PICES 17th Annual Meeting Information and Presentations

General Information

The North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) announces its Seventeenth Annual Meeting to be held October 23 – November 2, 2008, at the Kempinski Hotel in Dalian, People’s Republic of China. The meeting is hosted by the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), in coordination with the PICES Secretariat. Local arrangements are made by the National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center (NMEMC) of SOA.
Keynote Speaker: Fangli Qiao
  • Fangli Qiao (First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration)
    Wave-tide-circulation coupled model: To improve the forecasting ability for FUTURE

Session 1: Science Board Symposium
Beyond observations to achieving understanding and forecasting in a changing North Pacific: Forward to the FUTURE

  • Science Board Best Oral Presentation Award

     Emanuele Di Lorenzo North Pacific decadal variability in the future
Co-Convenors:
John E. Stein (SB), Michael J. Dagg (BIO), Gordon H. Kruse (FIS), Glen Jamieson (MEQ), Hiroya Sugisaki (MONITOR), Michael G. Foreman (POC), Bernard A. Megrey (TCODE), Harold P. Batchelder (CCCC), Michio J. Kishi (CCCC), Fangli Qiao (China), Sinjae Yoo (Korea) and Mikhail Stepanenko (Russia)

Invited speakers:
Icarus Allen (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK)
Lawrence C. Hamilton (University of New Hampshire, USA)
Paul J. Harrison (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Hiroaki Saito (Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan)
George Sugihara (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, USA)
Eitaro Wada (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)

FUTURE (Forecasting and Understanding Trends, Uncertainty and Responses of North Pacific Marine Ecosystems), the new Science Program undertaken by PICES member countries, has the broad goals of: (1) understanding the responses of marine ecosystems in the North Pacific to climate change and human activities at basin-wide and regional scales; (2) providing forecasts of what might be expected based on a current understanding of how nature works; and (3) communicating this information effectively to its members and to society in general. Past advances in understanding marine ecosystems in the North Pacific have been largely based either on the direct analysis of observations, or on the development of conceptual and numerical models that help to describe the processes underlying the observations. Though these activities will continue to play an important role in FUTURE, the provision of forecasts and estimates of their associated uncertainties necessitates moving beyond observationally based understanding, so that ecosystem responses to natural and anthropogenic changes can be anticipated and communicated effectively to society. Presentations are invited to address the goals of FUTURE and the three key research questions that it identifies:

(1) How do ecosystems respond to natural and anthropogenic forcing, and how might they change in the future?
(2) What determines an ecosystem's intrinsic resilience and vulnerability to natural and anthropogenic forcing?
(3) How do human activities affect coastal ecosystems and how are societies affected by changes in these ecosystems?

Presentations addressing other components of FUTURE such as:
(1) communicating scientific information to governments, policy makers, and society at large and (2) forging partnerships with social scientists, are also welcome.

Fangli Qiao, Zhenya Song, Changshui Xia and Yeli Yuan (Keynote)
Wave-tide-circulation coupled model: To improve the forecasting ability for FUTURE

Lawrence C. Hamilton (Invited)
Ocean, fishery and society: Interconnections among systems in change (S1-5404)

Eitaro Wada (Invited)
Marine ecosystem studies of today and tomorrow with emphasis on the western North Pacific Ocean (S1-5220)

Jeffrey J. Polovina, Melanie Abecassis, Evan A. Howell and Séverine Alvain
Developing an understanding of future changes in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre marine ecosystem (S1-5260)

J. Icarus Allen (Invited)
On the simulation of the impacts of multiple climatic and anthropogenic drivers on marine ecosystems (S1-5136)

Hiroaki Saito (Invited)
A strategy for marine ecosystem studies in the first half of the 21st century (S1-5387)

Shin-ichi Ito, Taizo Morioka, Yasuhiro Ueno, Satoshi Suyama, Masayasu Nakagami, Akihiro Shiomoto, Fumitake Shido and Michio J. Kishi
Future projection of Pacific saury to climate change and its improvements by experimental and observational approaches (S1-5246)

Harold (Hal) P. Batchelder, Michael Harte, David Ullman and William Peterson
Bayesian decision support to improve flexibility and reduce uncertainty in ecological forecasting of coho salmon marine survival (S1-5378)

George Sugihara(Invited)
Causality, prediction and nonlinearity in fisheries ... why adaptive fitting fails (S1-5492)

Paul J. Harrison and Kedong Yin (Invited)
Eutrophication impacts in Hong Kong waters are reduced by physical and chemical factors (S1-5150)

Rong-shuo Cai, Qi-long Zhang and Ji-long Chen
Spatial and temporal oscillations of SST and atmospheric circulation divergence in the offshore area of China and its adjacent ocean and their associations with the red tide (S1-5268)

Joji Ishizaka
Long-term change of primary production in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea (S1-5305)

Song Sun, Chaolun Li, Fang Zhang and Yuanzi Huo
A changing ecosystem: The Yellow Sea (S1-5295)

Session 2: MONITOR/TCODE/BIO Topic Session
Linking biology, chemistry, and physics in our observational systems - present status and FUTURE needs

  • TCODE Committee Best Oral Presentation Award
    Hao Ma
    Upper ocean export of particulate organic carbon in the Bering Sea estimated from thorium-234
  • TCODE Committee Best Poster Presentation Award
    In-Seong Han
    Behavior of a low salinity water mass during summer in the South Sea of Korea using in-situ observations
Co-Convenors:
Hernan E. Garcia (USA), David L. Mackas (Canada), S. Allen Macklin (USA), Jeffrey M. Napp (USA), Young-Jae Ro (Korea) and Toru Suzuki (Japan)

Invited speakers:
Francisco P. Chavez (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA)
Yasuhiro Yamanaka (Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan)

"Observational data for determining physiological parameters and validating model simulations: suggestions by NEMURO developers"

Numerical models are becoming increasingly complex, attempting to integrate vertically and horizontally ecosystem forcing, processes and predictions across multiple trophic levels from bacteria to human populations. Data requirements for daily, seasonal, annual and decadal predictions differ according to single species, species assemblages or multi-trophic level interests. To add to the challenge, the types of sensors and frequency of measurements vary greatly across ecosystem components, particularly the biological sector. This session encourages contributions that: (1) define and specify the types, frequency, duration and spatial resolution of observational data required for current numerical models; (2) review existing and emerging advanced technologies capable of supplying biomass and species or functional group information; (3) review existing and emerging data sources and technologies capable of integrating these data with physical and chemical information; and (4) showcase novel data assimilation techniques and formal organization of data or database frameworks that facilitate the operational use of observational data to predict the effects of anthropogenic and climate forcing on the major ecosystems of the North Pacific.

Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Yoshie Naoki, Maki Noguchi Aita, Taketo Hashioka, Hiroshi Sumata, Naosuke Okada, Takeshi Okunishi and Shin-ichi Ito (Invited)
Observational data for determining physiological parameters and validating model simulations: Suggestions by NEMURO developers (S2-5323)

Francisco P. Chavez and Fei Chai (Invited)
The realities of integrated measurement and modeling systems (S2-5439)

S. Allen Macklin and Bernard A. Megrey
The PICES Metadata Federation: Pacific-wide marine metadata discovery, management and delivery for FUTURE (S2-5269)

Young Jae Ro, Kwang Young Jung and Chung Ho Lee
“Hebei Spirit” oil spill fate and trajectory modeling in the western coast of Korea, Yellow Sea (S2-5035)

Jennifer Menkel and William T. Peterson
Status of Krill (Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa spinifera) in the northern California Current EEZ: A review of sampling methods and data sets (S2-5374)

Hiroya Sugisaki, Kiyotaka Hidaka, Tadafumi Ichikawa, Yutaka Hiroe and Yuuichi Hirota
Introduction for long-term monitoring in the sardine spawning area: Seasonal and annual variations of plankton biomass and compositions (S2-5143)

Yong Tang, Koji Iida, Tohru Mukai and Yasushi Nishimori
Measurement of fish school abundances in shallow sea using omnidirectional multi-beam sonar (S2-5177)

Zhen-dong Zhang, Shu-fen Wang and Ya-nan Zou
DGGE technique and its application in marine environmental microbial diversity study (S2-5084)

Shin-ichi Ito, Yugo Shimizu and Shigeho Kakehi
An application of a deeper-type underwater glider to observe temperature, salinity, DO and Chl-a distributions and its connection to an operational ocean forecasting model (S2-5247)

James R. Christian
Photosynthesis, photoacclimation, and ocean surface pCO2 (S2-5168)

Petr P. Tishchenko, Pavel Ya. Tishchenko and Alexey M. Koltunov
Peculiarities in distribution parameters of the carbonate system of Amurskiy Bay (East/Japan Sea) during summer 2007 (S2-5311)

Ziwei Yao, Zhongsheng Lin, Xindong Ma, Yanjie Wang and Dongmei Zhao
Distribution maps of persistent organic substances in the coastal zone of China (S2-5226)

Mikhail V. Simokon and Lidia T. Kovekovdova
Assessment of trace metals contamination in surface sediments of Peter the Great Bay (Japan/East Sea) (S2-5218)

Georgiy Moiseenko, Vadim Burago, Igor Shevchenko and Yury Zuenko
The application of empirical orthogonal functions in the ocean remote sensing (S2-5009)

Sonia Batten, Bill Sydeman, Mike Henry, David Hyrenbach and Ken Morgan
Ship of opportunity observations of mesoscale eddies in the Gulf of Alaska (S2-5147)

