Draft Report Available for Review and Comment
Toward a Strategy for the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
Comment Deadline: 20 April 2009
To view the report, please go to:
http://www.aoos.org
Submit all comments by 20 April 2009 to:
Molly McCammon, AOOS Director
Email: mccammon [at] aoos.org.
Toward a Strategy for the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, a draft report from
the Arctic Research and Monitoring Workshop, held 23 January 2009 and
sponsored by the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) and the North
Pacific Research Board (NPRB), is now available for public review and
comment.
The Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) and the North Pacific Research
Board (NPRB) sponsored a one-day workshop on Arctic Research and
Monitoring with the goal of sharing information and promoting
collaboration among the many entities with increasing activities in
marine research and monitoring in the Alaska maritime Arctic (Chukchi
and Beaufort Seas), including the oil and gas industry, local, state,
and federal agencies, and non-governmental and academic organizations.
This workshop was an initial step by AOOS and NPRB toward the longer
term development of a more comprehensive monitoring and assessment plan,
through which each participating organization can focus on projects to
meet their particular goals while contributing to a larger data sharing
and integration effort. 145 individuals from more than 60 organizations
attended the workshop. The draft report was prepared by Dr. Craig Dorman
and summarizes the presentations and discussion from the workshop,
including possible recommendations for consideration by the larger
arctic community.
To view the report, please go to:
http://www.aoos.org
Submit all comments by 20 April 2009 to Molly McCammon, AOOS Director,
at mccammon [at] aoos.org.
For more information, please contact:
Molly McCammon, AOOS Director
Email: mccammon [at] aoos.org
Phone: 907-644-6703