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Arctic Coastal Dynamics Report of the International Workshop VNIIOkeangeologia, St. Petersburg (Russia), 10 - 13 November 200; Edited by Volker Rachold and Georgy Cherkashov Ber. Polarforsch. Meeresforsch. 482 (2004) ISSN 1618 - 3193 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, 190 12 1 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 andlor 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 highiy 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). IASC International Permafrost Association 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 4 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) 3.1.2 GIS - Extended Abstracts ...................................................................................................................I8 CREATION OF ESTIMATED NATURAL RISK MAP? 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    ARTICLE IN PRESS Quaternary Science Reviews 23 (2004) 1391–1434 A review of postglacial emergence on Svalbard, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, northern Eurasia S.L. Formana,*, D.J. Lubinskib, O.! Ingolfsson! c, J.J. Zeebergd, J.A. Snydere, M.J. Siegertf, G.G. Matishovg a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607, USA b Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, The University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0450, USA c Department of Geology and Geography, University of Iceland, Is-101 Reykjav!ık, Iceland d Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, Haringkade 1, P.O. Box 68 1970 AB IJmuiden, The Netherlands e Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA f Bristol Glaciology Centre, School of Geographical Sciences University of Bristol, University Road, Bristol BSS 1SS, UK g Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, 17 Vladimirskaya Street, Murmansk 183010, Russia Abstract The pattern of postglacial emergence in the Barents Sea is pivotal to constraining the timing of deglaciation and extent and thickness of the last ice sheet in northern Eurasia. This review unites records of Holocene relative sea level from Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, and Novaya Zemlya to better understand the geometries of past ice sheet loads. Emergence data from northern Eurasia confine the maximum area of glacier loading to the northwestern Barents Sea, where >100 m of emergence is measured on Kongs^ya. Deglacial unloading commenced on western and northern Spitsbergen c. 13–12 14C ka ago, and by c. 10.5 14Cka on eastern Svalbard and more distal sites on Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya.