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Community-Based Monitoring and Indigenous Knowledge in a Changing Arctic: A Review for the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks. Final report to Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks.
(ON: Inuit Circumpolar Council, Ottawa, Canada, 2016)
This review of community-based monitoring (CBM) in a
changing Arctic is based on a multi-year initiative launched
in 2012 as a task under the “Sustaining Arctic Observing
Networks” (SAON), a network of Arctic observing ...
A quantitative assessment of Arctic shipping in 2010–2014.
(2016)
Rapid loss of sea ice is opening up the Arctic Ocean to shipping, a practice that is forecasted to increase rapidly by 2050 when many models predict that the Arctic Ocean will largely be free of ice toward the end of summer. ...
Climate change impacts on wildlife in a High Arctic archipelago – Svalbard, Norway.
(2016)
The Arctic is warming more rapidly than other region on the planet, and the northern Barents Sea, including the Svalbard
Archipelago, is experiencing the fastest temperature increases within the circumpolar Arctic, along ...
Arctic Research Plan FY2017-2021.
(Office of Science and Technology, Washington D.C.., 2016)
The United States is an Arctic nation—Americans depend on the Arctic for biodiversity and climate
regulation and for natural resources. America’s Arctic—Alaska—is at the forefront of rapid climate,
environmental, and ...
Understanding the structure and functioning of polar pelagic ecosystems to predict the impacts of change.
(2016)
The determinants of the structure, functioning and resilience of pelagic ecosystems across most of the polar regions are not well known. Improved understanding is essential for assessing the value of biodiversity and ...
Inuit Priorities for Canada’s Climate Strategy: A Canadian Inuit Vision for Our Common Future in Our Homelands.
(Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami,, Ottawa, Canada, 2016)
This report provides First Ministers and Canadian stakeholders with an overview of the diverse
and growing needs Canadian Inuit face as we adapt to climate change in Inuit Nunangat, the
Inuit homeland spanning four ...
Guidelines for monitoring of chlorophyll a.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2016)
Increase in phytoplankton biomass is a direct consequence of advancing eutrophication. For monitoring
purposes, phytoplankton biomass is estimated by chlorophyll a (Chl a) concentration.
The amount of Chl a is not a ...
Expanding the scientific basis for how the world can monitor and manage natural resources.
(University of Copenhagen, and NORDECO (Nordic Foundation for Development and Ecology), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016)
This D.Sc. thesis presents research into the theory, practice, application and results of ‘citizen science’ as applied in the developing world (Africa, South East Asia, Latin America) and in the Arctic (Greenland). It ...
Guidelines for sampling and determination of nitrite.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2016)
Dissolved inorganic nitrogen is present in seawater both as nitrite, nitrate and ammonium. As a complement to the overall assessment of nutrient status, detailed information on the distribution of different species must ...
HELCOM Guidelines for Management of Dredged Material at Sea and HELCOM Reporting Format for Management of Dredged Material at Sea . Adopted by HELCOM 36-2015 on 4 March 2015 and amended by HELCOM 41-2020 on 4 March 2020.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2016)
Scope:
2.1 The guidelines are designed to assist Contracting Parties in the management of dredged material in ways that will prevent and eliminate pollution in accordance with Article 3 to the 1992 Helsinki Convention, ...