Regional Team: Arctic

Building local, thinking global

A regional team for Arctic

The Arctic Regional Team is the Oceanprediction DCC regional node for the mentioned region. The Regional Teams are the organizational backbone of OceanPrediction DCC community, and they are formed by individuals and organizations with very diverse background and interests: scientists and users, experts and interested persons, private and public sector, etc...

The regional team will promote Operational Ocean Forecasting Services as a key tool for Blue Economy and ocean policy. It is also supporting the coordination and the cooperation of ocean forecasting-related Decade actions in the area, and it is advocating for the regional implementation of Best Practices, Standards and Tools derived from OceanPrediction technical activity. The Regional Team is active in the design and organization of regional events for capacity building, ocean literacy and other purposes, such as courses, workshops, hackathons, etc.

Working together with the regional teams in other regions, it will form a worldwide network to achieve all the above-mentioned objectives, ensuring that regional singularities are considered during the process.

Leading the Team

Chair

Dr Heather Regan is interested in ice-ocean interactions and the resulting effects of freshwater on the ocean. Her previous research has involved Antarctic ice-ocean modelling, with a focus on tracing the fate of freshwater from different sources, and studying the dynamics of the Beaufort Gyre in the Arctic Ocean. She is currently working on ice-ocean interactions with the sea ice model neXtSIM coupled to NEMO.