PAME is one of six Arctic Council working groups. PAME was first established under the 1991 Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy and was continued by the 1996 Ottawa Charter that established the Arctic Council.
PAME is the focal point of the Arctic Council’s activities related to the protection and sustainable use of the Arctic marine environment and provides a unique forum for collaboration on a wide range of activities in this regard.Ministerial deliverables are documents which PAME produced for each Ministerial Meetings. The Arctic Council Ministers can either approved, welcome or note the deliverables.
Deliverables are generally the main documents associated with each PAME project.
See Ministerial Deliverables.
The purpose of the PAME Work Plan is to provide a framework for PAME´s work related to the protection of the Arctic marine environment for every two year working period.
The PAME Work Plan includes information on all ongoing PAME projects and gives insight into activities ongoing at the given time.
PAME activities are governed by the Arctic Council Working Group Common Operating Guidelines.
The Operating Guidelines are to be read and used in conjunction with other documents, including the 1996 Ottawa Declaration establishing the Arctic Council, the AC Rules of Procedure (RoP), the AC Observer Manual for Subsidiary Bodies and other relevant documents of the AC.
PAME activities are guided by the Arctic Marine Strategic Plan and biennial Work Plans, which are developed by the PAME Working Group for approval by the Arctic Council Senior Arctic Officials.
The PAME logo is available for download here. The logo cannot be changed for use.
For more information contact the PAME Secretariat (pame@pame.is)
Name of presentation | Presenter | Download |
Resilience– an introduction | Martin Sommerkorn (WWF Arctic Programme) | Download |
Overview of Impacts of a Physical constrains of productivity in the Arctic Ocean: Changing Environment on the trajectories into the future? Biodiversity | Paul Wassmann (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway) | Download |
MPAs and Networks as tools for resilience  | Dan Laffoley (IUCN) | Download |
Ecological Connectivity and Resilience: Implication for Marine Protected Areas | Mark H. Carr (University of California, Santa Cruz) | Download |
Resilience through an MPA Network: A Hawaii Case Study | Todd Stevenson (Circumpolar Conservation Union) | Download |
PAME’s MPA network toolbox through a resilience lens | Martin Sommerkorn (WWF Arctic Programme) | Download |
Valuable and vulnerable areas: the case of the Barents Sea | Cecilie H. von. Quillfeldt (Norwegian Polar Institute) | Download |
Working Toward Resilient Marine Protected Area Networks In the US Arctic | Lauren Wenzel (National Marine Protected Areas Center) | Download |
MPAs and MPA Networks for Resilience - Canadian Case Studies and Opportunities | Nadine Templeman (Fisheries and Oceans Canada) | Download |
Designing network of MPA in the Russian Arctic to support ecosystem resilience. | Irina Onufrenya (WWF Russia) | Download |
Resilience and Connectivity Values of MPAs: Planning for Top Trophic Marine Animal Conservation in the Barents Region and Beyond | Kit Kovacs (Norway) | Download |
Guidelines for Designing MPA Networks to Promote Resilience of Arctic Marine Ecosystems in a Changing Climate | Lisa Speer (Natural Resource Defense Council) | Download |
Building Resilient MPA Networks – Summary of Commission for Environmental Cooperation Reports | Dr. Ellen Kenchington (Canada Bedford Institute of Oceanography Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada) | Download |
Ecosystem Resilience What is it and how can we measure it? |
Benjamin Planque (Institute of Marine Research - Norway) | Download |
Modeling Tools for Designing for Resilience – Connectivity Under Changed Conditions | Patrick Halpin (Duke University) | Download |
Science and Tools for Developing Arctic Marine Protected Area (MPA) Networks: Understanding Connectivity and Identifying Management Models.
Understanding MPA Networks as Tools for Resilience in a Changing Arctic.
Scientific Considerations of how Arctic Marine Protected Area (MPA) networks may reduce negative effects of climate change and ocean acidification.
Exploring ways to support Indigenous/Local involvement in, and Indigenous/Local led, marine protection in the circumpolar Arctic Ocean.
