AMAP National Implementation Plan documents

AMAP, 2011. Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA): Climate Change and the Cryosphere. Arctic Monitoringand Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. xii + 538 pp.

AMAP, 2011. Combined Effects of Selected Pollutants and Climate Change in the Arctic Environment.By: R. Kallenborn, K. Borgå, J.H. Christensen, M. Dowdall, A. Evenset, J.Ø. Odland, A. Ruus, K. Aspmo Pfaffhuber,J. Pawlak, and L.-O. Reiersen. AMAP Technical Report No. 5 (2011). Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo. 108 pp.
TechRep5-SEC.pdf

Minutes of the 25th Meeting of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Working Group,Moscow, Russia, 3-5 October 2011. AMAP Report 2011:3
AMAP WG 25 Minutes Final Version 15 December 2011.pdf

AMAP, 2011. AMAP Assessment 2011: Mercury in the Arctic. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. xiv+193
86253_mercury_LO_FINAL-SEC.pdf

Individual chapter files for:AMAP, 2011. AMAP Assessment 2011: Mercury in the Arctic. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. xiv+193

AMAP, 2011. The Impact of Black Carbon on Arctic Climate (2011). By: P.K. Quinn, A. Stohl, A. Arneth,T. Berntsen, J. F. Burkhart, J. Christensen, M. Flanner, K. Kupiainen, H. Lihavainen, M. Shepherd, V. Shevchenko,H. Skov, and V. Vestreng. AMAP Technical Report No. 4 (2011). Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo. 72 pp.
89439_impact of black carbon_LO_FINAL.pdf

Mercury handout. Based on AMAP 2011 mercury assessment results. Produced for INC-2 meeting, January 2011.
Mercury Handout final low res.pdf

Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts. Report of the UNEP/AMAP Expert Group. 62pp.
POPs_def_10feb-S.pdf

Minutes of the 24th Meeting of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Working Group,Tromsø, Norway, 19-21 January 2011. AMAP Report 2011:1
Final Minutes of 24th AMAP WG meeting.pdf

AMAP Strategic Framework 2010+. AMAP Report 2010:8
AMAP Strategic Framework 2010 - all.pdf

External Review of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme Strategy. AMAP Report 2010:7
AMAP External Review 2010 - all.pdf

AMAP, 2009. AMAP Assessment 2009: Radioactivity in the Arctic. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. xii+92
Amap_Radioactivity2009.pdf

AMAP Assessment 2009 - Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the Arctic. Science of the Total Environment Special Issue. 408:2851-3051. Elsevier, 2010.

Updating Historical Global Inventories of Anthropogenic Mercury Emissions to Air. S. Wilson, J. Munthe, K. Sundseth, K. Kindbom, P. Maxson, J. Pacyna and F. Steenhuisen. AMAP Technical Report No. 3 (2010)
AMAP Technical Report 3-2010 - Historical Mercury Inventories.pdf

Progress Report from the AMAP Board to the SAO Meeting in Ilulissat, Greenland, 28-29 April 2010.
AMAP Progress Report to SAOs April 2010 Revised Final Version 26 March 2010.pdf

Minutes of the 23rd Meeting of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Working Group,San Francisco, USA, 11-12 February 2010. AMAP Report 2010:2
Minutes of the 23rd AMAP WG Meeting Revised Final.pdf

Sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change.A. DAVID MCGUIRE, LEIF G. ANDERSON, TORBEN R. CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT DALLIMORE, LAODONG GUO, DANIEL J. HAYES, MARTIN HEIMANN, THOMAS D. LORENSON, ROBIE W. MACDONALD,AND NIGEL ROULETEcological Monographs, 79(4), 2009, pp. 523–555
McGuire-Arctic_C_Cycle_Review-EcologicalMonographs_2009-laser_reprint.pdf

Minutes of the Joint Meeting of AMAP Heads of Delegation (HoDs) and the Assessment Steering Group (ASG)Helsinki, Finland, 2–4 June 2009. AMAP Report 2009:5
Final Minutes of the HODs meeting June 2009-Rev.pdf

AMAP, 2009. AMAP Assessment 2009: Human Health in the Arctic. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. xiv+256 pp.- THIS VERSON CONTAINS CORRECTED ANNEX PAGES 101-104
HH2009Sci.pdf

AMAP, 2009. Arctic Pollution 2009 (POPs, Human Health, Radioactivity). Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. xi+83 pp. (with DDE graphic error on page 44 corrected)
SOAER_2009.pdf

