27 March 2025 | 13:30 - 15:00 (MDT)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: UMC Second Floor - 235
Organisers: Christopher Jeffery (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA); Keith Groves (Boston College Institute for Scientific Research, USA); Wojciech Miloch (Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Norway)
Session Description:
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:
- 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?
- Map out and plan for observations supporting new Arctic-specific strategies to communicate and sense through challenging environments and ionospheric disturbances.
- 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.