The Arctic has undergone dramatic change during the past decade. The observed changes
include atmospheric sea-level pressure, wind fields, sea-ice drift, ice cover, length of melt …

The lack of integrated long‐term data on health, diseases, and toxicant effects in Arctic
marine mammals severely limits our ability to predict the effects of climate change on marine …

Arctic sea ice has changed dramatically, especially during the last decade and continued
declines in extent and thickness are expected for the decades to come. Some ice-associated …

Biologists have developed a wide range of morphological, biochemical and physiological
metrics to assess the health and, in particular, the energetic status of individual animals …

Evolutionary selection has refined the life histories of seven species (three cetacean
[narwhal, beluga, and bowhead whales], three pinniped [walrus, ringed, and bearded seals] …

Conservation of marine biodiversity in the Beaufort Sea demands that we understand what
individual organisms require of their physical and geochemical environments in order to …

Climate change is already being experienced in the Arctic with implications for ecosystems
and the communities that depend on them. This paper argues that an assessment of …

Climate change is already occurring in the Arctic and the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
recently concluded that future climate change could be devastating for Inuit. This paper …

Climate warming is predicted to reduce the extent of ice cover in the Arctic and, within the
Hudson Bay region, the annual ice may be significantly decreased or entirely lost in the …

Marine mammals face a large array of stressors, including loss of habitat, chemical and
noise pollution, and bycatch in fishing, which alone kills hundreds of thousands of marine …