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Arctic Science: Interdisciplinary Research Opportunities for the Social Sciences

Arctic Science: Interdisciplinary Research Opportunities for the Social Sciences. Jack Kruse, Marie Lowe, Larry Hamilton HARC Workshop October 5, 2007. SEARCH Science Questions. Is the Arctic moving to a new state?

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Arctic Science: Interdisciplinary Research Opportunities for the Social Sciences

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  1. Arctic Science: Interdisciplinary Research Opportunities for the Social Sciences Jack Kruse, Marie Lowe, Larry HamiltonHARC WorkshopOctober 5, 2007

  2. SEARCH Science Questions • Is the Arctic moving to a new state? • How do cultural and socioeconomic systems interact with arctic environmental change?

  3. HD-Implementation Priorities • Develop an integrated observation network • for identification and long-term monitoring of social and economic indicators of human subsystem changes that drive and/or feed back to arctic physical and biological system changes • Synthesize human dimensions data on a pan-arctic scale • including data on resident socioeconomic changes, human perceptions of arctic change, and on local and global-scale development and industrial activities

  4. Key groundwork priorities • Identify specific ways to improve knowledge of arctic environmental change • such that people are enabled to make better-informed decisions • Identify predictionsthat will be most useful to stakeholder groups • planning for and responding to change in areas such as fisheries, marine transportation and development, and renewable resource use/subsistence harvests

  5. Human Dimension of Change • Local infrastructure, transportation • Subsistence activities • Coastal erosion • Storm patterns • Shipping routes • Fisheries

  6. Focal Areas for Climate-Human Interactions Resource Development Fisheries Social Outcomes Marine Mammal Hunting Tourism

  7. Place-Time Data Collection

  8. SEARCH-HDQ Variables Existing data: 1980 to present

  9. Database Development • Prototype currently under construction using Bering Sea fisheries data between 1980-2006 for: • Salmon (Chum) • Red King Crab • Herring • Pollock

  10. Example Datasets • NOAA and Alaska Fish and Game catch, price, and value data • Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission: municipal level data on fisheries participation and earnings. • Alaska Department of Labor: population.

  11. Data Analysis: STATA

  12. Database Relationships AON-HDQDatabase Arctic-RIMS Database AON Database ELOKA Database

  13. Project Team • Fisheries • Gunnar Knapp (Alaska) • Jahn Petter Johnsen (Norway) • Thijs Christiaan van Son (Norway) • Modeling • Matt Berman (Alaska) • Post-Doc • Marie Lowe (Alaska) • Tourism • Steve Colt (Alaska) • Anna Karlsdöttir (Iceland) • GIS • Meghan Wilson (Alaska) • Resource Development • Sharman Haley (Alaska) • Rasmus Rasmussen (Denmark) • Stakeholder Direction • Ed Ward (Alaska) • Brian Lyall (Canada) • Larissa Abryutina (Russia) • Kristina Lasko (Sweden) • Bob Harcharek (Alaska) • Charles Dorais (Canada) • Simon Routh (Canada) • Marine Mammals • John Bengtson (Washington) • Rasmus Rasmussen (Denmark) • Jack Kruse (Alaska) • Social Outcomes • Larry Hamilton (New Hampshire) • Per Lyster (Greenland) • Gerard Duhaime (Canada)

  14. How to contact us and learn more about the project • www.SEARCH-HD.NET • Lead Contacts: Jack Kruse afjak@uaa.alaska.edu • Marie Loweafmel@uaa.alaska.edu

  15. Arctic Social Science: Agenda for Action Arctic Social Indicators Arctic Social Science Program SLiCA Methods & Models for Integrated Assessment Sustainability of Arctic Communities Rangifer Systems SNACS Bowhead Arctic System Science HARC Land-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions SEARCH AON SEARCH-HDQ Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions NOAA & other agencies

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