ACCAP Webinar:Welcome everyone! The webinar will start right at 10.
TINA BUXBAUM:Also friendly reminder to everyone to please mute your phones.
Amy Scholik-Schlomer:Can you listen via the computer or do you have to dial in for audiog?
ACCAP Webinar:you can listen via the computer. I will make that active in about 2 minutes
Douglas Burn:Howdy, Tina
TINA BUXBAUM:Hi Doug!
Douglas Burn:I can hear you just fine here at FWS
TINA BUXBAUM:Hi Everyone, Friendly reminder to mute your phone. *6 shoudl mute it if you don't have a mute button
ACCAP Webinar:Also friendly reminder to everyone to please mute your phones. *6 should mute it if you don't have a mute button
Tom Rothe:Hello, Tina, this is Tom and Ann Rothe
TINA BUXBAUM:Hi Tom and Ann
ACCAP Webinar:For those who just joined us, welcome! please go ahead and mute your phones. We're getting feedback.
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Becki Heim:very difficult to hear
TINA BUXBAUM:better?
TINA BUXBAUM:I just moved the mic
Vivian Mendenhall:Whoever is talking is breaking up
TINA BUXBAUM:If you have only listening online and having any breaking up issues it might be your internet connection
Vivian Mendenhall:Better
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Vivian Mendenhall:Unable to turn down computer speaker, or how would I attend webinar?
TINA BUXBAUM:Vivian, are you on the phone or listening via your computer?
Vivian Mendenhall:Listening via computer (as always), thanks
Maria Keffer:11 attendees here
TINA BUXBAUM:Thanks Maria
Douglas Burn:We have three highly-motivated people here at FWS.
Douglas Burn:And me, too.
TINA BUXBAUM:Thanks Doug
TINA BUXBAUM:The slides are avaialble now and the recording will also be posted here:https://accap.uaf.edu/Bering_Strait_Shipping
TINA BUXBAUM:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X14002012
TINA BUXBAUM:That should be the article I think.
Kristen Shake:Thanks Tina! the link works great ;)
TINA BUXBAUM:great!
Laura Eerkes-Medrano 2:what slide number are you looking at? I still have the arctic newswire
TINA BUXBAUM:https://people.hofstra.edu/GEOTRANS/eng/ch1en/conc1en/polarroutes.html
TINA BUXBAUM:Still on that one.
Laura Eerkes-Medrano 2:thanks
Helen Brohl:Will the presentation be available later?
TINA BUXBAUM:yes it is being recorded and the slides are already available here:https://accap.uaf.edu/Bering_Strait_Shipping
Helen Brohl:Thank you so much!
Vivian Mendenhall:Will the IMO slide on polar code be available in larger format? Decorative, but we can't read it
TINA BUXBAUM:I can ask Henry for the image in a larger format.
Kristen Shake:Thanks Tina, that would be useful
Vivian Mendenhall:Thanks
TINA BUXBAUM:Here you go - http://www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/HotTopics/polar/Documents/Polar%20Code%20Ship%20Safety%20-%20Infographic_smaller_.pdf
TINA BUXBAUM:I can also link it to the webinar page for later reference.
Kristen Shake:Thanks! This is great
TINA BUXBAUM:Here is that paper again: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X14002012
Anne Garland:Just wanted to mention oil waste had a great deal of effects to archaeological deposits post BP Gulf Spill. The dates for radiocarbon and material sciences are impacted. See BOEM archaeologists for the Gulf region.
TINA BUXBAUM:Good point Anne!
John Wiener:Re Dr Garland point: Also claimts of damage to ecology from the dispersant chemical exceeding the damage from the oil, but I do not have a citation for that and do not know the science myself.
TINA BUXBAUM:Also a good point John.
TINA BUXBAUM:Both are concerns with increased traffic.
Robert Rich:What about port infrastructure? Is it essential for developed ports to exist for safe shipping?
Amy McElroy:the study claiming the dispersants caused more damage than the oil was found not to be valid.
TINA BUXBAUM:Ah, thanks Amy
Amy McElroy:i'm looking for the report now.
TINA BUXBAUM:Do you happen to know how I coud get the citation? I could then share with everyone
TINA BUXBAUM:thanks!
Helen Brohl:Excellent presentation. It is my observation that diversion from the Suez is not a concern within Federal government and that existing traffic and potential growth in traffic in the Bering Straight has the attention of Federal authorities.
