The report is organized to showcase high-impact discoveries reported to the community and our scientists', engineers', and students' extraordinary abilities to conceive, design, and execute experiments in the field over the past year.

Aaron Donohoe teams with climate scientists at the Univ. of Chicago. Published in PNAS, they use a combination of observations, theory, and numerical climate models to test and explain how the Southern Hemisphere is 24% stormier than the Northern and how the asymmetry is growing over time. (links to U. Chicago News)

Climate Scientist Ignatius Rigor's collaboration with a scientist, designer, and artist has produced an exhibit that makes scientific data tangible, visceral, and experiential. The Iceberg Portrait series is based on an international effort to tag and track icebergs calving from the Greenland Ice Sheet. (links to NAS)

Working in the Beaufort Sea in fall 2022, researchers used autonomous vehicles, drifters, aerial platforms, and shipboard instruments to measure the dynamics and evolution of near-surface salinity and upper ocean stratification during the transition between summer open water and fall freeze-up.