The Bering and Chukchi Seas, Alaska and Chukotka show amplified responses to climate change.

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The Bering and Chukchi Seas, Alaska and Chukotka show amplified responses to climate change. The United States and the Russian Federation are working together to monitor the change in flux into and out of the Arctic through the Bering Strait- the Pacific Gateway to the Arctic.

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The Bering and Chukchi Seas, Alaska and Chukotka show

amplified responses to climate change.

The United States and the Russian Federation are working together to monitor the change in flux into and out of the Arctic through the Bering Strait-the Pacific Gateway to the Arctic.

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This new collaboration is called the:

Russian-American Long-termCensus of the Arctic:RUSALCA:

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Pacific Gateway

GOAL 1 (Sea Ice Thinning Observations)

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Increased Fresh Increased Fresh WaterWater

Flow From theFlow From theArctic to the NorthArctic to the North

AtlanticAtlantic

What are the What are the pathways of pathways of

fresh water flow fresh water flow across the across the

Pacific Pacific Gateway ?Gateway ?

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GOAL 2: FreshWater Fluxes-pathways

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Others…

GOAL 3Monitor Ecosystem Changes -Arctic Census ofMarine Life

ECOSYSTEM INDICATORS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

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Actual RUSALCA Stations, 2004

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GOAL 1: Investigate Processes in the Region of Greatest Melt Duration Change

RUSALCA REGION OF INTEREST

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NOAA Pacific ArcticGateway exploration

Arctic Research OfficeExpeditions

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IBCAO Map

IPY07/08 International Pan-Arctic study regions

ASOF

RUSALCA