The Saroma Sea Ice School 2026 will be held from 28 February to 9 March 2026 in Saroma-ko Lagoon, Hokkaido Island, Japan.
The Saroma Sea Ice School is an interdisciplinary winter field school for early career scientists – primarily Ph.D. students, but also open to master’s students and early postdocs – focused on the interactions among sea ice, snow, clouds, and aerosols in polar regions.
Through a combination of classroom lectures, expert-led workshops, and hands-on fieldwork (including sea ice coring and atmospheric sampling), participants will explore the key processes that shape the Arctic and Antarctic climate systems. Organised by BEPSII, CIceClouds, and CATCH working groups, the program aims to equip the next generation of sea ice researchers for Antarctica InSync and the International Polar Year among other international polar initiatives.
