{"id":261,"date":"2012-09-12T17:28:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T22:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=261"},"modified":"2014-01-08T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T19:22:50","slug":"shrinking-arctic-sea-ice-webinar-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/shrinking-arctic-sea-ice-webinar-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrinking Arctic sea ice | Webinar recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Shrinking Arctic sea ice &#8211; September 12, 2012<\/h3>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.4em;\"><\/strong>Arctic sea ice is melting faster and more extensively than ever recorded in three decades of satellite measurement &#8211; and it\u2019s not done yet.<\/p>\n<p>Data released from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nsidc.org\/arcticseaicenews\/\">National Snow and Ice Data Center<\/a>\u00a0says that sea ice area is now less than four million square kilometres &#8211; about 45 per cent less than typical September conditions two decades ago. The ice hits its annual minimum in the next few weeks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How will increased sea ice melting\u00a0affect weather over the Arctic and across Canada?<\/li>\n<li>What will the impacts be on Arctic ocean life, from plankton to fish?<\/li>\n<li>What changes can we see in the thickness and quality of ice that re-forms in the winter?<\/li>\n<li>How will Canada deal with increased shipping and resource extraction in our Arctic waters?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Panelists:\u00a0<\/strong>(click a name to hear a recording of their presentation)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemediacentre.ca\/smc\/webinars\/arctic_ice\/ice_haas.mp3\">Dr. Christian Haas<\/a><em>,<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>Professor of Sea Ice Geophysics, York University<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemediacentre.ca\/smc\/webinars\/arctic_ice\/ice_barber.mp3\"><strong>Dr. David Barber<\/strong><\/a><strong><em>,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Canada&#8217;s Research Chair in Arctic System Science, Associate Dean of Research, University of Manitoba<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemediacentre.ca\/smc\/webinars\/arctic_ice\/ice_fortier.mp3\"><strong>Dr. Louis Fortier<\/strong><\/a><strong><em>,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Canada Research Chair on the Response of Arctic Marine Ecosystems to Climate Change, Universit\u00e9 Laval<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemediacentre.ca\/smc\/webinars\/arctic_ice\/ice_ralph.mp3\"><strong>Freeman Ralph<\/strong><\/a><strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>Senior Ice \/ Risk Engineer, C-CORE<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclaimer: The information and\/or opinions expressed are supplied by such individual or organization\u00a0and\u00a0do not necessarily represent the views of SMCC or any other person or organization unless otherwise specifically stated. SMCC,\u00a0its directors, officers, affiliates, agents and content providers assume no liability for any inaccurate, delayed or incomplete information or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shrinking Arctic sea ice &#8211; September 12, 2012 Arctic sea ice is melting faster and more extensively than ever recorded in three decades of satellite measurement &#8211; and it\u2019s not done yet. Data released from the\u00a0National Snow and Ice Data Center\u00a0says that sea ice area is now less than four million square kilometres &#8211; about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[185,221,31,225,213,187],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webinar","tag-arctic","tag-atmosphere","tag-climate-change","tag-oceanography","tag-oceans","tag-sea-ice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english4.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-4d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}