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Action Item Areas:
- Communications and Linking with other Players
- Web Site Development
- Community Based Monitoring
- Local Monitoring Research Projects
- Indicator and Database Information Sources Development
- Important Items
- Going International
1. Communications and Linking with other Players
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Action Item
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Lead
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Build monitoring into school curriculum whenever possible.
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Co-op
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Link with Aurora College Natural Resource Training Program to explore how students can be involved.
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Aurora College
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Link with Joint Secretariat student mentoring program.
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Fisheries Joint Management Committee
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Link different fisheries/marine data collection programs.
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DFO
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Set up to better provide information as and when needed by management bodies and planning processes.
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Co-op
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Distribute CD ROM copy of Taiga.net, load on community computers, introduce use.
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Co-op
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Get Co-op information into newsletters of various organizations.
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Co-op & organizations
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Fax memos about the Co-op to local organizations to update what we are doing--send just before their monthly meetings (send it in electronic form directly to organization to make it easier)
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Co-op
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Get linked with other web sites
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Co-op
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Create posters for communities that describe the Knowledge Co-op (caribou graph etc.)
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Co-op
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Report back about this meeting
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Everyone who attended
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2. Web Site Development
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Action Item
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Lead
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Summarize Northern Contaminants Program findings for the Co-op region and put on web.
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Co-op
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Contact organizations regarding web hookups.
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Co-op
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Add community knowledge to indicator pages.
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Co-op
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Add community-based monitoring section to cabin.
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Co-op
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3. Community Based Monitoring
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Action Item
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Lead
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Carry out community based monitoring, staying with the process used this year. (individual interviews and discussions)
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Co-op
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Explore calendar idea.
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Deliver project summary to participating households.
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Co-op
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Create advisory group to advance community monitoring.
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Co-op
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Expand questionnaire to include local experts relationship/occupation to the land.
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Co-op
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Prepare simple overview of project to share with communities.
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Co-op
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4. Local Monitoring Research Projects
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Action Item
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Lead
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Identify native language names of plants.
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Co-op, Language Centers
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Find summer youth hires and sponsoring local organizations to do small local monitoring research in conjunction with individual projects.
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Co-op, RRC's, HTC's
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Explore idea of the use of small-scale habitat monitoring to capture fish - marine-related changes.
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DFO
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Follow up on loche liver concerns.
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Co-op, GRRB, NYRRC, Yukon Contaminants Committee
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Develop specific projects (i.e. lake ice).
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Co-op
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Look at potential of lichen monitoring for levels of radionuclides.
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Co-op
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5. Indicator and Database of Information Sources Development
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Action Item
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Lead
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Organize available data and research for fisheries/marine system.
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DFO
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Develop/explore using storm surge as an indicator.
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Co-op, DFO
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Draw on Herschel Island Park records and monitoring program.
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YTG Parks
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Draw on harvest studies to assess long-term change (i.e. records of the first duck shot each year)
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GRRB, IHS
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Get database of information sources linked with other programs.
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Co-op, Vuntut Park, USF+WS
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Look at improving analysis of weather data - expand to Alaska, try to track variability.
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Co-op, USF+WS
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Find improvements to current "development and tourism" indicators and add Alaskan data.
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Co-op, USF+WS
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6. Important Items
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Action Item
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Lead
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Pursue charitable status.
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Co-op
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Synthesize results from indicators and community based monitoring.
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Co-op
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7. Going International
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Action Item
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Lead
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Hold scoping meetings in Alaskan communities with Canadian participation
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USF+WS
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Provide list of participants for next gathering. Include Kaktovik
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USF+WS
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Continue to integrate information sources and indicator data from Alaska
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USF+WS
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Develop additional map products with Canada/Alaska - terrestrial and marine
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USF+WS
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