The Antarctica InSync Science Planning Workshop |ESA ESRIN

From 3rd to 6th November 2025 ESA at ESRIN will host the Antarctica InSync Science Planning Workshop.

Antarctica InSync is a globally coordinated scientific initiative established to address the pan-Antarctic scale of environmental change currently unfolding across the Antarctic continent and the Southern Ocean. The initiative is grounded in an integrated, system-level research framework that facilitates synchronised, multi-platform observations across atmospheric, oceanic, cryospheric, and biological domains.

The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together invited experts representing the Antarctica InSync National Committees to discuss science priorities, align methodologies and timelines, coordinate data collection and finalise the Scientific Plan for Antarctica InSync.

The output will be a series of white papers for each of Antarctica InSync science themes:

1) Southern Ocean and Antarctic heat, freshwater, carbon and other elements cycles and their response to climate change.
2) Rapid sea-ice decline and its causes and consequences.
3) Melting ice sheets and ice shelves, and coastal impacts.
4) Improving knowledge and protection of the unique Antarctic life: from land to ocean and into the deep sea.
5) Anthropogenic signatures in Antarctica: the race against pollution and other pressures.
6) Aerosol-cloud interactions and radiative feedbacks.
7) Climate variability: from extremes, to weather, long-term variability, and global teleconnections.