Also in the section
- Franco-German Seminar: "Gateway to the Arctic" - November 18-20, 2013
- International Conference on regional climate, CORDIS 2013 - Brussels, Belgium - Nov. 4-7, 2013
- ACCESS stakeholder workshop - September 18, 2013
- Arctic Circle Assembly - Reykjavik, Iceland - October 12-14, 2013
- Arctic energy summit -Akureyri - Iceland - October 8-10, 2013
- ACCESS cross-sectoral summerschool September 23-27, 2013
- ACCESS WP4 meeting - September 17-18, 2013
- The First International Narvik Conference on Arctic Ports - Narvik, April, 2013
- ACCESS WP2 meeting - September 18, 2013
- ACCESS General Assembly - Barcelona - March 5-8, 2013
- Symposium: "Battle for the North: Is all quiet on the Arctic Front?", East Lansing, MI, USA, February 21-22, 2013
- Arctic Frontiers 2013 - Geopolitics and Marine Production in a Chaging Arctic - Tromso, Norway, January 20-25, 2013
- Summer School - "Gateway_to_the_Arctic" - Bremerhaven, Germany - October 17-19, 2012
- ECO2 annual meeting - Southampton, May 24-25, 2012
- IPY 2012 Conference - Montreal, Canada - April 22-27, 2012
- ACCESS letter to the Arctic Council - Paris, March 27, 2012
- ACCESS General Assembly - Stockholm - march 8-9, 2012
- Arctic Frontiers 2012 - Energies of the High North - Tromso, Norway - January 22-27, 2012
- Session "The role of Aerosols in the Climate-Cryosphere System"- San Francisco, USA - December 5-9, 2011
- WP2 meeting - Copenhagen, Denmark - November 29, 2011
- Conference:“The High North – Infrastructure and Industrial Development-Voksenåsen, November 28-29, 2011
- Seventh Annual Arctic Oil & Gas Conference - Oslo, Norway - November 28-30, 2011
- WP1 workshop on fieldwork activities - Villefranche-sur-mer, France - November 24-25, 2011
- Responding to change - ISAC workshop -USA - November 1, 2011
- World Climate Research Programme Open Science Conference - Denver, USA - October 24-28, 2011
- Workshop on fishery and oil and gas development - Murmansk - October 19, 2011
- AEE 2011 - SPE Arctic and Extreme Environments Conference - Moscow, Russia - October 18-20, 2011
- IPY Conference - Call for Abstracts closes September 30, 2011 - Montreal, Canada - september 30, 2011
- ACA Scoping Workshop - Oslo, Norway - September 28-30, 2011
- Advanced study workshop on oil spills in sea-ice, Fermo, Italy, September 20-23, 2011
- Workshop on climate scenarios - Bremen, Germany - September 5-6, 2011
- WP5 meeting - Southampton, UK - August 11-12, 2011
- ACCESS Steering Committee meeting - Southampton, UK - August 11, 2011
- POAC 2011 - Montréal, Canada - July 10-14, 2011
- Seventh International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences - Akureyri, Iceland - June 22-26, 2011
- The quantification of surface emissions in different EU projects - Hamburg, Germany - June 9-10, 2011
- The Arctic and the European Union - Stockholm & Rovaniemi - May 30 & June 1, 2011
Key figures
Key facts
- Coordinated by the University Pierre et Marie Curie
- 27 institutions participating
- 9 european countries and the Russian Federation represented
- More than 80 researchers
- Project budget: 11 millions
- Project duration: 4 years (2011-2015)
- ACCESS is an European Project supported within the Ocean of Tomorrow call of the European Commission 7th Framework Programme
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ACCESS Kick-Off Meeting
The ACCESS Kick-Off meeting was held on 8-10 March 2011 in Paris, France.
Press release
Arctic ocean under close surveillance at UPMC.
ACCESS kick-off meeting. Paris, March 8 -10, 2011.
The ACCESS (Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society) kick-off meeting is being held at UPMC. This European project is financed in response to the first call “Ocean for Tomorrow” of the 7th Framework Programme Research and Development. It started on March 1st, 2011 and will end on March 1st, 2015. Under UPMC leadership and involving 27 partners from 10 European countries including Russia, ACCESS main objective is to assess climatic impacts
on marine transportation (including tourism), fisheries, marine mammals and the extraction of oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean. ACCESS is also highly concerned with Arctic governance and policy-makers options.
Context and Objectives
Arctic climate change is going to have strong impacts on both marine ecosystems and human activities in the Arctic, which in turn has important socio-economic implications for Europe. ACCESS will propose Arctic climate change scenarios and evaluate their impacts on marine transportation (including tourism), fisheries, marine mammals and the extraction of hydrocarbons in the Arctic for the next decades with particular attention to environmental sensitivities and sustainability. ACCESS is engaged in integrating Arctic climate change and socioeconomic impacts and identifying Arctic governance options. ACCESS will also engage in close cooperation with indigenous people and other stakeholders.
ACCESS is composed of 5 working groups:
- A first group will focus on monitoring and modeling Arctic climate change involving ocean, atmosphere and sea-ice.
- A second group will study the opening to marine transportation of the northern passages, north of Europe and Siberia (North-East passage) and through the Canadian Archipelago (North-West passage) as well as the impact of these transportation activities on marine ecosystems and society.
- A third group will examine how climate change impacts on Arctic fisheries, aquaculture and livelihood, mainly in the sub-Arctic sectors such as the Barents Sea.
- A fourth group will determine how the extraction of offshore oil and gas might be influenced and affected by climatic change, taking into account associated risks
- A fifth group will examine Arctic governance options emerging from the findings of the other groups.
An open forum will be created for stakeholders interested in the ACCESS consortium activities and crosscutting research. Leading experts working in the ACCESS field of study will sit on the ACCESS advisory board.
To ensure international dissemination of ACCESS activities, specific links will be set up with internationally renowned organizations such as the Arctic Information Center from the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi (Finland). ACCESS has close links with international organizations overseeing international research in the Arctic and specifically with IASC (Arctic Council) via ISAC (International Study of Arctic Change).
Communication within ACCESS is led by UPMC and involves collaboration with all ACCESS partners, the steering committee, the coordinator, the manager of ACCESS and the European Commission. The project results will be disseminated by various means such as quarterly newsletters and will be distributed electronically via a website.