Vladimir V. Bezotvetnykh, Evgeny A. Voytenko, Yury N. Morgunov and Dmitry S. Strobykin
Multifunction acoustic hardware and software system for support of works execution and studies in ocean shelf zones (S2-5008)

Session 3: MEQ Topic Session
Species succession and long-term data set analysis pertaining to harmful algal blooms

Co-Convenors:
Hak-Gyoon Kim (Korea) and Mark L. Wells (USA)

Invited speakers:
Songhui Lu (Research Center for Harmful Algae and Aquatic Environment, Jinan University, China)
William Sunda (Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat, U.S. National Ocean Service, North Carolina, USA)

Increasing numbers of harmful algal bloom (HAB) events in many coastal locations are a result of significant changes in the dominant species compared to earlier periods. These changes may stem from introductions of new species or from range extensions, but they seem more likely to have arisen from changes in the environmental conditions that promote the dominance of a particular HAB species. Often, it has been concluded that anthropogenic influences on hydrology, land-use, nutrient inputs, etc. are the root cause of these changes, but there are examples of HAB incursions into regions that lack these pressures. An ecosystem approach focusing on decadal-scale changes in environmental conditions and planktonic species composition may provide some clarity on the causes of intensified HAB events. Talks on physical-scale to nutrient-scale factors that may affect species succession towards HAB species dominance are especially welcome.

MEQ Committee Best Poster Presentation Award
Renyan Liu and Yubo Liang
The review of study on shellfish poisoning toxins in China (S3-5438)

William Sunda, D. Rance Hardison and Kyle Shertzer (Invited)
Positive feedback and the development of ecosystem disruptive algal blooms (S3-5003)

Jinhui Wang, Yanqing Wu, Zhien Li and Lingyun Xiang
The succession of bloom caused species: A result of complexity and variability of Changjiang estuary ecosystem (S3-5274)

Hak-Gyoon Kim, Heon-Meen Bae, Chang-Kyu Lee, Sam-Geun Lee, Yang-Soon Kang, Young-Tae Park, Wol-Ae Lim, Sook-Yang Kim, Chang-Su Jung, Jeong-Min Shim and Yoon Lee
An overview on the species succession of HABs in Korean coastal waters for the last three decades (S3-5094)

Kedong Yin
Long-term trend in phytoplankton species composition in the Pearl River estuarine coastal waters during 1991-2004 (S3-5313)

Songhui Lu (Invited)
Ecological study of a Karenia mikimotoi bloom in the East China Sea in 2005 (S3-5469)

Tatiana Yu. Orlova, Inna V. Stonik and Olga G. Shevchenko (presented by T. Morozova)
Long-term changes in the phytoplankton of the coastal waters off Vladivostok (Amurskii Bay, the Sea of Japan), 1992-2007 (S3-5055)

Raphael Kudela, Vera L. Trainer, Grant Pitcher, Teresa Moita, P. Figueiras, Trevor Probyn and Theodore J. Smayda
GEOHAB Core Research Project – Species succession of harmful algal blooms in upwelling systems (S3-5458)

Feng-ao Lin, Xing-wang Lu, Hao Luo and Ming-hui Ma
The historical and present situation of the red tide and its characteristics in the Bohai Sea of China (S3-5069)

Session 4: FIS Topic Session
Institutions and ecosystem-based approaches for sustainable fisheries under fluctuating marine resources

Co-convenors:
David Fluharty (USA), Xianshi Jin (China), Mitsutaku Makino (Japan), Vladimir I. Radchenko (Russia), Laura Richards (Canada) and Chang-Ik Zhang (Korea)

Invited speakers: Keith Criddle (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA)
Akihiko Yatsu (Fisheries Research Agency, Japan)

In PICES member countries, some fisheries resources are in high abundance and healthy, but others are decreasing or already depleted. Most causes of stock declines can be ascribed to climate changes and overfishing. Stocks in declining or depleted conditions require prompt management actions based on sound science. This session will provide opportunities to address such questions as: (1) how do current fishery institutions address sustainable fisheries and what institutional changes may be necessary to fully implement an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management? (2) What are the roles of fishers and government concerning sustainable fisheries under fluctuating resources? (3) How should fishery management strategies recognize and address changes in productivity prior to, during and after regime shifts? and (4) What kind of information and research activities are needed to support sustainable fisheries management in an ecosystem context, given regime shifts? This session encourages papers addressing institutions, management strategies, and research supporting sustainable fisheries management of fluctuating marine resources using ecosystem-based approaches. Lessons from other marine ecosystems are invited for comparison to the PICES region. A publication in a special issue of a primary journal or in the PICES Scientific Report Series is intended as an outcome of the session.

Keith R. Criddle (Invited)
Management of linked nonstationary dynamic bioeconomic systems (S4-5465)

Jake Rice
The role of marine science in promoting policy coherence across marine management and conservation institutions (S4-5474)

Takaomi Kaneko, Takashi Yamakawa and Ichiro Aoki
Fisheries management by a non-cooperative income pooling system as a remedy for the “tragedy of the commons” (S4-5127)

Inja Yeon, Chang-Ik Zhang, Jae Bong Lee, Hak-Jin Hwang, Jong-Bin Kim, Myoung-Ho Sohn, Mi-Young Song, Heeyong Kim and Yi-Un Kim
Korean institutional and ecosystem-based approaches for sustainable fisheries under fluctuating marine resources (S4-5445)

Akihiko Yatsu (Invited)
Fisheries management and ecosystem regime shifts: Lessons learned from the Kuroshio/Oyashio current system (S4-5169)

Minling Pan and Shichao Li
Fisheries policy designs in response to climate changes – A case study of the Hawaii-based longline swordfish fishery (S4-5119)

Jie Zheng, Gordon H. Kruse and M.S.M. Siddeek
Could the collapse of the Bristol Bay red king crab stock in the early 1980s have been avoided? – A case study for ecosystem-based management (S4-5052)

John K. Keesing, Fred E. Wells and Tennille R. Irvine
Long-term stability of coastal molluscan fisheries resources and biodiversity aided by effective spatial and temporal management intervention (S4-5478)

Weimin Quan, Liyan Shi and Yaqu Chen
Faunal utilization of created intertidal oyster (Crassostrea rivularis) reef in the Yangtze River estuary, China (S4-5100)

Masahide Kaeriyama, Hyunju Seo and Shigehiko Urawa
Situation and perspective on production trends of Pacific salmon in the North Pacific (S4-5207)

Hee Won Park and Chang-Ik Zhang
Ecosystem-based fisheries resource assessment and management system in Jeonnam marine ranching in Korea (S4-5172)

Chang-Ik Zhang, Anne B. Hollowed, Jennifer Boldt, Pat Livingston and Jim Ianelli
An ecosystem-based risk assessment for the eastern Bering Sea trawl fishery (S4-5137)

Chih-hao Hsieh, Christian N.K. Anderson, Stuart A. Sandin, Roger Hewitt, Anne B. Hollowed, John Beddington, Robert M. May and George Sugihara
Fishing effects enhanced variability and sensitivity of exploited fish populations (S4-4997)


Session 5: MEQ/FIS Topic Session
Mariculture technology and husbandry for alternate and developing culture species

Co-Convenors:
Ingrid Burgetz (Canada), Shuanglin Dong (China), Toyomitsu Horii (Japan) and Hyun-Jeong Lim (Korea)

Invited speakers:
Shigenori Suzuki (National Center for Stock Enhancement, Fisheries Research Agency, Japan)

After considering the recommendations of the Study Group on Mariculture, PICES representatives have agreed that they share a common interest in the development of a highly efficient, environmentally friendly and diverse aquaculture industry. The diversification of aquaculture operations through the culture of new species and the use of innovative grow out technologies is of world-wide interest to both industry investors and the agencies responsible for ecosystem protection. New species and technologies may offer economic opportunities while providing solutions to the perception that current aquaculture practices threaten natural habitat and wild stocks. In many Pacific Rim countries recent developments of effective and efficient fish feed, development of animal husbandry protocols to ensure fish health and welfare, use of biotelemetry procedures to evaluate grow out facilities from the perspective of the fish, and advances in reproductive physiology using state-of-the-art molecular techniques show promise for enabling the socio-economic acceptance of aquaculture operations while preventing or mitigating environmental impacts. A variety of tools presently exist that permit the modeling of environmental risk from these developments and the subsequent incorporation of risk into an ecosystem management scheme. We encourage presentations that highlight scientific developments in the field of mariculture, particularly those that support the diversification of the industry and enable sustainable development while serving to protect natural ecosystems and wild stocks.

