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CBMP IPY 2012 News and Events
CBMP Presentations
 CBMP Presentations
Plenary Panel: Adaptation to Change: Improving the decision making process: Building upon examples of utilizing long-term monitoring data for decision making
When: Wednesday April 25, 15:30-17:00
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Arctic Ocean. Photo: George Burba/Shutterstock.com
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Mike Gill will join a plenary panel discussing how integrated long-term monitoring, data management and reporting have led to examples of more efficient and effective decision making.
The Arctic's size and complexity represents a significant challenge towards detecting and attributing important biodiversity trends. This demands a scaled, pan-Arctic, ecosystem-based approach that not only identifies trends in biodiversity, but also identifies underlying causes. Mike Gill will discuss progress towards the goal of rigorous, integrated, and efficient monitoring programs that have the power to detect change within a "management" time frame, a process that is critical to help information become available to generate effective strategies for adapting to changes now taking place in the Arctic.
Contact: Mike Gill, Chair, CBMP, Environment Canada
Coordinating for Arctic conservation: Implementing integrated Arctic biodiversity monitoring, data management and reporting
When: Thursday April 26, 14:00
Where: 514AB (part of session 3.1.5 Information to Support Decision-Making)
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Little Auk. Photo: Bjorn Stefanson/Shutterstock.com
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Mike Gill and Michael Svoboda will provide an overview of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP), the cornerstone program of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) that was established as the Arctic Council�s response to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment�s recommendation to expand and enhance Arctic biodiversity monitoring. The presentation will highlight the CBMP approach and provide some examples of how integrated monitoring, data management and reporting are leading to more informed decision-making.
They will describe the history, drivers, mandate and organization of the CBMP. Learn about the structure and organization of each of the three established Expert Monitoring Groups (marine, freshwater, terrestrial) and their task to develop and implement integrated circumpolar biodiversity monitoring plans for their ecosystem.
Presenters will discuss the development of a suite of indicators and indices, and a web-based Arctic Biodiversity Data Service (ABDS) to facilitate effective reporting and data management.
Contact: Mike Gill, Chair, CBMP, Environment Canada
Coordinating for Arctic Conservation: CBMP�s Distributed Biodiversity Monitoring Data Network
When: Tuesday April 24, 15:45
Where: 524C (part of session 2.5.4 Accessing, Sharing and Preserving Data as a Legacy of IPY)
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Join Michael Svoboda as he discusses the CBMP�s creation of a publicly accessible, efficient, and transparent platform to house information on the status and trends in Arctic biodiversity. Specifically, a web-based data portal will be used to manage data related to the current state of arctic biodiversity at various scales and levels of detail for a wide range of audiences. CBMP's data management focus over the next two years will support activities related to data discovery and establishment of distributed data nodes following international data standards as identified by the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI). These activities will also include contributing biodiversity monitoring meta-data to the Polar Data Catalogue, creation of a central data node option at the Arctic Council's Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) working group and a web featured data display tool for data live cataloguing and viewing.
Contact: Michael Svoboda, CBMP Officer, Environment Canada
Terrestrial Expert Monitoring Group: Developing a Plan for the Circumpolar Arctic
When: Wednesday April 25, 1545
Where: 520BC (part of session 1.5.2 Polar Observing Systems and Remote Sensing)
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Sarek National Park, Sweden. Photo: Sander van der Werf/Shutterstock.com
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Join Terrestrial Expert Monitoring Group (TEMG) co-leads John Payne and Tom Christensen as they discuss the progress made towards the development of an integrated, circumpolar Arctic Terrestrial Biodiversity Monitoring Plan.
They will discuss the TEMG�s approach to increase the ability to detect, understand and report on the causes of long-term change in the composition, structure, and function of Arctic ecosystems and the biodiversity they support. The primary objective of the TEMG is to develop a multi-disciplinary, integrated, pan-Arctic long-term terrestrial ecosystem-based biodiversity monitoring plan that:
- Achieves more efficient, effective, and coordinated Arctic terrestrial biodiversity monitoring through improved data accessibility and standardizing of methods;
- Identifies, rescues, aggregates and analyzes existing data to generate statistical baselines;
- Identifies gaps in existing monitoring and propose new monitoring efforts;
- Improves data management;
- Gives basis for regular assessment and reporting of pan-Arctic monitoring activities and results; and,
- Supports international biodiversity convention goals, particularly the Convention on Biological Diversity.
In addition there will be a poster presentation Monday April 23, 17:00-19:00, Poster Session A (part of 1.3.1 Polar terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.)
Contact: John Payne, North Slope Science Initiative
Biodiversity of Arctic Freshwaters: Developing the CAFF-CBMP Integrated Monitoring Plan
When: Monday April 23, between 17:00-19:00
Where: Session 1A301: Poster and exhibition hall
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Arctic freshwater stream. Photo: Dan Bach Kristensen/Shutterstock.com
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Join Freshwater Expert Monitoring Group (FEMG) co-leads Joseph Culp and Willem Goedkoop as they discuss the development of the soon-to-be-published Arctic Freshwater Biodiversity Monitoring Plan.
