Halifax and Greenwood, Nova Scotia, 1-4 March 2025
The Arctic Search and Rescue Exchange is built on one core idea: that relationships and collaboration constitute the foundation of an effective search and rescue system. Relationships rooted in trust and respect allow SAR team members and partners to work together during operations, to understand each other’s resources, capabilities, and limitations, and to overcome challenges.
A lot of progress has been made since Arctic SAR Exchange 2023 and the first Nunavik and Nunavut SAR Roundtables. Arctic SAR Exchange 2025 focused on how to build on these positive developments to strengthen and sustain the relationships, frameworks, and procedures that foster collaboration in Arctic SAR. How can we work better together? How can we operate at the speed of trust?
While we had this group of experienced SAR responders and researchers together, we also took time to work through areas for improvement, share best practices and lessons learned, and co-develop tools that can help make SAR operations more effective.
