2022 Report of WG 44 on the Integrated Ecosystem Assessment for the Northern Bering Sea - Chukchi Sea

After self introductions, the meeting agenda was reviewed by members and adopted (WG 44 Endnote 2) AGENDA ITEM 3 Approach and methodology, status and upcoming milestones We developed three conceptual models with a team of interdisciplinary and multi-national scientists and with input from a few indigenous representatives. [...] Workshop organizers are in the process of transcribing the workshop notes and summarizing the ideas for bringing in Indigenous knowledge into our IEA process. [...] The workshop included discussions about the challenges of terminology and language (e.g., understanding what the term “Indicators” means) and the concept of time. [...] 3 WG 44 – 2022 WG 44 Endnote 4 Proposal for a Workshop on “Collaborative and knowledge sharing approaches to support climate change adaptation and social-ecological system resilience” at PICES-2023 [later merged with “Indigenous and community-led approaches to coastal ecosystem resilience in the Pacific” and renamed as “Indigenous and community-led approaches to support climate change adaptation a. [...] While climate empirical change information and observations are abundant, challenges and opportunities remain to match the scale of information to community local needs and regional impacts, and to account for dynamics around community adaptation and response.