The MIA works in association with other organisations to organise a number of high level, free to attend to workshops to bring together end users with data providers to examine a number of issues concerned with knowledge, data and information.
FUTURE WORKSHOPS
Proposed future workshops include:
- Ship routing
- Oil spill mapping and trajectory modelling
- Linking ocean and coastal modelling
- Understanding the socio-economic impact of improved linking of ocean observations and forecasting to seasonal and climate predictions
FUTURE WORKSHOPS
Arctic Climate Change- OCTOBER 31st 2006.
SPONSORED BY NCOF, THE MET OFFICE, BP and the SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE SCIENCE
A FULL REPORT FROM THE ARCTIC WORKSHOP WILL BE AVAILABLE IN EARLY 2007. Please contact the secretariat for further information.
Global warming is amplified in the Arctic region. In the past few decades average temperatures in the Arctic have risen at almost twice the rate as the rest of the world. Indigenous peoples are under pressure and ecosystems are threatened. But Arctic climate change is also likely to open new sea routes across the top of Siberia. The melting ice will allow access to new gas and oil resources, expand the fisheries industry and perhaps even stimulate increased biomass growth which may in fact help to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
These issues were put under the spotlight at the end of October 2006 when senior members of a range of sectors, including oil and gas, shipping, defence, fisheries, tourism, environment and policy meet in London to look to the future of the region.
This Arctic Workshop, organised by the Marine Information Alliance, The Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (IMarEST) and the Interagency Committee for Marine Science and Technology (IACMST), saw over a hundred key decision makers debating the future of this the resource rich and strategically important area of the planet.
Welcome and Introduction, Keith Read, Chief Executive IMarEST
"The Arctic Workshop is critically timed as the nature of Global Warming and its impact not only on the environment but its economic consequences are hitting the headlines. The publication of the Stern review provides the backdrop for the workshop and the outcomes of today's discussions from key experts across the science, policy, industry, defence and shipping in the Arctic region will add an urgency to the debate and need for action".
Industry Workshop
Dr Ralph Rayner, Chairman of the Marine Information Alliance and Vice President of IMarEST " An analysis of the outcomes of the Arctic Workshop will permit us to start to better define the needs for long-term monitoring of the Arctic region,” explains Dr Ralph Rayner. “This long-term monitoring must satisfy the needs of all stakeholders concerned with protecting the environment, informing sound policy and ensuring that Arctic operations can be conducted safely."
Presentations from the event can be downloaded here:
Arctic Science Presentation
Professor Ola Johanassen, Founding Director of the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
Arctic Policy Presentation
Professor Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency
Industry View Presentation
Graham Thomas, BP
The Arctic Shipping Assessment Presentation
Lawson Brigham, US Arctic Research Commission
Defence Presentation
Commander Phil Titterton, RN
