FRISP is an international expert group and annual workshop series operating under the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). The workshop focuses on Antarctica's Ice Shelf, and brings together an interdisciplinary community of glaciologists, oceanographers, and meteorologists to study the complex ocean, ice, and atmosphere interactions driving ice shelf behaviour and melting. Known for its informal, collaborative format with no parallel sessions, the annual meeting provides a crucial platform for both senior scientists and early-career researchers to share ongoing fieldwork observations, discuss emerging science findings.
Summary form Shenjie Zhou:
I'm presented OCEAN ICE work at FRISP (Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes). The meeting happens annually bringing together researchers working in field of understanding the processes governing the changes of ice shelves, ice sheets and their interaction with the ocean at both poles. It took place this in Kristineberg, Sweden, 17 - 19 August.
I presented a poster that summarises the work conducted under the OCEAN ICE WP1 objective - understanding the co-variability of the Antarctic shelf seas and the long-term changes in subsurface ocean heat reservoir in the Southern Ocean using compiled OCEAN ICE observational datasets.
Summary from Yixi Zheng:
A few of us attended FRISP 2026, held in Kristineberg, Sweden from 17-19 August 2026. This year’s FRISP was organised to align well with the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Conference in Oslo the week before, so the attendees are more multidisciplinary and diverse than in past years. Researchers working on oceanography, glaciology and geology presented our work and discussed it with others, helping us push our research forward and boosting future collaboration across different nations, institutes and disciplines.
During this meeting, I presented a talk titled "Turbulence and heat flux observations at the ice-ocean boundary layer beneath Fimbulisen Ice Shelf”. I discussed our work with researchers from several institutes, including some co-authors that we rarely see in person, and others working in similar fields whom I have never met before. Their different perspectives made the conversations especially useful.
The research station we stayed sits next to a beautiful harbour on Gullmar Fjord. During coffee breaks, we enjoyed our coffee and talked our science under the sun on the balcony, with a soft sea breeze and the fjord glittering below. Waves rolled gently in and slid back out quietly, leaving room for chats between friends old and new. Many of us also appreciated the sauna at the research station as an end-of-the-day treat. After each sauna session, a bunch of us would jump into the fjord right in front of the sauna, shrieking and laughing at the cold water (and the frequent jellyfish (!)).
The author of the article - Shenjie Zhou (British Antarctic Survey) and Yixi Zheng (British Antarctic Survey)
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Ocean Observation Laboratory