AMAP, 2009. AMAP 2009 Update on Selected Climate Issues of Concern (Observations, Short-lived Climate Forcers, Arctic Carbon Cycle, Predictive Capability). Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. v+15 pp.
Climate_Update_2009.pdf

Progress Report from the AMAP Board to the SAO Meeting in Tromso, Norway, 28-29 April 2009. AMAP Report 2009:1
AMAP Progress Report to SAOs April 2009.pdf

Final report of the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) Initiating Group (SAON-IG). January 2009.
SAON Report final.pdf

AMAP/UNEP, 2008. Technical Background Report to the Global Atmospheric Mercury Assessment. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme / UNEP Chemicals Branch. 159 pp.
http://www.chem.unep.ch/mercury/Atmospheric_Emissions/Technical_background_report.pdf

Minutes of the 22nd Meeting of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Working Group,Quebec City, Canada, 7-10 December 2008. AMAP Report 2008:5
Final Minutes AMAP WG22 meeting.pdf

AMAP background documents for work on non-CO2 drivers of Arctic climate change

Technical Report on the Survey of the Current State of the Areas of Decommissioned Military Bases of the Ministry of Defense on Hoffman, Graham Bell and Alexandra Islands of Franz Josef Land Archipelago. AMAP/NEFCO/PF Report, Moscow, 2008.
FJL Report_En.pdf

Part B: last updated 15 January 2009
SWIPA Description - Version 15 January 2009.doc

Minutes of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Heads of Delegation meeting, Oslo, Norway, 20-22 May 2008. Including: Minutes of the AMAP ASG (19 May) and Minutes of the Joint AMAP-SDWG WG (21 May). AMAP Report 2008:1
Final Minutes of the AMAP HODs Meeting May 2008.pdf

Final Report of Phase I of the ACAP Project on Brominated Flame Retardants (BFRs)Phase I: Inventory of sources and identification of BFR alternatives and management strategies. AMAP Report 2007:6
BFR-FINAL Final.pdf

Minutes of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Heads of Delegation meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, 17-20 September 2007. Including: Minutes of the AMAP CEG (17-19 September) and Minutes of the Joint AMAP-CAFF WG (18 September). AMAP Report 2007:5
Final Minutes of AMAP HoD Copenhagen September 2007 Version 29 February 2008.pdf

Final Report of the Workshop on Adaptation of Climate Scenarios toArctic Climate Impact Assessments,Oslo, May 14-16, 2007. AMAP Report 2007:4
Downscalling Final Report Version 27 February 2008.pdf

AMAP Downscaling Workshop, Oslo, Norway, May 14-16 2007 - Presentations

Dietary transition and contaminants in the Arctic: Emphasis on Greenland. Jens C. Hansen, Bente Deutch, Jon Øyvind Odland. Circumpolar Health Supplements 20082
Hansen-Deutch-Odland - Arctic-Greenland dietary transition - CHS 2008-2.pdf

Report of the AMAP Workshop on Statistical Analysis of Temporal Trends ofMercury in Biota, Stockholm, 30 October - 2 November 2006. AMAP Report 2007:3.
Final Report.pdf

Progress Report from the AMAP Board to the SAO Meeting in Tromso, Norway, 12-13 April 2007. AMAP Report 2007:2
AMAP Prog Rep SAO-Apr07.pdf

Minutes of the 21st Meeting of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Working Group,Hanover, NH, USA, 12-14 March 2007. AMAP Report 2007:1
FINAL Minutes AMAP WG 21.pdf

State of the Arctic (Climate) - NOAA ACIA Follow-up Report, October 2006
NOAA - Climate - State of Arctic Report 11-15-06.pdf

AMAP, 2006. AMAP Assessment 2006: Acidifying Pollutants, Arctic Haze and Acidification in the Arctic. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway.

AMAP, 2006. Arctic Pollution 2006 (Acidification and Arctic Haze). Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. viii+28 pp.
AAHA_overview_FINAL_071106_LOW.pdf

Report of the Arctic Council Focal Point (FP) for ACIA Follow-up Activities - Presented to Senior Arctic Officials (SAOs) of the Arctic Council - 23 October 2006 Salekhard, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation
FINAL FP Report to SAOs_w_Annexes_October 2006.pdf

AMAP Progress Report to the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting. Salekhard, Russia, 26 October 2006. AMAP Report 2006:3
AMAP Prog Rep Min-Oct06.pdf

Minutes of the 20th Meeting of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Working Group,Stockholm, Sweden28-30 June 2006. AMAP Report 2006:2
FINAL Minutes - AMAP WG 20.pdf

