OS006
Convergent Research in the Arctic: Addressing Complex Societal Challenges through Action-Oriented Coastal and Ocean Science

Session ID#: 161874

Session Description:
There are growing demands and approaches for Arctic research that addresses societal needs related to sustained and transformational climate and environmental change, shifting socioeconomic conditions, and Indigenous-led focuses on food security and well-being. Finding a balance between “advancing knowledge through research” and “co-producing action-oriented information and tools” for Arctic communities and decision-makers who are on the frontlines of change is a continual learning process for researchers aiming to make their research responsive to complex societal challenges. This session invites examples of Arctic coastal and ocean research that draw on multiple bodies of knowledge and expertise to address societal needs in the face of warming waters, thawing lands, and shifting ecosystems. This session will, in part, highlight work from initiatives focused on adaptation, stewardship, and well-being, including the National Science Foundation’s Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) program and the U.N. Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
Index Terms:

1605 Abrupt/rapid climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]

Primary Convener:  Matthew L Druckenmiller, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Thomas Ravens, University of Alaska Anchorage, Civil Engineering, Anchorage, AK, United States and Twila A Moon, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Pacifica Askitrea Leona Mai Takata-Glushkoff, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
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Hailey Greenleaf1, Wieslaw Maslowski2, Younjoo Lee2, Robert Osinski3 and Jaclyn L Clement Kinney2, (1)Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, ME, United States, (2)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
 
New Insights into Projected Arctic Sea Road: Operational Risks, Economic Values, and Policy Implications (1067779)
Xueke Li and Amanda H Lynch, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
 
Evolution of the Arctic Action Plan to an Arctic Regional Programme as a Contribution to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Invited) (1080556)
Lee W Cooper1, Christina Goethel1, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier1, Heidemarie Kassens2, Colin A Stedmon3, Chelsea W Koch4, Victoria Q Buschman5,6, Mary-Elaine Boivin7 and Sam Cornish8, (1)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States, (2)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (3)Technical University of Denmark, National Institute for Aquatic Resources, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (4)Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, (5)Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland, (6)International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States, (7)Senior Scientist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ottawa, Canada, (8)University of Oxford, Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Impacts of Changing Arctic Hydrodynamics and Wave Conditions on Maritime Transportation and Reverberations (Invited) (1084093)
Celso Ferreira1, Martin Henke2, Thomas Ravens3, Elise Miller-Hooks4, Sara Cobb2, Anne Garland5, Jinlun Zhang6, Tyler Will Miesse7, Felício Cassalho7, Wenjie Li4 and Hadi Ghayoomi4, (1)George Mason University, Sid and Reva Dewberry Dept of Civil, Environmental & Infrastructure Engineering, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)University of Alaska Anchorage, Civil Engineering, Anchorage, AK, United States, (4)George Mason University, Fairfax, United States, (5)Applied Research in Environmental Sciences Nonprofit, Inc., Lisle, IL, United States, (6)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States
 
Visions of the Arctic Future: Blending Computational Text Analysis and Structured Futuring to Create Story-Based Scenarios (1096513)
Patrick Keys, Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States and Alexis Meyer, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States
 
An interdisciplinary perspective on Greenland’s changing coastal margins (1109103)
Fiammetta Straneo1, Donald Alexander Slater2, Caroline Bouchard3, Mattias Rolf Cape4, Mark Carey5, Lorenzo Ciannelli6, James Holte1, Patricia Matrai7, Kristin Liisa Laidre8, Christopher M Little9, Lorenz Meire10, Helene L Seroussi11 and Maria Vernet12, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (3)Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland, (4)Bigelow Laboratory, Boothbay, United States, (5)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (6)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (7)Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States, (8)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, (9)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (10)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Yerseke, Netherlands, (11)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, United States, (12)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Integrative Oceanography Division, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
SIKU: The Indigenous Knowledge Social Network, and tool for community-driven research (1112460)
Joel Heath, The Arctic Eider Society, Sanikiluaq, NU, Canada and Sarah Rosengard, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
 
Energy, Fisheries and Empowerment in Northwest Greenland Fishing Villages (1126876)
Mary R Albert1, Toku Oshima2, Stephen J Doig3, Tucker Oddleifson4, Simon Oster1, Alyssa Pantaleo4, Christopher Mark Polashenski4 and Hunter Snyder4, (1)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Hunter-fisher, Qaanaaq, Greenland, (3)Dartmouth College, Irving Institute for Energy and Society, Hanover, United States, (4)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, United States
 
