| Climate change workshop Rationale
It is now almost exactly 12 years since the first IWC workshop on climate
change and Cetaceans. The workshop will be held within the context of the 4th
IPCC report which provides both conclusive
evidence of climate change and analyses at temporal and spatial scales of
relevance to cetaceans.
The 59th meeting of the IWC endorsed the Scientific Committee’s proposal for
a second meeting on climate change and that an intersessional scoping group be
convened to progress plans. The scoping group met in February 2008 and its
report is given as Annex 4 to the
report
of the Standing Working Group on Environmental Concerns.
Workshop goals
The primary aim of the workshop is to determine how climate change is/may
already be affecting cetaceans and how best to determine these effects. The
Climate Change Workshop will bring together - and enhance collaborations amongst
- experts in cetacean biology, modelling, marine ecosystems and climate change,
as well as reviewing current understanding and seeking to improve conservation
outcomes for cetaceans under climate change scenarios described in the IPCC 4th
report. It will do this by:
- identifying existing long term cetacean environmental data sets that can
be analysed and included in models in relation to climate change variables;
- considering other potential data sources;
- determining patterns that may be attributable to climate change via
analyses of these data sets;
- modelling mechanisms to consider cause and effect relationships, provide
predictions and identify data gaps that, if filled, would improve our
understanding of the effects of climate change on cetaceans; and
- providing timely scientific advice related to cetacean research,
conservation and management via peer-reviewed publications.
Venue and timing: Certosa di Pontignano Congress Centre, Siena, Italy 21-25 February 2009.
Steering Group: Simmonds, Moore, Reilly, Aguilar, Rojas-Bracho, Gales,
Parsons, Suydam, Fossi, Krahn and Rowntree.
Further information on the meeting venue, including a map and contact details
can be found HERE
Participants:
A higher resolution picture can be downloaded
HERE
The following documents are available to download:
| Title |
Filename |
Kb |
| Document list /2/09 |
CC document list.pdf |
13 |
| Agenda |
Draft_Agenda 17FEB09_v6.pdf |
88 |
| Travel information in Siena |
travel information.pdf |
117 |
| Bus timetable: Siena to Pontignano |
orario autobus nr 34.pdf |
37 |
| Bus timetable: Florence to Siena |
Firenze-Siena08.pdf |
63 |
| OVERLAND and WANG What did we learn about the
future Arctic from the 2008 Sea Ice Loss? |
CC2.1.6.1.OVERLAND-Arctic.ppt |
3060 |
| HOFMANN Environmental Controls on Biological
Processes in Antarctic Continental Shelf Waters |
CC2.1.6.2.HOFMANN.ppt |
4449 |
| GEORGE et al. Update on SC/57/E13: Progress
Report: Sea Ice Density and Bowhead Whale Body Condition |
SC-F09-CC1.pdf |
468 |
| FERGUSON et al. Identification of long term
datasets on southern hemisphere baleen whales with potential utility in climate
change research |
SC-F09-CC2.pdf |
29 |
| HOFFMAN The Concept of Adaptation and
Adaptation of Ecosystems on Which Cetaceans Depend |
SC-F09-CC3.pdf |
810 |
| BRANDON & PUNT Assessment of the eastern stock
of North Pacific gray whales: incorporating calf production, sea-ice and
strandings data |
SC-F09-CC5.pdf |
503 |
| SIMMONDS Cetaceans and climate change – the
tertiary level: changing human interactions |
SC-F09-CC7.pdf |
228 |
| SIMMONDS AND SMITH Cetaceans and Climate
Change – Assessing the Risks |
SC-F09-CC8.pdf |
447 |
| LYSIAK Marine Mammals Stable Isotope Records
as Indicators of Climate Change: A Call to Re-Examine Previous Conclusions (item
4.1) |
SC-F09-CC9.pdf |
472 |
| Fielder et al. Oceanography and Cetaceans in
the Eastern Tropical Pacific. |
SC-F09-CC10.pdf |
238 |
| ROWNTREE et al. Foraging behaviour of southern
right whales (Eubalaena australis) inferred from variation of carbon stable
isotope ratios in their baleen |
SC-60-BRG23.pdf |
1192 |
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