Speaker: Greta Ferloni, Durham University, UK

In 2022, Greta spent six months at IARC, analyzing ship data from the Arctic Council’s PAME ASTD dataset as part of her PhD. Greta’s work led to the development of an automated standalone open-source Python script to clean and process AIS data from the PAME database.

Using this data, findings indicate that vessel traffic has been increasing in the Bering Strait region. Importantly, vessel activity in higher sea-ice concentrations is increasing at a greater rate than vessel activity in areas of open water. Roughly one third of the increased pack-ice traffic is attributable to icebreakers along the Russian coast.

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