The Sea Ice Mechanics and Arctic Modeling Workshop was held in Anchorage, Alaska, on April 25 - 28, 1995. The Workshop focused on the current state of practice and future research needs relative to offshore oil and gas facilities and reviewed the results of the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) Sea Ice Mechanics Initiative (SIMI). The SIMI was a continuing ONR program running from October 1992 through September 1996, with sea ice mechanics and Arctic acoustics field programs, laboratory studies, and modeling work. The SIMI goals are to understand sea ice constitutive laws and fracture mechanics over the full range of geophysical scales, to determine the scaled responses to applied external forces, and to develop physically based constitutive and fracture models. The goals were established at a SIMI planning meeting held at Airlie, Virginia, in November 1990. The report from that meeting can be found in Appendix A. The main field experiments were defined at a second SIMI meeting held at Sidney, British Columbia, in August 1993 and are described in the Summary Plan included as Appendix B. The main field experiments were conducted in the Beaufort Sea during 1993 and 1994.

1. Four ice maps: the fall and spring SIMI camps at 2km and 10km scales (included in this section).
2. Summaries of poster presentations by the SIMI Principle Investigators of their findings to date, their model developments, their data sets, and their upcoming publications. These are divided into five sections focusing on broad topics. Each section begins with a list of the papers in the section and a list referring the reader to papers in other sections containing information on the same subject. 
3. Proceedings of the first SIMI planning meeting (as Appendix A).
4. The SIMI Summary Plan (as Appendix B). Volume 2 has the invited lectures and working group summary presentations and recommendations.

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