International activities for Polar science

(12-minute presentation + 3 minutes Q&A)

1. DG DEFIS Copernicus Polar activities – Maria Berdahl, Policy Officer, DG-DEFIS
2. Antarctica InSync
3. IPY5 – Gerlis Fugmann, IPY-5 Interim Secretariat & IASC Executive Secretary
4. WMO Task Team – WMO TT CPOS: Coordinating Space-Based Cryosphere Observations for IPY and Beyond – Anna Maria Trofaier, ESA, TT-CPOS Co-Chair
5. European Polar Board – Maria Grigoratou, EPB

Long-term monitoring and community efforts for Polar Regions

(12-minute presentation + 3 minutes Q&A)

1. IMBIE-3, Reconciling ice sheet mass balance estimates at a regional scale – Inès Otosaka, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Northumbria University
2. Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise (GlaMBIE) – first results and a roadmap for the future – Michael ZEMP, World Glacier Monitoring Service, University of Zurich, Switzerland
3. Results of the Sea-Ice Thickness Intercomparison Exercise (SIN’XS) Project – Michel Tsamados, UCL
4. ESA CCI Cryosphere: Evolving Climate Data Records—New Sensors, New Algorithms, New Insights – Anna Maria Trofaier, ESA

Antarctica and the Southern Ocean (Part 1)

(12-minute presentation + 3 minutes Q&A)

1. Science Outcomes from the 5D Antarctica Project – Anna Hogg, University of Leeds
2. SPLASHIn: Insights into Subglacial Hydrology and Ongoing Developments – Jelte van Oostveen, NORCE
3. Feedback between subglacial hydrology, the ice sheet, and the ocean, at Thwaites glacier, West Antarctic Ice Sheet – Noel Gourmelen, University of Edinburgh
4. Mapping of Ice Sheet Subsurface Structures in Antarctica with BIOMASS P-band SAR Data – Julius Kokholm, Technical University of Denmark

Antarctica and the Southern Ocean (Part 2)

(12-minute presentation + 3 minutes Q&A)

1. Intense snowfall hides inland spread of ice dynamical imbalance at the Antarctic Peninsula – Nitin Ravinder, University of Leeds
2. SO-SIMBA: Sea Ice Mass Balance Assessment for the Southern Ocean – Marion Bocquet, NORCE
3. Sea ice freshwater flux to the Southern Ocean over the last 45 years – Andrew Shepherd, Northumbria University
4. Recent Southern Ocean surface salinity increases are sustained by reduced sea ice freshwater input – Theo Spira, AWI
5. Snow depth on sea ice from space observations: current approaches, limitations and perspective – Alice Carret, Serco
6. ESA Antarctica Datacube

Greenland and the Arctic (Part 1)

(12-minute presentation + 3 minutes Q&A)

1. 4DGreenland: Ice sheet hydrology from Earth Observation – Louise Sandberg Sørensen, DTU Space
2. STREAM-NEXT: A satellite-based approach for estimating runoff and river discharge in the Pan-Arctic region – Francesco Leopardi, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia and National Research Council, Research Institute for Geohydrological Protection
3. ARCFRESH – Ole Baltazar Andersen, DTU Space
4. FRESH4BIO – Freshwater and phytoplankton in the East Greenland Shelf (EGS) – Sara Jensen, DTU Space
5. ARCTIC-FLOW: New satellite insights into watermass formation processes in the Nordic Seas – Estrella Olmedo Casal / Verónica González-Gambau, Institute of Marine Sciences

Greenland and the Arctic (Part 2)

(12-minute presentation + 3 minutes Q&A)

1. ARCTEX: Extreme events in the Arctic and their impact on local glaciers and ice caps – Louise Sandberg Sørensen, DTU Space
2. EOWetMet: Advancing Arctic Methane Monitoring Through Dynamic Wetland and Inundation Mapping – Masoud Mahdianpari, C-CORE
3. Impact of Wildfire Aerosols on Arctic Sea Ice Variability – Dr. Carolina Gabarro, Institute of Marine Science ICM/CSIC
4. Arctic Coastal Change Amplifies Settlement Risk and Carbon Release (EO4PAC Legacy) – Dr. Annett Bartsch, b.geos GmbH
5. Regional and Temporal Variability in Arctic Lead Density from Multi-Mission Radar and Laser Satellite Altimetry – Amy Swiggs, ESA
6. Coupled Sea Ice–Ocean Dynamics in the Marginal Ice Zone at Mesoscale from Sentinel-1 SAR Doppler Shift Observations – Artem Moiseev, NERSC

