CEDAR email: Calling all Visionaries: ASSW session on Science of Resilient Arctic Comms/Sensing

[Jeffery, Christopher Andrew Munn]

Dear CEDAR community,

The Arctic environment is rapidly changing and the International Polar Year (IPY) 2032-33 is approaching.
Search And Rescue (SAR) operations, disaster response, enforcement of international norms and agreements, and the
maintenance of reliable lines of communication at times of high geopolitical tension, all require new communication and
sensing strategies that are resilient to disrupting factors: the harsh Arctic operating environment, geomagnetic activity
and other natural and anthropogenic drivers of ionospheric disturbance.

And our CEDAR community is at the forefront of developing the next-generation predictive models, AI tools, and novel observations to
support resilient communication and sensing in a changing Arctic with a rapidly expanding human presence.

We are soliciting your help! Planning is underway for the coming IPY, and it must be cognizant of, and leverage, new
developments in next-generation predictions of both the terrestrial and space environments, including high-fidelity
earth-system and magnetospheric modeling and deep learning approaches. At the same time, Arctic scientific cooperation and
diplomacy is being challenged by geopolitical tensions and barriers to open data collection and sharing.

Please consider submitting an abstract to our ASSW session on Science for Communications & Sensing in Rapidly Changing Arctic that is planning for the next International Polar Year. Our session is here (#2.4)
https://www.<https://www.assw.info/program/icarp-iv-summit/icarp-iv-summit-sessions/icarp-iv-summit-sessions-accepting-abstracts>assw<https://www.assw.info/program/icarp-iv-summit/icarp-iv-summit-sessions/icarp-iv-summit-sessions-accepting-abstracts>.info/program/icarp-iv-summit/icarp-iv-summit-sessions/icarp-iv-summit-sessions-accepting-abstracts<https://www.assw.info/program/icarp-iv-summit/icarp-iv-summit-sessions/icarp-iv-summit-sessions-accepting-abstracts>
(for convenience our session description is reproduced below)

Our session is part of the Fourth International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV) Summit organised from 25 - 28 March 2025 with the theme “Arctic Research Planning for the Next Decade”.

Our ASSW session is not your average AGU plenary. We want to ask, and try to answer, the hard questions in anticipation of
an IPY that is still many years away:

  1.
What new Arctic observations will be needed over the coming decade to inform and validate next-generation models, emerging technologies and new machine learning approaches?
  2.
How do we plan for in situ Arctic communication/sensing observational campaigns during the most intense decadal geomagnetic storms, when advance warning of their onset is extremely limited?
  3.
For the sensitive topic of communications and sensing, how do we navigate challenges to Arctic scientific cooperation and diplomacy in an era of rising geopolitical tensions?

Our Current List of Invited Speakers:

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"Expanding the Arctic Lens: Innovations in Communication, Sensing, and Infrastructure", Ms. Shelley A Johnson, Principal Engineer and Arctic Lead, The MITRE Corporation
  *
"Ionospheric Sensing for Responsiveness to Emerging Arctic and Polar Space Weather Impacts", Jeffrey M Holmes, Space Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, USA
  *
"Arctic Ionospheric Monitoring – Research and Applications", P. T. Jayachandran, Physics Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada


The abstract submission link for ASSW 2025 is here:
https://na.eventscloud.com/eSites/811218/Login

Important: The abstract deadline is quickly approaching: Wednesday, 9 October 2024 (23:59 MDT)

Arctic Sensing/Comms Session Conveners,

Chris Jeffery, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Keith Groves, Boston College
Wojciech Miloch, University of Oslo
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# 2.4.  Science for Resilient Communications and Sensing in a Rapidly Changing Arctic

The Arctic environment is rapidly changing. An expanding human presence and growing geopolitical activity is driving a pressing need to communicate and sense without disruption. In particular, Search And Rescue (SAR) operations, disaster response, enforcement of international norms and agreements, and the maintenance of reliable lines of communication at times of high geopolitical tension, all require new communication and sensing strategies that are resilient to disrupting factors: the harsh Arctic operating environment, geomagnetic activity and other natural and anthropogenic drivers of ionospheric disturbances.
In the arena of communications and sensing, Arctic research planning for the next decade should be cognizant of, and leverage, new developments in next-generation predictions of both the terrestrial and space environments, including high-fidelity earth-system and magnetospheric modeling and deep learning approaches.
We solicit participation in an ICARP IV Summit session with three main goals:

  1.  Anticipate the transformative role of high-performance computational tools and deep learning techniques in driving new research directions for resilient Arctic communication and sensing. Key Research Planning Question: What new Arctic observations will be needed over the coming decade to inform and validate next-generation models, emerging technologies and new machine learning approaches?
  2.  Map out and plan for observations supporting new Arctic-specific strategies to communicate and sense through challenging environments and ionospheric disturbances.
  3.  Promote a common understanding of the need for resilient communications and supporting collaborations--including data sharing to support disaster response, research cooperation to improve disaster response, and collaborative observing to enforce international norms and agreements--while being mindful of geopolitical constraints.


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