As the Arctic warms faster than any other region on Earth, understanding its fragile ecosystems has never been more urgent. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Working Group on the Integrated Ecosystem Assessment of the Central Arctic Ocean (WGICA), a broad international collaboration that brings together scientists, knowledge, and results from working groups of the North Atlantic (ICES), North Pacific (PICES), and the Arctic Council (PAME, CAFF, and AMAP). WGICA's mission is to study and understand the changing Central Arctic Ocean (CAO) ecosystem, from the Pacific Bering Strait, across the Central Arctic Ocean, and to the Atlantic Fram Strait.
Meeting this week at the PICES Annual Meeting in Yokohama, Japan, WGICA celebrates a decade of collaboration with the release of two new publications:
An updated Central Arctic Ocean Ecosystem Overview, and
ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 361 β Ecosystem assessment of the Central Arctic Ocean, Part 2: Human activities, pressures, and vulnerability of the ecosystem.
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ICES, PICES, and PAME mark 10 years of collaboration with the Working Group on the Integrated Ecosystem Assessment of the Central Arctic Ocean. @icesmarine.bsky.social #OceanAcidification
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