. So, events, job opportunities, research papers, industry updates. So, we hope that if you aren't already a member, you will join us, that QR code will take you to the Sign Up For Account page. I'll put our website link in the chat, navigating to our website should also prompt you to sign up for an account, but everybody's welcome. Sign up is a formality, just so that we know all who is requesting an account, but we welcome you all there. So just quick background here, this is the framework, what we're looking at now, the graphic for our current Arctic research plan, and that's for years 2022 through 2026, so through the end of this year. This is just showing how interdisciplinary our plan is, and how we're working to encourage collaboration amongst the many aspects of Arctic research. The plan is meant to Really highlight research that requires collaboration amongst our federal agencies, so not work that, you know, any one agency can accomplish by itself. So, just to walk through this graphic very quickly, up top you'll see our four critical research policy drivers that reflect long-standing U.S. interest in the Arctic, and the collaborative, priorities and collective priorities, excuse me, of our IARPC federal agencies, those being well-being, stewardship, security, and Arctic global systems, and then in the middle here in red, you're gonna see our priority areas, so places where more research or more research coordination is needed. These are community resilience and health, arctic systems interactions, sustainable economies and livelihoods, risk management and hazard mitigation. And those all, align directly with we've got a collaboration team for each of those, representing each of those priority areas. Similarly, along the bottom here, these are our five foundational activities. So these are, activities that underlie and permeate everything that we do, within IARPC. So they're relevant to all research, all of those priority areas, those being data management, education and training, monitoring, observing, modeling, and prediction, technology innovation and application, and Tribal Consultation and effective processes, and like I said, similar to priority areas, we have a corresponding team for each of these foundational activities. And if we go to the next slide just to show here, so we've got those priority area collaboration teams, foundational activity collaboration teams. And then, in addition, we also have 11 communities of practice organized around specific scientific disciplines, so communities of practice are very vibrant groups, carry out a lot of the work and progress towards the goals of the Arctic Research Plan, and they are such a big part of how we achieve any of our deliverables, mainly through our webinars, our public meetings that are hosted via our website, IARPC Collaborations, like I mentioned. So, we encourage folks, if you do join and sign up for an IARPC Collaborations account, you'll be able to kind of select to join any of these teams or communities of practice that align with you know, your areas of interest, and you can kind of follow along on any updates that they post, any meetings that they hold, webinars similar to this one. And we'll get to hear from kind of a not all of these groups today, but a selection of these teams and communities of practice, so you can get a little bit of a sense for the work that they do. Just a couple quick numbers. Our collaboration teams and communities of practice are led by more than 70 team leaders, who represent 13 different federal agencies and bureaus, as well as 37 non-federal partner organizations, some of which are international. And this cohort of team and community leads is leading a broader community of more than 4,300 IARPC Collaborations members currently. And in the past year, we've had in the past 3 years, excuse me, under the current Arctic Research Plan, we've held more than 315 open public meetings, webinars, via IARPC collaborations to help engage the larger Arctic research community on those important discussions for moving forward our Arctic research priorities. And, speaking of the Arctic Research Plan, just wanted to note here, sort of. A little bit forward-looking. The development of the next 5-year plan for the period 20 27 to 2031 is currently underway. So from July 2025 to January of this year, we did collect public and federal input on what should be considered in that next plan. Over the summer, federal agencies began the process of considering that input and working to move the development process forward, and this fall, we're bringing together those federal drafting teams to launch the drafting of that plan, and then just for this group's awareness, and the plug I wanted to put in here is to keep an eye out. Next year, springtime is what we're aiming for. A draft of that plan is going to be released for another round of federal and public input, so we'd love to have you all as part of the process to be able to review what we've got as part of that draft and provide any feedback. So The QR code here is going to take you to our updates page, where you can follow along. That's where we'll be posting, kind of, milestones in the development process. But with that's just a I wanted to breeze through a little bit about IARPC, again, just to kind of give you a sense of the organization as a whole. And now we're gonna move into hearing from a few of our different collaboration teams in communities of practice. Starting with our Arctic Systems Interactions team. We've got both Hailong and Zhu with us, but Hailong, I believe you're