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The Summit Station research community is invited to attend the Summit Station Users Group Meeting on Thurs, Dec. 14, at 8am in the ARCUS Arctic Community Meeting Room Riverside I on the second floor of the Hampton Inn and Suites New Orleans-Convention Center hotel.

Summit Station, in the center of the Greenland ice sheet, is a vibrant interdisciplinary research hub that has served as a crucial component of the Arctic observing system for nearly 3 decades. This station has yielded numerous scientific insights, but operating Summit and similar remote stations is resource intensive. Keeping these stations at the cutting edge of scientific research requires strategic planning and scientific vision. Earlier this year, the National Science Foundation supported and hosted a planning session to update the scientific vision and direction for Summit Station. A multidisciplinary group of about 30 scientists, including remote participants, reviewed science activities at Summit, defined future scientific research questions and goals, and made community-based recommendations on science-enabling future scenarios and governance.

A report highlighting the findings and recommendations from the 2017 Summit Station Science Summit is available.

This survey is for use by the Summit Station Science Summit Organizing Committee for informational purposes among colleagues to gauge the broad scientific use of Summit Station and its data.

The two AGU Town Hall Meetings are being held on Thurs, 15 Dec, at 08:00 and 09:15 in the Arctic Community Meeting Room, Foothill E, in the San Francisco Marriott Marquis.

The Science Coordination Office (SCO) for Summit Station and the Greenland Inland Traverse (GrIT) invites you to take part in a workshop on Tues., Jan. 19, 2016, in Greenbelt, Maryland, that will focus on Future Research and Station Development Directions on the ice sheet including traverse science and ongoing research at Summit.

The Summit Station research community is invited to attend the Summit Station users group meeting on Weds, Dec. 16, in the ARCUS meeting room complex (Foothill D room) from 8:30-9:30am.

Over the coming decades, Summit-Isi Station provides a unique capability to measure, monitor, and understand global climate change. Summit-Isi is the only high altitude, high latitude, inland, year-round monitoring station in the Arctic.

The Science Coordination Office for Summit Station will host an open meeting of Summit Station users at the Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco on Thursday, December 18, in the Foothill D room on the 2nd floor of the San Francisco Marriott Marquis (55 4th Street) from 9:00-10:00 AM.

The Summit-Isi Summer 2014 closed a few months ago, and the winter-over crew has now settled in. Topics discussed in the newsletter include important upcoming dates, the new Summit Station GIS system, research highlights of summer 2014, and Summit construction updates.