Representatives from NSIDC will be attending the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting 2025, either virtually or in person in New Orleans, to share their expertise in data management and research in the cryospheric sciences, and to connect with other Earth science professionals. NSIDC is involved in several sessions including presentations, posters, workshops, and panel discussions.
See below for a full list of events in which NSIDC and NSIDC-affiliated staff are featured. NSIDC staff are listed in bold typeface under the Participants section.
Monday, December 15, 2025
Advances in Understanding and Predicting High-Latitude Earth Systems Changes and Their Associated Global Impacts
Session ID: GC11B
Participants: Wieslaw Maslowski, Georgina Anne Gibson, Julienne Christine Stroeve, Hailong Wang, and Parvathi Madathil Kooloth
Location: 203-205 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: Oral
Time: cst: 8:30-10:00 / mst: 7:30-9:00
Evaluation Framework for Research that Supports Arctic Indigenous Peoples
Participants: Margaret Rudolf, Emily Lescak, Alice C Bradley, Noor Johnson, and Hajo Eicken
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: Poster
Time: cst: 8:30-12:00 / mst: 7:30-11:00
Advances in Understanding and Predicting High-Latitude Earth Systems Changes and Their Associated Global Impacts
Session ID: GC13E
Participants: Wieslaw Maslowski, Georgina Anne Gibson, Julienne Christine Stroeve, Hailong Wang, and Parvathi Madathil Kooloth
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: poster, oral
Time: cst: 14:15-17:45 / mst: 13:15-16:45
Modernizing Earth Science Data Stewardship: NASA NSIDC DAAC’s Transition to NASA Earthdata Cloud
Session ID: IN13A-07
Participants: Amanda Leon, Amy E Steiker, Chris Bond, Shannon R Leslie, Kara L Gergely, and The NASA NSIDC DAAC Team
Location: 294 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: presentation in-person
Time: cst: 15:15-15:25 / mst: 14:15-14:25
ITS_LIVE Version 2.0: A global low latency record of land ice velocity
Session ID: C14B-02
Participants: Alex S Gardner, Chad A Greene, Joseph H Kennedy, Mark A Fahnestock, Maria Liukis, Luis Lopez Espinosa, Yang Lei, Ted A Scambos, and Amaury Dehecq
Location: 211-213 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person
Time: cst: 8:30-10:00/ mst: 7:30-9:00
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Estimation of Seasonal Mass Balance of Hofsjökull Ice Cap, Iceland, using ICESat-2
Participants: Hongjie Xie, YoungHyun Koo, Tómas Jóhannesson, Joaquin M. C. Berlart, and Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, poster
Time: cst: 8:30-12:00 / mst: 7:30-11:00
Importance of Suborbital Metadata Standardization for Search, Discovery, and Reuse
Session ID: IN21A-05
Participants: Stephanie Mullins Wingo, Douglas J Newman, Shannon R Leslie, Michele Thornton, Sara H Lubkin, Ryan Abbott, Katherine Saad, Tyler Stevens, Aaron S Kaulfus, and Manil Maskey
Location: 294 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, presentation
Time: cst: 9:10-9:20 / mst: 8:10-8:20
The Coupled Permafrost Carbon and Mercury Feedback
Session ID: B21F-08
Participants: Kevin M Schaefer, Christine Olson, Benjamin M Geyman, Connor Olson, David Streets, Elsie M Sunderland, Colin P Thackray, and Scott Zolkos
Location: 261-262 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, presentation
Time: cst: 9:45-9:55 / mst: 8:45-8:55
Modeling Mercury Flux Dynamics in Permafrost Ecosystems
Participants: Christine Olson, Kevin M Schaefer, Benjamin M Geyman, Connor Olson, Colin P Thackray, Scott Zolkos, David Streets, and Elsie M Sunderland
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, poster
Time: cst: 14:15-17:45 / mst: 13:15-16:45
The extensible social infrastructure enabling NASA Earthdata science in the cloud
Session ID: IN23A-04
Participants: Julia Stewart Lowndes, Andrew Teucher, Yuvi Panda, Mahsa Jami, Elizabeth E Holmes, and Amy E Steiker
Location: 294 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, presentation
Time: cst: 14:50-15:00 / mst: 13:50-14:00
Virtual dataset integration into earth access: Community contributions to enable Earth science at scale
Session ID: IN23A-05
