Marine Environmental Quality Committee
  • Acronym: MEQ
  • Parent Committee: SB
  • Chair: Dr. Thomas W. Therriault <Thomas.Therriault@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
    Vice-Chair: Dr. Takafumi Yoshida <yoshida@npec.or.jp>
  • Mailing List
  • Past Chairs:
    Andrew RS Ross (acting Chair May. 2023 – Oct. 2023, Canada)
    Guangshui Na (Nov. 2018 – May. 2023, China)
    Chuanlin Huo (Oct. 2012 – Nov. 2018, China)
    Mitsutaku Makino (acting Chair Apr. 2012 – Oct. 2012, Japan)
    Steven Rumrill (Oct. 2009 – Apr. 2012, USA)
    Glen S. Jamieson (Oct. 2006 – Oct. 2009, Canada)
    John E. Stein (Oct. 2000 – Oct. 2006, USA)
    Alexander V. Tkalin (Oct. 1998 – Oct. 2000, Russia)
    Richard F. Addison (Dec. 1995 – Oct. 1998, Canada)
    Jia-Yi Zhou (Oct. 1992 – Nov. 1995, China)
  • Past Vice-Chairs:
    Andrew RS Ross (Nov. 2018 – Oct. 2023, Canada)
    Thomas Therriault (Oct. 2017 – Nov. 2018, Canada)
    Darlene Smith (Oct. 2012 – Jul. 2017, Canada)
    Mitsutaku Makino (Oct. 2009 – Oct. 2012, Japan)
    Hak-Gyoon Kim (Oct. 2006 – Oct. 2009, Korea)
    Hideaki Nakata (Oct. 2005 – Oct. 2006, Japan)
  • Action Plan
Key Tasks:
The MEQ Committee's area of responsibility is to promote and coordinate marine environmental quality and interdisciplinary research in the northern North Pacific. This would include understanding the sources and fates of contaminants found in the marine environment, the ecology of harmful algal blooms, marine environmental quality aspects of mariculture, and the transport and introduction of non-indigenous species and stocks.
News
  • Changes within MEQ Committee Membership (Canada): Dr. Peter Ross stepped down as an MEQ Committee member.
    9/29/2025 11:36:58 AM PST
  • S-MPP Membership (Canada): Drs. Sarah Dudas, Bonnie Hamilton and Jennifer F Provencher are a newly appointed S-MPP members representing Canada.
    3/6/2025 5:00:16 PM PST
  • Changes within MEQ Committee Membership (Korea): Dr. Tae Gyu Park is a newly appointed MEQ committee member replacing Dr. Jeong Hee Shim and representing Korea.
    2/28/2025 1:02:56 PM PST
  • S-MPP Membership (Korea): Dr. Sang Hee Hong and Prof. Taewon Kim are the newly appointed S-MPP members representing Korea.
    2/10/2025 10:11:54 AM PST
  • New S-MPP Membership (USA): Dr. Mark Manuel is a newly appointed member of the S-MPP representing USA.
    1/27/2025 5:35:01 PM PST

