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May 12, 2017

The Great Thaw: our melting Arctic must be monitored and Canada should lead the way

The following OpEd written by Ocean Networks Canada President Kate Moran was published in The Hill Times on Monday, 8 May 2017.

Imagine autumn in the Gatineau’s without trees, or the Rideau River without water. Now imagine the Arctic without ice. All unimaginable images, yet despite our proud “Great White North” designation, the problem in grasping the magnitude of this meltdown is that it seems so far away. In fact, the vast majority of Canada’s 35 million citizens know only of the Arctic through the pages of school textbooks, and it’s easy to see why. According to the 2016 census, 66% of Canadians live within 100 kilometres of the U.S. border, as far from...

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Arctic | Camridge Bay | climate change | sea ice | Temperature

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While global temperature tracking is suggesting 2016 will follow 2014 and 2015 as the warmest year on record, the effects are acute and immediate in the Canadian Arctic where climate change has already warmed more than twice the global average.

This warming is having a dramatic effect on Arctic sea ice, with reports of both low geographic coverage and low total thickness.

Graph of he latest observed global sea-ice concentration.

The latest observed global sea-ice concentration, against the historic annual cycle dating back to 1978 from the National Snow and Ice...

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sea-ice | Cambridge Bay | climate change | sea ice | global warming | Arctic | thickness | NSIDC

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In late summer 2016, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut found itself at the centre of an arctic crossroads of sorts: a pivotal meeting place where ice-bound history is melting into climate science. A week after the first luxury cruise ship sailed through a virtually ice-free Northwest Passage and anchored in Cambridge Bay, the wreck of Franklin’s ship The Terror—abandoned in 1845 due to impenetrable sea-ice—was finally discovered in Terror Bay, just 200 km east.

The coincidence in time and place of these two iconic voyages poignantly highlights how quickly the arctic climate is changing, the need to monitor these changes, and the growing importance of Cambridge Bay as an emerging arctic hub.

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Arctic | ice | Cambridge Bay | climate change | Safe Passage | snowfall | sea ice | Northwest Passage

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Nov 24, 2015

Addressing climate change coast to coast

The Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is taking place in Paris from 30 November to 11 December, 2015.

Decision-makers from across the globe will be coming together to make commitments to reduce the impact of human activity on our global environment. Ocean science will be a critical part of the discussion, recognizing the important role that oceans play, not only in supporting life but also in mitigating some of the effects of climate change. On 4 December, the Global Ocean Forum, with over three dozen collaborating partners, is organizing Oceans Day at COP21...

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COP 21 | climate change | CCORU | Crago | Macdonald

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Wally the Crawler sits atop some gas hydrates in Barkley Canyon.

It’s hardly been a case of “all play and no work” for Wally the Crawler. Researchers in Germany and Canada have been making heavy use of Wally and the unique data this deep-sea crawler gathers among the gas hydrates outcrops of Barkley Canyon.

A recent paper published in the journal ...

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