Name of presentation | Presenter | Download |
Ecological connectivity --- Overview of techniques that have been used to map larval dispersal and its relevance to MPA design: modelling (optimal size and spacing), direct observation of larval dispersal, genetic measures of connectivity/isolation, considerations of climate change | Mark Carr (University of California, Santa Cruz) | Download |
Physical connectivity – Issues and possible approaches to mapping physical and habitat connectivity in the Arctic. Overview of dynamics of water masses and ice movement | Pat Halpin and Jesse Cleary (Duke University) | Download |
Case study – Sweden’s experience mapping larval connectivity for MPA networks | Jon Havenhand (University of Gothenburg) | Download |
Approaches and considerations for understanding connectivity for marine mammals using various techniques | Howard Rosenbaum (Wildlife Conservation Society) | Download |
Mapping connectivity for cetaceans in the Alaskan Arctic – CetMap | Janet Clarke (Leidos) | Download |
Local community engagement in mapping and understanding marine mammal connectivity | Willie Goodwin (Alaska Waterways Safety Commission) | Download |
Overview of techniques: satellite telemetry, habitat modeling, others?, in the context of Important Bird Areas | Grant Gilchrist (Environment Canada) | Download |
Identifying Important Bird Areas and seabird connectivity in the Alaskan Arctic | Melanie Smith (Alaska Audubon) | Download |
Case study: Identifying candidate sites for an MPA network in the Russian Arctic: accounting for connectivity | Irina Onufrenya (WWF Russia) | Download |
The role of protected areas and other area---based conservation measures for marine conservation | Dan Laffoley (IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas --- Marine) | Download |
Elements of a representative and ecologically connected MPA network | Mark Carr (University of California, Santa Cruz) | Download |
Understanding categories of Arctic biodiversity to be addressed by the MPA Toolkit (e.g. habitat, species groups) | Martin Sommerkorn (WWF) | Download |
Canada’s Approach to Marine Conservation Targets | Bethany Schroeder (Fisheries and Oceans Canada) | Download |
Arctic biodiversity monitoring: linkages to area---based conservation measures | Tom Christensen (Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme) | Download |
Pikialasorsuaq Commission | Carolina Behe (Inuit Circumpolar Council) | Download |
Examples of Arctic MPAs and “Other area---based conservation measures” in the marine environment (based on submissions by Arctic States to PAME) | Martin Sommerkorn (WWF) | Download |
Integration of Indigenous Knowledge and Values in the MPA Toolbox | Willie Goodwin (Alaska Waterways Safety Commission) | Download |
Towards a toolbox: deploying MPAs and other area---based measures to conserve important categories of Arctic marine biodiversity | Martin Sommerkorn (WWF) | Download |
Science and Tools for Developing Arctic Marine Protected Area (MPA) Networks: Understanding Connectivity and Identifying Management Models.
Understanding MPA Networks as Tools for Resilience in a Changing Arctic.
Scientific Considerations of how Arctic Marine Protected Area (MPA) networks may reduce negative effects of climate change and ocean acidification.
Exploring ways to support Indigenous/Local involvement in, and Indigenous/Local led, marine protection in the circumpolar Arctic Ocean.
Name of presentation | Presenter | Download |
SYKE - Finnish Environment Institute: Marine Research Center | Paula Kankaanpää | Download |
How Arctic Marine Protected Area Networks may reduce negative effects of climate change & ocean acidification | Jessica Nilsson | Download |
Arctic Climate Change | Michael Tjernström | Download |
Acidification of the Arctic Ocean, the basis for AMAP Arctic Ocean Acidification case studies | Leif G. Anderson | Download |
CBMP/ CAFF activities Update on work of relevance for PAME MPA work | Tom Christensen | Download |
Ten-step recipe for creating and managing effective marine protected areas | Mark Carr | Download |
Climate Change Report Cards - The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership Experience and Arctic Possibilities | John Baxter and Dan Laffoley | Download |
Protecting marine areas beneath Antarctic ice shelves: Special Areas for Scientific Study | Susie Grant | Download |
 The Journey towards a Weddell Sea Marine Protected Area | Thomas Brey | Download |
The Ross Sea Region MPA | George M. Watters | Download |
Networks, platforms and the winds of change: MPA's and climate change in the Baltic Sea (HELCOM) | HELCOM | Download |
Barents Sea MMBI Research Cruises | Gennady Matishov | Download |
Radioactive contamination issues in the Arctic | Nadezhda Kasatkina | Download |
Science and Tools for Developing Arctic Marine Protected Area (MPA) Networks: Understanding Connectivity and Identifying Management Models.
Understanding MPA Networks as Tools for Resilience in a Changing Arctic.
Scientific Considerations of how Arctic Marine Protected Area (MPA) networks may reduce negative effects of climate change and ocean acidification.
Exploring ways to support Indigenous/Local involvement in, and Indigenous/Local led, marine protection in the circumpolar Arctic Ocean.