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NORLAKES 4 Future: circumpolar freshwater lake research and data management
SIKU: Sea Ice Knowledge and Use; Assessing Arctic Environmental and Social Change
CARMA: CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment
To monitor and assess the impacts of global change on the human/Rangifer system across the Arctic through cooperation, both geographically and across disciplines.
Arctic Change: An Interdisciplinary Dialog Between the Academy, Northern Peoples, and Policy Makers
CAVIAR: Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions
ESSAR: Ecosystem Studies of Subarctic and Arctic Regions
MEOP: Marine Mammal Exploration of the Oceans Pole to Pole
CIYCP: Circumpolar Youth Conservation Network
BearHealth: Polar bear circumpolar health assessment in relation to toxicants and climate change
CBMP: Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program
The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP) is a global network working together to harmonize and integrate efforts to monitor the Arctic’s living resources.
We have an opportunity before us to vastly improve our understanding of change in the Arctic. While the North experiences growing pressure from climate change and resource development, our current monitoring is fragmented and uncoordinated, reducing our ability to understand what’s going on and therefore, effectively respond.
Arctic nations spend over half a billion dollars monitoring biodiversity – and yet, the return on our investment is poor. The CBMP is working with over 60 global partners to boost our current monitoring effort and deliver the most cutting edge information on Arctic change. Maintaining healthy Arctic ecosystems is a global imperative as the Arctic plays a critical role in the Earth’s physical, chemical and biological balance.