AMAP's Second Environmental Assessment

Noaa Arctic Research Office, Silver Spring MD

Investigators

Abstract

Over the next year, the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) will publish four Arctic environmental assessment reports and a second State of the Arctic Environment Report (SOAER), and also conduct a Second AMAP International Symposium on Environmental Pollution of the Arctic. The publication and the international symposium will be based on updated information and a substantial amount of additional data that were not available for similar activities in 1997-1998. Acting on behalf of the U.S. federal agencies participating in AMAP, NOAA will coordinate Federal support for the publications and the symposium. Other federal agencies are expected to contribute (or have already contributed) $85, 500 for these purposes. NOAA's Arctic Research Office will arrange transfer of all the contributed funds to the AMAP Secretariat and will oversee expenditure of the funds by the AMAP Secretariat.