What’s New

[2nd Announcement] 2025 Ecosystem Studies of the Subarctic and Arctic Seas (ESSAS) Open Science Meeting (Tentative sessions out)

2025 ESSAS Open Science Meeting: Past, Present and Future of Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystems

For tentative session descriptions, see below!

Dates: June 24-26, 2025

Venue & Location: National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan

2024 ESSAS Annual Science Meeting in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada (Abstract submissions are due: April 8, 2024)

2024 ESSAS Annual Science Meeting: “Exploring the dynamic interface of human and marine life in high-latitude coastal zones”

Dates: June 18-21, 2024

First Announcement 

2023 ESSAS Annual Science Meeting in Bergen, Norway (Conference Program uploaded)

2023 ESSAS Annual Science Meeting: “Ecological, social and economic dynamics of high-latitude coastal systems”

Dates: June 20-22, 2023

Book of Abstracts 

Conference Schedule 

PESAS Special Issue in Quaternary Research

ESSAS is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the journal Quaternary Research (v. 108)  dedicated to research of the ESSAS working group “Paleoecology of Subarctic and Arctic Seas” (PESAS).

2022 ESSAS Annual Science Meeting in Seattle, Washington (Final updates)

2022 Ecosystem Studies of the Subarctic and Arctic Seas (ESSAS) Annual Science Meeting: “Bridging the past and present to manage the future of northern fisheries and ecosystems”

Final Conference Program 

All registered participants will receive a Zoom link no later than Friday, June 17

Opportunity for Early Career Scientists to join ESSAS steering committee

If you are interested in the impacts of climate change on high-latitude marine ecosystems, this is your opportunity to help shape the future of the Ecosystem Studies of the Subarctic and Arctic Seas (ESSAS) program.

ESSAS is a regional program under the Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR) project and is inviting nominations for an Early Career Scientist (within 6 years of PhD completion, excluding any periods of leave) to join its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) for a three-year renewable term. The SSC is responsible for the development, planning and implementation of science with the goal to “compare, quantify and predict the impact of climate variability on the productivity and sustainability of Subarctic and Arctic marine ecosystems.

2021 ESSAS Webinar Annual Science Meeting in Sapporo, Japan 30 May–4 June, 2021 (Abstract submission extended)

“Linking past and present marine ecosystems to inform future fisheries and aquaculture”
Webinar at http://xxxxxxx (to be announced)
Host of webinar, Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University
Date: 30 May – 4 June, 2021

ESSAS 2020 cancelled due to COVID-19

Dear all submitters of abstract and participants of ESSAS ASM 2020,

We regret to inform all of you that the ESSAS Annual Science Meeting (ASM) 2020, scheduled on 31 May-5 June 2020 in Sapporo, Japan, is canceled as a proactive measure against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation in Japan and foreign countries.

ESSAS session and workshop on high-latitude ecosystems

The Ecosystem Studies of Subarctic and Arctic Seas (ESSAS) program will be organizing a session on ‘’Arctic marine ecosystems in a changing climate’’ and a workshop on the ‘’ Bioenergetics and survival trajectories of Arctic fish in response to environmental stressors’’ as part of the Integrated Marine Biosphere Research project (IMBeR) Open Science Conference Future Oceans2: ocean sustainability for the benefit of society: understanding, challenges, and solutions to be held at Le Quartz Congress Centre in Brest, France, June 17-21, 2019.

Highlights from the 2018 Annual Science Meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska

2018 Annual Science Meeting and SSC meeting
Fairbanks, Alaska, June 12-14, 2018

The Ecosystem Studies of the Subarctic and Arctic held its Annual Science Meeting at the Wedgewood Resort in Fairbanks, Alaska. A major theme of the 2018 meeting was the use of satellites in studying high-latitude marine ecosystems. The Fairbanks location was chosen in part because it is home to the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) and a desire to raise awareness within the ESSAS community about tools and capabilities for processing, mapping and analyzing satellite data available through ASF.