(Joint with the 20th Conference on Space Weather and 21st Symposium on the Coastal Environment)

Session 6: Wednesday, 11 January 2023, 1:30-3:00 PM MT

Colorado Convention Center - Mile High Ballroom 2B/3B

This Presidential Session will hear from ocean and space environment experts to identify why understanding the immense data collected is so critical to our future and how new technologies and processes are beginning to help drive better scientific insights and actionable decisions. From the oceans to space, humanity has caused rapid and long-lasting effects on the environment. Since 1880, anthropogenic global warming has contributed to the rise of the global mean sea level by 20 centimeters, and there’s no easy way to halt or reverse this change. In the past 70 years humans have established and continue to grow immense societal dependence on power grid systems, satellites, and communication capabilities that are all adversely affected by space weather and its environments. These outcomes, dependencies, and the need to protect humanity’s future from the evolving and human-driven ocean and space environments has resulted in a great deal of collected data and improved physical understanding. 

Moderators: Moderators: Alec Engell, NextGen Federal Systems, Bozeman MT, [email protected], Ken Carey, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, Maryland, [email protected] and Barbara Thompson, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MA, [email protected]

Panelists: Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, PhD, Ocean STL Consulting, Washington DC: Dr. Paula Bontempi, University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI; Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, UCAR Center for Ocean Leadership, Boulder, CO; Stephen Volz, NESDIS Assistant Administrator for Satellite Information Services, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; Brian Thomas Deputy Project Scientist for Heliophysics Digital Resource Library, NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD

Session Co-Chairs: Alec Engell ([email protected]), Ken Carey ([email protected]), and Barbara Thompson ([email protected]).