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“Thank you for
your inquiry about a recent scientific presentation on protecting areas of the
Arctic. The presentation (a poster, not an talk) took place on Monday, 15
December, at 1:40 pm at the 2008 Fall Meeting of the AGU in San Francisco.
Below is information about that poster presentation, as given in the online
scientific 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 see below includes names and emails for scientists involved in the
presentation and a summary of what the presentation was about.
Please let me know
if I can be of further assistance.
Regards,
Peter Weiss
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Peter Weiss Â
Public Information Manager
American Geophysical Union
2000 Florida Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009, USA
Phone: +1-202-777-7507
Fax: +1-202-328-0566
Email: [email protected]Â
Web: http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/media.html
Here is the
listing:
1340h
AN: U13C-0075
TI: Creating
Arctic Sea Ice Protected Areas?
AU: * Pfirman, S
EM: [email protected]
AF: Barnard
College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
AU: Hoff, K
EM: [email protected]
AF: Barnard
College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
AU: Temblay, B
EM: [email protected]
AF: Department of
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street
West, Montreal, QC H3A 2K6, Canada
AU: Fowler, C
EM: [email protected]
AF: Colorado
Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder,
CO 80309, United States
AB: As Arctic sea
ice retreats and the Northwest Passage and Northern Sea Route open, the Arctic
will experience more extensive human activity than it has ever encountered
before. New development will put pressure on a system already struggling to
adapt to a changing environment. In this analysis, locations are identified
within the Arctic that could be protected from resource extraction,
transportation and other development in 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 the North Pole towards Fram Strait, the Canadian
Archipelago and the Barents Sea. In addition to the future loss of ice itself,
contaminants entrained in sea ice in one part of the ocean can affect other
regions as the ice drifts. Using observations and models of sea ice origins,
trajectories and ages, we track sea ice from its origins towards marginal ice
zones, mapping pathways and termination locations. Critical sea ice source
areas and collection regions are identified with the goal of aiding in the
protection of the remaining Arctic sea ice habitat 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
Meetingâ€