Caspar Ammann:Regarding threat to Suez Canal: I know first hand from the Panama Canal Authority that they are watching the Arctic very closely, particularly given their expansion this year and their challenge of sufficient water to operate that canal at maximum capacity. I could imagine so does Nicaragua with their plans for a new canal.
Marta Bystrowska:Thank you for very interesting talk . There were 3 of us from University of Ottawa listening
David Condino:It is incorrect that just because rececption facilities are not available it is OK for ships to discharge wastes to the sea. Please clarify.
Laura Eerkes-Medrano 2:I'd like to hear your comments re lack of adequate communications, technology and information. Also, what do you think about supporting communities on initiatives such as the coast guard search and resccue auxiliary
Linda Shaw:Thank you for the presentation. Just a comment that the spread of invasive species via ballast water discharge and hull fouling is another environmental threat to consider and that there is some international consideration of this issue in the Arctic Council.
John Gironda:Speaker said it was 'difficult to regulate" discharge. This is not the same as allowing or saying such discharge is "OK".
Helen Brohl:We understand that the North Slope Tribal Corporation hires observers along the coast to watch for vessels. Are you aware of this?
Douglas Burn:This might be of interest to the audience. ExactEarth recently announced that they had partnered with a company called Harris Telecom to leverage their constellation of communication satellites. This partnership will be able to deliver near real-time AIS coverage worldwide.
Douglas Burn:Rescue and response capability is a whole other thing, of course...
Laura Eerkes-Medrano 2:thanks, Henry!
Rebecca Woodgate:Nice talk, Henry. How are the currents in the region being taken into account as the routes are being planned? In the eastern strait, the very strong Alaskan Coastal Current runs northnorthwest close along the Alaskan Coast. Shipping currently often “rides” this current, and to come south against it would be somewhat daft. So knowledge of the currents is of great benefit to route planning. Details of the flows could make a pure north route less safe.
Anna Schemper:FYI, the National Science Foundation supports a community observer program wherein local residents are hired to travel aboard research cruises in the arctic (e.g. Healy and Sikuliaq) to communicate with coastal communities before, during, and after cruises,
Maria Keffer:What are some of the higher environmental risk cargos that would enter the Strait?
David Condino:Re the reception facility question:
Amy McElroy:Page 8 of the 30 November issue of the Interantional Spill Control Organization Newsletter has the article challenging teh validity of recent claims that dispersants suppress biodegradation. (ISOC 511 Newsletter) http://www.spillcontrol.org/2013-02-05-11-11-41/2013-02-05-11-26-54?start=5
Amy McElroy:This is the original article that was released: http://www.pwsrcac.net/committees/sac/documents/Kleindienst15dispersantsmicrobeactivity.pdf
David Condino:I agree with Henry that lak of facilities makes it difficult for ships, however there is no provision in MARPOL or the Polar Code Amendments that exempts ships from MARPOL compliance. Thank you for the discussion. This is an important issue.
TINA BUXBAUM:Thanks Amy!
TINA BUXBAUM:If folks would like to continue this chat with Henry he can be contacted via email here:
TINA BUXBAUM:Sorry Maria we won't get to your question, but please do feel free to email Henry and I will send you question to him as well.
Jeff Hancock:Fennica grounding in Unalaska Bay was not due to lack of charting or outdated charts. It was in a very popular transited route and nearby anchorages. A vessel is in control of the Captain (or pilot). If depth or hazards are not known, then you either don't go there, or, you go slowly enough to assess and maneuver appropriately.
Tom Rothe:Can we make sure we get to DAvid's question re MARPOL requirements?
TINA BUXBAUM:Sorry, Henry has to go at 10.
TINA BUXBAUM:I can have Henry answe the question and send it to me so I can post online.
John Gironda:Very interesting presentation. Thank you!
Melania Guerra:Thanks for organizing!
Tom Rothe:Thank you1
Susan Hazlett:Than!k you....very interesting
Robert Rich:Thanks for a great presentation
Anne Garland:Hi all, yo might find the ADAC COE of DHS S&T to be helpful or for collaborations See
Lynn Nappi:Thank you-4
Anne Garland:Seehttps://adac.hsuniversityprograms.org/centers-of-excellence/adac/