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KITP Program: The Physics of Changing Polar Climate
(May 13 - Jul 18, 2025)
Coordinators: Patrick Heimbach, Paul Kushner, Gudrun Magnusdottir, Mathieu Morlighem, and Helene Seroussi
Scientific Advisors: Matthew England, Brad Marston, Sophie Nowicki, Fiammetta Straneo, and Michael Tjernström

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Time Speaker Title
7/18, 10:00am Participants Synthesis[Video][CC]
7/17, 10:00am Participants Synthesis[Video]
7/16, 10:00am Marilyn Raphael
UCLA
Structural change in Antarctic sea ice: determining the causal mechanisms[Video][CC]
7/15, 10:00am Doyeon Kim
NASA Langley
Arctic Albedo Trends: Drivers and the Missed Warming Signal in Models[Video][CC]
7/14, 10:00am Aneesh Subramanian
U Colorado, Boulder
Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Region[Video][CC]
7/11, 10:00am Sophie Nowicki
SUNY Buffalo
All for one and one for all: revisiting ice sheet model weighting for sea level projections.
7/10, 1:15pm Qinghua Ding
UCSB
Roles of large scale circulation in shaping Arctic climate variability over recent decades[Video][CC]
7/09, 10:00am Mathieu Morlighem
Dartmouth
Special Transdisciplinary Session: Geoengineering and the Polar Regions - internal discussion
7/08, 10:00am Mathieu Morlighem (host)
(Dartmouth)
Steven Desch
(ASU)
Ed Blanchard Wrigglesworth
(U Washington)
Brent Minchew
(MIT)
Daniele Visioni
(Cornell U)
Brad Marston
(Brown U)
Special Transdisciplinary Session: Geoengineering and the Polar Regions - talks
7/07, 10:45am Tim Merlis
Princeton U
Emulating the Atmosphere's Response to Polar Climate Change[Slides][Video][CC]
7/03, 11:00am Nicole Shibley
Cambridge
Fluid Processes of Ice-Covered Oceans in Geophysical and Astrophysical Settings
7/03, 10:00am Olga Sergienko
Princeton
Ice-sheet/Ocean Interaction in the Global Ocean-Cryosphere Model iOM4[Video][CC]
7/02, 10:00am Ken Zhao
Oregon State
How does the ocean melt glaciers and where does the meltwater go?[Video][CC]
7/01, 10:00am Paul Kushner (Moderator)
(University of Toronto)
Patrick Heimbach (panelist)
(U. Texas, Austin)
François Massonnet (panelist)
(U. C. Louvain)
Patrick Taylor (panelist)
(NASA Langley)
Steven Diggs (panelist)
(Scripps Inst. Oceanography)
Special Transdisciplinary Session: Safeguarding Polar Data
6/30, 1:30pm Paul Kushner
University of Toronto
Week 8 Program Introduction
6/23-6/26 Conference: The Future of Earth’s Polar Regions
6/18, 3:30pm Young-Oh Kwon
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Some climate modeling options[Video][CC]
6/18, 1:30pm Henri Drake
UC Irvine
Modeling #2 - Hierarchical modeling of ocean-ice interactions[Slides][Video][CC]
6/17, 10:00am Nicole Feldl
UC Santa Cruz
Modeling #1 - Atmosphere-ice interactions[Slides][Video][CC]
6/16, 1:30pm Weekly introduction
6/16, 9:00am Michael Tjernstrom
Univ. Stockholm, Sweden
Why measurements, when we have reanalysis?[Slides][Video][CC]
6/13, 10:00am Patrick Heimbach
UT Austin
Data Assimilation and all that: from Bayesian inference to estimation and prediction[Slides][Video][CC]
6/11, 10:00am Alex Robel
Georgia Tech
Ensemble modeling of ice sheets[Slides][Video][CC]
6/10, 12:15pm Alex Robel
Georgia Tech
The long-tail of future plausibilities in the stochastic climate system[Video][CC]
6/09, 1:30pm Patrick Heimbach
UT Austin
Weekly Introduction
6/06, 10:00am Andrew Thompson
Caltech
The connected Southern Ocean circulation: Gateways, feedbacks and stratification[Slides][Video][CC]
6/04, 10:00am Christ Horvat
Brown University
New observations of sea ice[Slides][Video][CC]
6/03, 10:00am Felicity McCormack
Monash University
Observations to constrain ice-shelf melt rates and ocean-ice shelf interactions[Slides][Video][CC]
6/02, 2:00pm Andy Aschwanden
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Ice sheet models, continued[Slides][Video][CC]
6/02, 1:30pm Patrick Heimbach
UT Austin
Weekly Introduction and recap
5/30, 2:00pm Marianne Haseloff
UW-Madison
Physics of Polar Climate - Ice sheet models[Slides][Video][CC]
5/30, 10:00am Celine Heuze
Uni Gothenburg
Physics of Polar Climates - Ocean #2[Slides][Video][CC]
5/29, 2:00pm David Bonan
Caltech
Do clouds contribute to Arctic amplification?[Slides][Video][CC]
5/29, 10:30am Jen Kay
(U Colorado Boulder)
Aaron Donohoe
(University of Washington)
Physics of Polar Climates - Atmosphere #2[Slides][Video][CC]
5/28, 10:00am Ian Eisenman
UC San Diego
Physics of Polar Climates - Sea Ice #2[Slides][Video][CC]
5/27, 10:00am Paul Kushner
U Toronto
Program Introduction and Recap - Week 3
5/23, 10:00am Frank Pattyn
(ULB)
Mathieu Morlighem
(Dartmouth College)
Physics of Polar Climates - Land Ice #2[Slides][Video][CC]
5/22, 3:45pm Lauren Hoffman
UC Louvain
AI4InSync #4[Slides][Video][CC]
5/22, 2:15pm Lauren Hoffman
UC Louvain
AI4InSync #3[Slides][Video][CC]
5/21, 3:45pm Lauren Hoffman
UC Louvain
AI4InSync #2[Slides][Video][CC]
5/21, 2:15pm Lauren Hoffman
UC Louvain
AI4InSync #1[Slides][Video][CC]
5/21, 10:00am Cecilia Bitz
U Washington
Physics of Polar Climates - Sea Ice #1[Slides][Video]
5/20, 10:00am Mathieu Morlighem
(Dartmouth)
Frank Pattyn
(ULB)
Physics of Polar Climates - Land Ice #1[Slides][Video][CC]
5/19, 2:00pm Edward Blanchard Wrigglesworth
Washington
Increasing boreal fires reduce future global warming and sea ice loss[Slides][Video][CC]
5/19, 1:30pm Mathieu Morlighem
Dartmouth
Program Introduction and Recap - Week 2
5/16, 10:00am Camille Lique
IFREMER
Physics of Polar Climates - Ocean #1[Slides][Video][CC]
5/14, 3:30pm Paul Kushner
U Toronto
The Physics of Polar Climates: Predictions, Patterns, Problems[Slides][Video]
KITP Colloquium
5/14, 10:00am Gudrun Magnusdottir
UC Irvine
Physics of Polar Climates - Atmosphere #1[Slides][Video]
5/13, 10:00am Paul Kushner
(University of Toronto)
Mathieu Morlighem
(Dartmouth College)
Patrick Heimbach
(UT Austin)
Gudrun Magnusdottir
(UC Irvine)
Discussion: Physics of Polar Climate Program Introduction, Goals, and Schedule
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