Report		Representation
Workshop Sponsorship		Location
Purpose		Organizing Committee
Background		Projects/Publications from Previous Cruises

SCICEX, Scientific Ice Expeditions, is a program of Arctic marine science conducted on U.S. Navy submarines. The SCICEX 2000 Workshop was held in October of 1998 to discuss science accomplishments during five cruises, and to consider what might supersede SCICEX.

REPORT Top of Page

The report from the SCICEX 2000 Workshop, Arctic Ocean Science from Submarines, is available in hardcopy from:

Online Requests

or

Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
1013 NE 40th St
Seattle WA 98105-6698
USA

The report can be downloaded.

Arctic Ocean Science from Submarines (report only, 844K, 30 pp.)
Appendix: Sections A-B (Agenda and Attendees, 60K, 8 pp.)
Appendix: Sections C-G (Talks, Abstracts, and SCICEX Bibliography, 1.1MB, 80 pp.)

WORKSHOP SPONSORSHIP Top of Page

Support for this meeting was graciously provided by the High Latitude Program of the Office of Naval Research, the Arctic Natural Sciences Program of the National Science Foundation, and the Arctic Research Commission.

PURPOSE Top of Page

The purpose of the Workshop is to provide the framework for coordinating an Arctic scientific program for the next decade that takes advantage of the unique capabilities of U.S. Navy submarines. Specifically, the Workshop will:

• Summarized past SCICEX results
• Heard an agency vision for a continuing SCICEX program, with stable funding and the requisite sensor acquisition
• Outlined the scientific objectives for possible submarine cruises beyond 1999, taking into account U.S. Arctic Ocean research goals and program plans.
• Suggested desireable new sensors and a process (involving Navy operations, Navy engineers and scientific investigators) by which we can enhance the capabilities of these cruises through timely development and installation of these sensors.
• Created a Workshop Report that outlines long-term scientific goals and describes a cooridinated approach to make use of the submarine as a unique observing platform.

The area presently open to data release is the interior of "The Box" which excludes all national economic zones.

BACKGROUND Top of Page

In 1993 scientists were invited by the U.S. Navy to participate in a submarine cruise in the Arctic Ocean to see how a submarine would serve as a useful platform for scientific observation. This effort was successful and was expanded into SCICEX (Scientific Ice Expeditions), a program of six Arctic cruises in the spring of 1995, the autumn of 1996 and of 1997, the summer of 1998, and the spring of 1999. As a result of these cruises, notable successes are being attained in the areas of ocean structure and circulation, ocean chemistry, marine biology, marine geology and geophysics, and sea ice. An extensive bibliography of preliminary results from conferences abstracts and of some early reviewed publications is available on the SCICEX web site (http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/SCICEX/).

REPRESENTATION Top of Page

We sought broad representation from:

• the scientific community, primarily in the U.S., but also from Canada, Europe and Japan,
• the Navy: Arctic Submarine Laboratory, Navy operations, Navy engineering, captains of past SCICEX cruises, and
• agencies: ONR, NSF, USGS, NOAA, NASA, and the Arctic Research Commission.

LOCATION Top of Page

The Workshop was held at the Airlie Center.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Top of Page

The Organizing Committee consisted of the convenors and two individuals who jointly head each of the five topical working groups. One of each pair was a past or present SCICEX investigator; the other was from outside the program, to provide a balanced set of ideas for the future program. The tasks of the Organizing Committee were:

• agree on the workshop format and speakers,
• personally invite people critical to their Working Groups,
• head their respective Working Groups at the Workshop
• report the recommendations of their Working Group to the plenary group
• write the section of the Workshop Report pertaining to their topic.

Convenors:

Drew Rothrock
University of Washington
206-685-2262
Fax: 206-543-3521

and Wieslaw Maslowski
Naval Postgraduate School
408-656-3162
Fax: 408-656-2712

[Neither Dr. Maslowski's affiliation nor the interest of the Office of Naval Research in this workshop in any way implies Navy approval of a future SCICEX program.]

Working Group Chairs:

Co-Chairs for Upper ocean structure and circulation:
Bill Smethie, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, bsmeth@ldgo.columbia.edu
Jim Swift, University of California - San Diego jswift@ucsd.edu

Co-Chairs for Sea ice:
Alan Thorndike, University of Puget Sound, thorndike@ups.edu
Greg Flato, Atmospheric Environment Service, Greg.Flato@ec.gc.ca

Co-Chairs for Biology and chemistry:
Ray Sambrotto, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, sambrott@ldeo.columbia.edu
Jackie Grebmeier, University of Tennessee, jgreb@utkux.utk.edu

Co-Chairs for Geology and geophysics:
Ruth Jackson, Geological Survey of Canada, jacksonr@agc.bio.ns.ca
John Tarduno, University of Rochester, john@earth.rochester.edu

Co-Chairs for Operations and instrument development:
Dale Chayes, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, dale@ldeo.columbia.edu
Wayne Sternberger, Johns Hopkins University, sternwi1@central.ssd.jhuapl.edu

PROJECTS/PUBLICATIONS FROM PREVIOUS CRUISES Top of Page

SCICEX Publications

SCICEX Projects, 1993 and 1995-1998, .pdf

The SCICEX homepage has more information about past cruises and data sets.

Narratives from the 1999 SCICEX cruises can be found at http://www.scp.navy.mil/scicex/index.htm.

Please send any additional questions or comments to Susan Wiley

Updated: 14 October 1999