going to be walking us through our overview today, so I will pass it over to you. Hailong Wang Yeah, great. Can you hear me okay? Toni O'Boyle Yes. Hailong Wang Okay, great. Yeah, thank you, Toni, and thank you all for joining the webinar today. I'm Hailong Wang, I'm an earth scientist from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Most of my Arctic research projects are sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. I'm pleased to introduce the Arctic Systems Interactions Collaboration team today. So, our leadership team includes Zhuo Wang from the University of Illinois. Max Stevens from the, University of Maryland, Ramey Joseph from Department of Energy, and Sean Surbin from, NASA Goddard. So, as a team, we bring expertise across different parts of the Arctic system, that breadth, spoiled our central goal, understanding how the changes in one part of the Arctic affect other components. So, yeah, just a quickly brief, overview of the mission of our key activities. So, our team's mission is to enhance our ability to observe, understand, predict, and project the Arctic. dynamic and interconnected systems. So the emphasis, here is on interactions, for example, a change in the atmosphere can affect sea ice or the Greenland ice sheet. Those changes can in turn influence exchanges of heat and moisture with consequences for ecosystems and people. So understanding those connections require researchers from different disciplines to work together. Our team provides, opportunities for those conversations through workshops, conference sessions, webinars, and discussion panels. So those exchanges can also support, our, review papers, or prospective articles or journal special issues related to our objectives. Examples would include, AGU town halls and, science sessions, a series of panels on model, for example, on model biases and, workshop with the terrestrial ecosystem on, disturbance and interactions. So, the model biases discussions are particularly useful for connecting, for example, observations with modeling, and they create space to ask where models struggle. And which processes might explain those problems, and what observations could help. So, another example is our APTEC Extreme webinar series, which I will highlight in a moment. Next slide, please. So, we so for the systems team, we also cover atmosphere, and ice sheet topics. So, this slide highlights several research topics, under those two components of our work, for the atmosphere, a major focus is understanding the causes and consequences of Arctic amplification. why the Arctic warms faster than the global average, and what that warming means for the rest of the Earth system. And we also focus on, connections between the Arctic and the lower latitudes, atmospheric circulation, transport heat and moisture into the into and out of the Arctic. It also carries, like, pollutants, wildfire, smoke. Those connections means that understanding Arctic change requires us looking beyond the Arctic itself. A third focus, example is the Arctic extremes. Understanding their variability, what drives them, and how they affect other parts of the system. This includes considering how individual events interact with the background climate, for our ice sheet, component, our work focuses on understanding, changes in the Greenland ice sheet and their impacts. Improving ice sheet models is another priority, particularly for better predictions of the, for example, future sea level rise, across these topics, a common question is how the observations and models can work together to improve our understanding and predictions. So our collaboration activities help researchers identify shared questions and opportunities to address them. Next slide, please. So, yeah, this slide, summarized, the Arctic Extremes, webinar series. We our, Extreme's webinar series illustrates how we bring those interests together around specific extreme events and their impacts. So far, topics have included cyclones and extreme precipitation, wildfires and extreme temperatures, marine heat waves, cold air outbreaks, atmospheric rivers, and the one that upcoming one, these are rapid, sea ice loss. So, several sessions have also involved other teams and community of practice. We co-host those, webinars. If you're missed and interested, we have, YouTube videos recorded, for all those sessions. Please feel free to watch. And upcoming topics, listed also include, ice loss on, marine ecosystem and extremes involving, land ice. Through these discussions, we aim to connect researchers who approach related problems from different perspectives. share emerging findings and identify questions that would benefit from collaboration. So we welcome your ideas for future topics, and your participation in those conversations, especially where your work connects different parts of the Arctic system, with that, I will turn it over to the Risk Management and Hazard Mitigation team. Thank you. Sandy Starkweather Hi, everyone. Toni, I'm just confirming I'm presenting, right? Yes. Okay. Well, thanks so much for creating this forum for us to be able to share about our teams. I'm one of the newer colleagues of our Risk Management and Hazard Mitigation team. My name's Sandy Starkweather, I'm a research scientist at the University of Colorado, and I lead the U.S. Arctic Observing Network Initiative out of there. Other co-leads on our team include Analia Dahl from the Woodwell Climate Research Center, Tom Douglas, from CREL, John Viemeyer from the Department of Homeland Security, and then Chris Price, who's been serving as