SE L E C T E D I NT E R NE T R E SOUR C E S
Compiled by Judith A. Ellis
Conference PowerPoint Presentations (2009)
Balton, David http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Balton-arctic-fisheries.pdf
Bankes, Nigel http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Bankes-polar-bears-rev.pdf
Brigham, Lawson http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Brigham-AMSA.pdf
Churchill, Robin http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Churchill-Svalbard.pdf
Hayes, Margaret http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Hayes_continental_shelf.pdf
Huebert, Rob http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Huebert-cooperation.pdf
Jeffers, Jennifer http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Jeffers-biodiversity-rev.pdf
Kraska, James http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Kraska-arctic-security.pdf
Macko, Stephen http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Macko-arctic-change.pdf
Macnab, Ron http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Macnab-outer-c.s.pdf
Mayer, Larry http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Mayer-seafloor-mapping.pdf
McMahon, James http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/McMahon-USCG.pdf
Pierce, Brenda http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Pierce-undiscovered-oil.pdf
Ridgeway, Lori http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Ridgeway-arctic-fisheries.pdf
Skaridov, Alexander (NSR)
http://www.virginia.edu/colp/images/Skarikov-No.Sea-Route.swf
Skaridov, Alexander (Russian CS)
http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Skaridov-arctic-strategy.pdf
Slaiby, Peter http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Slaiby-oil-and-gas.pdf
Ulfstein, Geir http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Ulfstein-Svalbard.pdf
Van Pay, Brian http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Van_Pay-Arctic-Claims.pdf
Winkler, Thomas http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Winkler-Danish-interests.pdf
Zolotukhin, Anatoly http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Zolotukhin-Russias-polar-oil.pdf
Biographies of the Conference Moderators and Speakers
available at http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Seward-speaker-bios.pdf
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Selected Internet Resources
MAPS: Arctic
Arctic Map
http://www.athropolis.com/map2.htm
Arctic Map—What is the Arctic?
http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/basics/arctic_definition.html
Arctic Circle Map
http://www.world-maps.co.uk/continent-map-of-arctic-circle.htm
Arctic Ocean Map and Bathymetric Chart
http://geology.com/world/arctic-ocean-map.shtml
International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO)
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/arctic/arctic.html
Northern Sea Route & Northwest Passage Compared with Current Routes
http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/northern-sea-route-and-the-northwest-passagecompared-with-currently-used-shipping-routes
Northwest Passage Maps
http://www.athropolis.com/map9.htm
MAPS: Various
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping Joint Hydrographic Center (UNH): Law
of the Sea Mapping Program
http://ccom.unh.edu/index.php?p=49|54&page=law_of_the_sea.php
Exclusive Economic Zones (Google Earth)
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showthreaded&Number=69395
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Global Oceanic Boundaries (Google Earth)
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=670085
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Selected Internet Resources
THE ARCTIC
Alaska Fisheries Science Center
www.afsc.noaa.gov
Arctic Chronicles (USGS): UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/arctic/2009/08/14/the-un-convention-on-the-law-ofthe-sea/
Arctic Climatology and Meteorology (National Snow and Ice Data Center)
http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/basics/arctic_climate.html
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (published 2005)
http://www.acia.uaf.edu/pages/scientific.html
http://www.amap.no/acia/index.html
Arctic Council
http://arcticportal.org/en/arctic-council2
Arctic Focus website
http://arcticfocus.com/
Arctic Mapping and the Law of the Sea
http://arctic-healy-baker-2008.blogspot.com/
Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment
http://arcticportal.org/pame/amsa
http://arctic-council.org/filearchive/amsa2009report.pdf
Arctic Ocean (United Nations)
http://www.un.org/Depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/arctic_ocean.htm
Arctic Ocean (Encyclopedia of Earth)
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Arctic_Ocean
Arctic Ocean Diversity Program (Biodiversity)
http://www.arcodiv.org/
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Selected Internet Resources
Arctic Offshore Oil and Gas Guidelines (Arctic Council 2009)
http://arcticcouncil.org/filearchive/Arctic%20Offhsore%20Oil%20and%20Gas%20Guidelin
es%202009.pdf
Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis (National Snow and Ice Data Center)
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Arctic Symposium (Vanderbilt Univ. Law School, Feb. 2009)
http://law.vanderbilt.edu/publications/journal-of-transnationallaw/symposium/artcic-symposium-feb-6-2009/index.aspx
Berkman, Paul Arthur & Oran Young, “Governance and Environmental Change
in the Arctic Ocean,” Science, Vol. 324, 17 April 2009
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/324/5925/339
Borgerson, Scott, “Arctic Meltdown: The Economic and Security Implications of
Global Warming,” Foreign Affairs March/April 2008
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/63222/scott-g-borgerson/arctic-meltdown
Brigham, Lawson, “Arctic Shipping Scenarios and Coastal State Challenges,”
WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs, Vol. 7 (2008), No. 2, pages 477-484
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/wmu/wmujma/2008/00000007/0000000
2/art00006
Brigham, Lawson, “Thinking About the Arctic’s Future: Scenarios for 2040,”
The Futurist, September-October 2007
http://www.crrc.unh.edu/workshops/arctic_spill_summit/arctic_scenarios_09_07.
