AOS 2026

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Arctic Observing Summit 2026

Dates: March 30 – April 1, 2026

Location: Aarhus, Denmark

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Aerial view of a misty central Aarhus looking south towards the docklands. Photo by Andreas Jensen on Unsplash.

Submit to AOS 2026!

Over three days of discussion, we develop recommendations and strategies for advancing Arctic observing through improved coordination, communication, and cooperation.

Do you have ideas to share with the observing community? Submit to the AOS in two ways:

1. Submit a white paper or short statement

Short statements (≤3 pages) and white papers (4–20 pages) are the primary way that new perspectives and ideas get circulated in the AOS community. These statements are due January 23 and will be posted to the AOS website and assigned a DOI. White papers and short statements should be emailed as a pdf document to alice.c.bradley@williams.edu. Leave 4 cm/1.5 inch top margins so we can add the AOS header to the document before publishing (see our Google Docs template).

All statements are reviewed for relevance to the AOS prior to posting, but they are not peer-reviewed in the traditional sense. We encourage authors to submit their white papers to a journal (e.g., Arctic) following the summit.

2. Present a poster

The AOS Poster Session is Tuesday, March 31, 4:00 – 6:00pm. Posters on any topic related to Arctic observing are welcome. To present, please submit your poster title, authors, and abstract by January 30, 2026. You will be notified regarding poster acceptance the following week.

Abstracts should be a brief description of what is on the poster. Please keep this to less than 200 words so that we can include the abstracts in the program.

AOS session chairs will have the opportunity to highlight posters as particularly relevant to their sessions. All posters will be presented during one poster session, but we will group posters with similar themes together as space allows.

Submission Deadlines

Session proposals – October 12, 2025

Short statements – January 23, 2026

White papers – January 23, 2026

Poster abstracts – January 30, 2026

Formatting Guidelines

Please see our Google Docs template for short statements and white papers.

View Past Submissions

Browse summit products from AOS 2020 for recent white paper, short statement and poster abstract examples, or view all previous summits to see all past themes, working groups and submissions.

Summit Information

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Working Groups

Participate in a working group or session

Crafting the agenda for AOS sessions and working groups happens in the months before the summit itself. If you are interested in contributing to a session on one of the following topics, please let us know and we can connect you with session chairs:

Permafrost Shared Arctic Variables: discussion on current status and future developments
Building and Sharing Inventories of Observational Capacities for Discovery and Integration across a Spectrum of Arctic Observing Systems
Enhancing Research Quality and Societal Relevance Through Indigenous Knowledge, Co-Production, and Equitable Community Engagement
Career Development
Birgehallat: The Saami Way of Understanding and Adapting to a Changing World
Improving Arctic Observations: Wildfire Shared Arctic Variable & Terrain Trafficability
Shifting Perspectives: Reconsidering measures of success for Arctic observing
Expert Panels in Practice – what is needed to put the ROADS process in practice
Strengthening Arctic Observing Through Indigenous-Led and Community-Based Monitoring Initiatives
Investing in Salmon Observing for Arctic Resilience: Bridging Research, Funding, and Community Needs
Arctic ROADS: Preparing for Action — Arctic ROADS as a Path for Inclusive, IPY-Scale Collaboration
Data Systems
Technology

Full descriptions of the sessions are in the AOS 2026 program.

Themes

Several subjects have persisted over the history of the AOS, and are iterated upon when developing specific themes and thematic working groups for an upcoming Summit. These include:

Technology, including innovation, design, optimization and implementation of observing systems
Data management
Support for Arctic observing, including from the public and private sectors
Indigenous rights-holders' priorities, needs and expertise
Public and private sector need, engagement and support
Arctic observation in a global context

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