De-icing of Arctic Coasts: Critical or new opportunities for marine biodiversity and Ecosystem Services?

ACCES

Call

  • Biodiversity 2

Project Website

Principal Investigator

Janne E. Nolan Søreide, The University Centre in Svalbard, Norway

Partners

Arild Buanes, Norut Northern Research Institute, Norway Amanda Poste, Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Norway Jan Marcin Weslawski, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Jacek Urbanski, University of Gdansk, Poland Christopher-John Mundy, The University of Manitoba, Canada Simon Bélanger, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Canada Katrin Iken, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States Ken Dunton, University of Texas at Austin, United States Mikael K. Sejr, Arctic Research Centre, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Funders

  • FRQ (Research Fund of Quebec), NCN (National Science Centre), NSERC (The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada), NSF (National Science Foundation), RCN (Research Council of Norway)

Project Objective

ACCES aims to determine impacts on marine biodiversity and the socio-ecological consequences of the change from seasonally ice-covered to ice-free Arctic coasts by comparing Arctic coastal sites with an existing gradient in ice cover

Call Objective

The Call addresses two major (non-exclusive) priorities: - Development and application of scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services across spatial scales of relevance to multiple types of decisions; - Consideration of multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services in biodiversity scenarios.

Region

  • Arctic, Europe, North America

Country

  • Canada, Norway, United States of America (USA)

Duration

36 months

Call Date

October 2, 2017

Project Award Date

July 13, 2018