pdf
Byers, Michael, “Who Owns the Arctic?”
http://byers.typepad.com/arctic/law-of-the-sea/
Catlin Arctic Survey
http://www.catlinarcticsurvey.com/
Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal
http://energy.usgs.gov/arctic/
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Selected Internet Resources
Extreme Ice Survey
http://www.extremeicesurvey.org/
“Extreme Ice” March 2009 PBS program on the melting Arctic glaciers
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/extremeice/program.html
Global Implications of a Warming Arctic: Roundtable before the Committee on
Foreign Relations, United States Senate, May 5, 2009 (video)
http://www.senate.gov/fplayers/CommPlayer/commFlashPlayer.cfm?fn=foreign0
50509&st=435
Guidelines for Ships Operating in Arctic Ice-Covered Waters (12/2302)
http://www.imo.org/includes/blastDataOnly.asp/data_id%3D6629/1056-MEPCCirc399.pdf
Ilulissat Declaration (5/29/09)
http://www.oceanlaw.org/downloads/arctic/Ilulissat_Declaration.pdf
Impact of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations: STAR
(Center for Satellite Applications & Research) 2nd Symposium, July 2007
http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/star/IceSymposium.php
Initial Estimate of the Cost of Lost Climate Regulation Services Due to Changes
in the Arctic Cryosphere. [Pew Trust report by Goodstein, Huntington, and
Euskirchen, 2/5/10].
http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/Reports/Protecting_o
cean_life/Cost%20of%20Warming%20ArcticFINAL%202%205%2010.pdf?n=4808
INSTARR – Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
http://instaar.colorado.edu/index.html
Linacre & Geerts, “The Arctic: the ocean, sea ice, icebergs, and climate” (1998)
http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap17/arctic.html
Macab, Ron, “Submarine Elevations and Ridges: Wild Cards in the Poker Game
of UNCLOS Article 76,” in Ocean Development & International Law, Vol. 39,
Issue 2, April 2008, pages 223-234
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/00908320
802013792
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Selected Internet Resources
Maritime Doctrine of Russian Federation, 27 July 2001
http://www.oceanlaw.org/downloads/arctic/Russian_Maritime_Policy_2020.pdf
Mayer, Larry, A. Armstrong and J. Gardner, “Mapping in the Arctic Ocean in
Support of a Potential Extended Continental Shelf”
http://ccom.unh.edu/publications/Mayer_09_USHYDRO_Mapping_in_Arctic_in
_support_of_potential_ecs.pdf
National Ice Center (NOAA)
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/
National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD 66) and Homeland Security
Presidential Directive (HSPD 25) [Bush, Jan. 9, 2009] U.S. Arctic Region Policy
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-66.htm
Nuclear Wastes in the Arctic: An Analysis of Arctic and Other Regional Impacts
from Soviet Nuclear Contamination (1995)
http://www.fas.org/ota/reports/9504.pdf
Open Passage Expedition, summer 2009
http://www.openpassageexpedition.com/index.html
Opening the Arctic Seas – Conference, 2008, UNH
http://www.crrc.unh.edu/workshops/arctic_spill_summit/index.htm
Radiological Assessment: Waste Disposal in the Arctic Seas (IAEA)
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull391/specialreport.html
Senior Arctic Official Report to Ministers (April 2009)
http://arcticcouncil.org/filearchive/FINAL%20SAO%20Report%20to%20Ministers%20Apri
l%202009.pdf
S.J. Resolution 17 (Arctic Fisheries): agreement for managing migratory and
transboundary fish stocks in the Arctic Ocean. Signed by President Bush June 3,
2008: Became Public Law No: 110-243
http://www.glin.gov/view.action?glinID=207392
Svalbard Bibliography
http://www.svalbardrepublic.org/sv02bibl.htm
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Selected Internet Resources
Tromsø Declaration (4/29/09)
http://arctic-council.org/filearchive/Tromsoe%20Declaration-1..pdf
U.S. Arctic Research Commission
http://www.arctic.gov/
U.S. Navy Arctic Roadmap (2009)
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2009/11/us-navy-arcticroadmap-nov-2009.pdf
Who Owns the Arctic?
