Fwd: Invitation to attend "Earth's Pulse: SMART Cables in the Northern Hemisphere" 4 October, Lisbon
Bruce M. Howe
I want to bring to your attention, and to invite you, to a hybrid 1-day meeting in Lisbon on 4 October - “Earth’s Pulse: SMART Cables in the Northern Hemisphere” - to explore adding environmental sensors - including ocean bottom temperature, low-drift pressure, and seismic (accel and BB) - to commercial subsea telecom cables spanning the North Atlantic and through the Arctic to the Pacific.
We need science people to attend and stand up for including sensors in the proposed telecom systems, and using the data. This would be a 3-10 year process, but these cable systems last 25 years with real time data. See message below and attachments.
For acceptance and registration please click this link to fill out a form indicating your name and affiliation and whether you will participate in person or remote. For any questions, please reach out to smar...@hawaii.edu.
We want a good representation from the oceanography community (e.g., AMOC), the seafloor geodesy community, and the intersection of the two.
Hope to hear from you in the affirmative!
cheers,
Bruce Howe, JTF SMART Cables, Chair
Augusto Fragoso, ANACOM, Director General for Information and Innovation
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| Subject: | Invitation to attend "Earth's Pulse: SMART Cables in the Northern Hemisphere" 4 October, Lisbon |
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| Date: | Thu, 8 Aug 2024 15:36:17 -0700 |
| From: | SMART Cable International Project Office Admin <smar...@hawaii.edu> |
| To: | SMART Cable International Project Office Admin <smar...@hawaii.edu> |
| CC: | Bruce Howe <bh...@hawaii.edu>, Ceci Rodriguez Cruz <cec...@hawaii.edu>, Meaghan Bachop <meag...@hawaii.edu>, Jose Barros <jos...@hawaii.edu>, Mike Constable <mike.co...@gmail.com>, jjdano...@utm.csic.es, Augusto Fragoso <augusto...@anacom.pt>, luis....@anacom.pt, Paulo Serra <paulo...@anacom.pt> |
Dear All,
Telecom submarine cables have traditionally served the single purpose of connectivity. However, thanks to the significant effort of the scientific community, they are becoming a multipurpose infrastructure at the service of science and society, in addition to telecommunications. In this way, submarine cables can be used for humanitarian purposes such as environmental sensing for climate and geohazard warnings serving science communities and people.
SMART (Scientific Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications) submarine cables will play a decisive role in collecting real-time data directly from the bottom of the ocean, envisioning the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDG 13 – Climate, and SDG 14 – Oceans. The oceans control our weather and climate, and knowledge of changes in ocean circulation, heat content, and sea level rise will inform climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in the medium to long term. In the short term, timely early warnings for earthquakes and tsunamis will save lives.
New potential SMART Cables projects have recently been announced that will cross the North Atlantic, the Arctic and the North Pacific. Because the ocean is globally connected, SMART ocean measurements in these regions will affect our estimates of the state of the “Global Ocean”.
It is important to promote collaboration between these projects to achieve synergies, maximize benefits, while reducing costs.
In this context, an international meeting entitled “Earth's Pulse: SMART Cables in the Northern Hemisphere” will be co-organised by JTF SMART Cables (The SMART Cables Joint Task Force - SMART Cables) and ANACOM (ANACOM - Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações) on 4 October 2024, in Lisbon. The purpose of this meeting will be to discuss, debate and share the perspective of various national and international players, including operators, suppliers, academia, international organisations and other entities with an interest in the data collected by these SMART submarine cables. The aim is to discuss among experts ways of making better use of the data collected by future and potential SMART Cable systems (e.g., Atlantic CAM, PISCES, Far North Fiber, Polar Connect, TUSASS, MEDUSA, MISTS and Olisipo), as part of a SMART Cables network in the Northern Hemisphere that will serve as a decisive contribution to the creation of a future global sea floor observation network using SMART Cables.
Following the invitation sent last 23rd July, we are pleased to announce the tentative agenda, the final agenda will be sent by the beginning of September.
The tentative
meeting's agenda will include a range of topics:
· presentation
of the projects as potential SMART Cables;
· technologies
to be used;
·
identification of the benefits for science and society;
· governance
and data management.
Attendance is by invitation and the meeting will have a hybrid format, in person and remote (Q&As will run through the chat). The meeting will be held in ANACOM’s headquarters, Rua Ramalho Ortigão 51, Lisbon, 9:30 am-5:30 pm WEST (UTC-1).
For acceptance and registration please click this link to fill out a form indicating your name and affiliation and whether you will participate in person or remote. For any questions, please reach out to smar...@hawaii.edu.
Looking forward to having you at the “Earth’s Pulse: SMART Cables in the Northern Hemisphere” meeting.
Please accept our kindest regards.
Bruce Howe, JTF SMART Cables, Chair
Augusto Fragoso, ANACOM, Director General for Information
and Innovation
PS – Tentative agenda attached