Yubo Liang, Dongmei Li, Sa Liu, Xingbo Wang, Tao Song, Xing Miao, Guanhua Chen and Guize Liu
Spatial distribution of Perkinsus olseni in the Manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum along Chinese coast

Shigenori Suzuki, Maria Del Mar Ortega-Villaizan Romo, Takashi Ichikawa, Tadashi Andoh, Naoto Murakami, Taizou Morioka, Kyouhei Fukunaga, Takahiro Matsubara, Sachio Sekiya, Takuma Sugaya and Nobuhiko Taniguchi (Invited)
Current situation in stock enhancement of barfin flounder Verasper moseri in Japan (S5-5350)

Kwang Hoon Kim and Chang-Ik Zhang
Growth of cultured and wild black seabream in the coastal water of Yeosu, Korea (S5-5197)

Nikolina P. Kovatcheva, Roman M. Vasilyev, Ivan A. Zagorsky, Sergey V. Kholodkevitch and Aleksey V. Ivanov
Monitoring of the physiological state of red king crab ( Paralithodes camtschaticus ) in artificial conditions (S5-5049)

Moira Galbraith and David L. Mackas
Distribution of planktonic larval sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) in the Broughton Archipelago, British Columbia, Canada (S5-5433)

Xiutang Yuan, Yubo Liang, Mingjun Zhang, Dan Liu and Daoming Guan
In situ study on self-pollutant loading in suspension aquaculture system of Japanese scallop Patinopecten yessoensis from Changhai sea area, North Yellow Sea, China (S5-5038)

Katsuyuki Abo, Toshinori Takashi and Hisashi Yokoyama
Environmental indicators and modeling studies for assessing sustainability of marine aquaculture (S5-5215)

Larissa A. Gayko
Marine climatology – New concept of agricultural meteorology studying interrelation between environment factors and sea farming efficiency (S5-5030)

Ingrid Burgetz, Jay Parsons and Steve MacDonald
Ecosystem-based approaches and environmental interactions of marine aquaculture: Opportunities and priorities from a Canadian perspective (S5-5456)

Kevin H. Amos
Interactions between marine aquaculture and marine ecosystems: Infectious aquatic pathogens and disease (S5-5437)

Session 6: POC Topic Session
Coastal upwelling processes and their ecological effects

Co-Convenors:
Tal Ezer (USA), Vyacheslav Lobanov (Russia) and Xingang Lü (China)

Invited speakers:
Steven Bograd (Environmental Research Division (ERD), Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, USA)
Tal Ezer (Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography (CCPO), Old Dominion University, USA)
Jianping Gan (Marine and Coastal Environment (AMCE) Program, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Upwelling is a key process in marine ecosystems linking physical oceanography, chemistry, and marine ecology. It brings rich nutrient water to the upper ocean so it has great impacts upon fisheries in these regions and on the ecological environment, and may also provide a suitable environment for harmful algal blooms. This session will focus on three aspects of upwelling: (1) observations, numerical modeling and mechanism analysis of upwelling and related processes; (2) the quantitative evaluation of upwelling on marine ecology (biological production, diversity, etc.); and (3) changes in upwelling systems as a result of climate change. The session should be helpful for the ecosystem-based management of the marine environment.

Jianping Gan, Anson Cheung, L. Li, L. Liang, X. Guo and D. Wang (Invited)
Alongshore variability of upwelling induced by variable shelf topography and river plume in the northeastern South China Sea (S6-5156)

Pifu Cong, Dongzhi Zhao, Limei Qu and Changan Liu
Analysis of coastal upwelling and its ecological impacts in the China Sea using remote sensing (S6-5047)

Xingang Lü, Fangli Qiao and Changshui Xia
Numerical simulation of the summertime surface cold patches and upwelling in the Yellow Sea (S6-5296)

Elena A. Schtraikhert, Sergey P. Zakharkov and Tatyana N. Gordeychuk
Chlorophyll-a concentration at wind-induced upwelling regions in Peter the Great Bay in 2003-2007 (S6-5080)

Tal Ezer, Digna T. Rueda-Roa and Frank Muller-Karger (Invited)
Unusual mechanisms for driving coastal upwelling and near-shore currents: Examples from the Caribbean Sea and biological consequences (S6-5004)

John A. Barth, F. Chan, Stephen D. Pierce, R. Kipp Shearman, Anatoli Y. Erofeev, Laura Rubiano-Gomez and Justin Brodersen
Interannual variability and modeling of upwelling-driven shelf hypoxia off the central Oregon coast (S6-5375)

Michael G. Foreman, Wendy Callendar, Amy MacFadyen and Barbara Hickey
Present and future upwelling off the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait (S6-5088)

Albert J. Hermann, Sarah Hinckley, Elizabeth L. Dobbins, Dale B. Haidvogel, Nicholas A. Bond, Phyllis J. Stabeno and Calvin Mordy
Significance of curl-driven upwelling to production in the Coastal Gulf of Alaska (S6-5372)

Zhongyong Gao and Liqi Chen
The different water masses of the Bering Strait throughflow and their mixing on the way to the Arctic Ocean (S6-5198)

Steven J. Bograd, Isaac Schroeder, Nandita Sarkar, William J. Sydeman and Franklin B. Schwing (Invited)
The phenology of coastal upwelling in the California Current: Interannual variability and ecosystem consequences (S6-5163)

Elena Vilyanskaya and Gennady Yurasov
The peculiarities of the coastal upwelling in Peter the Great Bay (S6-4982)

Hee Dong Jeong, Yang Ho Choi and Chang Su Jeong
Cold water appearance in the southwestern coast of Korea in summer (S6-5332)

Vyacheslav Lobanov, Vladimir Zvalinsky, Pavel Tishchenko, Anatoly Salyuk, Svetlana Y. Ladychenko and Aleksandr F. Sergeev
Coastal upwelling and its ecological effects in the northwestern Japan Sea (S6-5348)

 

Session 7: CCCC/POC Topic Session
Marine system forecast models: Moving forward to the FUTURE

  • CCCC Program Best Oral Presentation Award
    Xunqiang Yin
    Ensemble adjustment Kalman filter study for Argo data
  • CCCC Program Best Poster Presentation Award
    Yasumasa Miyazawa
    Toward a data-assimilation system for marginal seas in the SEA-WP region
Co-Convenors:
Michael G. Foreman (Canada), Thomas C. Wainwright (U.S.A.), Hao Wei (China), Yasuhiro Yamanaka (Japan), Sinjae Yoo (Korea) and Yury I. Zuenko (Russia)

Invited speaker:
Kenneth Drinkwater (Institute of Marine Research, Norway)

As marine system models mature, they are increasingly used to forecast future conditions, both for understanding potential effects of climate change and for projecting system responses to management activities. In particular, the PICES FUTURE Program is focused on forecasting and understanding the responses of North Pacific marine systems to climate change and human activities. This work will reach beyond the models currently used by the PICES community to include models that provide system forecasts, assess uncertainty, and link together multiple levels of system organization. Achieving meaningful forecasts that are useful for management of marine resources will require cross-disciplinary approaches that link processes ranging from atmospheric and ocean physics, through biology to socio-economic systems. This session will focus on multidisciplinary coupled models designed to forecast marine systems in the PICES region, including both strategic (long-term) and tactical (short-term) forecasts linking across two or more disciplines (such as physical oceanography, climate, ecosystem dynamics, marine resource management, or socio-economic systems). Presentations describing approaches to assessing and communicating the reliability (or uncertainty) of coupled marine system forecasts are particularly encouraged.

Kenneth F. Drinkwater (Invited)
Requirements for forecasting marine systems – A non-modeller’s view (S7-5461)

Caihong Fu, Yunne Shin and Angelica Peña
Towards end-to-end modeling for investigating the effects of climate and fishing in the Strait of Georgia ecosystem, Canada (S7-5087)

Maria Rebecca A. Campos
Moving forward to the future: Bioeconomic modelling of fishery conservation policies in the Philippines (S7-4983)

Liang Zhao, Hao Wei, Zhenyong Wang and Yuheng Wang
Simulation on ecosystem evolution of Jiaozhou Bay for recent 40 years (S7-5023)

Hao Wei and Liang Zhao
Ecosystem modeling studies in the coastal water of China (S7-4994)

Xueen Chen and Jia Gao
The hydrometeorology and the biological environment of Bohai (S7-5115)

Albert J. Hermann and Bernard A. Megrey
Examining the predictability limits of NPZ-fish dynamics in the Coastal Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea using a numerical model (S7-5371)

Yury I. Zuenko, Natalia T. Dolganova and Victoria V. Nadtochy
Forecasting of climate change influence on zooplankton in the Japan/East Sea (S7-5230)

Hiroshi Sumata, Taketo Hashioka, Takashi T. Sakamoto and Yasuhiro Yamanaka
Application of 3-D NEMURO to an eddy-permitting general circulation model for the global domain (S7-5167)

Sinjae Yoo, Ig-Chan Pang, Sung-Jun Pang and Jisoo Park
Wind-driven coastal upwelling and offshore summer phytoplankton blooms on the East China Sea shelf (S7-5266)

Shiliang Shan, Huaming Yu, Xueen Chen and Jinrui Chen
Three-dimensional high-resolution numerical study of the tide and tidal current in the Jiaozhou Bay and Olympic sailing site (S7-5265)

Liying Wan, Jiang Zhu, Laurent Bertino and Hui Wang
Initial ensemble generation and validation for ocean data assimilation using HYCOM in the Pacific (S7-5092)

Zhenya Song and Fangli Qiao
The improvement of the simulated sea surface temperature seasonal cycle in the equatorial eastern Pacific by surface wave-induced vertical mixing (S7-5125)

Qi Shu, Fangli Qiao, Zhenya Song, Changshui Xia and Yongzeng Yang
The improvement of MOM4 by adding wave-induced mixing (S7-5290)

Kentang Le, Peng Qi and Qinzheng Liu
A project for Fine Technology of 4-D Assimilation of Temperature and Salinity (S7-5144)

Thomas C. Wainwright, Jim J. Colbert and Bernard A. Megrey
Integrating ocean system models using a software framework (S7-5159)

Session 8: MEQ Topic Session
Consequences of non-indigenous species introductions

Co-Convenors:
Blake Feist (USA) and Mingyuan Zhu (China)

Invited speakers:
Edwin "Ted" D. Grosholz (University of California Davis, USA)

Non-indigenous species (NIS) are ubiquitous throughout the world's marine, coastal and estuarine waters. There is little doubt that human-mediated dispersal of NIS and subsequent establishment of NIS has altered biodiversity, species assemblages, food web dynamics, and trophic structure and interactions in marine ecosystems. These alterations have ecological, biological, evolutionary and economic consequences, especially in coastal and estuarine systems. It is ironic that mariculture and the global shipping trade have been identified as the most affected economically, given that these two activities are often identified as the primary vectors of marine NIS introductions. This session will address the impacts of marine NIS on the ecosystems in which they have invaded. Examples of impacts include, but are not limited to, biological, ecological, evolutionary, and economic. While abstracts addressing any type of economic impact will be considered, preference will be given to research projects focusing on ballast water and bio-fouling diagnostic and treatment technologies.

