EA Conferences

Where: Bergen, Norway
When: 25-27 June
Program: Download (24. June - final version)

The Ecosystem Approach to Management (EA) is a widely adopted management principle that requires integrated management across sectors of human activities to achieve sustainable use of natural resources while maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem. The EA approach has been acknowledged, defined and adopted by the Arctic states working under the Arctic Council. In 2013 (Kiruna Declaration), the Arctic Council agreed that there was a need for periodic reviews of EA implementation in the Arctic to exchange information on integrated assessment and management experiences. A first international conference was held in Fairbanks, Alaska, in August 2016 to review status of EA implementation. A second Arctic EA conference will be held in Bergen, Norway, in early summer 2019.

Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) have been recognized as appropriate scale and units to apply the EA to management of the Arctic marine and coastal environment, with due recognition of their open boundaries and the need to integrate information and management across different scales within and beyond an LME. The second conference to review EA implementation in the Arctic will focus on the scale integration issue. Scale integration in the context of EA implementation applies equally to the natural and social sciences that provide the knowledge base for decisions (e.g. through Integrated Ecosystem Assessment), and the management structures and processes where management decisions are made. Local and Traditional Knowledge (LTK) provides equally important information and insight about scale integration, EA implementation and management. LTK will be an element of all topics and discussions during the Conference.

Program with abstracts and links to presentations.

Presentations:
Opening session: Conference opening

• Geir Huse (Norway, Scientific Director, Institute of Marine Research)
  • Conference Opening and Welcome
• Anne-Christine Brusendorff (Denmark, ICES)
  • “Science for sustainable development in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction – how can ICES support evidence needs in the Central Arctic Ocean?”
• Mayor Harry K. Brower, Jr. (USA, Utqiagvik)
  • “Implementation as a Part of the Ecosystem and Through Sustaining an Inuit Way of Life”
• Hein Rune Skjoldal (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
  • “Scale Integration and EA Implementation: Goals of the 2nd EA Conference”
    

Session 1: Integrated Ecosystem Assessment

• Elena Eriksen (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
  • “IEA in practice – Experiences from the Working Group on the Integrated Assessments of the Barents Sea (WGIBAR)”
• Per Arneberg (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
  • “IEA in practice – Experiences from the Working Group on the Integrated Assessments of the Norwegian Sea (WGINOR)”
• Andrea Niemi (Canada, Fisheries and Oceans)
  • “Off-Shore Integrated Ecosystem Assessments in the Canadian Sector of the Beaufort Sea LME”
• Tom Christensen (Denmark, Aarhus University)
  • “The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program – Monitoring and reporting changes in Arctic Biodiversity and ecosystems. Status and next steps”
• Sue Moore (USA, NOAA, retired; University of Washington)
  • “Including underwater sound in Arctic and Subarctic IEAs: an ecosystem component to link ecological, social, and economic factors in support of holistic decision-making”
• Judith Rosellon-Druker (USA, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
  • “Development of socio-ecological conceptual models as the basis for an IEA framework in Southeast Alaska”
• Fern Wickson (Norway, North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission)
  • “Integrating the Scales of Interest in Different Knowledge Systems for Ecosystem Management: An opportunity to share experiences and collectively build best practices”
• Per Arneberg (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
  • “A system for assessing the state of ecosystems based on some principles from IPCC”
• Lisa Eisner (USA, NOAA Fisheries)
  • “Arctic Integrated Ecosystem Research in the Chukchi and North Bering Seas”
• Bérengère Husson (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
  • “What scale(s) to study an ecosystem? A case study in the Barents Sea”
• Sue Moore (USA, NOAA, retired; University of Washington)
  • “The Distributed Biological Observatory: A Change Detection Array in the Pacific Arctic”
• Hein Rune Skjoldal (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
  • “Description of Arctic species and Arctic LMEs – integrating information on species and habitats”
• Phillip Wallhead (Norway, Norwegian Institute for Water Research)
  • “Urchin harvesting and culling in northern Norway under ocean acidification and warming”

