| 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 Program Status |
| 8:55-9:15 | Roberto Sabia ESA, Italy |
ESA Program Status |
| 9:15-9:30 | Annette deCharon ODYSEA, USA |
NASA Salinity Website and StoryMaps |
| 9:30-10:00 | Coffee Break / Poster Session | |
| 10:00-10:05 | Tony Lee/Severine Fournier | Meeting Agenda and Discussion Guide |
| 10:05-10:30 | 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 |
| 10:30-11:15 | 2023 10km L-band Workshop Recap + Discussion | |
| 11:15-12:00 | SESSION: Summer 2027 in the Arctic | |
| 11:15-11:25 | Gesine Mollenhauer Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany |
Polarstern Voyage to the Beaufort Sea to Study the Effects of the Mackenzie River Outflow |
| 11:25-11:45 | Peter Gaube University of Washington-APL, USA |
FRESH Arctic Kick-off: Fate of River Export and Surface Hydrology |
| 11:45-12:00 | TBD | Other Summer 2027 Arctic Campaigns |
| 12:00-13:30 | LUNCH | |
| 13:30-17:00 | SESSION: Arctic Ocean Processes | |
| 13:30-13:45 | 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 |
| 13:45-14:00 | Chao Liu CNRS, IFREMER, Franc |
Estimating Regional and Pan-Arctic Freshwater Content Variability from Satellite Sea Surface Salinity |
| 14:00-14:15 | Semyon Grodsky University of Maryland, USA |
On the Link Between Chukchi Sea SSS and Bering Strait Inflow |
| 14:15-14:30 | Peter Gaube University of Washington-APL, USA |
Surface Salinity Controls Upper-Ocean Stratification in Open Waters of the Arctic Ocean |
| 14:30-14:45 | Mike Steele University of Washington-APL, USA |
MicroSWIFT Buoys Measure SST and SSS in the Alaskan Arctic |
| 14:45-15:00 | Fred Bingham University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA |
Spatial Scales of Sea Surface Salinity and Temperature Variability in the Beaufort Sea |
| 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 | Ben Kopec Michigan Technological University, USA |
High Resolution Freshwater Partitioning with Continuous Seawater Isotopic (δ18O, δ2H) tracing |
| 16:15-16:30 | Wayana Dolan US Geophysical Survey, USA |
Let's Connect! Tracking the Connectivity-Associated Movement of Water and Sediment Through Arctic Deltas Using Optical Satellite Imagery |
| 16:30-17:00 | Discussion | |
| THURSDAY 21 MAY 2026 | ||
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| 8:30-12:00 | SESSION: Salinity Products and Cal/Val | |
| 8:30-8:45 | Gael Alory LEGOS, France |
Near Real Time Processing of Underway Salinity Data from Ships of Opportuniy |
| 8:45-9:00 | Florian Le Guillou Datlas, France |
High-Resolution SSS Retrieval Via VarDyn |
| 9:00-9:15 | Fabrice Bonjean LOCEAN/CNRS, France |
CCI+SSS: Enhancing Observations of Sea Surface Salinity to Meet Climate Challenge |
| 9:15-9:30 | Oleg Melnichenko Earth & Space Research, USA |
Recent Updates to the Multi-Mission Sea Surface Salinity Optimum Interpolation (OISSS) Analysis Version 3 |
| 9:30-9:45 | Estrella Olmedo ICM-CSIC, Spain | CCI-OSHF: A New ESA Climate Change Initiative to Enhance Ocean Surface Heat Fluxes Estimates |
| 9:45-10:15 | Coffee Break / Poster Session | |
| 10:15-10:30 | Thomas Meissner Remote Sensing Systems, USA |
Detection and Flagging of Radio Frequency Interference Contamination in SMAP Ocean Observations |
| 10:30-10:45 | Julian Schanze Earth & Space Research, USA |
Towards SSS Fiduciary Reference Measurements: An Overview of Sub-Footprint Variability, Stratification, and Calibration-Validation Methods |
| 10:45-12:00 | Discussion | |
| 12:00-13:30 | LUNCH | |
| 13:30-16:45 | SESSION: Coastal Ocean Processes | |
| 13:30-13:45 | Jamie Shutler University of Exeter, UK |
Salinity's Role in Ocean Carbon Cycling and Acidification |
| 13:45-14:00 | Scott Durski Oregon State University, USA |
Assessment of Salinity Variability in the Bering Sea from Satellite-Based Observations and a Coupled Ice-Ocean Model, with Comparison to Concurrent Work on the Northern California Current System |
| 14:00-14:15 | Clovis Thouvenin LEGOS, France |
Drivers of Mississippi Freshwater Plume Variability and Export Toward Florida: Insights from Long Term Remote Sensing Observations and a Regional Ocean Model Ensemble |
| 14:15-14:30 | Dipanjan Chaudhuri University of Washington-APL, USA |
The Radiative Trap: How River Water Modulates Equatorial Ocean Heat Uptake |
| 14:30-14:45 | Sreelekha Jarugula NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA |
Coastal Salinity: A Proxy for Human and Natural Hydrological Cycle Change |
| 14:45-15:00 | Alexander Kurapov NOAA NOS/OCS/CSDL/CMMB, USA |
Seasonal and Interannual Variability in the Ocean Surface Salinity Along the US West Coast |
| 15:00-15:15 | Coffee Break / Poster Session | |
| 15:15-16:45 | Discussion | |
| 16:45-17:00 | Tony Lee/Severine Fournier NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA |
Closing Remarks |
| POSTERS | ||
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| SESSION: Arctic Ocean Processes | ||
| Marie Zahn NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA |
SASSIE ECCO: A New High-Resolution Arctic Ocean and Sea Ice State Estimate | |
| SESSION: Mission, Sensors, and Retrievals | ||
| Alex Akins NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA |
SMAP’s Decadal View of L-band Ocean Surface Emissivity | |
| SESSION: Open Ocean Processes | ||
| Sreelekha Jarugula NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA |
Using ECCO State Estimate to Understand the Decadal Variation of Upper-Ocean Salinity in the Southeast Indian Ocean | |
| SESSION: Salinity Products and Cal/Val | ||
| Jesse Anderson Earth & Space Research, USA |
Characterization of SMAP Salinity Dataset Biases and Errors | |
| So-Hyun Kim Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea |
AI-Driven Global Sea Surface Salinity Retrieval from Ocean Color | |
| Sebastien Guimbard Ocean-Scope, France |
Pi-MEP: Advanced Multi-Mission Tools for Satellite Salinity Assessment | |
| Jacqueline Boutin LOCEAN/CNRS, France |
Novel Global and Arctic SSS Fields Developed at CATDS CEC-OS | |
| Laetitia Parc LOCEAN/CNRS, France |
C3S Sea Surface Salinity | |
| Estrella Olmedo ICM-CSIC, Spain |
Polar Monitoring from Space: BEC SSS Data Products | |
| SESSION: Coastal Ocean Processes | ||
| Jihun Jung Oregon State University, USA |
Sea Surface Salinity Variability in the Gulf of Anadyr, Bering Sea | |