our, IARPC Arctic Community Leads Fellow Leaders Fellow, from the Knick Tribe. And so, the risk management and hazard mitigation priority area was a new priority area in this research plan. It hasn't been an explicit focus. In past plans. And so, there were really some great opportunities presented here by having this new focal area, because it has been incredibly collaborative, for sure across federal agencies, but it's also brought in a lot of Alaskan voices. So the emphasis of this group, as you can see, is securing and improving the quality of life through research, relevant research related to disaster risk exposure, hazards, and adaptive capacity. So the major accomplishments when this group was first forming, this was around the time when the Denali mission was working towards, updating the statewide threat assessment, and so at that time, Liza Mack was with the Denali Commission and really leveraged team activities to generate some focus and input around the plans for that statewide threat assessment. And then, in addition, there's been an incredible amount of hosting. And I will give Anna Lil Adal the credit for what she's done with that really dynamic, and thoughtful collection of topics. She's had, incredible inreach across the state of Alaska to bring in, some people I don't think that, in the IARPC family had been heard from very frequently before, really proving and validating the need for this priority focus area. So on the next slide, I'll say a little bit more. About that speaker series, which has been one of the principal ways that we've been doing this convening. If you joined any of our discussions last spring or summer, you might recognize this emphasis on, relevant, infrastructure issues, related to landslides. There's been a lot of engagement, with, the Alaska State Offices, Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys. Also, in the West Coast Storm Response, meeting that we hosted this year, and the topic related to partnering effectively with agencies to manage geohazards, that was in the spring of 2026. So, it's been I've learned quite a lot through this series. I think a lot of they've been well-attended meetings. I think a lot of people have, learned from these. And you can find out more about these under the events page on the website. If you miss them. All the meetings, of course, are recorded, and then on our next page, I think, the important thing to say here is that we really want to build on the success, of this series, and so we would like to, build on that success through understanding new topics. Chris Price, in particular, helped us, through the leadership group to, bring together this great discussion, between, Karina Kramer and Gil, Castanellos, from Fish and Wildlife Service. And so if you have ideas for the speaker series, topics that you think are important that we should bring forward, please reach out to our group. I encourage you to join these discussions and, join the learning and the progress here. Thank you. Toni O'Boyle Fantastic, thank you, Sandy. And up next, we've got our tech team, and Lisa is here to speak to this collaboration team. Lisa Sheffield Guy Thanks, Toni. Hi, I'm Lisa Sheffield Guy. I'm a program manager at the Alaska Ocean Observing System, and one of three co-leads for the Technology, Innovation, and Application team, along with Mark Siefeld and Jonathan Blight. We can go to the next slide. So the Technology Innovation and Application team began as an IARPC self-forming team following the 2020 Polar Technology Conference, and it was really an outcome of this conference where we wanted to keep having conversations. And, our interest, has shifted a bit now that we are an IARPC foundational activity collaboration team, but we still really focus on the application of technology in the challenging environmental conditions of both the Arctic and the Antarctic, which makes us slightly different than other teams, because we do have, that Antarctic focus as well, but for technology, it's really beneficial, because the conditions are so similar, and we get to learn a lot from our Antarctic counterparts. So We primarily use webinars as a space to share challenges and innovation in technology applications, and we typically co-host these webinars with other teams at IARPC, and our technology topics might jump around from marine-focused to terrestrial to atmospheric, so really broad applications. And, next slide, please. So, we've recently launched a new webinar series on longitudinal changes in technology over the past 20 to 30 years to highlight how long-term research programs have adapted their observing technologies and methods to take advantage of innovations in materials, connectivity, and communications. And so we recently hosted our first in the series, along with, the marine teams at IARPC on marine observations, looking at some of eco-focci's. long-term observing technology. Our next topic will be on terrestrial observation systems, and we are really open to webinar suggestions, especially if you have a story about, a technology that you're developing, challenges, successes. We like to highlight technology developers and industry, and really kind of bringing that engineering perspective, into our webinars as well. And as Sandy mentioned, all of our past webinar recordings are available, and please message me directly if you have any suggestions. Thanks. Toni O'Boyle Thank you, Lisa. And maybe something, too, I'll put in the chat, my email, because I know we've mentioned a couple teams already who are open to thoughts and collaboration, so I can help. help coordinate that. Thank you, Lisa. Up next, we've got our Tribal Consultation and Effective Processes Collaboration Team, and we have Cana here with us. Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq Hello, everybody! Welcome! I'm so glad that everybody's here, and thanks for this opportunity to talk about the Tribal Consultation and Effective Processes, or TCEP, team. We have quite an awesome team. We do a little bit different things than these other foundational activities, and I'll explain a little bit about that. We so I'm Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq. I am the director of the Center for Sustainable Engagement in the Arctic. At Virginia Tech, I'm also a tribally enrolled citizen of the Noorvik Native community in northwest Alaska. We on our team, we have Tara Corpus, who is the Arctic Community Leaders Fellow, and she's also she's Alaska Native as well, and is a history PhD student, starting this year at Brown University, so we're really excited to be able to work with her. We also have Nancy Sung from the National Science Foundation. We have Abby Cruz from the Environmental Protection Agency, Liam Frink from UNLV, Rosalie Debenham from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, who's also Alaska Native, and Lauren Baldrick from ERM, which is a engineering consultation group, I believe. And so, we have been working together for the last year or so, as our team has shifted from previous incantations as a foundational activity. And, next slide. So, the purpose of TCEP is really about more effective, responsible, respectful, and accountable partnerships between federal agencies, Arctic researchers, and tribes. In particular, you know, Tribal Consultation is a nation-to-nation process, so We primarily are dealing with Arctic research that is happening, in a way to negotiate between, federal organizations and, sovereign tribal nations. There are many there's 229 federally recognized tribes, in Alaska, and so and then there are, you know, if you take the Arctic subsets, like 100 or so, or 100 or more, depending on how you count, and so we are really thinking about how to the interface between, let's say, the EPA and their Arctic research, and how that might affect, let's say, my own home community of Noorvik, up in northwest Alaska, and having and thinking about how does Tribal Consultation work in those spaces, and how we can make it more effective, respectful, and accountable, for those communities. However, it is also important to note that, programs such as National Science Foundation have They have a, tribal Responsibility as well, so you need to get tribal permission to do some work in certain places. And so, we know that some of this work can, bleeds over into how Arctic researchers writ large might be doing this work. It's not exactly what we are working on, but we are working on processes that can also positively help inform best practices for Arctic researchers in general. However, we are working within the federal to nation, like, tribal nation interface. Next slide. So the TSEP deliverables, we've been working, diligently on our 1.1, which is these opportunities to strengthen and improve Tribal Consultation processes in Alaska and the Arctic. So what we have done there, I'll share on the next slide, but we've done a bunch of meetings, and we are creating some initial reports, to help us understand what people might be going through when it comes to consultation, both tribes and federal agencies or stakeholders, and then 1.2 is to develop a report on current consultation and engagement practices, so what's happening on the ground, and how, so we can, instead of having agencies be siloed on what they are doing, to share across knowledge systems, and also for tribes to be able to share across knowledge systems about what practices work best for them, and then 1.3 is to enhance IARPC's tribal engagement resources, so helping to develop resources, best practices, and leverage IARPC, the IARPC website. I'm not sure if Tara Corpus is here, but, she's gonna be coming in on the half hour, but she had, she's been working really hard to make a lib guide for how to get youth Engaged and youth engagement in the Tribal Consultation practices as part of capacity building in tribes themselves to engage with the federal Tribal Consultation process, which itself can, Is a large process that, takes a lot of capacity. Next slide. So, for the 1.1, like, just as a report on what we have been doing and accomplished, so we have we held a bunch of solution sessions, so instead of identifying the problems, to Tribal Consultation between sovereign tribal nations in Alaska and also, those negotiations between them and federal agencies. We have, because those, if, those issues have been known. Like, for a long time. And so people the problems have already been stated over and over and over. So as a as a as a sign of respect to tribal nations, we're not we weren't asking them about the same old thing that, like, what do you what have you already told people? We, instead, have put together some, like, from our own experiences in working with Tribal Consultation, we have put together that information, and we came up with some draft Solutions, some things that we thought might help, and then we ran it past Alaskan Native villages, so, tribes, and then ANCSAs, so Alaska Native Tribal, or Alaska Native Corporations, and then also federal employees. And so we see these as our primary stakeholders, and so we have I have a synthesis report from just a basic initial synthesis, of these sessions