Participants: Daniel Edward Kaufman, Amy E Steiker, Joseph H Kennedy, Chris Battisto, Luis Alberto Lopez, Dean Henze, Ayush Nag, Miguel Jimenez-Urias, Thomas Nicholas, Julius Johannes Marian Busecke, and Julia Stewart Lowndes
Location: 294 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, presentation
Time: cst: 15:00-15:10 / mst: 14:00-14:10
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Spatiotemporal Variations of Wind Forcing on Antarctic Sea Ice Drift from 2015 to 2024
Participants: YoungHyun Koo and Walter Meier
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, poster
Time: cst: 8:30-12:00 / mst: 7:30-11:00
Environmental Controls on Lespedeza cuneata Invasion in the U.S. Southern Great Plains: A Multi-Model Approach
Participants: Smriti Shrestha, Yuting Zhou, Saber Brasher, M. Saiful Islam, and Hamed Gholizadeh
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, poster
Time: cst: 8:30-12:00 / mst: 7:30-11:00
Advancing GLOF Detection Methods for the Greenland Ice Sheet Using Machine Learning and Multispectral Optical Imagery
Participants: Ethan Carr, Alison F Banwell, Melisa Diaz, Waleed Abdalati, and Mark C Serreze
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, poster
Time: cst: 8:30-12:00 / mst: 7:30-11:00
Snow Today: Scalable Characterization of Snow for Use in Water Supply Forecasting and Management
Participants: Karl Rittger, Ross Palomaki, Noah P Molotch, Ann Windnagel, Mark S Raleigh, Edward Bair, Mark C Serreze, Logan Stephenson, Urs Bohn, Chris Frans, John Lhotak, Dave Streubel, William P Miller, Cody Moser, Jonathan P. Conway, Patrick Kormos, and David Casson
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, poster
Time: cst: 8:30-12:00 / mst: 7:30-11:00
Coupled-System Processes of the Arctic Atmosphere–Sea Ice–Ocean System: Harnessing Field Observations and Advancing Models
Session ID: C31D
Participants: Patrick C Tayler, Matthew Shupe, Eva-Lou Edwards, and Melinda Webster
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, poster
Time: cst: 8:30-12:00 / mst: 7:30-11:00
The Changing Greenland Ice-bioscape System: New Data, Tools, and Insights
Session ID: C32A-07
Participants: Twila A Moon (invited), Dustin Carroll, Ellyn M Enderlin, Aman KD, Kristin Liisa Laidre, Ben Cohen, Taryn E Black, Harry L Stern III, and Joachim Meyer
Location: 208-209 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, presentation
Time: cst: 11:42- 11:54 / mst: 10:42-10:54
Convergence Research in the Arctic: Drawing from Diverse Disciplines and Knowledge Systems to Address Complex Societal Challenges
Session ID: C33A
Participants: Matthew L Druckenmiller, Margaret Rudolf, Ellie Miller, and Casey Brayton
Location: 214 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: Oral
Time: cst: 14:15-15:45 / mst: 13:15-14:45
Co-developing knowledge sharing tools for community-based research in the Arctic
Session ID: C33A-05
Participants: Noor Johnson, Matthew L Druckenmiller, Natasha Haycock-Chavez, Joshua Brown, Betsy Sheffield, Agnieszka Gautier, and Brendan Billingsley
Location: 214 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, presentation
Time: cst: 15:00-15:10 / mst: 14:00-14:10
Coupled-System Processes of the Arctic Atmosphere–Sea Ice–Ocean System: Harnessing Field Observations and Advancing Models
Session ID: C34A
Participants: Patrick C Taylor, Matthew Shupe, Eva-Lou Edwards, and Melinda Webster
Location: 208-209 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: Oral
Time: cst: 16:15-17:45 / mst: 15:15-16:45
Sea Ice Anomalies, Glaciated Warm Clouds, and Elusive Ice Nuclei: Tracking the 2024 Arctic Melt Season with the NASA ARCSIX Mission
Session ID: C34A-01
Participants: Sebastian Schmidt, Patrick C Taylor, Linette Boisvert, Amy Solomon, Ewan Crosbie, Alexei Korolev, Armin Sorooshian, Lauren M Zamora, Jens Redemann, Edward P Nowottnick, Hal B Maring, Thorsten Markus, and Lauren Zamora
Location: 208-209 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, presentation
Time: cst: 16:15-16:25 / mst: 15:15-15:25
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Coupled-System Processes of the Arctic Atmosphere–Sea Ice–Ocean System: Harnessing Field Observations and Advancing Models
