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Dr. Yunne-Jai Shin is a Director of Research for the Research Institute for Development for Marine Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation in France. She has a Ph.D. in Biomathematics from University Montpellier and two Master’s degrees in Biomathematics and Fisheries Science from the University of Paris and ENSAR Rennes. Previously, Dr. Shin acted as an honorary research associate at the University of Cape Town’s Department of Biological Sciences, and a research scientist at IRD. Her expertise is in marine biology and ecology. Some of her key achievements include the simulation of biodiversity scenarios for marine ecosystems under the combined effects of fishing and climate change; the assessment of the status of global marine ecosystems based on analyses of biodiversity indicators, and the development of state-of-the-art ecosystem models to run these scenarios. Dr. Shin served as the coordinating lead author of Chapter 4 of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services’ Global Assessment, Chapter 5 of the IPBES-IPCC scientific report, and participated in political hearings that ensued at the US Congress, French Parliament, and French Presidential Palace. What motivates Dr. Shin in AIMES is the opportunity to share visions from experts working in different disciplines and on different biomes. In the SSC, she hopes to contribute to the animation of research on biodiversity models and scenarios by bringing her expertise in marine ecosystem modeling and scenarios of ocean futures.

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Stanley W. Burgiel (“Stas”) serves as the Executive Director of the U.S. National Invasive Species Council (NISC), where he facilitates high-level policy dialogue across federal departments and White House offices on invasive species. He is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of NISC work plan activities in areas such as wildland fire, climate change, and early detection and rapid response. Stas has worked and consulted for a range of nongovernmental, governmental, and intergovernmental organizations, including the Global Invasive Species Programme, the Nature Conservancy, the UNEP/World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and the International Institute for Sustainable Development. He received his Ph.D. in international service from the American University and a B.A. in political science from Swarthmore College.

Brian Hauk is the Resource Protection Specialist for the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM) with NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. Part of his duties are to oversee PMNM’s marine biosecurity protocols for alien species management in the Monument. Prior to his time at NOAA, he worked for Hawaii’s Division of Aquatic Resources utilizing mechanical removal techniques and biocontrol methods to control several invasive red algal species. This background has been very applicable to PMNM’s most recent challenge of managing Chondria tumulosa. Since this species discovery in 2019, Hauk has been heavily involved in the development of management actions related to the cryptogenic species that is overgrowing pristine coral reefs in the northern most atolls of PMNM. In addition to alien species management, Hauk also helps to coordinate remote ecological research voyages and incident response in the Monument. He has participated in numerous expeditions serving as a chief scientist, scientific diver or topside supervisor for technical closed circuit mix gas rebreather operations. He has also been active in training undergraduate scientific divers in underwater ecological survey techniques in an effort to help prepare the next generation of marine research scientist.

Christy Martin has worked on terrestrial and marine invasive species issues in Hawai‘i and the Pacific region for more than 20 years. She is the Program Manager & Information Officer for the Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species (CGAPS, pronounced “see-gaps”), a partnership of agencies and organizations working to fill gaps in Hawaii's biosecurity policies and programs. Christy also serves as an appointee to the Invasive Species Advisory Committee which provides information and advice for consideration by the National Invasive Species Council.

I’m a Senior Researcher at the University of Hawaii, a Physical Oceanographer with expertise in multi-scale ocean circulation and its dynamics studied with in situ observations, remote sensing, and modeling. While I’m interested in everything that ocean currents transport, in the last 15 years the pathways of marine debris, its interactions with marine life, and impacts on marine ecosystems became the main focus of my studies. Plastic pollution spread in a lifetime of my generation to every corner of the planet but the big, quantitative picture of the problem is still missing. Together with my colleagues, we are developing a concept of the Integrated Marine Debris Observing System (IMDOS) which will synthesize a variety of in situ measurements and advanced remote sensing with numerical modeling and theoretical analysis to empower stakeholders and decision makers with reliable and timely information and advice. With the intimate (positive and negative) connections between marine debris and marine life, IMDOS will also benefit monitoring of biodiversity.