Session 2: MPA's and other special areas

• Lauren Wenzel (USA, NOAA Fisheries)
  • “Marine Protected Areas and Networks as a Component of Ecosystem-Based Management”
• Boris Solovyev (Russia, Russian Academy of Sciences)
  • “From principles to practice: systematic conservation planning approach in the Arctic”
• Martine Giangioppi (Canada, World Wildlife Fund)
  • “Marine Ecological Conservation in the Canadian Eastern Arctic (MECCEA): A project to identify Priority Areas for Conservation (PACs).”
• Martin Sommerkorn (Norway, World Wildlife Fund)
  • “The Pan-Arctic Marine Protected Area Network initiative and its contribution to implementing the Ecosystem Approach to Management in the Arctic”
• Boris Solovyev (Russia, Russian Academy of Sciences)
  • “Systematic conservation planning for ecosystem based approach to management: case study from Pechora Sea”
• Elizabeth Logerwell (USA, NOAA Fisheries)
  • “Long-Term Benthos Monitoring network for identifying vulnerable areas in Arctic benthic ecosystems”
• Ole Anders Turi (Norway, Sámediggi/Sámi Parliament)
  • “What challenges could Ecosystem Approach solve at Saami resource use level”
• Lis L. Jørgensen (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
  • “Vulnerable areas and Ecosystem-based fishery management in the Barents Sea”
• Wenting Chen (Norway, Norwegian Institute for Water Research)
  • “Marine ecosystem accounting to support coastal and marine governance”
• Gerold Janssen (Germany, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development)
  • “Implementing an Ecosystem-based approach in MSP”
• Sheku Sei (Sierra Leone, University of Sierra Leone)
  • “Resource user perception evaluation for the establishment of Marine Protected Areas in Sierra Leone”

Session 3: Voices from the North - A conversation about people, nature and sustainability

• Fred Phillips and Mellisa Heflin (USA, Bering Sea Elders Group)
  • “The ocean is our garden”
• Nicole Kanayurak (USA, Utqiagvik, North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management)
  • “Inuit have an ‘Ecological Clock’
• Gerry Inglangasuk (Canada, Inuvialuit Member, Fisheries Joint Management Committee) and Alan Kennedy (Canada, Chairman, Fisheries Joint Management Committee)
  • “Co-management as a Framework for Ecosystem Management of Arctic Resources: Experience from the Inuvialuit Region of Canada”
• Andrea Niemi/Lianne Postma - TBC and Elizabeth Hiltz (Canada, Fisheries and Oceans)
  • “An Inclusive Approach to Public Outreach: A Case Study from Canada’s Arctic” with video “Guardians of Tariug”

Session 4: National EA Implementation

• Cecilie von Quillfeldt (Norway, Norwegian Polar Institute)
  • “Integrated Management Plans for Norwegian Sea Areas”
• Daniel Van Vliet (Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada)
  • “Strategic Environmental Assessment Processes in Canada’s Arctic”
• Elizabeth Logerwell (USA, NOAA Fisheries)
  • “NOAA’s Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) Program”
• Boris Solovyev (Russia, WWF Russia/Russian Academy of Sciences)
  • “EA Implementation in Russian Arctic”
• Anders Mosbech (Denmark, Aarhus University)
  • “On the road to EA in Greenland: The use of spatial biodiversity data to identify important areas”
• Bjarne Lyberth (Greenland, The Association of Fishers & Hunters in Greenland)
  • “International and national wildlife management from a local perspective (fishers and hunters in Greenland)”
• Mandy Karnauskas (USA, NOAA Fisheries)
  • “Identifying relevant spatial scales and priorities for ecosystem-based management of the Gulf of Mexico snapper-grouper fishery complex”
• Daniel Taukie (Canada, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.)
  • “Inuit-led Marine Monitoring in Nunavut, Canada”
• Gunn-Britt Retter (Norway, Saami Council)
  • “The Arctic Environmental Impact Assessment – a Model for Meaningful Engagement of Indigenous Peoples”

Session 5: Central Arctic Ocean

• Alf Håkon Hoel (Norway, University of Tromsø; presented by Hein Rune Skjoldal)
  • “Organizing science for the central Arctic Ocean”
• Hein Rune Skjoldal (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
  • “WGICA Integrated Ecosystem Assessment report for the CAO”
• Vasily Spiridonov (Russia, Russian Academy of Sciences)
  • “Indicators of vulnerable benthic biotopes in the Arctic Ocean”
• Are Olsen (Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research/Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen)
  • “An Outline of the Synoptic Arctic Survey”