Minutes AMAP Heads of Delegation MeetingCopenhagen, Denmark5-6 April 2006. AMAP Report 2006:1
AMAP HOD Meeting report Copenhagen final.pdf

Summary of Meeting of AMAP Climate Expert GroupFebruary 15-16, 2006Oslo, Norway
CEG-Meeting_Report Final Version 20 March 2006.pdf

Persistent Toxic Substances (PTS), FoodSecurity and Indigenous Peoplesof the Russian North - Report on the Dissemination of Results by the Northwestern Public Health Research Center- St. Petersburg, October, 2005
PTS Dissemination final report Nov 05.pdf

Minutes of the Nineteenth Meeting of the AMAP Working Group. St Petersburg, Russia, 12, 13, 16 September, 2005. AMAP Report 2005:5
Minutes of the 19th AMAP WG Meeting - Final.pdf

AMAP Workshop on Follow-up of ACIA. June 15–17, 2005, Oslo, Norway. AMAP Report 2005:3
ACIA workshop report - FINAL.pdf

Abstracts of Presentation at the International Workshop on Climate Changes and International Polar Year 2007/2008 in the Russian Arctic, held in connection with the Release of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Overview Report in Russian, 30 March – 1 April 2005, Arctic & Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
ACIA_SPb_Abstracts.pdf

Progress Report from the AMAP Board to the SAO Meeting in Yakutsk, Russia, 6-7 April 2005. AMAP Report 2005:2
AMAP Prog Rep SAO-Apr05.pdf

Minutes of the AMAP Extended Board Meeting. Helsinki, Finland. 17-18 February 2005. AMAP Report 2005:1
AMAP Extended Board Meeting Minutes Helsinki Mar 2005.pdf

AMAP, 2004. AMAP Assessment 2002: Heavy Metals in the Arctic. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway.

The AMAP Strategic Plan 2004+. AMAP Report 2004:5
AMAP Strategic Plan 2004 plus.pdf

Minutes of the AMAP Extended Board Meeting. Reykjavik, Iceland. 9 November 2004.
Minutes of the AMAP Extended Board Meeting - Iceland - November 2004.doc

ACIA, 2005 Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. Cambridge University Press, 1042p

The ACIA International Scientific Symposium on Climate Change in the Arctic - Extended Abstracts. Reykjavik, Iceland. 9-12 November 2004. AMAP Report 2004:4

ACIA Overview Reports

Persistent Toxic Substances, Food Security and Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North. Final Report. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, 2004. 192 p. AMAP Report 2004:2

AMAP, 2004. AMAP Assessment 2002: Radioactivity in the Arctic. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. xi+100 pp.

AMAP, 2004. AMAP Assessment 2002: Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the Arctic. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. xvi+310 pp.

Minutes of the Eighteenth Meeting of the AMAP Working Group. Oslo, Norway, 14-16 April, 2004 (including Annex 7: Minutes of the Third Joint Meeting between AMAP and CAFF. Oslo, Norway, 15-16 April, 2004). AMAP Report 2004:1
Minutes of the 18th AMAP WG and 3rd Joint AMAP-CAFF meetings.pdf

Final Report of Activity 6 of the AMAP/RAIPON/GEF Project: Persistent Toxic Substances, Food Security and Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North. AMAP Report 2003:5
Activity 6 - PTS_in_blood_Final_report_text_e.pdf

Progress Report from the AMAP Board to the SAO Meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, 23-24 October 2003.
AMAP_Prog_Rep_SAO-Oct03.pdf

Updating of Environmental 'Hot Spots' List in the Russian Part of the Barents Region: Proposal for Environmentally Sound Investment Projects. AMAP-NEFCO. AMAP Report 2003:2 - Russian language version
AMAP-NEFCO-HotSpots-Russian.pdf

Updating of Environmental 'Hot Spots' List in the Russian Part of the Barents Region: Proposal for Environmentally Sound Investment Projects. AMAP-NEFCO. AMAP Report 2003:2
AMAP-NEFCO-HotSpots.pdf

Minutes of the Seventeenth Meeting of the AMAP Working Group. Boulder, Co., USA. 12-14 May, 2003. AMAP Report 2003:1
WG17-min.pdf

Report from the AMAP Conference and Workshop: Impacts of POPs and Mercury on Arctic Environments and Humans. Tromsø, 20-24 January, 2003. Norsk Polarinstitutt INTERNRAPPORTNr. 12 - Tromsø 2003
Rapport__pdf.pdf

AMAP, 2003. AMAP Assessment 2002: The Influence of Global Change on Contaminant Pathways to, within, and from the Arctic. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. xi+65 pp.

