| TUESDAY 19 MAY 2026 | ||
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| 8:30-8:35 | Peter Gaube UW-APL, USA |
Welcoming Remarks |
| 8:35-8:55 | Nadya Vinogradova-Shiffer NASA, USA |
NASA Ocean Physics |
| 8:55-9:15 | Roberto Sabia ESA, Italy |
ESA Program Status |
| 9:15-9:30 | Annette deCharon ODYSEA, USA |
NASA Salinity Website and StoryMaps |
| 9:30-9:35 | Tony Lee/Severine Fournier | Meeting Agenda and Discussion Guide |
| 10:00-10:30 | Lisan Yu Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA |
Keynote - Where Salinity Takes Control: The Meso-Submesoscale Thermohaline Transition and the Need for 10-km Salinity Sensing |
| 10:05-10:30 | Coffee Break / Poster Session | |
| 10:30-11:00 | SESSION: Summer 2027 in the Arctic Chair: Julian Schanze |
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| 10:30-10:45 | Gesine Mollenhauer Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany |
Research with the RV Polarstern in the Canadian Beaufort Sea in 2027 (Beau PAIR) |
| 10:45-11:00 | Peter Gaube University of Washington-APL, USA |
FRESH Arctic Kick-off: Fate of River Export and Surface Hydrology |
| 11:00-16:15 | SESSION: Arctic Processes Chairs: Marie Zahn and Carlyn Schmidgall |
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| 11:00-11:15 | Semyon Grodsky University of Maryland, USA |
On the Link Between Chukchi Sea SSS and Bering Strait Inflow |
| 11:15-11:30 | Joan Bergas-Ques ICM-CSIC, Spain |
Exploring Salinity and Density Fluxes Variability in the Nordic Seas Through New Satellite Products: Insights from ESA's Polar Science Cluster ARCTIC-FLOW Project |
| 11:30-11:45 | Chao Liu CNRS, IFREMER, Franc |
Satellite-informed Reconstruction of Upper-Ocean Freshwater Content Variability in the Barents Sea |
| 11:45-12:00 | Maria Tzortziou The City College of New York, USA |
FORTE: NASA Earth Venture Suborbital Mission |
| 12:00-13:30 | LUNCH | |
| 13:30-13:45 | Peter Gaube University of Washington-APL, USA |
Salinity Science at the Sea Ice Edge |
| 13:45-14:00 | Mike Steele University of Washington-APL, USA |
MicroSWIFT Buoys Measure SST and SSS in the Alaskan Arctic |
| 14:00-14:15 | Fred Bingham University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA |
Float Observations in the Beaufort Sea - Preliminary Results |
| 14:15-14:30 | Anastasia Piliouras Penn State University, USA |
Estimating Flow and Transport Through Arctic Deltas with Network-based Modeling |
| 14:30-14:45 | Wayana Dolan U.S. Geological Survey, USA |
Let's Connect! Tracking the Connectivity-Associated Movement of Water and Sediment Through Arctic Deltas Using Optical Satellite Imagery |
| 14:45-15:00 | Ben Kopec Michigan Technological University, USA |
High Resolution Freshwater Partitioning with Continuous Seawater Isotopic (δ18O, δ2H) tracing |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break / Poster Session | |
| 15:30-15:45 | Jim Thomson University of Washington-APL, USA |
Drifting and Moored Observations of Coastal River Plumes Along the North Slope of Alaska |
| 15:45-16:00 | Marie Zahn NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA |
Riverine Freshwater Effects on Fall Sea Ice Freeze-Up in the Beaufort Sea |
| 16:00-16:15 | Dimitris Menemenlis San Jose State University, USA |
Sea Surface Salinity in the ECCO llc4320v2 Global-Ocean-Ice-River-Tides Simulation |
| 16:15-17:00 | Discussion Leads: Julian Schanze and Severine Fournier |
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| WEDNESDAY 20 MAY 2026 | ||
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| 8:30-12:00 | SESSION: Mission, Sensors, and Retrievals Chair: Tony Lee |
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| 8:30-8:45 | Nicolas Reul IFREMER/LOPS, France |
The Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) Mission |
| 8:45-9:00 | Jacqueline Boutin LOCEAN/CNRS, France |
Beyond L-Band: Wideband (0.4–2 GHz) Radiometry for Observing Surface Salinity in Cold Seawater |
| 9:00-9:15 | Alex Akins NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA |
A Promising Avenue for High-Resolution Remote Sensing of SSS from Space |
| 9:15-9:30 | Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez CNRS, CESBIO, France |
The Fine Resolution Explorer for Salinity, Carbon and Hydrology (FRESCH) L-band Mission |
| 9:30-9:45 | Veronica Gonzalez-Gambau BEC, ICM-CSIC, Spain |
Assessing CryoRad Mission Performance Using an End-to-End Simulator for Wideband Ocean Salinity Retrieval |
| 9:45-10:00 | Liu Hao National Space Science Center, China |
The First Year In-Orbit Performances of MICAP (Microwave Imager Combined Active and Passive) Onboard Chinese Ocean Salinity Satellite |
| 10:45-11:00 | Sidharth Misra NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA |
Coastal and Polar Salinity Remote Sensing Solutions – Near-surface, Airborne, and Spaceborne |
| 11:00-12:00 | Discussion Leads: Tony Lee and Alex Akins |
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| 12:00-13:30 | LUNCH | |
| 13:30-17:00 | SESSION: Open Ocean Processes Chair: Clovis Thouvenin |
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| 13:30-13:45 | Nicolas Reul IFREMER/LOPS, France |
Thermo-haline Surface Signatures of the Gulf Stream Eddies: Statistics Based on Historical Satellite SSS Data |
| 13:45-14:00 | Antoine Hochet | The Role of Large-Scale Seasonal Cycle Advection in Maintaining the Mean Ocean Salinity Distribution |
| 14:00-14:15 | Laifang Li Pennsylvania State University, USA |
Sea Surface Salinity Signatures Precedent the Pineapple Express and the Implications for Rainfall Prediction Beyond Weather Time |
| 14:15-14:30 | Ray Schmitt Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA |
On the Stability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in our Warming Climate |
| 14:45-15:00 | Justin Small NSF NCAR, USA |
Comparisons of Salinity and Temperature Budgets in the Upper Ocean |
| 15:00-15:15 | Subra Bulusu University of South Carolina, USA |
Coupled Salinity–Temperature Extremes and Upper-Ocean Stratification During Marine Heatwaves in the Northwest Atlantic |
| 15:15-15:30 | Aneesh Subramaniam University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
Satellite Sea Surface Salinity Assimilation Improves the Representation of Upper-Ocean Thermohaline Structure and Variability in the NASA GEOS S2S 2 Model |
| 15:30-15:45 | Shineng Hu Duke University, USA |
Salinity-Induced Eastward Flow in Boreal Spring Favors Extreme El Niño |
| 15:45-16:00 | Tony Lee NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA |
Attribution of Freshening in the Central Equatorial Pacific Ocean during El Niño |
| 16:15-17:00 | Discussion Leads: Clovis Thouvenin and Sreelekha Jarugula |
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