Session ID: C41B
Participants: Patrick C Taylor, Matthew Shupe, Eva-Lou Edwards, and Melinda Webster
Location: 210 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: Oral
Time: cst: 08:30-10:00 / mst: 7:30-9:00
Advancing NASA’s Earth Science Metadata Quality Through Collaborative Enterprise Stewardship
Session ID: IN41D
Participants: Shannon R Leslie (invited), Bruce Wilson, Scott Ritz, Tyler Stevens, Valerie Dixon, and Douglas J Newman
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, poster
Time: cst: 8:30-12:00 / mst: 7:30-11:00
Convergence Research in the Arctic: Drawing from Diverse Disciplines and Knowledge Systems to Address Complex Societal Challenges
Session ID: C41C
Participants: Matthew L Druckenmiller, Margaret Rudolf, Vera Kuklina, Ellie Miller, and Casey Brayton
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: poster
Time: cst: 8:30-12:00 / mst: 7:30-11:00
Rethinking Arctic research as collective action to navigate a changing climate
Session ID: C41C
Participants: Matthew L Druckenmiller, Nikoosh Carlo, Anne U Gold, and Noor Johnson
Location: Hall EFG (poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, poster
Time: cst: 8:30-12:00 / mst: 7:30-11:00
Building a Safe and Welcoming Antarctic Research Community: Reflections from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration
Session ID: U42A-03
Participants: Betsy Sheffield (invited), Leilani Raashida Henry, Marianne S. Karplus, Erin C Pettit, Julia Wellner, and International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) Positive Work Culture Team
Location: E-2 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, presentation
Time: cst: 10:52-11:02 / mst: 9:52-10:02
QGreenland-Net: Open source tools to standardize, visualize, and integrate geospatial data using a Greenland-focused test case
Session ID: IN43B
Participants: Twila A Moon, Matthew B. Jones, Angie Garcia, Alyona Kosobokova, Rushiraj Nenuji, Robyn Marowitz, Trey Stafford, Alyse Thurber, and Ian Nesbitt
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, poster
Time: cst: 14:15-17:45 / mst: 13:15-16:45
Variability and Trends in Sea Ice Motion and Age from Enhanced Resolution NSIDC Products
Session ID: C43E
Participants: Walter Meier, J Scott Stewart, and Mark A Tschudi
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, poster
Time: cst: 14:15-17:45 / mst: 13:15-16:45
Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Sea Ice
Session ID: C43E
Co-Chairs: Sahra Kacimi, Walter Meier, and Randall K Scharien
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: Poster
Time: cst: 14:15-17:45 / mst: 13:15-16:45
Fram Strait Sea Ice Thickness from ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 Freeboards
Participants: Christopher Picard, Waleed Abdalati, Walter Meier, Svetlana Divina, and Dmitry Divine
Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, poster
Time: cst: 14:15-17:45 / mst: 13:15-16:45
Enabling Cryo Science at Scale: How ITS_LIVE is Providing a Serverless Analysis Ready Archive of the Future
Session ID: IN44B-02
Participants: Joseph H Kennedy, Luis Alberto Lopez, Alex S Gardner, Chad Greene, Mark A Fahnestock, Maria Liukis, Andrew Player, Mario Angarita, and Pete Gadomski
Location: 292 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, presentation
Time: cst: 16:25-16:35 / mst: 15:25-15:35
Friday, December 19, 2025
An Overview of ICESat-2 Data Products and Release 007 Improvements
Session ID: G51B
Participants: Christine Sadlik, Jeffrey Lee, Lori A Magruder, Christopher E Parrish, Aimée Gibbons, Diane Fritz, Lisa Kaser, and Tom Neumann
Location: Location in the convention center
Session Type: in-person, poster
Time: cst: 8:30-12:00 / mst: 7:30-11:00
Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Sea Ice
Session ID: C52A
Co-Chairs: Sahra Kacimi, Walter Meier, and Randall K Scharien
Location: 208-209 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: Oral
Time: cst: 10:30-12:00 / mst: 9:30-11:00
Intercomparison of Remote-sensing-derived Antarctic Sea Ice Drift Data
Session ID: C52A-04
Participants: YoungHyun Koo and Walter Meier
Location: 208-209 (NOLA CC)
Session Type: in-person, presentation
Time: cst: 11:00-11:10 / mst: 10:00-10:10