Edwin Grosholz (Invited)
A new agenda for addressing the impacts and management of coastal invasions (S8-5326)

Henry Lee II, Deborah Reusser, Walter Nelson and Janet Lamberson
Changes in latitude, changes in attitude – Emerging biogeographic patterns of invasion in the Northeast Pacific (S8-5258)

Vasily I. Radashevsky
Unknown vector of organism transportation with ballast water between the Northwest Pacific and Southwest Atlantic (S8-5297)

Takeaki Hanyuda, Shinya Uwai, Judie Broom, Wendy Nelson and Hiroshi Kawai
Origin and dynamics of two non-indigenous algal populations (Undaria pinnatifida, Phaeophyceae; and Ulva pertusa, Ulvophyceae) using molecular markers (S8-5493)

Graham E. Gillespie, Thomas W. Therriault and Glen S. Jamieson
Marine non-indigenous species on the Pacific coast of Canada: Distribution, origin and vectors (S8-5301)

Soo-Jung Chang, Won-Duk Yoon and Yoon Lee
Spatio-temporal variability in the abundance and size of Nemopilema nomurai (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae) in Korean waters (S8-5481)

Jinhui Wang, Yanqing Wu, Yutao Qin and Yihong Li
The threat of potential alien species in the East China Sea and a mitigation strategy (S8-5272)

Lijun Wang
Species introduced for marine aquaculture and their impacts in China (S8-5093)

Graham E. Gillespie and Thomas W. Therriault
Biology and ecological impacts of the European green crab, Carcinus maenas, on the Pacific coast of Canada (S8-5300)

Steven S. Rumrill
Interactions with non-indigenous aquatic species pose an impediment to recovery of native Olympia oyster (Ostrea conchaphila) populations within Coos Bay, Oregon, USA (S8-5234)

Thomas W. Therriault, Graham E. Gillespie and Glen S. Jamieson
Looking for non-indigenous species in Canada: Preliminary results from a multi-year, multi-discipline program (S8-5282)

Judith Pederson, Victor Polidoro, James Morash, Justin G. Eskesen, Dylan Owens, Franz Hover and Chrys Chryssostomidis
Advancing technologies to identify marine invaders in support of fisheries management (S8-5452)

Paul Heimowitz
Rapid response plans for aquatic invasive species (S8-5470)

Blake E. Feist, Kevin See, Carolina Parada and Jennifer Ruesink
Predicting the northward range expansion of non-indigenous European green crab (Carcinus maenas) along the west coast of North America (S8-5494)

Darlene Smith
Introduction of a PICES project on marine non-indigeous species supported by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan

Thomas W. Therriault
Rapid Assessment Surveys: PICES WG-21’s approach (S8-5471)

Deborah Reusser and Henry Lee II
Evolution of biogeography in the 21st Century – Development of a North Pacific non-indigenous species database (S8-5476)

 

Session 9: BIO Topic Session
End-to-end food webs: Impacts of a changing ocean

Co-Convenors:
George Hunt (USA), Hiroaki Saito (Japan) and Sinjae Yoo (Korea)

Invited speakers:
Chang-Keun Kang (Pusan National University, Korea)
Orio Yamamura (Hokkaido National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan)
Angelica Peña (Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada)
William Sydeman (Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research, USA)

A holistic end-to-end approach is needed to study the impacts of global change in marine food webs, including the influences on biogeochemistry and feedbacks to climate. This approach is encapsulated by the term "end-to-end food webs", which is defined as "feeding interactions, nutrient flows and feedbacks in an end-to-end food web of primary producers, consumers and decomposers." This food web approach retains the energy transfer and nutrient cycles of traditional food webs, but emphasizes the importance of understanding food web dynamics simultaneously at all levels and scales. To achieve an integrated understanding of end-to-end food web dynamics requires a merging of knowledge from many marine-related disciplines, including those concerned with global climate, marine food webs, marine ecosystems, marine biogeochemistry and biodiversity.

  • BIO Committee Best Poster Presentation Award
    Russell W. Bradley
    How effective are Cassin’s auklets as environmental monitors in Central California? Authors: Warzybok , Russell W. Bradley, Meredith L. Elliott, Benjamin L. Saenz, Nina J. Karnovsky and Jaime Jahncke

Day 1

Icarus Allen
(waiting for permisssion)

Mitsuhide Sato, Shigenobu Takeda and Ken Furuya
Temporal variation in the cellular labile iron pool of phytoplankton during an in situ iron enrichment experiment as measured by flow cytometry (S9-5312)

Sarah-Jeanne Royer, Martine Lizotte, Maurice Levasseur, Michael Arychuk, Michael Scarratt, Keith Johnson, C.S Wong, Connie Lovejoy, Marie Robert, Sonia Michaud and Ronald P. Kiene
DMSP microbial dynamics along a natural iron gradient in the Northeast Pacific (S9-5117)

Hongbin Liu, Bingzhang Chen, Mianrun Chen, Xihan Chen, Loklun Shek, Hongmei Jing and Thomas Wong

JiHo Seo, Seok Hyun Youn, Jeong Kyu Yoo and Joong Ki Choi
The variation in zooplankton abundance related to sea water temperature changes in Incheon coastal waters, Gyeonggi Bay from 2000 to 2007 (S9-5253)

Chang-Keun Kang (Invited)
Food web structure in the continental shelf and slope waters of the Korean peninsula: Stable isotope approach and prospects for future research (S9-5342)

Eun-Jin Yang, Sinjae Yoo, Jung-Ho Hyun, Jae-Hoon Noh, Hyung-Ku Kang, Dongseon Kim and Chang-Woong Shin
Structure and dynamics of the planktonic food web during spring and summer in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea/Japan Sea (S9-5360)

Jeffrey M. Napp, Christine T. Baier and Suzanne L. Strom
Mesozooplankton grazing and egg production in the coastal Gulf of Alaska (S9-5400)

Hiroaki Saito, Keiichiro Ide, Masatoshi Moku, Hiroya Sugisaki and Kazutaka Takahashi
The end-to-end food web of the subarctic Pacific from the viewpoint of Neocalanus copepods (S9-5358)

 

Day 2

Orio Yamamura (Invited)
Inside and outside the food web: Factors affecting dynamics of walleye pollock (S9-5417)

Hye Eun Lee, Won Duk Yoon and Suam Kim
Feeding biology of Nemopilema nomurai (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae) and its ecological implication (S9-5330)

George L. Hunt, Jr., Kenneth O. Coyle and Jeffrey M. Napp
Does a warming climate aid pollock recruitment in the eastern Bering Sea? A new look at assumptions behind the Oscillating Control Hypothesis (S9-5368)

Franz Mueter and Ken Coyle
From physics to humans: Climate effects on Bering Sea food webs and fisheries (S9-5443)

Chung-Youl Park and Woo-Seok Gwak
Stomach contents of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) in Korean coastal waters (S9-5338)

Vjacheslav S. Labay and Yuri R. Kochnev
Long-term changes in the Nuculana pernula community of the southern Okhotsk Sea as an indicator of global benthic change (S9-5107)

Olga Yu. Tyurneva, Valery. I. Fadeev, Yuri M. Yakovlev and Vladimir V. Vertyankin
Changes in the movement and distribution of western gray whales between known feeding areas in 2002-2007 (S9-5099)

Jung Hyun Lim, Zang Geun Kim, Kyung-Jun Song, Hyeok Chan Kwon, Seok Gwan Choi, Yong-Rock An and Chang-Ik Zhang
Feeding habits of minke whales in Korean waters (S9-5241)

Hongsheng Bi, William T. Peterson, Jesse Lamb and Cheryl Morgan
Couplings between multi-scale physical processes and copepod communities along the Washington and Oregon coast (S9-5199)

William J. Sydeman, Nandita Sarkar, Isaac D. Schroeder, Kyra L. Mills, Jarrod A. Santora, Sarah Ann Thompson, Robert M. Suryan and Steven J. Bograd (Invited)
Seabirds as environmental indicators: Climate variability, phenology, prey availability and tests of the “integrator” hypothesis (S9-5447)

Jaime Jahncke, Meredith L. Elliott, Benjamin L. Saenz, Jennifer E. Roth and Christine L. Abraham
Planktivorous seabird responses to variability in coastal upwelling in Central California (S9-5408)

Jarrod A. Santora, William J. Sydeman and Steve Ralston
Do seabirds at sea in the California Current reflect krill distribution, abundance and patch structure? (S9-5160)

Jennifer E. Roth, Russell W. Bradley, Peter Warzybok, Christine L. Abraham and Jaime Jahncke
Ocean processes driving the phenology and productivity of marine birds in the California Current System (S9-5418)

Katarzyna Zmudczynska, Lech Stempniewicz, Adrian Zwolicki, Lech Iliszko, Bronislaw Wojtun and Jan Matula
The influence of plankton- and fish-eating seabird colonies on the Arctic tundra ecosystem of Spitsbergen (S9-5116)

Hiroko Sasaki, Hiroshi Kiwada, Koji Matsuoka and Sei-Ichi Saitoh
The relationship between cetacean distributions and oceanographic conditions in the western North Pacific (S9-5429)

Kazuaki Tadokoro, Takashige Sugimoto and Michio J. Kishi
The effects of anthropogenic global warming on the marine ecosystem (S9-5345)

Session 11: FIS Topic Session
Effects of fisheries bycatch and discards on marine ecosystems and methods to mitigate the effects

Co-Convenors:
Hui Chun An (Korea) and Patricia Livingston (USA)

Invited speakers:
Steve Kennelly (Cronulla Fisheries Research Centre of Excellence, Australia)

Commercial fisheries using gears, such as bottom trawling, capture both target and non-target species. In some instances, bycatch mortality is sufficiently high to adversely affect the stock status and productivity of non-target species. To minimize unintended impacts on the environment, commercial fisheries should strive to increase their selectivity by reducing the bycatch of birds, mammals, turtles and other non-target species, as well as by reducing the catch and discard of undersized commercial species. This session will examine the magnitude of bycatch of non-target species, effects of bycatch mortality on the health of non-target stocks, and recent research on methodology to reduce bycatch and discards in the PICES region. Particular emphasis will be placed on studies that have resulted in changes in commercial fishing practices.

Steven J. Kennelly (Invited)
Reducing bycatch in the world’s fisheries (S11-5462)

Heui Chun An, Chang-Doo Park, Jong Keun Shin and Kyoung-Hoon Lee
Bycatch reduction in the snow crab gillnet fishery of Korea (S11-5359)

Kyung-Jun Song, Zang Geun Kim, Seok Gwan Choi, Yong-Rock An and Chang-Ik Zhang
Fishing gears involved in entanglements of minke whales in the southwestern East/Japan Sea
(S11-5221)

Larisa P. Nikolenko (presented by Oleg Katugin)
How big are the losses of Greenland turbot (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides) and crabs (Lithodes aequispina and Chionoecetes angulatus) during deep-sea bottom net and long-line fishing in the Okhotsk Sea? (S11-5319)

Evan A. Howell, Jeffrey J. Polovina, Donald R. Kobayashi, George H. Balazs, Denise M. Parker and Peter Dutton
A new dimension to the problem of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) bycatch in the Hawaii-based longline fishery (S11-5263)

Stephani G. Zador, Julia K. Parrish, André E. Punt, Jennifer L. Burke and Shannon M. Fitzgerald
Determining spatial and temporal overlap of an endangered seabird with a large commercial trawl fishery (S11-5192)

Patricia A. Livingston, Jennifer Boldt, Shannon M. Fitzgerald, William Karp and David Witherell
Assessing and reducing the amounts and impacts of fisheries bycatch in Alaska marine ecosystems (S11-5257)

Session 12: MEQ Topic Session
Connecting the human and natural dimensions of marine ecosystems and marine management in the PICES context

  • MEQ Committee Best Oral Presentation Award
    Shang Chen
     Change of ecosystem services of the Yellow River Delta Wetland, China
Co-Convenors:
David Fluharty (USA), Mitsutaku Makino (Japan), Ian R. Perry (Canada) and Chang-Ik Zhang (Korea)

Invited speakers:
Lawrence C. Hamilton (University of New Hampshire, USA)

A complete definition of marine ecosystems includes the human components. Consideration of ecosystem-based management, at least within the natural sciences, usually leaves out the human dimensions, or includes it only as fishing effort. For ecosystem-based management to succeed, however, humans need to be included. This session builds on the Science Board Symposium of 2003 titled "Human dimensions of ecosystem variability". Human relationships and how humans interact with the ocean have been changing in nature and strength over time. Natural variability in marine systems can be large, but so are socio-economic pressures and considerations relating to marine environments. Determining appropriate socio-economic indicators to complement indicators of natural climate variability, e.g. for ecosystem-based management, is an ongoing challenge. This session will address these interactions between natural and socio-economic issues in the context of ecosystem-based management. Specifically, it will consider: (1) What are the criteria to determine relevant socio-economic indicators of human well-being related to marine issues for PICES member countries? (2) What are appropriate indicators to monitor changes in management objectives and human well-being relevant to changing ecosystem structure and production? (3) How might decisions that are made to enhance human well-being likely to impact (positively or negatively) the nature and functions of marine ecosystems? This session theme will continue to explore the many ways that humans interact with marine ecosystems and the scientific efforts to quantify and predict human impacts on the dynamics of such systems.

Mitsutaku Makino and Hiroshi Horikawa
Social-ecological conditions of fisheries and management by ITQs: A global review (S12-5460)

Lawrence C. Hamilton (Invited)
Ecosystem, fishery and social changes in western Alaska (S12-5406)

Chang Seung and Chang-Ik Zhang
Socio-economic indicators used in ecosystem-based assessment for the eastern Bering Sea trawl fishery (S12-5259)

Peter S. Ross, T. Child and N. Turner
Caught in the crossfire: Environmental contaminants in Pacific food webs and implications for coastal First Nations (S12-5466)

David L. Fluharty
Developing and using social science information in marine management processes in the United States (S12-5479)

Hee Won Park, Chang-Ik Zhang and Jae Bong Lee
A comparative study on the structure and function of Korean marine ranching ecosystems (S12-5174)

Olga N. Lukyanova and Ludmila V. Nigmatulina
The value of ecosystem services of Peter the Great Bay (Japan/East Sea) (S12-5151)

Samuel G. Pooley, Ian Perry and Mitsutaku Makino
Socio-economic considerations of ecosystem approaches to fisheries management (S12-5490)

Zhifeng Zhang
Effects of dredging on internal release of phosphate from marine sediments in Dalian Bay
(S12-5157)

BIO Paper Session

Co-Convenors:
Michael J. Dagg (USA) and Michio J. Kishi (Japan)

Oral and poster presentations on biological aspects of the PICES XVII theme (FUTURE) are welcome, as well as papers on all aspects of biological oceanography in the North Pacific and its marginal seas (except those related to the BIO-sponsored Topic Sessions S2, S9 and S10). Early career scientists are especially encouraged to submit papers to this session.

Meibing Jin, Clara Deal, Jia Wang and Peter McRoy
Response of lower trophic level productivity to long-term climate changes in the southeastern Bering Sea (BIO_P-5118)

Hui Liu and William T. Peterson
A phase shift in the Northern California Current (NCC) ecosystem? (BIO_P-5201)

Kohji Iida, Onishi Yuriko and Tohru Mukai
Regional characteristics of diel vertical migration of the sound scattering layer in the North Pacific (BIO_P-5086)

C. Tracy Shaw, Leah R. Feinberg, Hongsheng Bi and William T. Peterson
Upwelling conditions and cohort analysis of the euphausiid Euphausia pacifica off Newport, OR, USA (BIO_P-5089)

Zhongming Lu, Jianping Gan, Anson Cheung, Minhan Dai, Hongbin Liu and Paul J. Harrison
Biological response to wind-driven upwelling and river plume in the northeastern South China Sea (BIO_P-5450)

Atsushi Tsuda and Shinji Shimode
Distribution and life history of a subtropical copepod, Neocalanus gracilis: Implication for the northward intrusion by subarctic species (BIO_P-5046)

Soo-Jung Chang, Won-Duk Yoon and Suam Kim
Molecular phylogeography of Nemopilema nomurai (Class: Scyphozoa) in Korean waters (BIO_P-5329)

Jing Dong
Possible origin of Nemopilema nomurai in the northern part of the China Sea, and causes of population fluctuations (BIO_P-5442)

David L. Mackas
Scale-dependent spatial correlation of zooplankton time series: Biomass, phenology, and species composition (BIO_P-5434)

Sergey P. Zakharkov, Tatyana N. Gordeychuk and Elena A. Shtraikhert
Variability of satellite primary production in the Sea of Japan from 2003 to 2007 (BIO_P-5240)

Pavel A. Salyuk, Oleg A. Bukin, Andrey N. Pavlov, Konstantin A. Shmirko and Denis A. Akmaykin
Estimation of phytoplankton community response to Asian dust forcing in the northwestern Pacific (BIO_P-5339)

Suguru Okamoto, Toru Hirawake and Sei-Ichi Saitoh
Interannual variability of the spring, column-integrated chlorophyll-a content in the Kuroshio Extension region (BIO_P-5189)

Qiang Hao, Xiuren Ning, Chenggang Liu and Fengfeng Le
Primary production in the northern South China Sea – Satellite and in situ observations (BIO_P-5473)

