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Downloaded Daily to the Geodetic Survey Division in Ottawa, Where They Are Reviewed for Quality Control, Archived, and Uploaded to the International GPS Service Arctic Coastal Dynamics Report of the 4th International Workshop VNIIOkeangeologia, St. Petersburg (Russia), 10-13 November 2003 Edited by Volker Rachold and Georgy Cherkashov Volker Rachold, Alfred Wegener Institute, Research Unit Potsdam, Telegrafenberg A43, 14473 Potsdam, Germany Georgy Cherkashov, VNIIOkeangeologia (Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the Ocean), Angliysky prospect 1, 190121 St. Petersburg, Russia Preface Arctic Coastal Dynamics (ACD) is a joint project of the International Arctic Sciences Committee (IASC) and the International Permafrost Association (IPA) and a regional project of IGBP-LOICZ (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme – Land- Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone). Its overall objective is to improve our understanding of circum-Arctic coastal dynamics as a function of environmental forcing, coastal geology and cryology and morphodynamic behavior. The fourth IASC-sponsored ACD workshop was held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on November 10-13, 2003. Participants from Canada (7), Germany (7), Great Britain (2), the Netherlands (1), Norway (1), Russia (32), Ukraine (1) and the United States (8) attended. During the first part of the workshop, 63 papers dealing with regional and/or circum-Arctic coastal dynamics were presented. Based on the material presented, five thematic working groups were identified: (1) GIS working group to develop of a circum-Arctic coastal GIS system, (2) coastal permafrost working group to discuss processes involved in the transition of onshore to offshore permafrost, (3) biogeochemistry working group with the focus on transport and fate of eroded material (4) biodiversity working group to initiate planning of an Arctic Coastal Biodiversity research agenda, (5) environmental data working group to discuss coastal dynamics as a function of environmental forcing. Finally, the results of the workshop and the next steps were discussed in the ACD Steering Committee meeting. The present report summarizes the program of the workshop and the main results. Financial support from the International Arctic Sciences Committee (IASC) is highly appreciated and was essential for conducting the workshop. Additional support of ACD activities is provided by the International Permafrost Association (IPA), INTAS (International Association for the promotion of co-operation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union), the International Arctic Research Center (IARC), and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). IPA International Permafrost Association i ii iii Participants of the 4th International Workshop on Arctic Coastal Dynamics (ACD), St. Petersburg (Russia), 10-13 November 2003 (photo by Hugues Lantuit) iv Table of Contents Preface................................................................................................................................................................i 1 History and Development of ACD ......................................................................................1 1.1 Background and Rationale ............................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 History and Development of Arctic Coastal Dynamics (ACD)....................................................................2 1.3 Current Focus and Objectives of the 4th ACD Workshop............................................................................ 4 2 Program and Main Results of the Workshop....................................................................9 3 Working Group Reports and Extended Abstracts..........................................................13 3.1 GIS Working Group...................................................................................................................................... 14 3.1.1 GIS - Working Group Summary (Rune Odegard and Frits Steenhuisen).............................................................................................. 15 3.1.2 GIS - Extended Abstracts................................................................................................................... 18 CREATION OF ESTIMATED NATURAL RISK MAPS OF CRYOLOGICAL HAZARDS ON THE VARANDEI PENINSULA COAST (I.V. Chehina, F.M. Rivkin, N.V .Ivanova, М.М. Koreisha, А.А. Popova and V. Rachold)........................... 18 COASTAL DYNAMICS OF THE NOVOSIBIRSKIE ISLANDS: COMPARISON OF REMOTE SENSING RESULTS OBTAINED AT DIFFERENT TIMES (Dobrynin D.V., Tumskoy V.E., Pizhankova E.I. and Rivkin F.M)................................................................19 THE SEGMENTATION OF THE RUSSIAN NORTHERN COAST-LINE OF THE COASTLINE FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE ARCTIC COASTAL DYNAMICS PROJECT (D.S. Drozdov, Yu.V. Korostelev, G.V. Malkova, E.S. Melnikov and A.A. Vasiljev)..................................... 