AMAP, 2003. AMAP Assessment 2002: Human Health in the Arctic. Arctic Monitoring and Assesment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. xiii+137 pp.

Second AMAP International Symposium - Environmental Pollution of the Arctic. Rovaniemi, Finland. 1-4 October 2002. AMAP Report 2002:2

AMAP Progress Report to the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting. Inari, Finland, 9-10 October 2002. AMAP Report 2002:14
AMAP_Progress_Report_to_the_2002_Ivalo_Ministerial_meeting.pdf

Progress Report from the AMAP Board to the SAO Meeting in Oulu, Finland, 15-16 May 2002. AMAP Report 2002:12
AMAP_Prog_Rep_SAO-May02.pdf

AMAP, 2002. Arctic Pollution 2002: Persistent Organic Polluatants, Heavy Metals, Radioactivity, Human Health, Changing Pathways. Arctic monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. xii+112 pp.

Summary Report on the 9th (ACIA) Assessment Steering Committee (ASC) Meeting. Asker, Norway, 2-5 June 2002.
http://www.acia.uaf.edu/PDFs/ASC-9.pdf

Minutes of the Sixteenth Meeting of the AMAP Working Group. Torshavn, Faroe Islands. 30 April-3 May 2002. AMAP Report 2002:1
wg16-min.pdf

Summary Report on the 8th (ACIA) Assessment Steering Committee (ASC) Meeting. Ottawa, Canada, 3-5 December 2001.
http://www.acia.uaf.edu/PDFs/ACIA_Ottawa_Minutes.pdf

Operating Guidelines for AMAP - approved by SAOs at their meeting in November 2001
AMAP_Operating_Guidelines.pdf

Minutes of the Second Joint Meeting between AMAP and CAFF. Stockholm, Sweden. 31 August 2001.
amap-caff2.PDF

Minutes of the Fifteenth Meeting of the AMAP Working Group, and the Fourth Meeting of the Assessment Steering Group II (ASG-II)/Cross-Fertilization Meeting (see Annex 1). Stockholm, Sweden. 27-30 August, 2001. AMAP Report 2001:2
wg15-min.pdf

Progress Report from the AMAP Board to the SAO Meeting in Rovaniemi, Finland, 12-13 June 2001.
AMAP_Prog_Rep_SAO-Jun01.pdf

Proceedings of the Workshop on Trends and Effects of Heavy Metals in the Arctic. McLean, USA, 18-22 June 2001. AMAP Report 2001:3
McLeanProc.pdf

Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) Implementation Plan (version 3.7)
ACIA37.PDF

Guidelines for the AMAP Phase 2 Assessments. AMAP Report 2001:1
assess-gl.pdf

Summary Report on the 7th (ACIA) Assessment Steering Committee (ASC) Meeting. Reykjavik, Iceland, 19-20 April 2001.
http://www.acia.uaf.edu/PDFs/ASC-7.pdf

Report of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) Modelling and Scenarios Workshop. Stockholm, Sweden, 29-31 January 2001.
http://acia.uaf.edu/PDFs/Stockholm_final.pdf

Minutes of the Third Meeting of the Assessment Steering Group II (ASG-II). Reykjavik, Iceland, 1-3 November 2000.
asg2-3.pdf

Summary Report on the 6th (ACIA) Assessment Steering Committee (ASC) Meeting. Seattle, USA, 15-18 October 2000.
http://www.acia.uaf.edu/PDFs/ASC-6-rev.pdf

Minutes of the Fourteenth Meeting of the AMAP Working Group. Trondheim, Norway. 5-6 September 2000. AMAP Report 2000:7
wg14-min.pdf

Minutes of the Joint Meeting between AMAP and CAFF regarding ACIA. Trondheim, Norway. 4 September 2000.
amapcaffacia.PDF

Report of the Experts Meeting on Sampling and Analysis of Persistent Toxic Substances (PTS). St. Petersburg, Russia, 28 May - 1 June 2000. AMAP Report 2000:6
wspts-rep.pdf

AMAP Report to the Second Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council. Barrow, Alaska, 12-13 October 2000. AMAP Report 2000:5
mr-oct00.pdf

AMAP Report on Issues of Concern: Updated Information on Human Health, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Radioactivity, and Mercury in the Arctic. September 2000. AMAP Report 2000:4
up-sep00.pdf