Pavel Ya. Tishchenko, Vyacheslav B. Lobanov, Alexey M. Koltunov, Anna A. Maryash, Tatyana A. Mikhailik, Galina Yu. Pavlova, Sergey G. Sagalaev, Alexander F. Sergeev, Elena M. Shkirnikova, Mariya G. Shvetsova, Petr P. Tishchenko and Vladimir I. Zvalinsky
Physical and biological mechanisms of Amurskiy Bay re-oxygenation after deep hypoxia events (BIO_P-5249)

Meng Zhou, Di Wu, Yiwu Zhu, Stephen D. Pierce, John A. Barth and Timothy Cowles
Zooplankton productivity, trophic dynamics and size spectra in the Oregon shelf areas (BIO_P-5106)

Jian Hu, Zhao-Li Xu and De-Di Zhu
Seasonal changes in the ecological characteristics of pelagic molluscs in the Changjiang Estuary (BIO_P-5020)

Juyun Lee, Toshiya Katano and Myung-Soo Han
Cell cycle of Heterosigma akashiwo with special reference to vertical migration behavior (BIO_P-5333)

Oleg N. Katugin, Michael A. Zuev and Gennadyi A. Shevtsov
Distribution patterns, morphology and taxonomy of the gonatid squid Gonatus tinro and Gonatopsis okutanii in the Sea of Okhotsk and northwestern Pacific Ocean (BIO_P-5298)

Hyunjung Kang, Yeonghye Kim, Seongyeon Kim and Dongwoo Lee
Reproductive ecology of common octopus, Octopus vulgaris in the South Sea, Korea (BIO_P-5320)

 

FIS Paper Session

  • FIS Committee Best Oral Presentation Award
    Anastasia M. Khrustaleva
    Integrated method for sockeye salmon stock differentiation in the West Pacific and the Sea of Okhotsk
  • FIS Committee Best Poster Presentation Award
    Chiyuki Sassa
    Distribution and biomass of Benthosema pterotum (Pisces: Myctophidae) in the shelf region of the East China Sea: Mechanisms of population maintenance
Convenor: Gordon H. Kruse (USA)

Papers addressing general topics in fishery science and fisheries oceanography in the North Pacific and its marginal seas are invited (except S4, S5 and S11 topics).

Moongeun Yoon, Syuiti Abe and Deuk-Hee Jin
Population genetic structure of chum salmon in the Pacific Rim inferred from mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA analyses (FIS_P-5109)

In Joon Hwang and Hea Ja Baek
Assessment of ovarian maturation in Chasmichthys dolichognathus after exposure to single polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzo[a]pyrene (FIS_P-5335)

Guoping Zhu, Xuefang Wang, Liuxiong Xu, Xuchang Ye and Chunlei Wang
Comparison on the biological characteristics of skipjack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis between the log school and free school caught by purse seine from the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (FIS_P-5231)

Alexei M. Orlov, Dmitry V. Pelenev, Vadim F. Savinykh, Natalia V. Klovach and Andrei V. Vinnikov
Pacific lamprey: Some ecological and biological features during their sea life and relationships with host species (FIS_P-5000)

Hiroshige Tanaka, Chiyuki Sassa, Seiji Ohshimo and Ichiro Aoki
Feeding habits and diel feeding patterns of two dominant myctophid fishes in the continental shelf region off western Kyushu, Japan (FIS_P-5299)

Lei Guo, Robert Foy, Kate Wynne and Lawrence Schaufler
Combining stomach content and fatty acid analyses to assess forage fish diets (FIS_P-5322)

Jung Nyun Kim, Heeyong Kim and Kwang Ho Choi
Migration and coastal recruitment of jack mackerel Trachurus japonicus in Korean waters (FIS_P-5248)

Jake Schweigert, Joanna Hirner and Sean Cox
Predicting Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) migration into Canadian waters (FIS_P-5261)

Jong Hee Lee, Jae Bong Lee and Chang-Ik Zhang
Long-term fluctuation of commercial fished species and their marine environment in Korean waters (FIS_P-5191)

Anatoliy Ya. Velikanov
Long-term variability of pelagic fish species composition near the eastern Sakhalin (Sea of Okhotsk): Distribution, fluctuations in abundance, fishery (FIS_P-5045)

Alexander I. Glubokov and Alexei M. Orlov
Poachers (Agonidae) of the Russian part of the Bering Sea: Spatial distribution and biology (FIS_P-4999)

Jung Jin Kim and Suam Kim
Recruitment mechanisms of common squid (Todarodes Pacificus) in the Yellow Sea (FIS_P-5327)

Takeshi Okunishi, Shin-ichi Ito, Naoki Yoshie, Taketo Hashioka, Hiroshi Sumata and Yasuhiro Yamanaka
The impact of density-dependent processes on growth of Japanese sardine (Sardinops melanostictus) (FIS_P-5310)

William Peterson, Edmundo Casillas, Hui Liu and Cheryl Morgan
Forecasting returns of coho and chinook salmon in the northern California Current: A role for high-frequency long-term observations (FIS_P-5373)

You-Jung Kwon, Doo-Hae An, Chang-Ik Zhang, Dae-Yeon Moon and Jae Bong Lee
An ecological risk assessment of the effect of the tuna longline fishery in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (FIS_P-5186)

Arata Fukaya, Katsuya Saitoh and Sei-Ichi Saitoh
Estimation of number of Pacific saury fishing vessels using nighttime visible images (FIS_P-5346)

Hyeok Chan Kwon and Chang-Ik Zhang
Maturation and spawning of black seabream, Acanthopagrus schlegeli in the Jeonnam marine ranching area of Korea (FIS_P-5185)

Bernard A. Megrey and Chang-Ik Zhang
Estimating biomass and management parameters from length composition data: A stock assessment method for data-deficient situations (FIS_P-5271)

POC Paper Session

  • POC Committee Best Oral Presentation Award
    Chuanyu Liu
    An N-shape thermal front in the western South Yellow Sea in winter
  • POC Committee Best Poster Presentation Award
    Masatoshi Sato
    The 1000 km-scale variability of the dynamic height revealed by Argo CTD data at 40ºN in the North Pacific
Co-Convenors: Michael G. Foreman (Canada) and Ichiro Yasuda (Japan)

Papers are invited on all aspects of physical oceanography and climate in the North Pacific and its marginal seas. Papers on coastal upwelling should be directed to the Topic Session S6.

Lina Ceballos, Emanuele Di Lorenzo and Niklas Schneider
North Pacific Gyre Oscillation synchronizes climate fluctuations in the eastern and western North Pacific (POC_P-5398)

Sang-Wook Yeh, Young-Gyu Park, Hong-Sik Min, Cheol-Ho Kim and Jae-Hak Lee
Changes in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from observations (POC_P-5431)

Masahiro Yagi and Ichiro Yasuda
Turbulent mixing at the Bussol’ Strait in the Kuril Islands using density inversions (POC_P-5363)

Xianyao Chen, Qin Wang, Xiuhong Wang and Fangli Qiao
Lagrangian hydrographic features of the Mixed Water Region in the North Pacific derived from Argo data (POC_P-5096)

Elena I. Ustinova and Yury D. Sorokin
Changes in the relationships between large-scale climatic indices and regional conditions in the Far-Eastern Seas (POC_P-5078)

Ahat A. Nabiullin
North Pacific oceanography: Past, present and the future. A half-century bibliometric survey (POC_P-5077)

Tsuneo Ono and Akira Kusaka
Advanced timing of spring mixed layer development in recent years in the Oyashio region (POC_P-5036)

Liqi Chen, Rik Wanninkhof, Wei-Jun Cai, Zhongyong Gao, Yuanhui Zhang, Suqing Xu, Kavin Sullivan and Yongchen Wang
Comparison of air-sea fluxes of CO2 in the Southern Ocean and the Western Arctic Ocean (POC_P-5309)

Vladimir I. Ponomarev, Boris A. Burov and Alexander Yu. Lazaryuk
Seasonal heat transfer in the bottom sediment–sea water column of Amurskii Bay (POC_P-5166)

Yun-Bae Kim, Kyung-Il Chang and Kuh Kim
Eddy variability from direct current measurements in the southwestern East/Japan Sea (POC_P-5337)

Muyin Wang, James E. Overland and Nicholas A. Bond
Selection of climate models for regional ecosystem projections (POC_P-5200)

Dmitry D. Kaplunenko, Olga O. Trusenkova and Vyacheslav B. Lobanov
SSH variability in the northern Japan/East Sea from altimetry data (POC_P-5317)

Xiao-Mei Yan, L. Zhang and Che Sun
Analysis of the Kuroshio inflow at the East Taiwan Channel (POC_P-5292)

Yeojin Jung, Jong Hee Lee, Chang-Ik Zhang and Jae Bong Lee
Decadal changes in temperature and salinity in Korean waters (POC_P-5190)

Georgy Shevchenko and Valery Chastikov
Seasonal changes of the East Sakhalin Current from CTD data analysis (POC_P-5134)

Tingting Zu and Jianping Gan
Coupled estuarine-coastal circulation in the Pearl River Estuary: Response to the wind and tidal forcing (POC_P-5444)

Hitoshi Kaneko, Ichiro Yasuda, Tohru Ikeya, Jun Nishioka, Takeshi Nakatsuka and Sachihiko Itoh
Nutrient distribution around the Bussol’ Strait (POC_P-5341)

Kwang Young Jung, Young Jae Ro and Chung Ho Lee
Impact of dam water release based on a numerical model of the Kangjin Bay, South Sea, Korea (POC_P-5132)

