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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