Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Norway

David C. Payer, Greta A. Burkart, Heidi C. Helling, Janet C. Jorgenson, Christopher J. Latty, and Eric J. Wald

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 101 12th Ave., Room 236, Fairbanks, AK 99701 USA

Beaufort Sea & Viscount Melville Region Polar Bear-Sea Ice Colloquium

David Barber¹, Andrew Derocher², Marsha Branigan³, David Douglas⁴, George Durner⁴, Christian Haas², Lois Harwood⁵, John Iacozza1, David Jackson⁶, Humfrey Melling⁵, Simon Prisenberg⁵, Frank Pokiak⁷, Larry Carpenter⁸, John Cheechoo⁹, Joint Secretariat Staff.

¹University of Manitoba, ²University of Alberta, ³GNWT -Environment and Natural Resources, ⁴USGS– Alaska Science Center, ⁵Department of Fisheries and Oceans, ⁶Canadian Ice Services, ⁷Inuvialuit Game Council, ⁸Wildlife Management Advisory Council (NWT), ⁹Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.

 L. Beazley, E. Kenchington, E. Baker, J. Rowsell, L. Anstey, G. Tompkins-MacDonald, B. MacDonald, B. Rincon 

Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia 

E. Kenchington¹, L. Beazley¹, T. Siferd², M. Treble², J. Watkins³, E. Baker¹, B. MacDonald¹, L. Anstey¹, C. Lirette¹, B. Rincon¹ 

¹Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; ²Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Freshwater Institute, Winnipeg, Manitoba; ³Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 200 Kent Street, Ottawa, Ontario

Ann Kristin Schartau¹, Arne Fjellheim² and Trygve Hesthagen³

¹Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Gaustadalléen21, NO-0349 Oslo, Norway

²LFI, UniResearch, Thormøhlensgt. 49 B, NO-5006 Bergen, Norway

³Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, P.O.Box 5685 Sluppen, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway 

Canadian polar bear information tool

Cheechoo, John, 1101 - 75 Albert St., Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Ottawa Ontario, Canada K1P 5E7

Rosa H. Meehan (United States), Stas Belikov (Russia), Steve Ferguson (Canada), Kristin Laidre (Greenland), Peter O. Thomas (United States), Fernando Ugarte, (Greenland), Dag Vongraven (Norway)

 Torbjørn Ekrem and Elisabeth Stur 

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU University Museum, Trondheim, Norway 

Natalya Sokolova^1,2, Aleksandr Sokolov^1,2, Victor Shtro¹, Ivan Fufachev³, Dorothee Ehrich⁴

¹ Arctic Research Station, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of UB of RAS (Labytnangi, Russia), 

² Science Center for Arctic Studies, Salekhard, Russia, 

³ Perm State University, Perm, Russia, 

⁴ Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT -.‐The Arctic University of Norway (Tromso, Norway)

 Alessia Uboni¹, Tim Horstkotte², ElinaKaarlejärvi¹, Anthony Sévêque¹, Florian Stammler³, Johan Olofsson¹, Bruce C. Forbes³, and Jon Moen¹

¹ Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden, ² Department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland, ³ Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, 96101 Rovaniemi, Finland

 C. W. Mecklenburg^1,2, E. Johannesen³, C. Behe⁴, I. Byrkjedal⁵, J. S. Christiansen⁶, A. Dolgov⁷, K. J. Hedges⁸, O. V. Karamushko⁹, A. Lynghammar⁶, T. A. Mecklenburg², P. R. Møller¹⁰, R. Wienerroither³ 

 ¹California Academy of Sciences, USA; ²Point Stephens Research, USA; ³Institute of Marine Research, Norway; ⁴Inuit Circumpolar Council, USA; ⁵University Museum of Bergen, Norway; ⁶University of Tromsø, Norway; ⁷Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography, Russia; ⁸Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canada; ⁹Russian Academy of Sciences, Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, Russia; ¹⁰University of Copenhagen, Zoological Museum, Denmark 

Jørgensen L.L.¹, Ljubin, P.² Guðmundsson G.³, Ólafsdóttir, S.H.⁴, Blicher M.⁵, Hammeken, N.⁵, Archambault P.⁶, Iken K.⁷, Bluhm, B. ^7,8, Sørensen J.⁹, Denisenko N.^5,10

¹Institute of Marine Research, Norway; ²Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO), Russia; ³Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Iceland; ⁴Marine Research Institute, Iceland; ⁵Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Greenland; ⁶Université du Québec à Rimouski, Canada; ⁷University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA; ⁸University of Tromsø, Norway; ⁹Natural History Museum, Faroe Islands; ¹⁰Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Monitoring of benthic biodiversity in the Pechora Sea (SE Barents Sea) as conservation of population of endangered species such as Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus)

Denisenko S.G., Denisenko N.V., Sukhotin A.A. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Universitetskaya emb., 1, 199034, Russia.

Olga Belinka

Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute, Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences Apatity, Murmansk Province, Russia

 Connie Lovejoy, Mary Thaler, Adam Monier

Département de Biologie; UMI Takuvik; Institut de biologie intégrative et des systèmes ( IBIS), Université Laval, Québec QC, Canada

E. Kulyugina, S. Degteva, E. Patova

Institute of Biology, Komi Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences

Eva Myšková^1,2, Oleg Ditrich^1,2, Jana Kvičerová¹, Bohumil Sak³, Martin Kváč^3,4

¹Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic, ²Centre for Polar Ecology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, ³Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, ASCR, v.v.i., České Budějovice, Czech Republic, ⁴Faculty of Agriculture, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic

J. Newth¹, A. Nuno² and P. Glasov³,

¹Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (UK), ²Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter (UK), ³Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

Yulia Bespalaya, Ivan Bolotov, Olga Aksenova, Alexander Kondakov, Inga Paltser,

Mikhail Gofarov Institute of Ecological Problems of the North, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Severnaya Dvina Emb. 23, 163000 Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation 

 D.K. Hendrichsen¹, A.G. Finstad¹, E.B. Nilsen1& N.M. Schmidt²

 ¹Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway, ²Aarhus University, Denmark

S. Carrière, C. Lewis, C. Singer, T. Lakusta, L. Ransom, B. Sieben, C. Haas, A. Stevens, S. Yuill, B. Lepine, E. Gah 

Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, NT, Canada 

Bodil Bluhm, Katrin Iken and Lauren Bell 

School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks 

 Jesper B. Mosbacher, Palle S. Nielsen, Claus Rasmussen, Tomas Roslin, Toke T. Høye & Niels. M. Schmidt 

 Aarhus University 

Mariève Bouchard Marmen¹, Philippe Archambault¹, Ellen Kenchington²

¹Université du Québec à Rimouski, Institut des sciences de la mer, Rimouski, Quebec ²Fisheries and  Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO), Dartmouth, Nova Scotia