Jeffrey Polovina (General Plenary)
The North Pacific Transitional Zone: A research and management retrospective

Emanuele Di Lorenzo (General Plenary)
Multi-scale impacts of climate on Pacific Transitional Areas

Closing Ceremony
Session Summaries, Awards

Satoshi Osafune (Plenary S1)
Decadal-scale temperature variability in the subarctic-subtropical gyre boundary region in the North Pacific

Francisco Werner (Plenary S1)
Secular and paroxysmic shifts of transitional areas: Science and management challenges

Sayaka Yasunaka (Invited)
Large nutrient variation in the North Pacific Transitional Area

Hitoshi Kaneko
Decadal salinity variation in the western North Pacific correlated with the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation

Ruben Rodriguez-Sanchez
Interannual spatial dynamic of frontal activity along the southern part of the California Current (1985-2015)

Tim R. Baumgartner
The nature of the transition in the California Current Ecosystem during the 1997-1998 El Niño event

Luz de Lourdes Aurora Coronado-Álvarez
Estimates of anthropogenic carbon in waters off Mexico north and south of the Cabo San Lucas front

Edward Weber
Effects of environmental variability on fish distributions off southern California, U.S.A.

Ruben Lara-Lara
Phytoplankton biomass and production rates, pCO2 and carbon fluxes time series (2006-2016) in the southern California Current Region

Laura Lilly
Is every El Niño the same? ENSO-related zooplankton community shifts in the southern California Current System

David Rivas
Physical and biological effects of the 2014-2015 northeastern Pacific’s climatic anomaly on northern Baja California Peninsula, diagnosed by a numerical NPZD model

Saúl Álvarez-Borrego
Spatial and temporal variations of satellite-derived SST, and phytoplankton biomass and production in the transition zone at the southernmost CCS in 2002-2017

María C. Jiménez-Quiroz
Impact of the Blob and El Niño warming phenomena in the SW Baja California peninsula: Study case of Bahia Magdalena

Ryan Rykaczewski
Variability in the transport and latitude of the North Pacific Current: Consequences for northeastern Pacific ecosystems

Evan Howell
Variation in phytoplankton composition between two North Pacific frontal zones along 158°W during winter-spring 2008–2015

Johanna Wren
Evaluation of fleet dynamics and oceanography as factors accounting for variations in black-footed albatross interactions in the Hawai‘i-based deep-set longline fishery 2006-2017

Elliott Hazen
(presented by Steven Bograd)
Mesoscale ocean features lead to increased energy gain for Elephant Seals in the North Pacific Transition Zone

Ellen Yasumiishi
(presented by Keith Criddle)
Climate related changes in abundance and range shifts of pelagic fishes and jellyfish in the eastern Bering Sea during late summer, 2002-2016

Xianshi Jin
Effects of environmental changes in inshore waters on community structure and population dynamics of exploited marine species

Xiujuan Shan
Biological responses of small yellow croaker (Larimichthys polyactis) to multiple stressors: A case study in the Yellow Sea, China

Tatsuya Sakamoto
Reproducing migration history of Japanese sardine using otolith δ18O and a data assimilation model

Keith Criddle
Durable entitlements and resilience in fishery social ecological systems subject to environmental forcing

Barbara Muhling
North Pacific albacore distribution and migrations along transition zones
[Contact presenter]

Ana Gabriela Uribe-Prado
Fish larvae associations off the west coast of the Baja California peninsula during climate anomalies of 2014 and 2015

Timothy Frawley (CANCELLED)
Impacts of a transition to tropical oceanic conditions in the Gulf of California on pelagic fisheries (2010-2015)

Diane Gendron
Recent decline in body condition of individual blue whales in the Gulf of California

Elan Portner
Differential response of midwater, midtrophic communities to ENSO and tropicalization in the Gulf of California

Daniel Grados
Changes in the oxycline depth and their impacts on fish distribution

