BEPSII Annual Meeting 2026

Registration is now open for the BEPSII Annual Meeting 2026, which will take place online from 26 to 29 May 2026.

If you’re interested in sea-ice biogeochemistry and associated ecosystems, you’re very welcome to join us.

Please register here:
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Please fill in this registration form if you are interested in presenting:

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To accommodate different time zones, we will run two identical sessions per day:

• Session 1: 7:00-9:30 AM UTC

• Session 2: 3:00-5:30 PM UTC

Meeting links are sent to registered participants.

We’d be glad to see a broad mix of the community there, including those not yet directly involved in BEPSII.

BEPSII Meeting Agenda

Day 1: 26 May - ECR Day

• Welcome & Introduction (15 min)

  • BEPSII Overview (Emelia Chamberlain / Laura Dalman)

  • Icebreaker: 1-slide introductions

• Time Management Workshop (Lisa Miller; 1.5 hr)

• Wrap-up & discussion on future ECR activities (15 min)

Day 2: 27 May 

• Introduction to BEPSII and new Science Plan (15 min, Jacqueline Stefels / Letizia Tedesco)

• Roundtable: 1-slide introductions, 1 min each, 20-30 min

• Recap ECR day (5 min, Emelia Chamberlain / Laura Dalman)

• Updates on BEPSII activities

  • TG1: Methodologies  (Daiki Nomura / Karley Campbell, 20 min)

  • TG2: New technologies (Emiliano Cimoli / Klaus Meiners, 20 min)

  • TG3: Data Collation and Reviewing (Jacqueline Stefels / Bruno Delille, 30 min)

    • New and ongoing data collations

• 10-min break at around mid-meeting

• Science talks (~8+2 min/talk)

  • Haas, C and Nicolaus, M.: Plans for the Ice Station Polarstern (ISPOL)-2 in Dec 2028 to Feb 2029 in the northwestern Weddell Sea (session 2 only)

  • Lens, M. et al: Sea ice controls seasonal phytoplankton cycles in the Southern  Ocean (session 1 only)

  • Takahashi, M: Relationships between the microbial communities and physicochemical environment of brash sea ice in the marginal ice zone of the Southern Ocean during summer (session 1 only)

Day 3: 28 May

• Recap day 2 (5 min, Letizia Tedesco / Jacqueline Stefels) 

• Updates on BEPSII activities 

  • TG4: Process Studies (Ilka Peeken / Sebastien Moreau / Pat Wongpan, 20 min)

  • TG5: Processes across scales (Nadja Steiner / Giulia Castellani, 20-25 min)

    • Nadja Steiner: WGICA - Integrated Ecosystem Assessment for the Central Arctic Ocean (session 2 only)

• 10-min break at around mid-meeting

• Discussion session

  • Sea Ice Field School - Recap, discussion and feedback (Daiki Nomura, Letizia Tedesco, Bruno Delille, Josephine Rapp). Future plans, Rev Ocean (30 min) 

  • Updates SCOR WG Cice2Clouds and new SCOR WG ideas, SOLAS TG ideas (Nadja Steiner, Bruno Delille 20 min - 30 min)

• Announcements (10 min)

  • IGS Sea Ice session(s), 13–18 June 2027, and next BEPSII in-person meeting, 18–20 June 2027, Helsinki, Finland (Letizia Tedesco)

  • GRC Polar Marine Sciences, 13–18 June 2027, Oxnard, USA (Lisa Miller)

Day 4: 29 May

• Recap day 3 (5 min, Letizia Tedesco / Jacqueline Stefels) 

• Updates on BEPSII activities

  • TG6: Syntheses (Odile Crabeck /Lisa Miller, 30 min)

Highlight topic: Task team on light

• TG7: Outreach and Communication (Letizia Tedesco, Emelia Chamberlain, Laura Dalman, Josephine Rapp, Eeva Eronen-Rasimus, 30 min)

  • Tedesco et al.: Governing cryospheric risk beyond political timeframes, followed by a discussion of BEPSII at COPs, in both sessions

• 10-min break at around mid-meeting

• Updates and discussion 

  • Funders and funding applications (Jacqueline Stefels / Letizia Tedesco / Nadja Steiner / Bruno Delille, 30 min)

  • Antarctic InSync update and discussion  (Bruno Delille / Letizia Tedesco, 30 min)

  • Reporting, Chair/SSC review, Wrap-Up & Closing (15 min)

Minutes of the meeting