2019_programme: INTERNATIONAL QUIET OCEAN EXPERIMENT – ARCTIC ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENTS

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  • Session: 09. Acoustics in polar environments
    Organiser(s): Tegowski Jaroslaw
  • Lecture: INTERNATIONAL QUIET OCEAN EXPERIMENT – ARCTIC ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENTS [invited]
    Paper ID: 1021
    Author(s): Blondel Philippe, Sagen Hanne, Houssais Marie-Noëlle, Mikhalevsky Peter, Pajala Jukka, Racca Roberto, Tegowski Jaroslaw, Tougaard Jakob, Thomisch Karolin, Urban Ed, Vedenev Alexander
    Presenter: Blondel Philippe
    Presentation type: oral
    Abstract: The northern high-latitude regions, including the Arctic Ocean, are becoming increasingly important as a result of global warming and their growing economic and political interests. Sea ice reduction is facilitating resource exploration, marine transport and other economic activities in the regions. Warming waters lead to shifts in marine ecosystems and changing soundscapes. Exploitation of resources in the Arctic is expected to grow in the coming decades, offering new opportunities for marine and maritime industries, but also potentially new challenges to these fragile environments and to biodiversity. To measure the environmental impact of ocean noise at a variety of spatial and temporal scales, the International Quiet Ocean Experiment (http://iqoe.org/) established in late 2017 a working group on Arctic Acoustic Environments. The first activities of the Working Group are focusing on identifying locations and times of existing and past acoustic studies in the Arctic Ocean, and synthesising the state-of-the-art knowledge on sounds, past, present and future in the Arctic Ocean. WG activities were presented at the Arctic Observing Summit 2018 (Davos, Switzerland) and resulting recommendations were adopted at the 2nd Arctic Science Ministerial (Berlin, Germany: https://www.arcticscienceministerial.org/en/). We are linking with indigenous communities and other local stakeholders to address emerging trends in marine transport and Arctic resource exploitation, and to plan for where/when the optimal acoustic surveys could be, and what metrics they should prioritise. The first meeting took place in Paris (France) in late January 2019 and we will present the plans and first accomplishments of this IQOE working group.\n\nAuthors:Philippe Blondel,Hanne Sagen, Marie-Noëlle Houssais, Peter Mikhalevsky, Jukka Pajala, Roberto Racca, Jaroslaw Tegowski, Jakob Tougaard, Karolin Thomisch, Ed Urban, Alexander Vedenev
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  • Corresponding author: Dr Blondel Philippe
    Affiliation: University of Bath, UK
    Country: United Kingdom
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