Jing Lu, Fangli Qiao, Yonggang Wang, Changshui Xia and Feng Shan
A numerical study of the sediment transport process from the Yellow River to the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea (POC_P-5289)

Andrey G. Andreev
Interannual variations of the water transport through the Tsushima Strait and its impact on the chemical parameters and chlorophyll-a in the Japan/East Sea (POC_P-5449)

Workshop 1: MEQ Workshop and laboratory demonstration
Review of selected harmful algae in the PICES region: IV. Karenia and Prorocentrum

Co-Convenors:
Vera L. Trainer (USA) and Ming-Yuan Zhu (China)

Invited speakers:
Jacob Larsen (IOC Science & Communication Centre in Harmful Algae, Copenhagen University, Denmark)

This workshop is the fourth of an annual series in which harmful algal bloom (HAB) species that impact all or most countries in the North Pacific are discussed in detail. In 2008, we will focus on two fish-killing species Karenia and Prorocentrum. Karenia mikimotoi is known to kill both wild and cultured fish in China, Korea and Japan. Although this species is absent, to date, in the eastern Pacific, other species from the genus Karenia are known to kill fish in the southeastern U.S. Prorocentrum is a "red tide" species that forms dense, colored blooms in China, Korea and Japan, resulting in economic loss to fisheries due to reduced consumer confidence. Prorocentrum blooms are relatively rare in the eastern Pacific, but have been documented occasionally in areas of the U.S. and Canada. The integration of information from each country will advance our understanding of these organisms. Topics will include modes of toxicity, distribution, impact (differences between toxic and nontoxic strains), as well as physiology and ecology in each of the member countries. In particular, we would like to identify additional studies needed specifically to understand the difference in occurrence and toxicity of these organisms in the eastern and western Pacific. The workshop will produce a list of recommendations to help guide collaborative HAB research priorities in PICES member countries over the next five years. The workshop will be preceded by a half-day laboratory demonstration on Karenia and Prorocentrum identification and detection methods.

Jacob Larsen (Invited)
Karenia and Prorocentrum: Review

Yutao Qin, Jinhui Wang, Yanqing Wu, MingYuan Zhu and Lingyun Xiang
Blooms of Karenia mikimotoi and Prorocentrum sp. in the East China Sea (W1-5273)

Charles G. Trick
A historical overview of Karenia and Prorocentrum occurrences in North American coastal waters (W1-5463)

Tatiana V. Morozova, Tatiana Yu. Orlova, Marina S. Selina and Inna V. Stonik
Species of the genera Karenia and Prorocentrum from the east coast of Russia (W1-5019)

Douding Lu
The species complex Prorocetrum donghaiense (“dentatum”) in East Asian waters (W1-5484)

Mineo Yamaguchi, Shigeru Itakura and Ichiro Imai
Ecophysiological characteristics of the harmful dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi in Japanese coastal waters (W1-5464)

Yang-Soon Kang, Youngtae Park, Kyung Suk Seo and Yoon Lee
Karenia spp. and Prorocentrum spp. blooms in Korean coastal waters (W1-5496)

Ruixiang Li, Mingyuan Zhu and Jianqiang Yang
The formation of Karenia mikimotoi blooms in the Bohai Sea, China (W1-5483)

Songhui Lu
An ecological study of a Karenia mikimotoi bloom in the East China Sea in 2005 (W1-5482)

Workshop 2: BIO Workshop
Oceanic ecodynamics comparison in the subarctic Pacific

  • BIO Committee Best Oral Presentation Award
    Tomonori Isada
    Community structure, productivity and photosynthetic physiology of phytoplankton in the Oyashio region of the NW subarctic Pacific during spring 2007 (W2-5142)
Co-Convenors:
Charles B. Miller (USA) and Atsushi Yamaguchi (Japan)

Invited speaker:
Tokihiro Kono (Tokai University, Japan)

OECOS (Oceanic Ecodynamics COmparison in the Subarctic Pacific) is a PICES project, originally aiming to advance our understanding of the dynamics of lower trophic levels in the pelagic systems of the subarctic Pacific through a comparison of the east-west regions at a new level of detail. The first OECOS workshop was held in May 2005, at Oregon University (U.S.A.), and participants from Japan (western Pacific region) and the U.S. and Canada (eastern Pacific region) discussed gaps in our knowledge about ecosystem dynamics of both eastern and western sectors of the subarctic Pacific, and new coordinated approaches for future research activities (PICES Scientific Report No. 32, 2006). In March-April 2007, the western group (OECOS WEST) conducted two cruises to the Oyashio region before and during massive spring phytoplankton blooms. In both cruises, high-frequency samplings were made of various biological components (bacteria, phytoplankton, micro-, meso- and macrozooplankton, and micronekton) and nutrients (including iron). To aid analysis of the origin and history of water masses at the study sites, frequent CTD casts and satellite monitoring of SST and water color were made. Drifting sediment traps were tracked to collect setting particles from the upper layers. At this workshop, recent achievements of OECOS WEST will be presented and discussed along with new OECOS WEST and EAST research prospects.

Atsushi Yamaguchi and Charles B. Miller
OECOS Workshop, PICES XVII, Dalian, China: Physical, chemical and biological dynamics of the Oyashio spring bloom (W2-5454)

Tokihiro Kono and Masatoshi Sato (Invited)
Effect of water mass structure on the spring bloom in the Oyashio region revealed by sequential observations (W2-5361)

Kenshi Kuma, Koji Sugie, Satoshi Fujita and Yuta Nakayama
Temporal variability and bioavailability of iron and nutrient during spring phytoplankton bloom in the Oyashio region (W2-4988)

Takashi Ota, Toru Kobari, Mutsuo Ishinomiya, Yasushi Gomi and Yasumasa Oikawa
Grazing activity of microzooplankton during a diatom bloom in the Oyasio region (W2-5356)

Atsushi Yamaguchi, Yuka Onishi, Aya Omata, Mariko Kaneda, Momoka Kawai and Tsutomu Ikeda
Vertical distribution and population structure of large grazing copepods during spring phytoplankton bloom in the Oyashio region (W2-5120)

Toru Kobari, Yumi Inoue, Yosuke Nakamura, Hidemi Okamura, Takashi Ota, Yuichiro Nishibe and Mutsuo Ichinomiya
Feeding impacts of ontogenetically migrating copepods on the spring phytoplankton bloom in the Oyashio region (W2-5066)

Hye Seon Kim, Atsushi Yamaguchi and Tsutomu Ikeda
Abundance, metabolic rate and body composition of the euphausiid Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa inspinata during spring phytoplankton bloom in the Oyashio region (W2-5048)

Tadanori Fujino, Yusuke Ito, Hiroki Yasuma and Kazushi Miyashita
Abundance and distribution of micronektonic, mesopelagic fish at the 2007 OECOS observation site (Northwest Pacific) (W2-5318)

Michael Dagg, S. Strom and H. Liu
Phytoplankton community structure in the HNLC subarctic Pacific Ocean is determined by Neocalanus flemingeri and N. plumchrus (W2-4996)

Suzanne L. Strom, K.A. Fredrickson, F. Perez, M.B. Olson and E.L. Macri
Lower trophic level responses to gradients in iron availability in the eastern subarctic Pacific (W2-5428)

Charles B. Miller
OECOS Workshop: Open issues in production ecology of the oceanic Gulf of Alaska (W2-5455)

Workshop Discussion
• Findings of OECOS-WEST
• Comparison between east and west
• Remaining unsolved problems

Workshop 3: MONITOR/ESSAS Workshop
Status of marine ecosystems in the sub-Arctic and Arctic seas - Preliminary results of IPY field monitoring in 2007 and 2008

  • MONITOR Committee Best Oral Presentation Award
    Kohei Mizobata
    Japanese IPY activities in the western Arctic Ocean and the Bering Sea
  • MONITOR Committee Best Poster Presentation Award
    Hongli Fu
     Study of polynya processes in the Bearing Sea using a high resolution dynamic-thermodynamic sea ice model
Co-Convenors:
Ken Drinkwater (Norway), George Hunt, Jr. (USA), Sei-Ichi Saitoh (Japan), and Jin Ping Zhao (China)

Invited speakers:
Lee W. Cooper (Chesapeake Biological Laboratory University of Maryland USA)
Robert Dickson (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, UK)
Rolf R. Gradinger (Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA)
Kohei Mizobata (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan)

The sub-Arctic and Arctic seas have distinct marine ecosystems that are affected by seasonal sea ice. During the summer, the water column is stratified by melt water from retreating sea ice, and phytoplankton are found near the sea surface, where the incoming sunlight is sufficient for photosynthesis. These summer conditions result in the highest primary production in the world's oceans and support high levels of fishery resources. Algae that live on the bottom of sea ice also play an important role in maintaining fishery resources by falling and decomposing on the sea floor in summer. Recently, global climate change has become a cause for concern. The greenhouse effect, produced by increasing anthropogenic CO2 emissions, has induced increases in atmospheric and seawater temperatures. The effect of such increases on the cryosphere of the Arctic is already visible, and understanding its direct and indirect effects on the physical and chemical environments and the responses of marine ecosystems is critical. However, the knowledge of most aspects and responses of marine ecosystems to global climate change is still inadequate. PICES nations have conducted several field programs in these regions during the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008. This workshop will discuss the features and mechanisms of the responses of marine ecosystems to global climate change in the Arctic and sub-Arctic seas, based on results from the IPY cruises in 2007 and 2008.