Rodolfo Cornejo
Acoustic and bio-ecological observations of mesopelagic fishes (Vinciguerria lucetia and myctophids) in Peruvian Humboldt Current

Carmen Yamashiro
Distribution of jumbo flying squid (Dosidicus gigas) and the environmental conditions in Peruvian waters

Luis Mariátegui
(presented by Carmen Yamashiro)
Biological and fishing aspects of the jumbo flying squid (Dosidicus gigas) in the main fishing areas of the Peruvian sea between July 2015 to June 2017

Miguel Ñiquen
Impact of climatic variability on the distribution of dominant species in coastal and oceanic regions off Peru

Patricia Ayón
Spatio-temporal variability of the early life stages of anchovy (Engraulis ringens) and Panama lightfish (Vinciguerria lucetia) in the Northern Humboldt Current System (1964-2016)

David Correa
Peruvian North as a transition area during coastal El Niño 2017 and its impact on the marine environment: A review oceanographic, meteorological and artisanal fishery

Betsy Buitrón
Reproduction of Jack mackerel Trachurus murphyi in Peru

Luis Usca Cornejo
(presented by Miguel Ñiquen)
Dynamics of the artisanal fishery of the flying fish roe in southern Peru

Josymar Torrejón–Magallanes
Spatio-temporal distribution modeling and abundance index of perico (Coryphaena hippurus) in the Pacific Ocean off Peru

Wilbert Marin
(presented by Miguel Ñiquen)
Billfish fisheries and environmental variability in Peru during 1997-2016

POSTERS

S1-P-1 Erick D. Ruvalcaba-Aroche
“El Niño” 2015-2016 in northeastern tropical-subtropical convergence: Implications on squid paralarvae distribution

S1-P-2 Raquel Toste
Changes on the transport of North Pacific Current system based on CMIP5 projections to the end of the century

S1-P-3 Carina Stefoni Böck
Spatiotemporal variability of the oceanic fronts at the Kuroshio-Oyashio Confluence region and its relationship with ENSO

S1-P-4 Nestor Rey-Villiers
Biogenic silica as an indication of change in primary productivity in the last 5 thousand years

S1-P-5 Shinya Kouketsu
Decadal salinity changes on the isopycnal surfaces revealed by the Argo float array around the subarctic front in the North Pacific

S1-P-6 Toshimasa Doi
Representation of multi-decadal changes in dissolved inorganic substances in the Estimated Ocean State for Climate Research (ESTOC)

S1-P-7 Shigeki Hosoda
Spatial and temporal variability of oxygen minimum zone in the North Pacific detected by biogeochemical Argo floats

S1-P-8 John J. Selvaraj
Decadal changes in the Colombian Pacific thermal frontal zones as revealed by satellite observations

S1-P-9 Pavel A. Munshi
Case study of upwelling at Baja California waters

S1-P-10 Erick J. Rodriguez-Aamador
Larval fish habitats in the shallow oxygen minimum zone in the Tropical Pacific off Mexico before and during “El Niño Godzilla 2015-2016”

S1-P-11 Eleuterio Yáñez
Environmental conditions associated with swordfish Chilean coast

S1-P-12 Deivis Cueva
Is there genetic fluctuation in northern population of Engraulis ringens over timescales? An approach with mitochondrial markers

S1-P-13 Hiroaki Tatebe
Atmospheric responses and feedback to the meridional ocean heat transport in the North Pacific

Nicolas Gutierrez (Plenary S2)
Considerations of transitional and transboundary processes when assessing and managing highly migratory tuna species

James Ianelli (Invited)
Status of science-based fisheries management in the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) area

Dale Squires
High-seas fisheries management

Minling Pan
Challenges in managing highly migratory and transboundary resources in Hawaii longline fisheries
[Contact presenter]

Yoshinori Aoki
Reviews of Albacore biology and fisheries around transition areas in the North Pacific Ocean

Jose Augusto Valencia-Gasti
Distribution of Pacific sardine spawning between U.S. and Mexico from 2000 to 2013