Julia Indivero is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, advised by Dr. Tim Essington. Her research is currently focused on predicting shifts in groundfish distribution in the northeastern Pacific Coast under climate change scenarios to inform fisheries management. Her research has also included a spatio-temporal model of weight-at-age of walleye pollock in the Bering Sea for stock assessments and exploring the impacts of nearshore restoration on fish communities in the Puget Sound. She serves on the department DEI committee and the university’s Campus Sustainability Fund. She is also interested in science policy, and interned for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in 2023. She received her BA in Biology and Environmental Studies from Wesleyan University in 2017. She has previously worked with Oregon Sea Grant at the South Slough Estuary Reserve in Charleston, Oregon, with the Organization of Tropical Studies in South Africa, and at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Marine Sciences Laboratory in Sequim, WA.

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Sophie has been a zooplankton ecologist for over 20 years working at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas, UK). During that time, she has worked on several research areas including studies on the impact of climate change on zooplankton, the development of Individual Based models to help better understand processes associated with the recruitment of commercial marine fish species, gelatinous plankton, including the spread of non-native species and their impact on invaded ecosystems.

In the last few years, Sophie has developed an interest in optimising monitoring techniques, with a specific interest on zooplankton, to fill a recognised data gap in this specific component of pelagic ecosystems. Her current area of work is around the automatization of ship-based instrumentation with a focus on developing continuous automated image collection and analysis tools for the high-frequency collection of zooplankton data.

David Kimmel is a Research Oceanographer at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC), NMFS, NOAA where he leads the zooplankton team of the Recruitment Processes Program. The research of the zooplankton team is primarily focused on the biological oceanography of zooplankton and how it relates to ecosystem structure and function in Alaska’s large marine ecosystems. Specific projects include: time-series analysis to detect community change, assessing juvenile fish diet trends over time, and evaluating ecosystem models using empirical data. Zooplankton data are synthesized for Ecosystem Status Reports as well as Ecological and Socioeconomic Profiles of fish and used to inform management decisions. He is a member of the PICES BIO committee and co-chair of Working Group 48: Towards best practices using Imaging Systems for Monitoring Plankton (WGISMP).

Dr. Hiroomi Miyamoto is a senior research scientist specializing in biological oceanography at the Fisheries Resources Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency (FRA). He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in marine science from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, and his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo, where he conducted a molecular genetic study on the diversity and biogeography of pelagic chaetognaths. Since 2016, he works at the FRA, focusing on the zooplankton community and the feeding ecology of small pelagic fish around Japan to understand the interannual changes in their stock and body size. Recently, he is concentrating on the spatio-temporal changes in the zooplankton community in the transition region of the North Pacific Ocean, an important feeding ground for small pelagic fish like Pacific saury.

Mr. Raphael Roman is an interdisciplinary ocean researcher and ecological economist specializing in the science-policy interface. Currently, he is a regional consultant for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO), where he leads the coordination efforts for the Asian node of the Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOP) Programme, which is endorsed under the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). Within PICES, he serves as a co-chair of the Advisory Panel on ECOPs and is also an active member of AP-UNDOS and WG-51. Drawing from his past research and consultancy experiences in Canada, Indonesia, and Japan, he has cultivated a deep passion for marine conservation, coastal community resilience, fishery systems, and the promotion of trans-disciplinary collaborations.

Dr. Rachel Seary is a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the NOAA Ecosystem Science Division in Monterey, California. She received a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge in 2019 before moving to the USA to study the California Current Ecosystem. Rachel is interested in the links between humans and the marine environment, and finding the balance between biodiversity conservation and sustaining ocean resources that people need for food, economy and well-being under changing environmental and regulatory landscapes. Her research investigates social-ecological challenges for fishing communities through participatory approaches. Dr Seary is an active member of PICES WG-51 on Exploring Human Networks to Power Sustainability.

Satoshi Nagai is a chief scientist at the Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency. He specializes in the molecular detection of harmful algal blooms (HABs) using techniques such as LAMP, nucleic chromatography, and qPCR/dPCR. His research extends to population genetics, where he developed microsatellites for 12 HAB species. Nagai utilizes NGS-based GWAS techniques like RAD-seq and MIG-seq to study genetic connectivity and breaks among regional populations. Over the past decade, he has led projects on eukaryotic biodiversity using metabarcoding across various marine ecosystems in Japan and internationally, including collaborations in Asian, Chilean, Black Sea, and Baltic Sea waters. Recently, he focuses on comparative genome analysis of marine diatoms (especially the genus Skeletonema) to understand evolutionary processes of speciation.

