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The Last Ice Area: Thinning Ice, Growing Responsibility
Published in Earth & Environment and Sustainability
Jan 31, 2025
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Fol, M., Tremblay, B., Pfirman, S., Newton, R., Howell, S., & Lemieux, J. F. (2025). Revisiting the Last Ice Area projections from a high-resolution Global Earth System Model. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), 46.
St-Denis, F., Tremblay, L. B., Mahoney, A. R., & Takata-Glushkoff, K. P. L. (2024). Coastal Sea Ice Concentration Derived from Marine Radar Images: A Case Study from Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Remote Sensing, 16(18), 3357.
York, A., Petrov, A. N., Sharakhmatova, V. N., Degai, T., Mack, L., Metcalf, V., Sulyandziga, R., Topkok S.A., & Zdor, E. (2024). Arctic communities in the face of change: Resilience, governance, and well-being. In North Pacific Perspectives On The Arctic (pp. 72-95). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Sharakhmatova, V. N., & Mikhailova, E. G. (2024). Human Capital Assessment in Indigenous Regions to Enable Sustainable Futures. Sustainability, 16(23), 10479.
Decuypere, M., Tremblay, B., & Dufour, C. (2021). Impact of ocean heat transport on the natural and forced variability of Arctic sea-ice in the GFDL CM2-O model suite.
Pfirman, S., Fondahl, G., Hovelsrud, G. K., & Mustonen, T. (2023). Shaping Tomorrow’s Arctic. Sustainability 2023, 15, 3732. Shaping Tomorrow’s Arctic, 1.
Schlosser, P., Eicken, H., Metcalf, V., Pfirman, S., Murray, M. S., & Edwards, C. (2022). The Arctic highlights our failure to act in a rapidly changing world. Sustainability, 14(3), 1882
Newton, R., Pfirman, S., Tremblay, L. B., & DeRepentigny, P. (2021). Defining the “ice shed” of the Arctic Ocean's Last Ice Area and its future evolution. Earth's Future, 9(9), e2021EF001988.
Degai, T. S., & Petrov, A. N. (2021). Rethinking Arctic sustainable development agenda through indigenizing UN sustainable development goals. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 1-6.
Desmarais, A., & Tremblay, L. B. (2021). Assessment of Decadal Variability in Sea Ice in the Community Earth System Model against a Long-Term Regional Observational Record: Implications for the Predictability of an Ice-Free Arctic. Journal of Climate, 34(13), 5367-5384.
Kim, R., Tremblay, L. B., Brunette, C., & Newton, R. (2021). A Regional Seasonal Forecast Model of Arctic Minimum Sea Ice Extent: Reflected Solar Radiation versus Late Winter Coastal Divergence. Journal of Climate, 34(15), 6097-6113.
Lavoie, J., Tremblay, B., & Rosenblum, E. (2021). Canada Basin hydrography in the CESM-LE and observations: implications for vertical ocean heat transport in a transitioning sea ice cover. Earth and Space Science Open Archive ESSOAr.
Lenetsky, J. E., L. B. Tremblay, C. Brunette and G. Meneghello (2021) Sub-Seasonal predictability of Arctic Ocean sea ice conditions: Bering Strait and Ekman-driven Ocean Heat Transport, Journal of Climate, 26 Feb 2021, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0544.1
O'Garra, T., D. Reckien, S. Pfirman, E. Bachrach Simon, G. A. Bachman, J. Brunacini, and J. J. Lee. ( 2021). Impact of gameplay vs. reading on mental models of social-ecological systems: a fuzzy cognitive mapping approach. Ecology and Society 26(2):25. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12425-260225
Pfirman, S., O’Garra, T., Bachrach Simon, E., Brunacini, J., Reckien, D., Lee, J. J., & Lukasiewicz, E. (2021). “Stickier” learning through gameplay: An effective approach to climate change education. Journal of Geoscience Education, 69(2), 192-206.
York, A. M., E. Zdor, S. BurnSilver, T. Degai, M. Monakhova, S. Isakova, A. N. Petrov, and M. Kempf. (2022) Institutional navigation of oceans governance: Lessons from Russia and the United States Indigenous multi-level whaling governance in the Arctic. Earth System Governance, 14, 100154.
York, A. M., Otten, C. D., BurnSilver, S., Neuberg, S. L., & Anderies, J. M. (2021). Integrating institutional approaches and decision science to address climate change: a multi-level collective action research agenda. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 52, 19-26.