31 March - 1 April 2009, at the campus of University of Tromsø.
The programme includes:- The ACIA report: Is it outdated or still valid? Possible shortcomings and new information.
(The views of Alf Håkon Hoel and a biologist) - Is it possible to identify environmental fluctuations caused by global warming? (Slagstad/Wassmann?)
- What is new in the new IPCC scenarios? How may it alter findings from research based on the previous scenarios?
- Fisheries in the north. An overview by Arnason and Eide(?)
The first workshop will address: - Current physical and ecological environmental situation and existing management systems in the North-Atlantic and the Arctic.
- The fisheries chapters in the ACIA-report, shortcomings and needs of updating.
- The new scenarios of the IPCC.
- Natural variations vs fluctuations caused by global warming.
From the first FIMAGLOW workshop in Tromsø |
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Programme – FIMAGLOW
workshop 1
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Day 1 - Tuesday 31 March
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11:00
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Welcome/Practical
issues Alf Håkon Hoel and Arne Eide (UiT)
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11:15
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Introduction and
presentation of participants
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12:00
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Lunch
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13:00
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Grete Kaare Hovelsrud (CICERO): Status of fisheries in the north
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13:30
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Arne Eide (UiT): On the evolution of fisheries management and
new challenges
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14:00
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Coffee break
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14:15
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Øystein Skagseth (IMR): Observed changes in the Northern oceans.
Climatic change or normal fluctuations?
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14:45
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Sigurd Tjelmeland (IMR): Seeing climatic changes through assessment models
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15:15
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Workshop discussion:
On the importance of distinguishing between Natural fluctuations and climatic
change.
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16:00
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End of first day
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20:00
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Dinner
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Day 2 - Wednesday 1 April
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09:00
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Jørgen Schou Christiansen (UiT): Arctic FishBase as a tool-box for
exploration of the marine Arctic – experiences from NE Greenland
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09:30
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Christian Wexels Riser (UiT): Ecosystems and production in the
Arctic
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10:00
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Coffee break
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10:15
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Geir Odd Johansen (IMR): Fish stocks distribution in the future: presenting the projects FishExChange and NorExChange.
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10:45
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Jan Idar Solbakken (SUC): The ACIA process
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11:15
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Eirik Mikkelsen/Arild Buanes (NORUT): Predicting the societal impact of
climate change on fisheries. Preliminary results from the NorAcia-project.
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11:45
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Lunch
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13:00
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Alf Håkon Hoel (UiT): Fisheries management and climate change
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13:30
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Workshop discussion:
The status of the ACIA/NorAcia: Outdated or still valid?
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14:00
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Coffee break
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14:15
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Final discussion.
Topics: - Should there be a joint
Nordic approach? - The content of Workshop 2.
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15:30
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Concluding remarks
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