Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART) - A Pan-Arctic Network Integrating Past, Present and Future

• Main Authors: Wegner, Carolyn, Kêdra, Monika, Morata, Nathalie, Findlay, Helen, Fritz, Michael, Majaneva, Sanna, Nikolopoulos, Anna, O´Regan, Matt, Pavlov, Alexey, Peeken, Ilka, Sampei, Makoto, Werner, Kirstin
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Association of Polar Early Career Scientists; Climate change; IASC; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37886/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37886/1/ART_Poster_ASSW2015.pdf; http://www.assw2015.org/program/pdf/ASSW2015_program_0409.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45465; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45465.d001

Arctic sea ice is declining rapidly, simplifying access to oil and gas resources, enabling trans-Arctic shipping, and shifting the distribution of harvestable resources. This has brought the Arctic Ocean to the top of national and international political agendas. Alarmingly, sea-ice reductions are taking place more rapidly than predicted in any global climate model. This persistent mismatch between observed and predicted patterns makes planning and mitigation activities in the Arctic region even more complicated. Therefore, scientific knowledge of the present status of the Arctic Ocean and the process-based understanding of the mechanics of change are urgently needed to make useful predictions of future conditions throughout the Arctic region. Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART; http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/en/ART/) is a pan-Arctic scientific Network developed and steered by early-career scientists, which aims at studying the impact of environmental changes on the Arctic marine ecosystem. ART has a focus on bridging time-scales by incorporating paleo-studies with modern observations and modelling, science disciplines and geographic regions to better understand past and present response of Arctic marine ecosystems to sea ice transitions and climate change and to improve our predictive capability of future scenarios. Initiated as a continuation of the International Conference on Arctic Research Planning II (ICARP II) Marine Roundtable initiated in 2008, ART transited to a new status by becoming an official IASC Network in 2013. The first phase of ART (2010-2014) focuses on developing a formal network to bring together scientists working in different geographic and disciplinary areas who share a common interest in improving our understanding of Arctic change. The Second ART Science Workshop was held 21-24 October 2014 in Brest, France, in collaboration with the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN) and the European Institute for Marine Studies. During this ...