Breakout 3: Interactions between human activities sea land ice and atmosphere'

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Breakout 3 Interactions between human
activities sea land ice and atmosphere.

• Hajo Eicken, Victoria Gofman, Sharman Haley,
  Larry Hamilton, John Farrell, Mark Parsons

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Framing the discussion

• Who are the stakeholders?
• Why do they care about
• Atmosphere
• Ocean and Sea Ice
• Hydrology/Cryosphere
• Terrestrial Ecosystems ?
• What do they need to know?
• How can we provide it?
• How do Bering Sea Sub Network and ELOKA integrate
  with other AON projects?

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How do Bering Sea Sub Network and ELOKA integrate
with other AON projects?

• Research on environmental LTK is directly about
  the central Q how do humans interact with a
  changing Arctic environment?
• LTK informs the natural sciences
• Provides AON direction
• Informs hypotheses
• Contextualizes findings
• The data benefits stakeholders

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Some examples

• Changing ocean conditions drive changes in fish
  distribution, run timing and resilience. Fishers
  observe new opportunities and adapt very quickly
  if the regulations allow it. Management and
  science react more slowly. The observations and
  behaviors of fishers provide information to
  managers and research scientists.

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Some examples

• Uses of ice in the communities
• In Bering Strait communities the window of access
  appears to be getting smaller. Small lead and
  lots of ice keeps hunting grounds safe. This past
  summer only one week of ice conditions for
  hunting bearded seal and walrus, and bad weather
  days shortened it further.
• At Gambell lost access to cod because of lack of
  stable shorefast ice fishing platform.

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Who are the stakeholders?

• Local communities
• Fishing industry (various scales, inshore to
  long-distance)
• Oil, gas and mining
• Shipping and transportation
• Tourism
• Policy makers, regulators enforcement
• Disaster response
• Broader public interests

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Why do local communities care?

• Subsistence animal plant distribution
• Subsistence harvesters access
• Transportation, travel safety
• Housing, water supplies, construction and other
  infrastructure
• Cultural value

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Why do fishers care?

• (Various scales, small and local to industrial
  and long-distance)
• resource abundance and distribution
• access/weather/safety and seasons
• planning for the future (investments)
• operating costs
• Infrastructure (vessels, gear, processing,
  transport to markets)
• How regulations respond to changes
• Uncertainty of new or more variable conditions

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Why do OG and shipping industries care?

• Operating season
• Infrastructure
• Operating costs
• Environmental hazards risks

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Why does the tourist industry care?

• Marine access
• Intact cultures
• Pristine environments wildlife
• Infrastructure
• Weather environmental hazards

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Why do policy makers, regulators enforcement
agencies care?

• Mission to manage resource efficiently for long
  term social value to multiple stakeholders
• Need more real-time information
• Need ability to detect changing conditions and
  adapt quickly when needed

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Why do disaster response agencies care?

• Environmental hazards risk data for planning
• Real-time information for response
• Infrastructure and training preparations to
  meet emerging risks

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Why does the public care?

• Species diversity - charismatic megafauna
• Romantic notions of wilderness
• Climate change Arctic is canary in the coal
  mine
• Global consequences of Arctic change

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What do they need to know? How can we provide
it?

• Example Sea Ice - bold italics indicate data
  project is already providing