Karan Manchanda’s will defend his thesis “RAM [Remote Arctic Memory]” on Thursday September 10th at 11AM in the Cummings Lecture Theatre. His work investigates the coupling of communications and research infrastructure together to create a flexible and scalable connective network for the North. The proposal describes a “New North”, an Arctic networked through a series of monitoring towers deployed across the North to foster gathering of data and sharing of knowledge between researchers and the indigenous communities.