Arctic Research Community - Past Changes for future

An international research network examining and reconstructing past climate, environmental changes, and processes within the Arctic to develop an understanding of the present and future of this globally significant region. Specifically, the dynamics, magnitudes and rates of change, and interactions between different components of the Arctic system: ice sheets and glaciers; oceans and sea ice; terrestrial environment; ecosystems and human activity.

ARCPaC serves to coordinate and link research on the Arctic climate system; to create collaborative opportunities between researchers from different countries, disciplines, and career stages. A key activity is an annual international conference, typically including an excursion.

Second Annual ARCPaC Conference

Our second annual conference will be held at the University of Latvia in Riga, 1-4 June 2027.

XXII INQUA Congress - 'ARCPaC' Session

ARCPaC will organise Session 189: Arctic Climate Change: From past histories to future trajectories at the XXII INQUA Congress, 28 January - 3 February 2027 in Luknow, India.

Abstract submission is now closed.

First Annual Conference

Our first annual conference was held in Aarhus in May 2026, organized by Aarhus University (AU) and the Geological Survey of Greenland and Denmark (GEUS). Please refer to the meeting website for further details.

Steering Committee, 2025-2031

The network is led by an international Steering Committee of researchers interested in past and future Arctic climate and environmental change, representing a collaboration between 11 countries and institutes, and including two Early-Career Representatives.

ARCPaC builds on 35 years of Arctic palaeoclimate research collaboration via PONAM (Polar North Atlantic Margins – Late Cenozoic Evolution; 1989-94), QUEEN (Quaternary Environment of the Eurasian North; 1996-2002), APEX (Arctic Palaeoclimate and its Extremes; 2004-12), PASTGateways (Palaeo-Arctic Spatial and Temporal Gateways; 2013-18), and PalaeoArc (Processes and Palaeo–Environmental Changes in the Arctic: From Past to Present; 2019-25).