Ken Ando has worked at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) since 1988 and dedicated to the development and maintenance of the Tropical Pacific Observing System (TPOS), formally called the TAO/TRITON Moored Buoy Array. He has also dedicated to work for IOC/WESTPAC as a vice chairperson since 2017 and is now serving as a chairperson of IOC/WESTPAC since 2021. His scientific interests are mainly on ocean dynamics and air-sea interactions in the tropical region associated with El Nino/Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole events. He particularly focused on the role of surface salinity to ocean dynamics and air-sea interactions in the tropical area, and to measure time series of salinity from moored instruments, he developed the data quality system of salinity from the moored TRITON buoy. Recently, after January 1st 2025, he has started his new carrier as Administrative Director at Advanced Institute of Marine Ecosystem Change, hosted by Tohoku University and JAMSTEC.

Kristin Kleisner, Ph.D., is a Lead Senior Scientist and the Associate Vice President for Oceans Science at EDF. Her work is focused on understanding the multiple benefits generated by fisheries systems, including food, climate and biodiversity outcomes. Specifically, she is leading research to investigate the impacts of climate change on the distribution and productivity of fish stocks and understand the implications of these changes for fisheries management systems around the world. Kristin has also worked extensively to elevate the role of aquatic foods in the global food policy dialogue and to help value aquatic foods for their nutritional content. Currently she is leading a team of scientists investigating the potential of various blue carbon natural climate solutions to deliver a suite of benefits to people and nature while minimizing adverse outcomes and risks. Kristin worked previously as a joint research scientist for NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole and The Nature Conservancy on the development of ecosystem-based models to explore the effect of climate change on fish stock distributions in New England. She also led research on the development of fisheries, food security, and ecosystem status indicators with IndiSeas (www.indiseas.org), FAO, UNESCO, and the Sea Around Us project. She was a co-PI on the Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) Working Group on Climate Resilient Fisheries and is a co-lead on the UN Ocean Decade FishSCORE 2030 programme. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed studies in the fisheries and oceanographic literature and holds a PhD in Marine Biology and Fisheries from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami.

Steve Diggs is a Research Data Specialist with the University of California Office of the President (UCOP), serving as the Senior Product Manager for the data publishing portfolio at the University of California Curation Center (UC3). He previously was the Technical Director for the Hydrographic Data Office at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

With decades of experience in designing and operating full-stack information systems, Steve focuses on making data more valuable, discoverable, and accessible to the research community. He is also active in international data and science teams, serving on the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) under the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) and the UN Ocean Decade Data Coordination Committee. Steve’s extensive work with researchers in the field and lab gives him a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities in managing scholarly data.

Prof. Chunhua Han is a senior research fellow at National Marine Data and Information Service, Ministry of Natural Resources of China. She is mainly engaged in scientific research and operational work in the fields of national marine information resources management, and marine mineral resources big data application technology research and development. She has undertaken more than 10 provincial and ministerial projects, presided over the development of 2 marine industry standards, written more than 20 departmental rules, regulations and technical specifications, edited 2 monographs, published over 30 papers, and compiled more than 30 important marine data management technical reports. She is now taking the leading role in innovating concepts and technical methods of classifying marine big data resources for the purposes of building and operating the marine big data resources system in China.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Bergen, Norway. I obtained my PhD in 2019 from Ocean University of China in Qingdao and my major is fishery oceanography. My research interests involve long-term responses of multiple ocean ecological levels to climate change and variability, as well as the associated climate risks on fisheries. I used to focus on the small pelagic fishes and ecosystems in the Northwest Pacific but now I concentrate on fish stocks in the Northeast Atlantic. My study aims to investigate nonlinear dynamics of fishery stocks and their nonstationary relationships with biophysical drivers. This research contributes to both historical understandings on climate-induced biological response and future perspectives on fishery management under climate change.

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Dr. Watanuki has been a professor of Division of Marine Environment and Resources, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, for 20 years and now retired. His research interest is to understand the mechanism underlying the seasonal and interannual changes in the foraging behaviour and breeding success of seabirds. He has been conducting the long-term study of phenology, diet, hatching/fledging success and chick growth of three species of seabirds at Teuri Island, Hokkaido. He is also conducting a project revealing flexibility of their foraging behavior using bio-logging techniques. His further interest is to understand the anthropogenic stressors including pollutants and offshore wind farms and the impacts on seabirds. Within PICES he has been a Japanese member of MBM-S since 2000 and worked as a co-chair of this section for 4 years.