ESA-EC Earth System Science Initiative

Introduction ESA-EC Earth System Science Initiative (ESSI)

(12-minute presentation + 3 minutes Q&A)

1. European Coordinated Action on Greenland: ICELINK – 4DGreenland: a collaborative effort to improve knowledge of inland ice and snow in Greenland – Christine Schøtt Hvidberg, University of Copenhagen
2. SnowPI – Priscilla Mooney, NORCE
3. Beyond Arctic Passion – Jeremy Wilkinson, British Antarctica Survey
4. SYNCHRONY – Alexander Haumann, AWI

Glaciers and Snow

(12-minute presentation + 3 minutes Q&A)

1. AlpSnow – Thomas Nagler, ENVEO
2. Characteristics of current glacier surges in the central Karakoram revealed by multi-sensor EO data – Frank Paul, University of Zurich
3. Satellite gravimetry for glacier mass balance: current results and future capabilities from ESA’s NGGM and MAGIC constellation – Dr Ingo Sasgen, AWI
4. Using satellite optical DEM time series to estimate glacier elevation changes in Iceland – Clare Webster, University of Zurich
5. SnowGalileo: Daily Gap-Free 100 m Fractional Snow Cover Mapping in Mountain Regions from Multimodal Earth Observation Data – Dr. Celia Baumhoer, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Missions Operations, Campaigns and Future Mission Preparations

(10-minute presentations)

1. Cryosat Update – Tommaso Parrinello, ESA
2. Sentinel Expansion Status: CRISTAL, CIMR – Paolo Cipollini, ESA
3. Sentinel-3 and CRISTAL preparations – Jerome Bouffard, ESA
4. Next Generation SAR ROSE-L & Sentinel-1 NG
5. SUPSAR-IV & SUPSAR-Snow – Thomas Nagler, ENVEO
6. Campaigns Overview
7. Progress and Preliminary Outcomes from the 2026 ESA SUPFIX-POLAR Copernicus Expansion Missions Sea Ice Experiment (CEMSIE) – Rasmus Tage Tonboe, DTU

Methodological Advances: New methods and products

(12-minute presentation + 3 minutes Q&A)

1. High-resolution circum-Antarctic landfast sea ice freeboard detection with SWOT – Jack Landy, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2. Brine–Snow Interactions and Their Impact on Dual-Frequency Radar Remote Sensing - Dr Anton Komarov, AWI 
3. LiMOSAT: A system for deriving Lagrangian sea-ice motion from satellite data – Sean, Chua, NERSC
4. The NASA Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE): Observations of the complete polar atmospheric greenhouse effect – Hamish Prince, University of Vienna
5. Progress towards a circum-Antarctic dataset of tidal grounding line migration derived from ICESat-2 altimetry and synthetic aperture radar – Bryony Freer, Scripps Institution Of Oceanography
6. A Reconciled Mass Budget of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from a Multi-Dataset Ensemble – Thomas Slater, CPOM Northumbria University

Community announcements and initiatives

Lightning presentations (5 mins)

1. POLARIN: Enabling Access to Arctic and Antarctic Research Infrastructures – Verónica Willmott Puig, AWI
2. Improved mass balance of Antarctica from space and airborne measurements – RINGS, Prof. Rene Forsberg, DTU Space
3. CRYORAD: A NOVEL SATELLITE MISSION FOR POLAR OBSERVATION – Giovanni Macceloni, CNR-IFAC

Method Synergies: Earth Observation, In-situ, Modelling, AI, and Digital Twins (Part 1)

(12-minute presentation + 3 minutes Q&A)

1. Towards assessing ice sheet instabilities in West Antarctica from a combined Earth Observation and modelling approach – Inès Otosaka, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Northumbria University
2. Ensemble-Based Assimilation of Earth Observation Products into Glacier Evolution Models – Oskar Herrmann, Institut für Geographie Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
3. Simultaneous geophysical and spatial inversion of multi-frequency passive microwave observations for the upcoming CIMR Mission – Marcus Huntemann, University Of Bremen

Method Synergies: Earth Observation, In-situ, Modelling, AI, and Digital Twins (Part 2)

(12-minute presentation + 3 minutes Q&A)

1. DTC Ice Sheets: Advancing and Visualizing EO-Driven Insights – Sebastian B. Simonsen, DTU Space
2. DTC-Glaciers: A Digital Twin Component for Glaciers: Pilot-Phase Outcomes – Patrick Schmitt, University of Innsbruck
3. SvalbardDT: Monitoring and forecasting the state of Svalbard’s cryosphere using a digital twin – William Harcourt, University of Aberdeen

Natural Ice Palace at Hintertux Glacier

Optional Social Trip