their own vocabulary – often we found after talking for a while that we were talking about the same thing, just with different words! But after our years of working together we have now started to work well together, and bringing that level of interdisciplinarity to a topic as complex as ours is an achievement in itself.”
Spreading the word Ultimately, the network hopes to be able to provide decision makers such as politicians and fishery managers with sound advice and projections based on the data and models that have been developed. This is done through stakeholder forums with fishery managers, reports that are sent out to politicians and other activities.
Stakeholder outreach is always a difficult task, but the team behind CLIFFIMA believe that the messages that scientists are sending out about climate change are now beginning to be taken on by the wider world. “We can see now that groups such as the Environmental Directorate and the Fisheries Directorate are starting to use the knowledge that we have garnered,” says Drinkwater. “This is great compared to five to ten years ago when, in the US for example, climate change did not even have to be considered when making assessment’s of species at risk. Things are slowly but surely starting to change, but all we can do is to keep improving our science and filling in the gaps of uncertainty related to climate models and ecosystems.”
★ DEVELOPMENT OF BARENTS SEA TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS
(THE KOLA SECTION), 30 YR LOW PASS FILTER OF OBSERVATIONS, AND MODELLED ANTHROPOGENIC COMPONENT (SCENARIO RCP 2.6)
AT A GLANCE Project Information
Project Title: CLIFFIMA-net A nordic network on Climate impact on fish, fishery industry and management in the Nordic Seas
Project Objective: The network will provide interdisciplinary studies on the link between the physical climate systems, geographical distribution of fish, and effects on the management systems and economic potential for harvesting.
Project Duration and Timing: January 2010- August 2014
Project Funding: NordForsk, an organization under Nordic Council of Ministers
www.nordforsk.org/no
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Green line for (2014à) assumes multidecdal climate component to continue with similiar amplitude and periodicity as during the 20th century
Blue bars for (2014à) indicate amplitude of interannual variability as observed during the 20th century
PROJECT PARTNERS
• Institute of Marine Research (Norway) • Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Norway) • Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (Norway)
• Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration / Institute of Research in Economics and Business Administration (Norway)
• Norwegian Collage of Fishery Science at University of Tromsø (Norway)
• Center for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo (Norway)
• Aarhus University (Denmark) • Faroe Marine Research Institute Island: Marine Research Institute
• Institute of Economic Studies, University of Iceland
• National Institute of Aquatic Resources / Technical University of Denmark
• Department of Environmental and Business Economics /University of Southern Denmark
• Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
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Jan Erik Stiansen Jan Erik Stiansen, Svein Sundby and Ken Drinkwater all hold PhDs in physical oceanography, and are part of the Research group on Oceanography and Climate, Institute of Marine Research, Norway. Their interest spans all couplings between climate and fish, and climate effects on the ecosystem in general, as well as ecosystem functioning.
Contact: Tel: +47 95293712 Email:
Jan.erik.stiansen@
imr.no Web:
www.imr.no www.imr.no/cliffima/en
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