26 March 2025 | 10:30 - 12:00 (MDT)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: UMC Third Floor - 384
Organisers: Julia Muchowski (Swedish Polar Research Secretariat); Benoît Pirenne (Ocean Networks Canada)
Session Description:
As we are approaching the next International Polar Year, we are witnessing the advent of year-round data collection systems monitoring the seasonally sea-ice-covered Arctic Ocean. Today, large, multi-season moorings collect data in the entire water column at certain locations (e.g, HiAOOS). In the near future, a number of submarine fibre telecommunication cables equipped with a variety of sensing capabilities will traverse the Arctic Ocean. Such cables will open up new opportunities for continuous, high-temporal resolution data collection along their path and report important variables for climate studies, oceanography, seismology, biology, security and public safety. Currently three cable systems are being planned: Polar Connect across the central Arctic Ocean, Far North Fibre, and Tusass Connect Vision).
This session will highlight year-round Arctic Ocean data collection technologies, explain their applicability, benefits and costs and give our audience a picture of what we can hope to achieve by the coming International Polar Year.
We invite contributions that present new technologies that are either already deployed, in the demonstration phase, or in the planning stage. The submissions should also highlight the benefits these technologies will bring to science and to Arctic communities, including fact-based decision support.
(Supported in part by the EU 22-EU-DIG-NPF, Grant Agreement ID 101133585, North Pole Fibre)