ECOLOGICAL ATLAS OF THE BERING, CHUKCHI, AND BEAUFORT SEAS

Chapter 2 (Physical auspices of the US Department of Interior, directs the management Setting), explores various climatic attributes and the abiotic processes of the Arctic, both onshore and offshore, in the US. [...] It is our hope that the information included here will aid the of 1984 (ARPA) defines the Arctic as “including the Arctic Ocean and variety of entities involved in managing the Arctic to make informed the Beaufort, Bering and Chukchi Seas; and the Aleutian chain.” decisions that promote sustainable use and conservation. [...] The Arctic Marine Synthesis: Atlas indigenous communities and other Arctic inhabitants on common of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, was the first comprehensive atlas of Arctic issues, in particular on issues of sustainable development and the region since NOAA’s atlas, and was completed in cooperation with environmental protection in the Arctic.” The eight member states Oceana, who made valuable co. [...] attributes in the schema to describe the intensity of use, type of use, Oceana/Kawerak spatial information as a starting point for many of Atlas often differs from how TK-holders perceive this information in the We coordinated with AOOS and Axiom Data Science to make these age and gender of individuals present, applicable seasons, original data the marine mammal and subsistence maps in this Atlas. [...] These revisions and updates were necessary because of the sources, and attributes for each data layer are tracked in our extensive Atlas, we have attempted to gather and represent TK as expressed in best use it.dynamic nature of the marine environment, and because of the many and geodatabase.