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The 2025 Arctic Report Card marks the 20th year of the annual report that synthesizes sustained Arctic observations each year into a clear, peer-reviewed account of the evolution and complexity of the Arctic region. The Report Card will feature updates, including several new records, on this year’s air temperature, sea ice extent, ocean temperature, plankton blooms, snow cover, tundra/ forest greenness, Greenland ice sheet and precipitation.
New chapters focus on emerging issues including the Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean, impacts of melting permafrost on the phenomenon of “rusting rivers” throughout Alaska, impacts of warming on glaciers and ice caps, the response of midwater and bottom-dwelling fish and other marine species to changing Bering and Chukchi Sea conditions, and the work of the Indigenous Sentinels Network, a community-based environmental monitoring project based on St. Paul Island, Alaska.
The report card is produced by 112 authors from 13 different countries, reflecting broad international expertise and collaboration. The card is an internationally recognized primary source of timely information for the media, students, scientists, Arctic communities and other decision-makers.
Panel:
Steven Thur, PhD, NOAA Assistant Administrator, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and Acting NOAA Chief Scientist (noaa.gov/our-people/leadership/steve-thur-phd)
Matthew Druckenmiller, PhD, National Snow and Ice Data Center (nsidc.org/about/about-nsidc/what-we-do/our-people/matthew_druckenmiller)
Hannah-Marie Ladd, Director, Indigenous Sentinels Network, Aleut Community of Saint Paul Island (sentinelsnetwork.com/about-us)
Gabriel Wolken, PhD, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks (dggs.alaska.gov/pubs/staff/gjwolken)
Abagael Pruitt, PhD, UC Davis (https://poulinlab.ucdavis.edu/people/abagael-pruitt)
Gerald “JJ” Frost, PhD, ABR Inc. (abrinc.com/about/staff/gerald-v-frost-phd)
Related presentations:
C33A – Convergence Research in the Arctic: Drawing from Diverse Disciplines and Knowledge Systems to Address Complex Societal Challenges I Oral
C32A-07 The Changing Greenland Ice-bioscape System: New Data, Tools, and Insights (Invited)
B11E-05 Towards a Warmer, Less Frozen Future Arctic: Synthesis of Tundra Ecosystem Drivers and Responses in Western Alaska
C52A – Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Sea Ice II Oral
EP34B-07 Seasonal motion at the Barry Arm landslide, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, driven by headscarp-proximal glacier melt and subglacial topography of adjacent Cascade Glacier
Contact: Monica Allen, NOAA, monica.allen@noaa.gov; Theo Stein, NOAA, theo.stein@noaa.gov
NOAA
The 2025 Arctic Report Card marks the 20th year of the annual report that synthesizes sustained Arctic observations each year into a clear, peer-reviewed account of the evolution and complexity of the Arctic region. The Report Card will feature updates, including several new records, on this year’s air temperature, sea ice extent, ocean temperature, plankton blooms, snow cover, tundra/ forest greenness, Greenland ice sheet and precipitation.
New chapters focus on emerging issues including the Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean, impacts of melting permafrost on the phenomenon of “rusting rivers” throughout Alaska, impacts of warming on glaciers and ice caps, the response of midwater and bottom-dwelling fish and other marine species to changing Bering and Chukchi Sea conditions, and the work of the Indigenous Sentinels Network, a community-based environmental monitoring project based on St. Paul Island, Alaska.
The report card is produced by 112 authors from 13 different countries, reflecting broad international expertise and collaboration. The card is an internationally recognized primary source of timely information for the media, students, scientists, Arctic communities and other decision-makers.
Panel:
Steven Thur, PhD, NOAA Assistant Administrator, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and Acting NOAA Chief Scientist (noaa.gov/our-people/leadership/steve-thur-phd)
Matthew Druckenmiller, PhD, National Snow and Ice Data Center (nsidc.org/about/about-nsidc/what-we-do/our-people/matthew_druckenmiller)
Hannah-Marie Ladd, Director, Indigenous Sentinels Network, Aleut Community of Saint Paul Island (sentinelsnetwork.com/about-us)
Gabriel Wolken, PhD, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks (dggs.alaska.gov/pubs/staff/gjwolken)
Abagael Pruitt, PhD, UC Davis (https://poulinlab.ucdavis.edu/people/abagael-pruitt)
Gerald “JJ” Frost, PhD, ABR Inc. (abrinc.com/about/staff/gerald-v-frost-phd)
Related presentations:
C33A – Convergence Research in the Arctic: Drawing from Diverse Disciplines and Knowledge Systems to Address Complex Societal Challenges I Oral
C32A-07 The Changing Greenland Ice-bioscape System: New Data, Tools, and Insights (Invited)
B11E-05 Towards a Warmer, Less Frozen Future Arctic: Synthesis of Tundra Ecosystem Drivers and Responses in Western Alaska
C52A – Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Sea Ice II Oral
EP34B-07 Seasonal motion at the Barry Arm landslide, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, driven by headscarp-proximal glacier melt and subglacial topography of adjacent Cascade Glacier
Contact: Monica Allen, NOAA, monica.allen@noaa.gov; Theo Stein, NOAA, theo.stein@noaa.gov
