The Marine Mammal Expert Network is building on the work done for the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment and the key findings and advice from the State of the Arctic’s Marine Biodiversity Report (SAMBR) and providing data to the Arctic Biodiversity Data Service (ABDS).

Current activities in the previous year have included updates to population status and trends information from the 2017 SAMBR (Chapter 3) and developing an interactive map of Passive Acoustic Monitoring sites, including metadata on who owns the instruments, deployment period, recording settings: Pan-Arctic Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM).

Members

Canada	Steve Ferguson, Garry Stenson and Cory Matthews Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Faroe Islands	Bjarni Mikkelsen Museum of Natural History
Greenland	Fernando Ugarte, Kristin Laidre and Rikke Guldborg Hansen Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
Norway	Kit Kovacs* and Dag Vongraven   Norwegian Polar Institute
Russia	Stanislav Belikov All Russian Research Institute for Nature Protection
U.S.A.*	Peter Boveng1 and Peter Thomas2 1NOAA  2Marine Mammal Commission
IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group	IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group
	Geneviève Desportes North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission

 * indicates current lead(s)