Agenda:

Agenda:

-        Action items from 2SEP2015: http://www.arcticobserving.org/8-site-content/137-2015-04-09

-        PDF/ADC meeting in Waterloo: https://rd-alliance.org/second-polar-data-forum-pdf-ii-27-29-october-2015-waterloo-ontario-canada.html

-        Board and CON meetings at ASSW/AOS: https://assw2016.org

• Fixing the dates
• Agenda, including review of SAON

-        GEO/GEOSS

-        AOB

Actions:

LL: Contact Mike Kuperberg, USGCRP and discuss potential SAON/CON contributions to the indicators’ initiative.

CDO, LL, JRL: Meet and discuss how CON can contribute to EU PolarNet.

CDO, JRL, VC: Develop a proposal for establishing a SAON outreach group, also involving the Board. In general, there is little information coming from SAON. When there is a product, this should be announced.

EK, PP: Consider with Noor Johnson to provide a paper on the CBM Atlas for the PDF.

JRL: Register the dates for the Board meeting (16. and 17. March).

CDO, LH, JRL: Fix the dates CON and make a registration for the Arctic Observing Summit

JRL: Write the first draft for document for AOS on SAON.

CDO, JRL: Put together the first bullets for a SAON Board agenda.

JRL: Write a SAON one-pager on SAON and give it to PP, who will arrange that it is brought to the GEO Ministerial Summit 13 November 2015

JRL: Contact Tom Armstrong, Mikko Strahlendorf and the GEO Secretariat in order to discuss next steps in the development of the SAON/GEO relationship, especially the concept ‘SAON – The Arctic Wing of GEO’.

For the Board meeting agenda:

• Ask GEO to make a focucussed presentation on the SAON/GEO relationship
• Add ASDI

JRL: Provide GEO document to LH.

PP: Circulate contribution to POLARIS and consider making it a SAON contribution.