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UNOLS Arctic Marine Research Capabilities Committee (AMRCC) Community Meeting
31 January 2025
9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. AKT
Adventure Room, Hotel Captain Cook
Anchorage, Alaska
For more information, go to:
https://www.alaskamarinescience.org/workshops
The University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) Arctic Marine Research Capabilities Committee (AMRCC) announce their Community Meeting. This in-person meeting will take place 31 January 2025, 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. AKT, in the Adventure Room at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska in conjunction with the Alaska Marine Science Symposium.
During this meeting, Committee members will review the charge to the Committee and the Committee’s activities to date and will welcome comments and input on envisioned science directions and research cruises in the Arctic Ocean for the next 30 years, on existing and future gaps in our ability to address these questions, and on critically needed science enabling capabilities of federal vessels in the Arctic Ocean.
The AMRCC is a UNOLS Special Committee established to review and refresh science missions and science mission requirements (SMRs) of future Federal icebreakers operating in the Arctic Ocean and other northern polar regions. The Committee is evaluating if existing Arctic SMRs meet current needs for Arctic research on Federal icebreakers and is identifying any additional SMRs required to ensure that Federal icebreakers will meet the needs of the Arctic marine research community for the next 30 years. Specifically, the Committee is reviewing and refreshing SMRs for (a) any commercially available polar icebreaker that may be acquired or procured and refit for operation by the Federal government; and (b) the conceptual design of future “medium” or “heavy” Federal-flagged and owned icebreakers.
For more information, go to:
https://www.alaskamarinescience.org/workshops
For questions, contact:
Carin Ashjian, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Email: cashjian [at] whoi.edu
Doug Russell, UNOLS Executive Secretary
Email: doug [at] unols.org