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NSSI Workshop Questions and Process

NSSI Workshop Questions and Process. Kirk LaGory Argonne National Laboratory January 2004. Workshop Objectives. Gather stakeholder input Information will be used to identify inventory, monitoring, and research needed to inform resource-management decisions

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NSSI Workshop Questions and Process

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  1. NSSI Workshop Questions and Process Kirk LaGoryArgonne National Laboratory January 2004

  2. Workshop Objectives • Gather stakeholder input • Information will be used to identify inventory, monitoring, and research needed to inform resource-management decisions • Facilitated breakout sessions to gather input

  3. Five Questions From a resource-management perspective: • What are the important natural system components (receptors) on the North Slope? • For each receptor, what are the important impacting factors (drivers)? • What inventory, monitoring, and research projects and programs are being conducted or are planned on the North Slope? • What additional inventory, monitoring, and research projects and programs are needed on the North Slope? • What are the desirable attributes of a North Slope information and analysis system?

  4. Need to View North Slope as a System of Interdependent Parts • Which parts of the system are most affected by resource-management decisions? • Which human activities have the most important effects? • What other factors could influence interpretation of results? • These become the focus of NSSI’s integrated inventory, monitoring, and research program

  5. Systems Approach Helps Identify Important Issues and Processes

  6. Receptors and Drivers • Receptors are the entities or factors affected by resource activities (examples) • Vegetation distribution • Water runoff patterns • Subsistence harvest patterns • Drivers are the activities or factors that affect receptors • Development • Climate change • Human activity

  7. System Processes: How Drivers Affect Receptors

  8. Question 1: What Are the Important Natural System Components (Receptors) on the North Slope? • Three broad categories for consideration • Biological (examples) • Species • Habitats • Processes • Physical (examples) • Geological • Hydrological • Meteorological • Human dimension (examples) • Human health • Subsistence • Local economy • List and prioritize within categories

  9. Prioritization of Receptors • Priority can be based on a variety of factors • Importance to system • Sensitivity to resource-management impacts • Rarity • Societal values • Prioritization can be based on observation, traditional knowledge, research results, or professional judgment

  10. Question 2: For each Receptor on the North Slope, What Are the Important Impacting Factors (Drivers)? • Two categories for consideration • Anthropogenic drivers (examples) • Oil and gas development • Land use • Air pollution • Natural drivers (examples) • Weather variability and cycles • Natural population cycles • Natural predator-prey relationships • List and prioritize

  11. Prioritization of Drivers • Dominant anthropogenic effects • North slope activities under purview of resource- management agencies • Other anthropogenic factors that affect important receptors • Dominant natural factors that affect important receptors • What we must know to interpret changes in receptors

  12. Question 3: What Inventory, Monitoring, and Research Projects and Programs Are Ongoing or Are Planned on the North Slope? • Inventory • Identification of what currently exists (e.g., mapping, population studies) • Monitoring • Studies to determine change through time and space (e.g., population changes) • Research • Studies of cause and effect (e.g., effects of disturbance on behavior) • What are the temporal and spatial scales? • One-time, annual, or decadal studies • Local, regional, or slope-wide studies

  13. Question 4: What Additional Inventory, Monitoring and Research Projects and Programs Are Needed on the North Slope? • Considering the answer to the previous question, what inventory, monitoring, and research projects do you think are needed to inform resource-management decisions? • Focus on important drivers and receptors • Can be based on traditional knowledge, observation, professional judgment, research results • What are the appropriate temporal and spatial scales of each? • Prioritize

  14. Question 5: What Are the Desirable Attributes of a North Slope Information and Analysis System? • Information sharing and coordination is considered critical to success • An important objective of the NSSI is to be a catalyst for development of a common information and analysis system • What are the attributes of such a system?

  15. Question 5: What Are the Desirable Attributes of a North Slope Information and Analysis System? (Cont.) • What is the general architecture? • What standards should be met? • What kind of quality assurance is needed? • What should it contain? • What are the appropriate spatial and temporal scales? • Who should have access to it? • How do we handle public and proprietary data? • Who should “own” it? • Who should “run” it?

  16. Breakout Session Process • Facilitated brainstorming for identification and prioritization • Three breakout groups • Two questions covered today, three tomorrow • Recorder, technical advisor in each group • Breakout report at end of each session

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