    • More News

Members
Dr. Andrew RS Ross (HAB-S, MEQ)
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Institute of Ocean Sciences
9860 W Saanich Rd.
Sidney, BC
Canada V8L 4B2
++1 250 363 6800
++1 250 363 6807
Andrew.Ross@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Dr. Thomas W. Therriault (AP-NIS, FUTURE-SSC, MEQ, SB)
MEQ Chair, AP-NIS Co-Chair
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Pacific Biological Station
3190 Hammond Bay Rd.
Nanaimo, BC
Canada V9T 6N7
(1-250) 756-7394
(1-250) 756-7138
Thomas.Therriault@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Dr. Chuanlin Huo (MEQ)
Department of Planning and Management
National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, MEE
42, Linghe Street, Shahekou District
Dalian, Liaoning
China, PR 116023
86-411-84783218
86-411-84783277
PM_CWTH@163.COM
Dr. Chunhou Li (MEQ)
South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, CAFS
231 West Xingang Rd., Haizhu District
Guangzhou, Guangdong
China, PR 510300
(86-20) 8910 8353
(86-20) 8445 1442
scslch@vip.163.com
Dr. Akihide Kasai (MEQ)
Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences
Hokkaido University
3-1-1 Minato-cho
Hakodate, Hokkaido
Japan 041-8611
+81-138-40-8807
akihide@fish.hokudai.ac.jp
Dr. Satoshi Nagai (AP-NIS, MEQ)
Coastal and Inland Fisheries Ecosystem Division
Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Egency
2-12-4 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku,
Yokohama, JP14
Japan 236-8648
+81457887612
nagai_satoshi44@fra.go.jp
Dr. Takafumi Yoshida (HAB-S, MEQ)
MEQ Vice-Chair
NOWPAP CEARAC
5-5 Ushijima Shin-machi
Toyama, Japan 930-0856
(81-76) 445-1571
(81-76) 445-1581
yoshida@npec.or.jp
Prof. Tae-Hoon Kim (MEQ)
Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Chonnam National University (JNU) 77
Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju
Korea, R 61186
(82-62) 530-3472
(82-62) 530-3469
thkim80@jnu.ac.kr
Prof. Dong-Hun Lee (MEQ)
College of Environmental and Marine Science and Technology
Pukyong National University
45 Yongso-ro, Nam-gu
Busan, Korea, R 48513
+82-51-629-6573
ldh301@pknu.ac.kr
Dr. Tae Gyu Park (HAB-S, MEQ)
Southeast Sea Fisheries Research Institute
National Institute of Fisheries Science (NIFS)
Younwoon-ri 361, Sanyang-eup
Tongyeong, Korea, R 53085
(82 55) 640-4752
taegyupark@korea.kr
Dr. Tatyana A. Belan (MEQ)
Department of Oceanography and Marine Ecology
Far Eastern Regional Hyrdometeorological Research Institute (FERHRI)
24 Fontannaya St.
Vladivostok, Primorsky Kray
Russia 690091
(7-4232) 431-487
(7-4232) 434-054
Tbelan@ferhri.ru
Dr. Elena Maximovna Latkovskaya (MEQ)
Environment Studies and Human Impact Monitoring
Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (SakhNIRO)
196 Komsomolskaya St.
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia 693023
(7-4242) 456-766
(7-4242) 456-778
elena-sazon02@yandex.ru
Dr. Misty Peacock (HAB-S, MEQ)
Salish Sea Research Center
Northwest Indian College
2522 Kwina Rd.
Bellingham, WA
U.S.A. 98226
360-594-4082
mpeacock@nwic.edu
Dr. Matthew Savoca (AP-ECOP, MEQ, S-MPP)
S-MPP Co-Chair
Department of Oceans, Hopkins Marine Station
Stanford University
120 Ocean View Blvd.
Pacific Grove, CA
U.S.A. 93950
7184909356
msavoca13@gmail.com
Active Groups

S-MPP: Section on Marine Plastic Pollution
(PICES-2024 - PICES-2029)

AP-NIS: Advisory Panel on Marine Non-indigenous Species
(June 2016 - )

S-HAB: Section on Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms in the North Pacific
(PICES-2003 - PICES-2025)

Disbanded Groups

WG 42: Working Group on Indicators of Marine Plastic Pollution
(PICES-2018 - PICES-2023)

WG 30: Working Group on Assessment of Marine Environmental Quality of Radiation around the North Pacific
(Aug. 2013 - PICES-2017)

WG 31: Working Group on Emerging Topics in Marine Pollution
(Jan. 2014 - PICES-2017)

WG 28: Working Group on Development of Ecosystem Indicators to Characterize Ecosystem Responses to Multiple Stressors
(Jun. 2011 - PICES-2015) (also reports to BIO)

WG 21: Working Group on Aquatic Non-indigenous Species
(PICES-2005 - PICES-2013)

SG-MP: Study Group on Marine Pollutants
(PICES-2011 - Dec. 2013)

WG 24: Working Group on Environmental Interactions of Marine Aquaculture
(PICES-2008 - PICES-2012) (also reported to FIS)

WG 19: Working Group on Ecosystem-Based Management Science and its Application to the North Pacific
(PICES-2004 - PICES-2009) (also reported to FIS)

WG 18: Working Group on Mariculture in the 21st Century - The Intersection between Ecology, Socio-Economics and Production
(PICES-2003 - PICES-2006) (also reported to FIS)

SG-EBM: Study Group on Ecosystem-Based Management Science and its Application to the North Pacific
(PICES-2003 - PICES-2004) (Also reported to FIS)

WG 15: Working Group on Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in the North Pacific
(PICES-1999 - PICES-2003)

WG 8: Working Group on Practical Assessment Methodology
(PICES-1994 - PICES-2000)

WG 2: Working Group on Development of Common Assessment Methodology for Marine Pollution
(PICES-1992 - PICES-1994)

Products
Annual Meetings

Reports

2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992

Session and Workshop Summaries

TBA

Related Materials

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 53, 2017
Conditions Promoting Extreme Pseudo-nitzschia Events in the Eastern Pacific but not the Western Pacific

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 48, 2014
Report of Working Group 21 on Non-indigenous Aquatic Species

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 47, 2014
Proceedings of the Workshop on Economic Impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms on Fisheries and Aquaculture

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 46, 2014
Report of the Study Group on Marine Pollutants

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 44, 2013
Report of Working Group 24 on Environmental Interactions of Marine Aquaculture

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 37, 2010
Report of Working Group 19 on Ecosystem-based Management Science and its Application to the North Pacific

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 36, 2009
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on the Okhotsk Sea and Adjacent Areas

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 33, 2006
Report of the PICES/NPRB Workshop on Integration of Ecological Indicators of the North Pacific with Emphasis on the Bering Sea

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 22, 2002
PICES Science: The First Ten Years and a Look to the Future