Today’s new generation of environmental satellites and the international partnerships in place for sharing their data and resulting product applications contribute significantly to building resiliency to extreme weather events.  Resiliency to extreme events is being built by better remote sensing and forecasting capabilities made possible by the new and improved satellite data products which help mitigate damage to life and property and aid in the recovery process. In addition, resiliency of these satellite systems themselves is being increased by the advanced technology incorporated in the design of the environmental satellites and by international agreements which facilitate their operation and data access among nations.  Panelists from the US and partnering nations will describe how satellite information is used to improve their observation and forecasting capabilities for extreme weather events. A limited # of boxed lunches  provided by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation., Integrated Systems Solutions, Inc. & Science and Technology Corporation.

The increasing volume, resolution and variety of geoscience data, along with increasing capabilities of high performance computing and new machine learning (ML) techniques are providing novel opportunities. Deep learning (DL) is now being applied to track weather events, localise, detect and classify extreme events, or emulate physics models. Therefore, it is timely to examine the value of DL/ML or hybrid approaches, over traditional physics methods. The artificial intelligence (AI) community also uses different criteria to benchmark progress through global challenges such as ImageNet versus how geoscience tackles planetary challenges, explainability and reproducibility of results. As new waves of intelligence are applied to the Earth, whist we face existential risks from exceeding its sustainable boundaries -- what are the emerging opportunities and challenges at the crossroads of this planetary transition, into this new age of ‘Planetary Intelligence’? The panel will explore this question across three topics: Physics-guided ML; EnviroNet & Climate change-AI.

AMS Publications has come a long way over the past century and, as always, is looking to improve as we enter our second 100 years. This session will give attendees a sense of how far we’ve come, and discuss what the future holds for AMS publications from an internal and technological perspective. Outside perspectives on future trends in scientific publishing from the library community and an industry expert will also be presented. Presenters will include AMS Executive Director Keith Seitter and AMS Journals Production Manager Mike Friedman, as well as our library and industry guest speakers.

Come learn about and participate in a panel discussion, moderated by AMS Deputy Executive Director Bill Hooke, that will focus on how we can develop a shared future vision and clear set of actions across the earth, space, and environmental sciences to expand research assessment to explicitly include, recognize, and reward actions that advance open science, broad communication, and public engagement.