Robert R. Dickson (Invited)
The integrated Arctic Ocean Observing System (iAOOS) (W3-5252)

Ling Du, Jia Wang and Juncheng Zuo
Sea level variation and its contributing factors in the Arctic Ocean and sub-Arctic region (W3-5251)

Yong Cao and Jinping Zhao
A study of the subsurface warm water and its formation mechanism in the Canada Basin (W3-5250)

Jie Su, Dong Xu, Shujiang Li and Jinping Zhao
Interannual variations of sea ice in the Pacific side of the Arctic and its relation with the Pacific Inflow (W3-5245)

Jinping Zhao and Jiuxin Shi
Study of the extension of Pacific warm water under sea ice of the Chukchi Sea (W3-5316)

Liqi Chen and Zhongyong Gao
Differences of water masses in Bering Strait throughflow and mixing on their way to the Arctic Ocean (W3-5225)

Sei-Ichi Saitoh and Toru Hirawake
Preliminarily results from the Oshoro-Maru IPY cruises in summer 2007 and 2008 (W3-5228)

Jiuxin Shi, Jinping Zhao and Shujiang Li
The double haloclines in the Canada Basin under the warming climate (W3-5321)

Lee W. Cooper and Jacqueline M. Grebmeier (Invited)
Results from BEST, BSIERP and other IPY-relevant research in the northern Bering Sea (W3-5212)

Sei-Ichi Saitoh, I Nyoman Radiarta, Toru Hirawake, Yasunori Sakurai, Mamoru Yabe, Yoshihiko Kamei and Shogo Takagi
Change in the biodiversity of the demersal fish community in the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas (W3-5229)

Kenneth F. Drinkwater
A frontal attack – Norwegian IPY studies of the Arctic Front in the Norwegian and Barents Seas (W3-5113)

Jun Nishioka, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Kenshi Kuma, Yutaka W. Watanabe, Tsuneo Ono and Kay I. Ohshima
The importance of sea-ice formation in the Sea of Okhotsk for supplying iron to the western subarctic Pacific (W3-5105)

Kenneth F. Drinkwater
The Ecosystem Studies of Subarctic and Arctic Regions (ESSAR) Consortium (W3-5114)

Geneviève Desportes, Daniel Pike, Mario Acquarone, Igor Golyak, Jean François Gosselin, Thorvaldur Gunnlaugsson, Sverrir D. Halldórsson, Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen, Jack Lawson, Christina Lockyer, Bjarni Mikkelsen, Droplaug Ólafsdóttir and Malene Simon
From the Barents Sea to the St. Lawrence: A Trans North Atlantic Sightings Survey (T-NASS) (W3-5267)

George L. Hunt, Jr.
Hotspots in cold seas (W3-5367)

Workshop 4: CCCC/POC/FIS Workshop
Climate scenarios for ecosystem modeling (II)

Co-Convenors:
Michael G. Foreman (Canada), Anne B. Hollowed (USA), Suam Kim (Korea) and Gordon McFarlane (Canada)

Invited Speaker:
Thomas A. Okey (Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, University of Victoria, Canada)

Members of the Climate Forcing and Marine Ecosystem Task Team (CFAME), the Working Group on Evaluations of Climate Change Projections (WG 20), and the FIS Committee will present the results of their research on developing and applying the output of regional and global climate scenarios to ecosystem and fish stock forecasts. These groups have been developing conceptual and empirical models of the mechanisms that link climate variation to the dynamics of marine ecosystems and their commercially important species. Their work has focused on comparisons among a diversity of North Pacific ecosystems with differing dominant physical processes. WG 20 is developing higher resolution regional coupled atmosphere-ocean models forced by IPCC global or regional models to provide forecasts of regional parameters (such as SST, sea ice cover, and river discharge) that are relevant to ecosystem processes. This workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss the results, present them to the PICES community, and describe their potential for the FUTURE Program.

Thomas A. Okey, Anne B. Hollowed, Michael J. Schirripa and Richard J. Beamish (Invited)
The 2035 modelling challenge for forecasting climate impacts on marine biota and fisheries: A collaboration emerging from an international workshop (W4-5422)

James E. Overland, Muyin Wang and Nicholas A. Bond
Utility of climate models for regional ecosystem projections (W4-5453)

Young Shil Kang and Sukgeun Jung
Regional differences in responses of meso-zooplankton to long-term oceanographic changes in Korean sea waters (W4-5196)

Yasuhiro Yamanaka et al.
(WG 20 update): Recent results connecting climate change to fish resources using the high resolution model, COCO-NEMURO

Emanuele Di Lorenzo et al.
(WG 20 update): North Pacific Decadal Variability in the FUTURE

James Christian et al.
(WG 20 update): Canadian Earth System Model scenarios for the North Pacific

Qigeng Zhao, Qingquan Li, Jianglong Li and Fanghua Wu
A simulation of acidification in the Pacific Ocean (W4-5432)

Enrique Curchitser et al.
(WG 20 update): Downscaling climate scenarios with a fully coupled global-to-regional model

Michael G. Foreman, William J. Merryfield, Badal Pal and Eric Salathé
An update of regional climate modelling along the British Columbia Shelf (W4-5152)

Vadim Navrotsky
(WG20 update): On the role of ocean and land living matter in Global Climate Change

Anne B. Hollowed, Teresa A’mar, Richard J. Beamish, Nicholas A. Bond, James E. Overland, Michael Schirripa and Tom Wilderbuer
Fish population response to future climate drivers: A next step forward (W4-5365)

Gordon H. Kruse, Jie Zheng and James E. Overland
A scenario approach to forecast potential impacts of climate change on red king crabs in the Eastern Bering Sea (W4-5475)

Sukyung Kang, Jae Bong Lee, Anne B. Hollowed, Nicholas A. Bond and Suam Kim
Techniques for forecasting climate-induced variation in the distribution and abundance of mackerels in the northwestern Pacific (W4-5468)

Michio J. Kishi, Yasunori Sakurai and Masahide Kaeriyama
What affects on the growth and stock of chum salmon, walleye pollack, and common squid in the Northern Pacific (W4-5467)

Richard J. Beamish
A tail of two sockeyes (W4-5041)

Richard J. Beamish
Evidence that the carrying capacity of local marine ecosystems can regulate the productivity of chinook salmon (W4-5042)

Discussions (led by Young-Shil Kang and James Overland ):
• Finishing off CFAME (timeline, assignments)
• Final report, publications, etc.…
• Needs from WG20

Workshop 5: CCCC/ESSSAS Workshop
Marine ecosystem model inter-comparisons

Co-Convenors:
Masahiko Fujii (Japan), Shin-ichi Ito (Japan) and Bernard A. Megrey (USA)

Invited speakers:
Icarus Allen (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK)
Harold Batchelder (Oregon State University, USA)
Fei Chai (University of Maine, USA)
Toru Kobari (Kagoshima University, Japan)
William Peterson (Northwest Fisheries Science Center, USA)

Comparative analysis is a valuable scientific activity because the size and complexity of marine ecosystems precludes conducting controlled in situ experiments. It is also a powerful technique for understanding the important similarities and differences between and among ecosystems. Modelling is a central approach to comparative analyses of ecosystem structure, function and responses. It is important to understand whether inter-relationships among physical, chemical and biological variables vary geographically, and the extent to which any particular conclusions depend on the model used to derive them. The model inter-comparison project will use different models to develop forecasts of different ecosystems and will use different models to compare forecasts of the same location/species. The intention of the project is to develop ensemble model forecasts to compare predicted and observed responses of marine ecosystem types to global changes-similar to the widely-accepted approach used by the IPCC to evaluate alternative climate models. The project will implement the same model evaluation process with marine ecosystem models rather than climate prediction models. A major goal of the workshop is to begin planning the work of the project. Workshop activities will include: (1) nomination and discussion of potential models (and their data needs) to compare (the EurOceans Model Shopping Tool, http://www.eur-oceans.eu/WP3.1/shopping_tool/about.php, provides a large array of documented models from which to choose); (2) nominate location(s) for comparisons; (3) identify comparison protocols to compare model performance, given data needs against location data availability and compatibility; (4) identify the most appropriate indicator species on which to base comparisons, such as krill, as the "metric" for correct model behavior; and (5) plan "pseudo-controlled" experiments. Workshop participants should have at least one of the following characteristics: (1) be familiar with ecosystem models from beyond the PICES region; (2) be knowledgeable about running models; (3) be experts on the life histories of selected organisms and data associated with them; and (4) have a broad perspective on marine ecosystems.

Fei Chai, Masahiko Fujii and Marjorie Friedrichs (Keynote)
A regional ecosystem modeling intercomparison project (W5-5369)

J. Icarus Allen (Invited)
Some thoughts on assessing the skill of marine ecosystem models (W5-5085)

William T. Peterson, Tracy Shaw, Jennifer Menkel and Leah Feinberg (Invited)
An overview of the ecology and population dynamics of euphausiids around the Pacific Rim (W5-5459)

Harold (Hal) P. Batchelder (Invited)
Copepods as indicator species for comparing pelagic marine ecosystem models (W5-5366)

Toru Kobari, Tsutomu Ikeda, Michael Dagg and Atsushi Yamaguchi (Invited)
Neocalanus copepods are useful for inter-comparison of marine ecosystem models in the PICES region (W5-5175)