The FEMG includes scientific experts from all Arctic countries who are designing optimal sampling schemes, common parameters and standardized monitoring protocols for application across circumpolar Arctic freshwaters. The assessment approach defines Focal Ecosystem Components to focus monitoring on the most valued structural and functional aspects of Arctic freshwaters, designates expert-defined impact hypothesis to link key stressors to ecological effects, and defines abiotic and biotic indicators that can be used to assess the effects of key anthropogenic stressors.
The FEMG is accumulating historical and contemporary data inventories to address these impact hypotheses and is defining critical monitoring gaps and strategies to fill them. Synthesis reporting from the FEMG will link to the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment (ABA) and output from other CBMP expert groups (e.g., Marine and Terrestrial Expert Monitoring Groups) to inform policy through periodic assessments of the state of Arctic freshwater ecosystems.
A key element of the approach is to utilize existing monitoring programs and recorded data sources for initial assessments. The FEMG is also developing standardized protocols and analytical tools that can be incorporated into future monitoring programs.
Contact: Joseph Culp, Environment Canada
The CBMP Marine Plan: Integrated Monitoring to Strengthen Decision Making
When: Tuesday April 24, 10:30
Where: 520D (part of session 2.3.4 Impacts of Change and Development on Biodiversity and Polar Ecosystem Services)
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Join Marine Steering Group co-leads Jill Watkins and Kathy Crane as they discuss the implementation of the Arctic Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Plan.
During the first two years of implementation (2011-2013), the focus will be on integrating datasets and producing and reporting baselines of the most important indicators of change across Arctic marine ecosystems. This will require integrating existing marine biodiversity monitoring efforts (both traditional scientific and community-based) across the Arctic, and using a suite of common biological parameters and indicators; key abiotic parameters relevant to marine biodiversity; and optimal sampling schemes. Monitoring results will be organized and reported according to Arctic Marine Areas.
This work will be performed under the aegis of the newly formed Marine Steering Group and through seven marine expert networks - sea-ice biota, plankton, benthos, fish, seabirds, marine mammals and polar bears.
The overall goal of the CBMP-Marine Plan is to improve our ability to detect and understand the causes of long-term changes to the composition, structure and function of Arctic marine ecosystems, as well as to develop authoritative assessments of key elements of Arctic marine biodiversity (e.g., key indicators, ecologically pivotal and/or other important taxa).
Contact: Jill Watkins, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
CBMP Arctic Biodiversity Data Service (ABDS) launch, Seabird Information Network (SIN)
When: Thursday April 26, 17:00-19:00
Where: Room 510 AC
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Distributed data nodes will feed information into one centralized data service. Graphic: sheelamohanachandra2010/ Shutterstock.com
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Mike Gill and Michael Svoboda will present on the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program's development of the Arctic Biodiversity Data Service (ABDS), the interoperable, web-based system in development for displaying, accessing and managing various Arctic biodiversity data types and layers. The ABDS is a powerful new tool to gather, aggregate and disseminate biodiversity data, leading to more efficient and effective reporting to various user groups including scientists, natural resource managers, and policy makers.
The ABDS will be presented in the context of the Seabird Information Network's (SIN) Circumpolar Seabird Data Portal, an excellent an exciting example of the power of sharing biodiversity information through the web.
Contact: Michael Svoboda, CBMP, Environment Canada
Arctic Species Trend Index (ASTI): Media Event
When/Where: Monday April 23, 13:00, Media Room
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Seal. Photo: AleksandrN/Shutterstock.com
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Join Anthon Frederiksen (Minister of Domestic Affairs, Nature and Environment, Greenland), Gustav Lind (Senior Arctic Officials Chair), a Canadian government representative, Mike GIll (Chair, CBMP), and Tom Barry (Executive Secretary of CAFF) as they present on the latest findings from a new analysis of the Arctic Species Trend Index, (ASTI) an index that illustrates overall spatial and temporal trends in fish, bird and mammal species.
Data additions and extensions have improved the ASTI since its 2010 release. Scientists have since conducted in-depth analysis on the Arctic marine species, and additional spatial analysis.
Contact: Mike Gill, CBMP, Environment Canada
CBMP Meetings
CBMP Co-Chairs Coordination Meeting (closed)
When: Sunday, April 22, 13:00-17:00
Where: Palais des congr�s de Montr�al (5th floor), Room: 513 D
CBMP Terrestrial Expert Monitoring Group Meeting (closed)
When: Monday April 23, 17:00-19:00
Where: Palais des congr�s de Montr�al (5th floor), Room: 512 F
When: Tuesday April 24, 17:00-19:00
Where: Palais des congr�s de Montr�al (5th floor), Room: 512 F
CBMP Marine Expert Monitoring and Implementation Meeting (closed)
When: Tuesday April 24, 17:00-19:00
Where: Palais des congr�s de Montr�al (5th floor), Room: 512 G
When: Wednesday April 25, 17:00-19:00
Where: Palais des congr�s de Montr�al (5th floor), Room: 512 F
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