that I am scheduled to send out here soon. I just have to do a little bit of tweakage, and then we're also going to be here at Virginia Tech through the Center for Sustainable Engagement in the Arctic. We will be creating a recommendation report, data-driven from these solution sessions, but also, information that we have about tribal consultations that have happened in the Arctic. So the next step, we are working on, 1.2. Liam Frink from UNLV is heading up that effort, and we're really excited about that work already. So thanks so much. Toni O'Boyle Thank you so much, Cana. Yep, you got a preview. Up next is Coastal Resilience, and we've got Krista here with us today. Christina, I'll pass it over to you. Christina Bonsell Hi everyone, happy to be here to speak to the Coastal Resilience Collaboration team. This team is led by myself. I'm a marine ecologist with the Marine Minerals Administration. Taze Jones is with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Tom Ravens, who's a civil engineer at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and Elizabeth Walsh, who is a social scientist and archaeologist at the University of Cambridge. So we're an interdisciplinary team, and that is a real theme of the work that we do, and you'll see in these slides that a lot of the Webinars that we host and the meetings we hold, often collaborate with multiple IARPC teams. So, our overall goal is to strengthen coastal community resilience and advance stewardship of coastal, natural, and cultural resources. By engaging in that research that's related to interconnections of people, of nature, and of our built environment. So, the Coastal Zone is a zone of interaction and interconnection, and we really reflect that. And, here's a list of some recent meetings, that we've had. So on this list, you'll see meetings that focus on specific coastal projects and how the research relates to issues that coastal communities are seeing, and how those issues are being addressed, in practical ways. So the WeekAvik Seawall project is one example, of that, the Nunalik project, community-based archaeology in Quinhagak, and then natural and nature-based solutions in the Arctic. We've also, examined the Gravel to Gravel Initiative, which focuses on salmon issues, and then had a meeting about community-based ecosystem monitoring efforts in the coastal zone, and then one thing I want to highlight, one issue that we've been, highlighting and trying to bring people together around is, looking at storm impacts in Alaska, and how those are addressed, and how research can, again, help find solutions for local communities. So, we, held this meeting of a bunch of different agencies and organizations spanning, the federal space and the state space, as well as a nonprofit space, so Alaska Ocean Observing System, to, try to advance, coordination and collaboration, towards collecting environmental data after storms. So, we have more to come on this topic and other interdisciplinary topics in the coastal space, and if folks have ideas about other ways that we can advance topics that are near and dear to you, we'd love to hear them. Thank you. Toni O'Boyle Thank you, Christina. And up next, we have got our Permafrost Community of Practice, and we have Asisaun here with us to tell you a little bit about that group. Asisaun Toovak Hi, good morning! I am Asisaun Toovak. I'm the City Mayor for the City of Utqiagvik, and my co-leads are Lauren Boldrick, she's the consulting director and also a geologist, who's part of our team, and then we have Ben Jones. Neither are here today, but sometimes they're Ben is in the wild, and Lauren is at her desk, so sometimes that's the best place they could be. Ben is also the Associate Professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He just completed Coastal X. I don't I wish he would do a more of a presentation on that. I've seen it in person and seen him go through it, so He's one of our best, co-leads right now. We are looking for a federal team, though we need, we still need more on our team. We are looking for more, like a federal partner, within our permafrost team. Next slide, please. The permafrost impacts on infrastructure, climate change, ecosystems, and hazards of permafrost thaw. Some of the activities that we've had so far are webinars on methane emissions, rusting rivers, hazards, and mapping of permafrost thaw. Some of the key topics, are the importance of tribal sovereignty, permafrost thought impacts on health and infrastructure, carbon emissions. Another key topic is the need for infrastructure improvements, including renewable energy, healthcare systems. cyber infrastructure and security, roads, airstrips, etc, and also, workforce and capacity building. One of the things that, the city of Kaktovik and amongst, the North Slope That, we have yet to present on, but it's, UVA has been a great partner at the city on looking at permafrost thaw and I think the city, appreciates that. And so, permafrost has always been, something that we see on the North Slope in the Arctic, making, more headway than we want, but, so is Western Alaska, so one of the things that I find important, up in the north, in the Arctic, living here, breathing here, working here, is, permafrost spa, so that's why I'm here today. And please reach out if you have any comments or questions. I am on the website as well, too. I'll leave that to you to become a member, so you can see my information. Toni O'Boyle Well, thank you for Thank you, Asisaun, thank you for the plug, and I think to build on, a point, too, is becoming a member, we