T-MOSAiC
​T-MOSAiC is an IASC pan-Arctic, land-based program that extends the activities of the IASC flagship program MOSAiC: ‘The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate’, MOSAiC is a multinational year-round study (2019-2020) of the central Arctic Ocean to measure the coupling between atmosphere, sea ice, ocean and ecosystem processes.
 
The objective of the satellite program T-MOSAiC is to coordinate complementary activities that will both aid and benefit from MOSAiC (especially the modelling components) by extending the work to the lands surrounding the Arctic Ocean and to the northern communities who live on those lands. 

Recent News
T-MOSAiC Special Issue on Arctic Microbiomes
The Arctic Microbiomes AG is editing a special issue in journal "Frontier of Microbiology". On the topic Digitizing Frozen Earth - Revealing Microbial Diversity and Physiology in the Cryobiosphere through ´Omics´ Tools, Volume II", this SI is now online and ready for submissions.
The editors of this SI include Anne Jungblut, Jérome Comte and Birgit Sattler. For more information check the SI website here.
The 7th T-MOSAiC Newsletter has been released
The 7th T-MOSAIC Newsletter has been released and can be downloaded below.
If you want to be regularly informed about our Arctic Program please use this ​link.
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Ivan Alekseev is the new IASC TWG Fellow
Ivan Alekseev, T-MOSAiC EXCOM and Steering Committee Member, is the new fellow of the Terrestrial Working Group of IASC.
Ivan expertise is on permafrost soils, organic matter and environmental contamination.
Congratulations to Ivan and to the other new appointed IASC fellows.
Returning to the Canadian Arctic this Summer
An article entitled "New ways forward in Canadian Arctic Research" was published in the "The Globe and Mail Canada" journal on January 12. Warwick Vincent (T-MOSAiC co-chair) and other authors are encouraging discussion about returning to research in the North later this year, when it is expected that the pandemic will be more under control. The article can be accessed here.
T-MOSAiC Remote Sensing Session at EGU
The T-MOSAiC Remote Sensing AG is organizing a session on Facilitating remote sensing applications across the terrestrial Arctic in EGU. It would be excellent to count with contributions from T-MOSAiC members and projects. The deadline for submissions has been postponed to 20 january, 13:00 CET
T-MOSAiC Special Issue on Arctic Terrestrial Pollution  
The T-MOSAiC special issue on Arctic Terrestrial Pollution (including Coastal Areas) is now open to receive submissions. The submissions must be made in the Environmental Pollution journal website until June 2021.
For more information feel free to contact T-MOSAiC secretariat.
T-MOSAiC at the Arctic Change 2020 Meeting
Prof. Warwick Vincent, T-MOSAiC co-chair, gave a presentation at the 3rd Plenary of the Arctic Change 2020 Meeting.
The Plenary entitled "The Arctic: An Ocean of Change and Collaboration" also had Dr. Markus Rex (MOSAiC Chair) and Dr. Antje Boetius (AWI Director), as speakers. 
  
T-MOSAiC in Science
Extreme events were observed in summer 2020 throughout the circumpolar Arctic.  In this T MOSAiC article, Warwick Vincent and Derek Mueller describe changes taking place along the northern coast of Canada over the last few years in the ‘Last Ice Area’, including collapse of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf (see photo). The thick, persistent sea ice of this area has a strong influence on the coastal terrestrial environment. The article can be downloaded here. 
Break-up of the Ward Hunt Shelf in August 2011, in the Last Ice Area. CEN/Université Laval
Permafrost Thaw AG at the PermafrostNet Annual Meeting
The permafrost thaw action group attended the annual meeting of PermafrostNet on November 18 to represent T-MOSAiC. This NSERC network is led by Stephan Gruber and it was very nice and well-organized meeting. We had several people attending our T-MOSAiC break out session with interest about our standardized protocol to measure permafrost thaw.
If you are interested in the protocol at your site, please contact the AG Chairs. Soon a great mobile app for recording data will be released.
T-MOSAiC Special Issue of Arctic Science -  Submissions Extended to March 2022
Manuscript submissions to the T-MOSAiC Special Issue of Arctic Sciences have been extended to March 2022.
This extension follows the IASC ratification of the postponed deadline of the program to December 2021.  More information in the file below.
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T-MOSAiC Science Plan
T-MOSAiC Science Plan has been released today and will be firstly presented next December 10th at the 3rd T-MOSAiC workshop in Ottawa.
The Science Plan resulted  from a series of discussions in International workshops and among the Arctic community. The document was prepared and revised by the T-MOSAiC EXCOM and Steering Committee.
The final version of the document can be downloaded here.
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