AGU Fall Meeting Town Hall Announcement
Voices from the Front Lines of a Changing Bering Sea
Thursday, 12 December 2019
6:15-7:15 p.m. Pacific Standard Time
San Francisco, California
For more information, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Session/83654
For questions, contact:
Raychelle Daniel
Email: rdaniel [at] pewtrusts.org
Phone: 202-540-6411
Conveners invite attendance at their town hall, titled Voices from the Front Lines of a Changing Bering Sea. This town hall will convene during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting at 6:15 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, 12 December 2019 at the Moscone West, room 2004, L2 in San Francisco, California.
The Bering Sea is undergoing rapid change. Sea ice cover in the winters of 2018 and 2019 were the lowest recorded since satellite monitoring began in 1978. In January and February of 2019, the region experienced at least 15 storm systems that brought unprecedented shoreline flooding to coastal communities and southerly winds, which further reduced winter sea ice extent. Environmental change is having profound impacts on the species and people around the Bering Sea who have been a part of the ecosystem since time immemorial. These changes compound many other impacts that communities are already experiencing due to climate change, including early migrations of species like walrus, which lead to lost opportunity for hunters, welts and sores found on harvested ice seals, and coastal erosion near critical community infrastructure.
This town hall will bring some of these first-hand observations from Indigenous Peoples that live in communities around the Bering Sea. Panel presentations will be followed by an open discussion that is intended to connect Iñupiat, Yup’ik, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, and Cup’ik knowledge holders and first observers with researchers and policy makers to ensure an important step toward adequate planning for adaptation that considers a holistic view that protects food security.
For more information, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Session/83654
For questions, contact:
Raychelle Daniel
Email: rdaniel [at] pewtrusts.org
Phone: 202-540-6411