2024 All Hands Meeting

 

Convergence and Community Engagement

The All Hands gathers multidisciplinary researchers across polar and data science, students, industry experts, government and community leaders having a dialogue on a wide range of iHARP themes to foster learning, inspiration, and spark connections.

 

Overview

The 2024 iHARP All Hands Meeting took place in a hybrid format at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) on June 20–21. This third annual gathering focused on the themes of Convergence and Community Engagement.

The program opened with remarks from Dr. Anupma Prakash, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at UAF. The first day featured research spotlights, a multidisciplinary panel on Synergy and Co-Production, convergence breakout sessions, with a closed-door meeting for the External Advisory Board, and concluding with a poster session. On day two, Dr. Vipin Kumar delivered the keynote address, followed by sessions dedicated to fostering community connections and open dialogue.

Beyond the technical sessions, in-person attendees experienced Alaska’s Summer Solstice, enjoying 24 hours of “everlasting sunshine.” Participants also toured key facilities at the UAF Geophysical Institute, including the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF), the Geographic Information Network of Alaska (GINA), and the Alaska Climate Research Center (ACRC).

Select presentations have been made available on iHARP’s YouTube Channel, click here to navigate to the playlist.

 

All Hands Agenda

Please note the below is the agenda and subject to change. All times listed reflect Alaska Time – Anchorage (AKDT UTC-8)

7:45 am Shuttle Pick-up from Bridgewater Hotel
8:00 am Shuttle Pick-up from UAF On Campus Housing
8:15 am Shuttle Drop off at Wood center

8:30 am Breakfast

9:10 am Welcome

9:20 am Opening Remarks by Dr. Anupma Prakash, Provost and Executive Chancellor,  University of Alaska Fairbanks

9:40 am Group Photograph (In person activity)

10:00 am State of the Institute  by Dr. Vandana Janeja, Director, iHARP

10:40 am Table Ice Breaker Activity 

10:50 am Bio Break

11:00 am iHARP Spotlights I Session Chair: Dr. Jianwu Wang 

    • “High-resolution, Fully-coupled Simulations of the Greenland Ice Sheet in a Future, Strong Warming Scenario” – Ziqi Yin, Adam Herrington, Rajashree Tri Datta, Aneesh Subramanian, Jan Lenaerts, Andrew Gettelman, Sahara Ali, Omar Faruque, Danni Du, Jianwu Wang, Md Osman Gani, Yiyi Huang, Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel  Presenter: Ziqi Yin, University of Colorado Boulder
    • “Time Series Classification of Supraglacial Lakes Evolution” – Emam Hossain, Devon Dunmire, Md Osman Gani, Aneesh Subramanian, Alison F. Banwell, Hammad Younas, Brendan Myers Presenter: Emam Hossain, University of Maryland Baltimore County
    • “Towards Kriging-informed Conditional Diffusion for Regional Sea-Level Data Downscaling” – Subhankar Ghosh, Arun Sharma, Jayant Gupta, Aneesh Subramanian, Shashi Shekhar Presenter: Subhankar Ghosh, University of Minnesota
    • “Mapping Subglacial Bed Topography using Surface Observations and Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities” – Bayu Adhi Tama, Mansa Krishna, Cheng Gong, Homayra Alam, Sikan Li, Jianwu Wang, Mathieu Morlighem Presenter: Dr. Bayu Tama, University of Maryland Baltimore County
    • “CMAD: Advancing Understanding of Geospatial Clusters of Anomalous Melt Events in Sea Ice Extent” – Maloy Kumar Devnath, Sudip Chakraborty, Vandana P. Janeja Presenter: Dr. Sudip Chakraborty, University of Maryland Baltimore County
    • “The Challenge of Validating Auto-Annotated Ice-Penetrating Radar Imagery in Greenland” – Nicholas Holschuh, Bayu Tama, Sanjay Purushotham, Vandana Janeja Presenter: Dr. Nick Holschuh, Amherst College

12:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm iHARP Spotlights II Session Chair: Dr. Mathieu Morlighem 

    • “A Unified Deep Learning Framework to Solve Forward and Inverse Ice Sheet Modeling Problems” – Gong Cheng, Mathieu Morlighem, Mansa Krishna Presenter: Dr. Cheng Gong, Dartmouth College
    • “A Scalable System Infrastructure for Querying and Visualizing ERA5 Data” – Youssef Hussein, Yuchuan Huang, Mohamed Mokbel Presenter: Yuchuan Huang & Youssef Hussein, University of Minnesota
    • “Machine Learning on TACC” –Presenter Sikan Li,  Scientist Associate, Texas Advanced Computing Center

2:15 pm Bio Break

2:20 pm Multidisciplinary Synergy and Co-Production Panel  Moderator: Dr. Vandana Janeja

Panelist

3:00 pm Bio Break

3:30 pm Open Science & Community Engagement Session Chair: Dr. Aneesh Subramanian

    • “An Open-Science Approach to Mapping Ice Sheet Surface Hydrology” – Mike MacFerrin, Aneesh Subramanian, Mohamed Mokbel, Edward Boyda, Kim Young, Vandana Janeja Presenter: Dr. Mike MacFerrin, University of Colorado Boulder
    • “Open Science for iHARP” – Lydia Fletcher, Scientist Associate, Texas Advanced Computing Center

4:00 pm Convergence Breakouts Session Chair: Dr. Mohamed Mokbel

                 Advisory Board Closed-Door Meeting Chairperson: Dr. Beth Plale

4:45 pm Breakout Report Backs Session Chair: Dr. Mohamed Mokbel

5:15 pm Poster Session **End of Online/Virtual portion**

6:30 pm Depart For No Host Dinners, Transportation to no host dinner is up to the individual(s)

7:45 am Shuttle Pick-up from Bridgewater Hotel
8:00 am Shuttle Pick-up from UAF On Campus Housing
8:15 am Shuttle Drop off at Wood center

9:00 am Keynote 

    • “Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery and Addressing Global Environmental Challenges” Dr. Vipin Kumar, Regents Professor, William Norris Land Grant Chair in Large-Scale Computing, Data Science Initiative Director, University of Minnesota

10:00 am Bio Break

10:15 am Broader Community Connections Session Chair: Dr. Andy Aschwanden

    • “POLARIS: Pursuing Opportunities for Long-term Arctic Resilience for Infrastructure and Society” – Dr. Guangqing Chi, Pennsylvania State University
    • “The Climate Drawdown Initiative: Empowering Students to Lead Trans-disciplinary Strategies for Reversing Global Warming through Courses, Research, and Public Engagement” – Dr. Rachel Brennan, Pennsylvania State University

10:45 am Advisory Board Feedback, Led By: Dr. Beth Plale, Advisory Board Chair, iHARP

11:15 am Closing Remarks

11:30 am Lunch **End of Online/Virtual portion — online attendees are free to meet virtually**

12:30 pm Informal Meetings

1:15 pm Shuttle Pick-up for Geophysical Institute Tour

1:30 pm On-Campus Geophysical Institute Tour 

Welcome to the Globe Room, Geophysical Institute overview (15 minutes)

    • Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) – Dr. Bill Hauer, Senior Science Consultant (20 minutes)
    • Geographic Information Network of Alaska (GINA) – Dr. Jen Delamere, Director (20 minutes)
    • Alaska Climate Research Center (ACRC) – Dr. Martin Stuefer, Director (20 min)

3:00 pm End of Geophysical Institute Tour