Arctic fjords serve as a point of confluence between land and sea. They are also the point at which the highest levels of human habitation and natural productivity intersect. The Arctic is however changing extremely rapidly, requiring that the monitoring and reporting of these changes keep pace. But what exactly is it that is changing? Or more complexly, which changes are affecting what? To answer these questions a broad team of experts was assembled under the FACE-IT consortium to investigate the drivers of change to socio-ecological systems in Arctic fjords.