Miljø- og Planlægningsudvalget 2008-09
MPU Alm.del
Offentligt
NaturJ.nr. BLS-401-00426Ref.Den 5. marts 2009
“Thank you for your inquiry about a recent scientific presentation on protecting areas of the Arctic. The pres-entation (a poster, not an talk) took place on Monday, 15 December, at 1:40 pm at the 2008 Fall Meeting ofthe AGU in San Francisco. Below is information about that poster presentation, as given in the online scien-tific program of the meeting (the online program is available at:http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/index.php/Program/HomePage).The copy of the listing that you will seebelow includes names and emails for scientists involved in the presentation and a summary of what the pres-entation was about.Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.Regards,Peter Weiss--Peter WeissPublic Information ManagerAmerican Geophysical Union2000 Florida Avenue, N.W.Washington, DC 20009, USAPhone: +1-202-777-7507Fax: +1-202-328-0566Email:[email protected]Web:http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/media.html
Here is the listing:1340hAN: U13C-0075TI: Creating Arctic Sea Ice Protected Areas?AU: * Pfirman, SEM:[email protected]AF: Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United StatesAU: Hoff, KEM:[email protected]AF: Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United StatesAU: Temblay, BEM:[email protected]AF: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West,Montreal, QC H3A 2K6, CanadaAU: Fowler, CEM:[email protected]AF: Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309,United StatesAB: As Arctic sea ice retreats and the Northwest Passage and Northern Sea Route open, the Arctic will ex-perience more extensive human activity than it has ever encountered before. New development will put pres-sure on a system already struggling to adapt to a changing environment. In this analysis, locations are identi-fied within the Arctic that could be protected from resource extraction, transportation and other developmentin order to create refuges and protect remnants of sea ice habitat, as the Arctic transitions to ice-free summer
conditions. Arctic sea ice forms largely along the Siberian and Alaskan coasts and is advected across theNorth Pole towards Fram Strait, the Canadian Archipelago and the Barents Sea. In addition to the future lossof ice itself, contaminants entrained in sea ice in one part of the ocean can affect other regions as the icedrifts. Using observations and models of sea ice origins, trajectories and ages, we track sea ice from its ori-gins towards marginal ice zones, mapping pathways and termination locations. Critical sea ice source areasand collection regions are identified with the goal of aiding in the protection of the remaining Arctic sea icehabitat for as long as possible.DE: 0750 Sea ice (4540)DE: 1621 Cryospheric change (0776)DE: 4207 Arctic and Antarctic oceanography (9310, 9315)SC: Union [U]MN: 2008 Fall Meeting”
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