Sandy Starkweather (NOAA), U.S. AON Executive Director SAON Board Meeting: Update on Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) www.arcticobservingsummit.org Hajo Eicken (UAF-IARC), Co-Chair, Executive Organizing Committee AOS 2020 Alice Bradley (Williams College), Member, Executive Organizing Committee AOS 2020 Sandy Starkweather (NOAA), U.S. AON Executive Director Maribeth Murray, Executive Director, International Study of Arctic Change Peter Schlosser, Chair – Executive Organizing Committee AOS 2018 & Science Steering Group, International Study of Arctic Change

Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) Goals Provide community-driven, science-based guidance for the design, implementation, coordination and sustained long-term (decades) operation of an international network of Arctic observing systems that serves a wide spectrum of needs Create a forum for coordination and exchange between academia, government agencies, Indigenous & local communities, industry, non- governmental organizations and other Arctic stakeholders involved in or in need of long- term observations

Thematic history of AOS 2013 2014 2016 2018 2020 Mechanisms for coordination International coordination Sustained support of long-term observing Funding and support models Societal benefits: long term Arctic obs. In the context of global initiatives Societal benefits: short term Observing system design Technology and innovation Optimization & implementation Current status Remote sensing Private sector New technologies Stakeholder perspectives Stakeholder engagement Actor and stakeholder engagement Success stories Data management Indigenous knowledge & community based monitoring Data

AOS 2018 Call to Action  ASM-2 Valuation shows positive return on investment Need to shift observing from research to sustained, operational infrastructure support Operational observations to target key variables, augmented by broad research- focused variables Build on observing capacity/gap assessment to fill SAON roadmap with content  Int’l task team International team of experts needed to complete these tasks and generate roadmap under SAON Co-design/management of observing under FAIR principles Observing system to span full range of spatial & temporal observation scales

Integrating sustained observations Broad range of themes, interests, mandates, concepts, champions AOS Assessment (“knowledge map”) Arctic Observing Roadmap • Parsing & synthesis • Ranking • Linking • Well-defined requirements for EVs • Societal benefits (shared) • Co-design/imple-mentation/integra-tion of observing system components Bundling of efforts insufficient  Development of coherent set of observations drawing on requirements guided by shared benefits Identify commonalities, link requirements & implementation across narrow efforts that fit into common thematic framework

2020 Arctic Observing Summit: Observing for Action Akureyri, Iceland 30 Mar – 2 Apr 2020 Summit themes Design, Optimization and Implementation Observing in Support of Adaptation and Mitigation Observing in Support of Global Action Data Interoperability and Federated Search Indigenous Needs

2020 Arctic Observing Summit: Observing for Action Subtheme I: Design, optimisation and implementation. Roadmap. Optimizing and synchronization of observing system components (ocean, climate, etc.). [Hajo Eicken and Roberta Pirazzini, Alice Bradley] Co-design and co-management of observing systems for action. The role of Community Based Monitoring [Eva Kruemmel] Possible questions: i. Which efforts are underway to catalog/document the existing Arctic observing system? ii. What are the criteria for optimization of the Arctic observing system? iii. Where are there opportunities for integration across observing system components? iv. What are the avenues towards and barriers against implementation of a more optimized system Subtheme II: Observing in support of adaption, and mitigation [Maribeth Murray] Observing to track, manage and monitor mitigation. What types of infrastructures are needed to address existing and future needs and what is the role of public-private partnerships in developing such infrastructure? Observing to inform, plan and act on current, emerging and future issues (i.e., hazard prediction, management, response) Observing in support of security (food), sustainability and resilience

2020 Arctic Observing Summit: Observing for Action Subtheme III: Arctic observing in support of global actions/relevance (mitigation for example) [Jan Rene Larsen and Thorsteinn Gunnarsson] Participants: Representatives from MOSAIC (findings will not be ready), T-MOSAIC, GEO, WMO, European Commission, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS). Questions to participants: Which efforts are under way of being prepared within Arctic observing with global relevance and importance? How to bring Arctic observing to action at global level? What are the obstacles – what could or should be done to remove / resolve these. Who is the target: Arctic Council, UN? How to involve the non-Arctic countries. Do they have a pressing need for this? How to connect arctic observing with for instance the Paris agreement. Are there any model countries? Subtheme IV: Data group. Interoperability. Federated search [Peter Pulsifer] Subtheme V: Indigenous issues

2020 Arctic Observing Summit: Observing for Action Akureyri, Iceland 30 Mar – 2 Apr 2020 Further aspects White paper process Input to ASM-3 Transformation of AOS under SAON