21 GEOMATICS IN RUSSIAN ARCTIC COASTAL DYNAMICS INVESTIGATIONS (Firsov Yu.G., Cherkashev G.A., Vanshtein B.G. and Ivanov M.V.) .............................................................27 SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORTS LONG TERM MEASUREMENTS TO DETECT ARCTIC CHANGE (Allison Graves, Craig E. Tweedie, David Zaks, Shawn Serbin, William Manley, Jerry Brown, Robert Bulger) .................................................................................................................................. 29 SEGMENTATION OF THE U.S. CHUKCHI SEA COASTLINE (James W. Jordan) ........................................................................................................................................ 31 CLASSIFICATION OF THE ALASKAN BEAUFORT SEA COAST AND ESTIMATES OF SEDIMENT AND CARBON INPUTS FROM COASTAL EROSION (Torre Jorgenson and Jerry Brown) ............................................................................................................. 32 A VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS OF LONG-TERM COASTAL EROSION ON HERSCHEL ISLAND, YUKON TERRITORY: PRELIMINARY RESULTS (Lantuit, H., Couture, N. and Pollard, W.H.)................................................................................................ 33 PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ANALYSIS OF COASTAL EROSION ALONG THE CHUKCHI COAST AT BARROW, ALASKA (L.R. Lestak, W.F. Manley, and J.A. Maslanik) ............................................................................................ 38 BATHYMETRIC SEABED MAPPING BASED ON GIS-TECHNOLOGY (S. L. Nikiforov, Yu. A. Pavlidis, V. Rachold and M.Gracheva).................................................................... 41 ENGINEERING-GEOCRYOLOGICAL ZONING OF THE ARCTIC COAST OF THE RUSSIAN EUROPEAN NORTH (N.A. Pahomova, N.V. Ivanova, F.M. Rivkin, M.M. Koreisha and I.V. Chekhina) .......................................45 v AN ENGINEERING GEOCRYOLOGICAL ZONING OF VARANDEI PENINSULA AND THE ADJOINING SHALLOW SHELF ZONE (А.А. Popova, F.M. Rivkin, N.V. Ivanova, М.М. Koreisha, I.V. Chehina, V. Rachold and S.L. Nikiforov) ...................................................................................................................................................... 49 THE UTILITY OF SURVEY GRADE DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS (DGPS) TECHNOLOGY FOR MONITORING COASTAL EROSION (Shawn Serbin, Allison Graves, David Zaks, Jerry Brown and Craig E. Tweedie) ......................................52 BOTTOM RELIEF OF THE PECHORA SEA AS A RESULT OF LAND-OCEAN INTERACTIONS (A.A. Yermolov, V.Yu. Biryukov and S.A. Ogorodov).................................................................................... 57 3.2 Coastal Permafrost Working Group............................................................................................................ 59 3.2.1 Coastal Permafrost - Working Group Summary (Michel Allard and Hans-W. Hubberten)........................................................................................... 60 3.2.2 Coastal Permafrost - Extended Abstracts........................................................................................... 64 THE NORTHERN RISCC PROJECT. AN OVERVIEW, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION (Michel Allard, Warwick Vincent, Greg Henry and Wayne Pollard)............................................................64 THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGES ON AN EMERGING COASTLINE AFFECTED BY DISCONTINUOUS PERMAFROST: MANITOUNUK STRAIT, NORTHERN QUÉBEC. (Michel Allard).............................................................................................................................................. 66 OIL DISTRIBUTION IN THE ACTIVE LAYER AT THE COASTAL KEY-SITE “CAPE BOLVANSKY”: TWO YEARS AFTER CONTAMINATION (Ananjeva G.V., Drozdov D.S., Smetanin N.N. Nerland Ø. and Chuvilin E.M.)...........................................67 THE INFLUENCE OF PERMAFROST DEGRADATION IN NORTH RIVER BASINS ON MARINE AND ESTUARY COASTAL DYNAMICS IN THE MIDDLE SIBERIAN NORTH (Grebenets V. and Kraev G.)......................................................................................................................... 72 COASTAL PERMAFROST DRILLING IN THE LAPTEV SEA (M. N. Grigoriev and V. Rachold)................................................................................................................. 76 THE COASTAL OCEAN ALONG THE SIBERIAN ARCTIC: NEW PROCESS- ORIENTED STUDIES OF THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE SOUTHEASTERN LAPTEV SEA SHELF (Jens Hoelemann, Carolyn Wegner, Vladimir Churun, Leonid Timokhov, Heidemarie Kassens, Sergey Kirillov and Christian Haas).............................................................................................. 77 MULTI-YEAR MONITORING OF COASTAL
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