Backyard Buoys: Equipping Underserved Communities with Ocean Intelligence Platforms (1163729)
Sheyna S Wisdom, Alaska Ocean Observing System, Anchorage, AK, United States, Jan A Newton, University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, Melissa Iwamoto, Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System, Honolulu, United States, Jenny Evans, Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, Anchorage, United States and Sebastien Boulay, Technology Consultant, Aukland, New Zealand
 
Creating interdisciplinary coastal research networks: Activities and lessons from the first Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean Science (GRISO) Network summer school (1166602)
David Sutherland1, Dominik Fahrner2, Twila A Moon3, Kirstin Schulz4, Donald Alexander Slater5, James Holte6, Lorenz Meire7, An Nguyen4 and Fiammetta Straneo6, (1)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, National Snow and Ice Data Center and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (5)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (7)Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland
 
Predicting Coastal Responses to a Changing Greenland Ice Sheet (1168980)
Kirsty J Tinto1, Karl Brix Zinglersen2, Robin Elizabeth Bell3, Aqqaluk Sorensen4, David Felton Porter5, Margie Turrin6, Jacqueline Austermann7, Jonathan Kingslake5, Guy J. G. Paxman8, Frank Oliver Nitsche1, Casey Brayton9 and Greenland Rising Team, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Environment & Minerals, Nuuk, Greenland, (3)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland, (5)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)LDEO of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (7)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (8)Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, (9)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
 
Mechanisms of Adaptation to Climate Change by Indigenous Nenets Reindeer herders in Northern Siberia (1169506)
John Ziker1, Florian Stammler2, Alexandra Terekhina3, Alexander Volkovitskiy3, Karl Mertens4, Colin Wren5, Valeriy Yu Ivanov6, Aleksandr Sokolov7, Peter Ungar8, Dorothee Ehrich9, Olivier Gilg10, Marc Macias-Fauria11, Marcus P Spiegel12, Wenbo Zhou13, Mary Heskel14, Aleksey Y Sheshukov15, Desheng Liu16, Jingfeng Wang17, Konstantin Gribanov18, Pavel Orekhov19, Victor Valdayskikh18, Natalia Sokolova20, Andrew Dixon21, Matt Sponheimer22, Svetlana Sokovnina19 and Alexandria Peterson8, (1)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (2)University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, (3)Arctic Research Station of Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Labytnangi, Russia, (4)Boise State University, Boise, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, United States, (6)University of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (7)Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Arctic Research Station, Labytnangi, Russia, (8)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, United States, (9)Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Norway, (10)Ecolpolaris - Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Arctique, Besançon, France, (11)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (12)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (13)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (14)Macalester College, Biology, St. Paul, United States, (15)Kansas State University, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Manhattan, KS, United States, (16)The Ohio State University, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States, (17)GA Ins of Tech-Civil & Env Eng, Atlanta, GA, United States, (18)Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia, (19)Arctic Research Station at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Plant and Animal Ecology Institute, Urals Branch, Labytnangi, Russia, (20)Institute of plant and animal ecology ural branch russian academy of sciences, Arctic research station, Labytnangi, Russia, (21)Reneco International Wildlife Consultants, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (22)University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, United States
 
Mobility in the Changing Arctic: Quantitative Methods to Assess Climate and Socioeconomic Impacts on Arctic Transportation Systems (1178131)
Taryn Waite1, Meredydd Evans1, Nazar Kholod1, Joel C Rowland2 and Nina Blahut1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Leading from Within: NOAA’s Arctic Research Program (1179113)
Kelley Uhlig, Cynthia Garcia-Eidell and David Allen, NOAA - Arctic Research Program, Washington, United States
 
The Arctic Report Card: Its Benefits, Impacts, and Way Forward (1180956)
Kelley Uhlig, Cynthia Garcia-Eidell and David Allen, NOAA - Arctic Research Program, Washington, United States
 
Characterizing the St. Lawrence Island Sea Ice Environment Through Community Interviews and Remote Sensing Analysis (1196732)
Pacifica Askitrea Leona Mai Takata-Glushkoff1, Maria Monakhova2, Andrew R Mahoney1, Shauna BurnSilver3, Abigail York4 and Tatiana Degai5, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, (4)Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Tempe, United States, (5)University of Victoria, Anthropology, Victoria, Canada
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