obviously encourage everyone to do, so that you can, you know, attend our webinars, be a part of these meetings, but, To also become community practice, collaboration, team leads, yourself. You can see we go through rotating cycles of, team leads joining, team leads needing to step away. Permafrost is one of those right now that is, seeking additional leads, so another reason we encourage everybody to get involved is, Come remember, see kind of what we're about, and maybe even raise your hand to be one of the co-leads, like all the folks presenting today. So thank you, for noting that, Asisaun. Okay, and our final community of practice today is, terrestrial ecosystems, and we have got Mike presenting on behalf of that group. Mike Loranty Hi folks, thanks everyone for joining. My name's Mike Loranty, I'm a physical geographer at Colgate University, and I've recently joined the Terrestrial Ecosystems Community of Practice Co-Lead Team. Yeah, you can see my colleagues here, Liz Hoy at the NASA Carbon Cycling Ecosystems Office, Daryl Yang at Oak Ridge National Lab. Elizabeth Power is at USGS, and then Caroline Ludden, who's at the Rose Holman Institute of Technology, currently. Next slide, please. So, as you might imagine, we're focused on terrestrial ecosystems, and we're really interested in developing landscape-scale understanding of the drivers and the impacts of terrestrial ecosystem change. So I think, you know, there are a number of folks on other teams who have mentioned, collaborations that between our teams, and I think that's a that's a really important theme of ours. One example of a recent activity that's worth highlighting is our Disturbance Interactions Workshop. This actually took place before I joined the community of practice as a co-lead, but I'm familiar with it nonetheless, and so we held a workshop The hybrid workshop in Alaska, in Anchorage, it was online and in person. We had about 60 attendees, including planners, that represented agencies, community members, researchers, and land managers. So the workshop included a series of listening sessions and discussion roundtables. So that we could exchange knowledge on, kind of, terrestrial disturbances and ecosystem interactions, kind of thinking about things like permafrost thaw, wildfires, vegetation change, how those are all interacting with each other. And think about the current state of, you know, kind of, like, how we're how we're investigating those changes, what the data products are, current mapping and modeling capabilities, and what tools might be out there to help communities prepare for The continued, terrestrial disturbances and changes that are seeing on the landscape. This, of course, wasn't, you know, as you can imagine, there's a this was germane to a number of other teams, so workshop planning there included representatives from the Permafrost team, Arctic Systems Interactions, Risk Management and Hazards, and then there were folks, from the observation group and the U.S. Arctic Observing Network that were also, involved in that. So that is a good example of a really nice activity that we're kind of I'm really happy how that turned out. Still kind of, yeah, we're still kind of reaping the benefits of that in terms of the interactions and the improved understanding. Next slide, please. And the last thing, I'll highlight a few recent webinars, and then just point to a few upcoming things that involve some of the other teams that we've heard from today. So we've had our Gravel to Gravel initiative. This was a joint Webinar with the Coastal Resilience and Marine Ecosystems team. Known visualization tools for improved decision-making during disasters workshop readout, so this was joint with risks. Permafrost disturbance impacts on Arctic ecosystems and the built environment. This was a joint webinar with the permafrost team. The Arctic Extreme series, which was mentioned earlier on, so the Wildfires and Extreme Temperatures, is a webinar that we co-hosted jointly with the Arctic Systems Interactions Group. And then, we had a webinar where we did something similar to what's happening today with the ACCAP team over the summer. So those are, you know, kind of a few examples of the sorts of things that we've been up to. We have, plans, early stages, in the works, work, to investigate, fires with the modeling community of practice, so thinking about wildfire modeling and what the state of knowledge is there. And we're also working with the tech team, to, look at, or, organize a webinar focused on emerging technologies and technology development over the last few decades in terrestrial ecosystem science, thinking about both remote sensing and then kind of ground-based, observational capabilities. And so, with that, I'll, thanks, everyone for their attention, and I think I'll turn it back over to Toni? Toni O'Boyle Yeah, thank you, Mike, and thank you, everyone. I think one thing to sort of address, I think, Jim, maybe you saw my reply in the chat, but just to underscore for folks, because I know we've talked about a lot of, like, our recent webinars and ideas for upcoming webinars, and just to put a fine point on this, that to register for upcoming webinars. you do need to create an account, and I put a link to request an account in the chat, and then we've got a whole, like, ongoing calendar of upcoming events, both events we're putting on as IARPC, as well as maybe events happening outside the IARPC sphere that we're promoting on there. But, you know, if you're not interested in an IARPC account, I did also link our YouTube channel, where we