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Progress Log
Minutes for Oct. 24, 2003
(Zheng absent)
Team Presentations
Team 1
- Need to know production strategy from team e
- Oil extracted from ANWR on market in 7-12 years
Team e
- Onshore/offshore considerations
- Seismic vibration of sea bottom
- Explore getting oil out of ground - decide on possibility of one small
footprint
- Look into offshore, directional drilling
- Transportation - oil, people and communications
- Kip: objective is to design most environmentally friendly strategy, not
the most economic
- Harvard talk: eskimos DO NOT favor offshore drilling
- Kip: Teamwork is good
Team 4
- Look at pre-human condition of ANWR
- Difficult to make connections between data and research
- Need to coordinate with other groups
- Liz: can you quanitfy environmental impact? No, since it's hard....
Team 5
- Characterize baseline of ecosystem
- Regional Climate: last three decades - significant global warming, more
vegitation, more hebivores
- Need "Macro-view"
- Goal: Integrate with other teams
Team 6
- Air, water and land migratory species
- Birds: 150 species migrate, some are relatively unaffected by oil, but
others nutrition is hurt
- Critical time period: August - early September, some species breed
exclusively during this time
- Land: takes months for bears to give birth (I think they meant to
reproduce in general), porcupine caribou abundant in 1002 area
- Water: 14 fresh water, 27 marine water, plus other mammals
- Alex: Can you quantify damage to species
- Kris: Right now we don't have quantity, we should implement tagging
observation system
- Kip: Sometimes data not available, make part of program to determine
quantification, consider where big gaps of knowledge are, make estimates,
and then fill those gaps
Team 7
- Molasses important
- Plant vegetation to re-colonize, vegetate land quickly (4-6 months)
- Some species hunted to extinction in area before 20th century, now being
re-introduced
- Global warming » current flow » some areas get more snowfall » longer
winters!
- Team 10: Experts » shorter winter » shorter drilling system
- Kip: Know your sources, Team 7 should be expelled, should admit data
doesn't exist
Team 8
- Costs and benefits of oil production/preservation of ANWR
- This Wednesday will meet with Team 10 in later part of class time in
Terrascope room
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