Arctic Council Working Group 
Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP)
The CBMP is an international network of monitoring professionals and organizations working to harmonize and integrate efforts to monitor Arctic biodiversity.
The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP) is an international network of scientists, governments, Indigenous organizations and conservation groups working to harmonize and integrate efforts to monitor the Arctic's living resources.
Our goal is to facilitate more rapid detection, communication, and response to the significant biodiversity-related trends and pressures affecting the circumpolar world.
The CBMP organizes its efforts around the major ecosystems of the Arctic: marine, freshwater, terrestrial and coastal. The CBMP works to leverage monitoring activities of networks and nations and establish international linkages to global biodiversity initiatives. The CBMP emphasizes data management (through the Arctic Biodiversity Data Service), capacity building, reporting, coordination and integration of Arctic monitoring, and communications, education and outreach.
The CBMP has been endorsed by the Arctic Council and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and is the official Arctic Biodiversity Observation Network of the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEOBON).
Chair
Experts
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Sunna Björk Ragnarsdóttir
CBMP Terrestrial Steering Group, Co-lead. CBMP Coastal Steering GroupIceland -
Lauren Culler
Observer representative, CBMP Terrestrial, Arthropod Expert NetworkUnited States Observer Organization -
Toke Thomas Høye
Observer representative, CBMP Terrestrial Group, Arthropod Expert NetworkKingdom of Denmark -
Michel Poulin
CBMP Marine- Sea Ice Biota Expert Network - Plankton Expert Network; ABA lead authorCanada -
Thomas Juul Pedersen
CBMP Marine Steering Group; CBMP Marine Sea Ice Biota Expert NetworkKingdom of Denmark -
Geneviève Desportes
Observer representative, CBMP Marine Mammals Expert NetworkObserver Organization -
Connie Lovejoy
CBMP Marine- Sea Ice Biota Expert Network, Plankton Expert Network; ABA lead authorCanada -
Mikhail Soloviev
CBMP Terrestrial Steering Group, Terrestrial Bird Expert NetworkRussian Federation
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Lead Working Groups
CAFFLead Arctic States & Permanent Participants
The Kingdom of DenmarkThe United States
Engaged observers
FranceGermany
Japan
The Netherlands
United Kingdom