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Introducing the Bering Strait Research Consortium: coordination and integration

Introducing the Bering Strait Research Consortium: coordination and integration. Jessica Cherry, IARC/INE@UAF Peter Schweitzer, EPSCoR/Anthro @UAF. Mission.

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Introducing the Bering Strait Research Consortium: coordination and integration

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  1. Introducing the Bering Strait Research Consortium: coordination and integration Jessica Cherry, IARC/INE@UAF Peter Schweitzer, EPSCoR/Anthro @UAF

  2. Mission The Bering Strait Research Consortium, otherwise known as BSRC, is a voluntary group of academic, government, private sector, and other researchers who are interested in better coordinating data and research in the Bering Strait Region, as well as improving the communication of research results to the public and among themselves.Projects coordinated by BSRC encompass physical, biological, and human observations, including indigenous knowledge of the society, culture, land, ocean and atmosphere. Currently our office is based out of Fairbanks, Alaska, but we are looking to establish a home near the Bering Strait in Nome, Alaska.

  3. National Priority Area

  4. Increased Ship Traffic

  5. Partners & ‘Board members’ University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Northwest Campus, the International Arctic Research Center, Kawerak Native Corp, Nome Eskimo Community, National Park Service. Potential: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (new Western LCC)

  6. Web Portal: www.beringstraitresearch.org

  7. Plan for improved communication

  8. Ship activity, moored + cabled Observatories Transect lines proposed to be occupied by ships transiting Bering Strait, including research vessels of Canada, China, Korea, the United States and Russia

  9. Stakeholder data needs: Bering Strait area

  10. Hundreds of Projects Including • Arctic Water Resources Vulnerability Index (Kliskey, Alessa, et al.) • Bering Strait Freshwater Ethnography (Schweitzer, Yamin-Pasternak, et al.) • Climate monitoring (Cherry, NPS, etc) • Village-based Permafrost Monitoring (Yoshikawa) • State of the Permafrost (Romanovsky, Grosse, Marchenko, B. Jones, et al.) • Sea Ice Monitoring (Eicken) • Paleohydrology from Peat Cores (M. Jones, NPS) • Ungulate research (Finstad, Ihl, Kawerak Reindeer herders assoc.) • Physical and biological oceanography (Cooper, Grebmaier, Woodgate, Weingartner, etc) • Fire/permafrost interactions (JAMSTEC/JAXA)

  11. Seward Peninsula Hydrometeorological Station Network: Inherited from ATLAS project, 5 full met towers w/shallow boreholes & snow sensors, 2 repeater met towers, 2 hydrologic stations, 2 mothballed hydrologic stations, 6 partner permafrost stations (Romanovsky group), 2 partner DOT stations (GWS)

  12. Modeled Permafrost Stability, Seward Peninsula Alaska Present to Late 21st century, Max Planck ECHAM 5 GCM SRES A1.B Scenario Comparison Early 20th and Present Comparison Busey et al., 2008

  13. EPSCoR Pilot Project/Now NSF Funded Attributing the source of observed temperature & precip changes can help determine future impacts Comiso, 2006

  14. Data Rescue • Digitized 1970s NOS aerial photography for use in change detection (SP flight lines) • Digitizing early 20th century daily climate records and mid-late 20th century water data • Assembling station histories • We are hoping to produced a gridded product (this part unfunded) • Supported by UAF’s Nx2020 project (Thanks, Hajo!) CD

  15. Climate Stations on/near the Seward Peninsula 1922 1897 1953 1919 1917 1925 1922 1953 1901 1937 1895 1943 1920 1900 1941 Cherry, in prep

  16. Example of NOS Color image (Elim/Moses Point) on SP

  17. Future for BSRC • Increase community participation in BSRC, particularly on Russian side • Make it a community resource • Enhance website content • Find funding for physical space and a staff • Use BSRC as an instrument for coordination and integration

  18. Permafrost characteristics of AK Jorgenson, et al., 2008

  19. Thermokarst Jorgenson, et al., 2008

  20. Ground ice Jorgenson, et al., 2008

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