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Abstracts
SEARCH Open Science Meeting
October 27, 2003
Seattle, Washington, USA
Community-Defined Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Research Needs in the Canadian North
Aynslie E. Ogden1, Claire Eamer2, Jamal Shirley3, Steve Baryluk4, Peter Johnson5
1Northern Climate ExChange, Northern Research Institute, Yukon College, 500 College Drive, PO Box 2799, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 5K4, Canada, Phone 867-668-8735, Fax 867-668-8734, aogden@yukoncollege.yk.ca
2Northern Climate ExChange, Northern Research Institute, Yukon College, PO Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 5K4, Canada, Phone 867-668-8862, Fax 867-668-8734, ceamer@yukoncollege.yk.ca
3Nunavut Research Institute, P.O. Box 1720, Iqaluit, NT, X0A 0H0, Canada, Phone 867-979-4105, Fax 867-979-4681, jshirley@nac.nu.ca
4Aurora Research Institute, Box 1450, Inuvik, NT, X0E 0T0, Canada, Phone 867-777-4029, Fax 867-777-4264, Steven_Baryluk@gov.nt.ca
5Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, P.O. Box 450, Stn.A., Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada, Phone 613-562-5800 , Fax 613-562-5145, peterj@uottawa.ca
Understanding and adapting to the impacts of climate change impacts in the North will require much new information and research. However, time and resources to conduct climate research are very limited, so research priorities need to be chosen carefully. Northern communities will need information to support decision-making on adaptation. To encourage the generation of this information, northern communities will benefit from specifying what information they require to support decisions, and communicating these information needs to the research community. To facilitate this interaction, the northern offices of the Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network (C-CIARN North) undertook a survey to identify research needs in communities in the three northern Canadian territories as part of a process to assist researchers and research funding bodies to establish priorities for future climate change impacts and research in the various regions of the North. This research needs survey attempted to engage communities in answering an important question: what information and research do communities need to address climate change impacts? Survey design was based on the results of the Northern Climate ExChange Gap Analysis Project (2002), which summarized what is known about the potential impacts of climate change in northern Canada according to sixteen natural, economic, and community systems. For each system, this project reviewed scientific, local, and traditional knowledge sources, and ranked the state of knowledge as good, fair, or poor, according to a common standard. Survey respondents were asked to help decide where we need to focus our collective efforts in filling knowledge gaps or improving the state of knowledge for each of these systems. It is hoped that the results of this survey will be used by esearchers, research institutes, funding agencies and other groups to help design and promote research on climate change issues and themes that are important to Northerners and that will provide info useful to Northerners.
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