1. Sandy Starkweather (NOAA), U.S. AON Executive Director
SAON Board Meeting: Update on Arctic Observing Summit (AOS)
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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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