Summary Report on the 5th (ACIA) Assessment Steering Committee (ASC) Meeting. Copenhagen, Denmark, 15-16 June 2000.
http://www.acia.uaf.edu/PDFs/ASC_meeting_report.pdf_1.pdf

Report on the 3rd Meeting of the Assessment Steering Committee (ASC) and a Scoping Workshop for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). Washington D.C., USA, 28 February - 1 March 2000.
asc3.pdf

Proceedings of the Workshop on Persistent Organic Pollutants(POPs) in the Arctic: Human Health and Environmental Concerns. Rovaniemi, Finland, 18-20 January 2000. AMAP Report 2000:1
wsphh-rep.pdf

Progress Report from the AMAP Board to the SAO Meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska, 27-28 April 2000.
pr-apr00.pdf

Report of the AMAP/US-EPA Workshop on Heavy Metals in the Arctic. Anchorage, Alaska, 7-10 September 1999. AMAP Report 99:8
hmws-rep.pdf

The AMAP Trends and Effects Programme: 1998-2003. AMAP Report 99:7

The AMAP Strategic Plan: 1998 - 2003. AMAP Report 99:6
str-plan.pdf

Minutes of the Second Meeting of the Assessment Steering Group II (ASG-II). Toronto, Canada, 8-10 November 1999.
asg2-2.pdf

Minutes of the Thirteenth Meeting of the AMAP Working Group. Toronto, Canada. 10-12 November, 1999. AMAP Report 99:5
wg13-min.pdf

Report and Extended Abstracts of the Workshop on Modelling and Sources: A Workshop on Techniques and Associated Uncertainties in Quantifying the Origin and Long-Range Transport of Contaminants to the Arctic. Bergen, Norway, 14-16 June 1999. AMAP Report 99:4
wsmod-rep.pdf

Minutes of the 1st Meeting of the (ACIA) Assessment Steering Committee (ASC). Silver Spring, USA, 11 March 1999.
asc1.pdf

Minutes of the First Meeting of the Assessment Steering Group II (ASG-II). Silver Spring, USA, 8-10 March 1999.
asg2-1.pdf

Synopsis of the State of the Arctic Environment in the Context of the Development of an Arctic Council Action Plan for the Elimination of Pollution in the Arctic (ACAP). 1999. AMAP Report 99:3
synop-acap99.pdf

Minutes of the Twelfth Meeting of the AMAP Working Group. Helsinki, Finland. 7-9 December, 1998. AMAP Report 99:2
wg12-min.pdf

Report of the Workshop on Combined Effects in the Marine Environment. Copenhagen, Denmark, 16-17 November 1998. AMAP Report 99:1
ceme-rep.pdf

Progress Report from the AMAP Board to the SAO Meeting in Washington, D.C., 18-19 November 1999.
pr-nov99.pdf

Brief Synopsis of the State of the Arctic Marine Environment in the Context of the Development of a Regional Plan of Action to Protect the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities (RPA). June 1998. AMAP Report 98:4
synop-pame98.pdf

AMAP, 1998. AMAP Assessment Report: Arctic Pollution Issues. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. xii+859 pp.

AMAP, 1997. Arctic Pollution Issues: A State of the Arctic Environment Report. Arctic monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. xii+188 pp.

AMAP Report to the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO). Proposals for Environmentally Sound Investment Projects in the Russian part of the Barents Region. Volume 2: Radioactive contamination. AMAP, December 1995
AMAP - NEFCO Report Volume Two - Final Version December 1995.pdf

AMAP Report to the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO). Proposals for Environmentally Sound Investment Projects in the Russian part of the Barents Region. Volume 1: Non-radioactive contamination. AMAP, December 1995
AMAP - NEFCO Report Volume One - Final Version December 1995.pdf

Newsletter produced by the AMAP Human Health Expert Group

PIA statistical tool for analysing AMAP time trend datasets. Distribution package (v 1.0). 5 June 2007

Fact Sheets and Information Bulletins produced by AMAP on issues of concern

Fact Sheets produced by AMAP for the Arctic Council's Action Plan to Eliminate Pollution in the Arctic (ACAP), summarising Ministerial Decisions upto 2000 that related to AMAP advice

Multilateral Cooperative Project on the Phase-out of PCB Use, and Management of PCB-contaminated Wastes in the Russian Federation. A Project of the Arctic Council's Action Plan to Eliminate Pollution in the Arctic (ACAP)

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