When AGU was founded, Antarctica was a remote and hostile land, Terra Incognita. The increase of knowledge we’ve gained from the transdisciplinary opportunities and collaborations provided by the Antarctic field sites have been recorded in many an AGU publication. Today we are on the precipice of exploring a new remote and hostile land, Terra Luna. Humanities return to the Moon promises to bring further impactful and novel discoveries. With a new set of landing sites and improved instrumentation, our understanding will likely advance quickly from what we have continued to learn from the Apollo era samples and missions. Beyond the impressive potential for the advancement of lunar science, the Moon provides a unique platform enabling many transdisciplinary sciences. AGU was instrumental in enabling the necessary transdisciplinary collaborations to help Antarctic research flourish. This session is just one step in cultivating a similarly diverse community of researchers to ensure the success of Artemis for the future as we look towards sending the first woman and person of color to the Moon. Here we will hear discussions of current work and potential opportunities the Artemis program will enable.

One of the outcomes we would love to see from this is an ongoing discussion of a future International Lunar Year in a similar vain to the International Geophysical Year. We see a need for an international effort to bring together diverse researchers to take advantage of this new program and initiative. This would eventually include geophysical monographs and/or special issues - which ever is deemed most appropriate. The hope is that this would continue to inspire future workshops such as a Chapman workshop dedicated to this topic.

We would like to invite speakers such as Thomas Zurbuccan to speak on NASA's SMD Goals for Artemis, Leading experts on Lunar Science such as Jim Green or Amy Fagan, Transdisciplinary researchers using the Moon as a platform to look elsewhere such as Harlan Spence (UNH Co-I on DREAM) or Brian Walsh (Boston University - PI of LEXI a clps instrument using the Moon as a platform to look at Magnetospheric science). We also see a benefit to inviting individuals who are looking at communication networks for Artemis, LunaNet, and inspiring our community on how these systems could be used for science (either through the need for GISS contributions or advance warning systems, and the need for 'cloud computing' within these networks). We are also very open to other suggestions for speakers and topics. For instance we could see an interest in a speaker from Space Policy or Science and Society.

We envision a large section of the AGU community may be interested in hearing about Artemis, how it may provide unique opportunities for future investigations - both lunar focused and how the Moon may provide a unique platform and field site for their own research, as well as the educational and outreach opportunities to help inspire the next generation of scientists.

• AAS: American Astronomical Society -
• AMS: American Meteorological Society -
• EGU: European Geosciences Union -
• JpGU: Japan Geoscience Union -