http://geology.com/articles/who-owns-the-arctic.shtml
ADDITIONAL KEY OCEANS LAW RESOURCES
Global Warming Art (charts, maps, etc.)
http://www.globalwarmingart.com/
Maritime Security Policy National Security Presidential Directive NSPD-41
(HSPD-13) Maritime Security Policy
http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/laws/gc_1217624446873.shtm
National Strategy for the Marine Transportation System (July 2008)
http://www.cmts.gov/nationalstrategy.pdf
National Strategy for the Marine Transportation System: Fact Sheet
http://www.cmts.gov/strategyfactsheet.htm
Resources on the International Maritime Security and ISPS Code (IMO)
http://www.imo.org/About/mainframe.asp?topic_id=551
Truver, Scott, “Lifeline of the Nation: the US Merchant Marine in the 21st
Century,” (December, 2007)
http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/US-Merchant-Marine-in-21st-Century.pdf
US National Strategy for Maritime Security, including the International Outreach
& Coordination Strategy; National Plan to Achieve Maritime Domain
Awareness; the Maritime Infrastructure Recovery Plan; the Maritime
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Selected Internet Resources
Transportation System Security Recommendations; Domestic Outreach Plan; and
the Maritime Commerce Security Plan
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/HSPD13_MaritimeSecurityStrategy.pdf
http://www.dhs.gov/xprevprot/programs/editorial_0608.shtm
US Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower
http://www.navy.mil/maritime/MaritimeStrategy.pdf
United States Northern Command
http://www.northcom.mil/
Materials and Documents for the Law of the Sea
Draft Cumulative Index to the multi-volume series United Nations Convention
on the Law of the Sea 1982: A Commentary, Myron H. Nordquist, Editor-inChief, (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1985-2002)
http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/UNCLOS-Commentary-draft-index.pdf
ITLOS 2003 Select Bibliography (PICT)
http://www.worldlii.org/int/other/PICTRes/2003/22.html
Documents and Reports:
(1) UNCLOS & Related Documents: Official text of the United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed at Montego Bay, Jamaica, on 10
December 1982, and the Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI of
the Convention, adopted by the UN General Assembly on 28 July 1994 [1982
Convention]; General Assembly Resolution 48/263 and Agreement relating to
the implementation of Part XI; Final Act of the Third UN Conference; List of
signatories; Resolution 2749 (XXV) on Principles Governing the Seabed and the
Ocean Floor, and the Subsoil Thereof, Beyond Limits of National Jurisdiction
(2) Fish Stocks Agreement: Agreement for the Implementation of the
Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10
December 1982 Relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling
Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks. A/Conf. 164/37, 8 Sept. 1995
[The UN Fish Stocks Agreement]; Statement of the Chairman, Satya N. Nandan;
and Final Act of the UN Conference on the Conservation and Management of
Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks
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(3) 2007 US Senate report on UNCLOS (Exec. Rpt. 110-9)
(4) Current List of Parties to the Convention and the Related Agreements
These above documents and reports as well as testimony, letters, and
writings/opinions
on
UNCLOS
are
available
at
http://www.virginia.edu/colp/los.html
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