do post everything after the fact. So, wouldn't be able to join live, but would still definitely be able to engage with the content. Edward Plumb Thank you. Thank you, Toni, and a quick question on that. So, without is that going to list all the webinars across all the groups in IARPC that are coming up? Toni O'Boyle The website page. Edward Plumb Yeah. Toni O'Boyle Yes. So the events link that, again, you'll need a membership account to click on the upcoming events, but it'll have, everything that's scheduled, and there'll be a little iceberg to indicate, like, the one on my background here to indicate an event put on by one of our collaboration teams or communities of practice. But, like I said earlier, too, it's we kind of use Arabic Collaborations as, like, the Facebook of Arctic Research, so that'll indicate an event that we're putting on. Here, but any members of IARPC Collaborations can also post about things that are upcoming, so we also will have upcoming events shared by other agencies, academics, things that they're either hosting or that they know that are happening in the Arctic research space, so it'll be kind of a collection of Lots of things going on relevant to Arctic research. Edward Plumb Okay, great, thank you. And, I Hailong, I see you have a question. I did, if you if anyone else has questions, I've enabled you to unmute yourself and turn on your camera if you want to ask a question directly. So, but, go ahead, Hailong. Hailong Wang Yeah, I'll just add to Toni's response to Jim's question. So, if you're actually interested in suggesting topics or speakers, volunteer speakers, also email that to Toni, so she will collect all the information, share with colleagues. Toni O'Boyle Yes, and let me repost, I'll repost my email in the chat. Edward Plumb So, does anyone have any questions they'd like to ask, directly? I see there's a question actually, Toni, maybe you can see it's a question in the chat. I know From Ramey. And while you're looking at that, I know there was a question about the mental health in circumpolar North, so I don't know if anyone wanted to expand on that. I know there was a brief answer in the chat, but if anybody has any Anything that you'd like to expand on that topic, feel free to do so, too. Toni O'Boyle Yeah, and it looks like Ramey was also commenting on this piece, and, Sorina has some historical context here, because I think, too I don't think there'll be a, I don't know if there'll be, like, a playlist on our YouTube, but there have been specific events that have been held via ARPA Collaborations, like, on mental health, and like I said in the chat, we don't have a group right now that's sort of that's their singular area of focus. It's kind of captured under our wellness policy driver, which sits, like, across some of our teams, but both Christine and I pointed specifically to our community resilience and health team, and I put their focus in the chat, improving community resilience and well-being by strengthening research and developing tools, to increase understanding of interdependent social, natural, and built systems in the Arctic. So, definitely Feel free to check out that team link on the site, and again, if you don't have an account, our YouTube channel does have, if you click by playlist, you can search by specific teams to kind of parse out the content that you want to view. So maybe going to our health team specifically to look at some of their past meetings. Edward Plumb Great, thank you, Toni. Any other questions or any comments? Christina Bonsell I saw that Victoria had a question about if BLM is involved, and I know so BLM is one of the agencies that's under IARPC, but I am not sure if they are currently a co-lead on any groups. Toni, do you know if they are? Currently a co-lead. Toni O'Boyle Yeah, I don't know that we've Got a current co-lead. We've we had some A few changes in leadership over like, the summertime, and Sorina, correct me if there's anybody coming to mind for you, but at different points, yeah, we will have, someone from BLM as a lead, but I don't know that we've got one right now. Edward Plumb Okay, well, I don't see any more questions. Well, thank you so much, everyone, for taking the time out to either present or, attend the webinar today. As I mentioned, the webinar has been recorded, and I'll get the recording uploaded on our website later today, and send out an email. And I will the email will also include emails for all the speakers, and then I'll track down all the links that were shared during the presentation and put into the chat, and include those in the email as well. So those are my that's all from me. Toni, any final thoughts from on behalf of IARPC. Toni O'Boyle Just thank you again, everybody, for joining today. Hopefully, you learned a little or a lot about IARPC and what we do, and like I said, we've got this was just 7 of our collaboration teams and communities to practice, so there's many others to check out and get involved with. Again. point folks to that request an account link if you don't already have one, but, yeah, definitely feel free to reach out to me, and we'll maybe include my email in the follow-up, so that folks can, like, ask more questions, or get connected with any of these teams, or if there's Teams or communities that we didn't mention, and you're wondering about them, or wondering if we have them, then we can chat. Edward Plumb Okay, great. Thanks, everyone. Have a, nice afternoon, wherever you are, and hopefully catch you at another ACCAP webinar. Thanks again. Take care. Toni O'Boyle Thank you all.