Julie Brigham-Grette, 2017 PEP Fellow, comments in a story in Eos about how scientists are trying to figure out what the Trump administration’s policy is going to be on issues related to the Arctic. To date, the administration has not signaled its intentions. Calling for strong leadership by the U.S. government on these issues, Brigham-Grete says: “The polar regions are in a state of rapid, unprecedented change due to human-caused warming of our atmosphere. It’s terribly shortsighted for the Trump administration to dismiss scientific research and international collaborations as fluff, especially around climate-related field when action, now, is so important to American society and our economy.”