Working Group 6: Subarctic Gyre
  • Acronym: WG 6
  • Parent Committee: SB
  • Term: Oct. 1992 - Oct. 1994
  • Co-Chairs:
    Brent Hargreaves (Canada)
    Takashige Sugimoto (Japan)
Terms of Reference
  1. Review the existing level of description of ocean circulation and climate variability in the subarctic North Pacific and identify gaps in knowledge;
  2. Review the present level of knowledge of the important processes determining ocean circulation in the subarctic North Pacific and identify gaps in knowledge;
  3. Review existing information on the biomass of major trophic levels, and distribution of the dominant species within each level;
  4. Review existing information on the carrying capacity for salmon and other nektonic species in the subarctic, and what is known about variations in the carrying capacity of this region in response to climate change. Advise on how changes in carrying capacity could be quantified;
  5. Review existing level of knowledge of the processes affecting primary and secondary production in this region and identify information gaps. Advise on how these gaps could be studied;
  6. dentify key scientific questions, and propose collaborative programs which can be conducted to advance knowledge and test major hypotheses;
  7. Determine relationship to GLOBEC. Advise which PICES and GLOBEC objectives could be linked.
Products
Annual Meetings

Reports

1994, 1993

PICES Scientific Report
PICES Sci. Rep. No. 1, 1993
Part 2: Subarctic Gyre
Members
Kenneth I. Denman
Ocean Physics Division
Institute of Ocean Sciences
P.O. Box 6000,
Sidney, B,C.,
Canada. V8L 4B2
Brent Hargreaves
Recruitment Assessment Section
Pacific Biological Station
Hammon Bay Road,
Nanaimo, B.C.,
Canada. V9R 5K6
Michael A. Henderson
Production Assessment Section, Salmon Division
Fisheries Branch Regional Headquarters
555 West Hastings Street,
Vancouver, B.C.,
Canada. V6B 5G3
David Mackas
Ocean Environment and Fisheries
Institue of Ocean Sciences
P.O. Box 6000,
Sidney, B.C.,
Canada. V8L 4B2
David Welch
Production Assessment Section
Pacific Biological Station
Hammond Bay Road,
Nanaimo, B.C.,
Canada. V9R 5K6
Kimio Hanawa
Department of Geophysics
Graduate School of Science
Tohoku University
Sendai,
Japan. 980-77
Yukimasa Ishida
Salmon Management Section
North Pacific Rsources Division
National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries
5-chome, Orido,
Shimizu, Shizuoka-ken,
Japan. 424
Kenji Shimazaki
Japan
Yasuhiro Sugimori
Tokai University
3-20-1 Orido,
Shimizu, Shizoka-ken,
Japan. 424
Takashige Sugimoto
Ocean Research Institute
University of Tokyo
1-15-1 Minamidai,
Nakano-ku, Tokyo,
Japan. 164
Akira Taniguchi
Faculty of Agriculture
Tohoku University
Aoba-ku,
Sendai, Miyagi-ken,
Japan. 981
Takashi Yoshida
Marine Department
Japan Meteorological Agency
Otemachi 1-3-4,
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo,
Japan.
Dun-Xin Hu
Institute of Oceanology
7 Nanhai Road,
Qingdao, Shandong,
People’s Republic of China. 266071
Douglas M. Eggers
Division of Commerical Fisheries
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
P.O. Box 25526,
Juneau, AK 99802-5526
U.S.A.
Bruce W. Frost
School of Oceanography, WB-10
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-6000
U.S.A.
Anne B Hollowed
Resource Ecology and Fishery Management
Alaska Fisheries Science Center
National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA
7600 Sand Point Way NE,
Seattle, WA 98115-0070
U.S.A.
William Pearcy
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Science
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97370
U.S.A.
Thomas C. Royer
Institute of Marine Science
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-1080
U.S.A.
James D. Schumacher
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA
7600 Sand Point Way NE,
Seattle, WA 98115-0070
U.S.A.