Ricardo Oliveros-Ramos
BEST PRESENTATION AWARD
Dynamics of the transition zones between distribution sub-areas of jack mackerel (Trachurus murphyi) in the South Pacific

Toshihide Iwasaki (Invited)
Stock assessment for Pacific saury, considering some marine environmental factors

Hidetada Kiyofuji (Invited)
Distribution and behavior of highly migratory species in transition areas in the western Pacific Ocean - Tracking of Marine Animals (ToMAs) Project
[Contact presenter]

Leanne Duffy
Using long-term catch trends and habitat preferences of bycatch species to improve ecosystem-based management in transition areas within the eastern Pacific Ocean
[Contact presenter]

Shane Griffiths
A flexible spatially-explicit ecological risk assessment approach for quantifying the cumulative impact of tuna fisheries on data-poor bycatch species caught in eastern Pacific Ocean transition areas
[Contact presenter]

Dale Squires
Bycatch-saving technological change

David Demer
Continuous differentiation of sardine stocks in the Ensenada Front transitional area
[Contact presenter]

Stefan Koenigstein
Impacts of climatic and ecological variations on human user groups and implications for marine ecosystem-based management in Northern Peru

Chin-Hwa Jenny Sun (Invited)
(presented by Minling Pan)
Economic and conservation: Biological and economic tradeoffs between longline and purse-seine fishing in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

Simon Bush (Invited)
Only one path to sustainability? Understanding the role of MSC certification in regional fisheries management organizations

POSTERS

S2-P-1 Aleksandr Zavolokin
Management of fisheries resources in the Convention Area of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission: Progress and challenges

John Barth (Plenary S3)
On the edge: Observing and modeling intensified physical and biogeochemical interactions in the Pacific’s ever-shifting transition zones

Toshio Suga (Plenary S3)
North Pacific subtropical-subpolar transitional areas as ventilation windows of the both gyres

Kenneth Johnson (Plenary S3)
Observing biogeochemical variability in transitional areas of the South Pacific/Southern Ocean with the SOCCOM profiling float array

Charles Stock (Invited)
Predicting and adapting to biome-scale marine resource changes in the North Pacific

Masao Kurogi (Invited)
Development of a high resolution coastal ocean model

Daisuke Hasegawa (Invited)
Mixing processes of the Oyashio and Tsugaru Warm Current in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean

Enrique Curchitser
Projected coastal hypoxia in a coupled bio-physical model of the California Current System

Sergey Prants
Lagrangian analysis of mesoscale eddies in the Kuroshio-Oyashio frontal zone

Cristhian Asto
Spatio-temporal variability of the Equatorial Front in the Eastern Pacific

Isabel Ramirez
The effect of Ojo de Liebre Lagoon on the hydrodynamics of Bahia Vizcaino

Hitomi Oyaizu
Temperature and growth cause the recruitment variability of Pacific saury (Cololabis saira): Modeling survival processes in early life stages
[Contact presenter]

Sachihiko Itoh
Fine-scale variability of isopycnal salinity in the California Current System

POSTERS

S3-P-1 Yukio Masumoto
Eastern Indian Ocean Upwelling Research Initiative (EIOURI)

Dimitri Gutierrez (Plenary S4)
Recent trends on temperature, productivity and oxygenation across the Peruvian upwelling system

Xinyu Guo (Invited)
Cross-shelf transports of water and nutrients in the East China Sea and their impacts on the primary production
[Contact presenter]

Tatsuro Karaki
Buoyancy shutdown process for the development of the baroclinic jet structure of the Soya Warm Current during summer

Hiroaki Saito
Nutrient front across the Kuroshio
[Contact presenter]

Hiroshi Kuroda
Numerical experiments based on a coupled physical–biochemical ocean model to study the Kuroshio-induced nutrient supply on the shelf-slope region south of Japan

Michael Jacox (Invited)
Wind and nutrient controls on phytoplankton biomass in the coastal, offshore, and transitional areas of the California Current System

Steven Bograd
Cross-shelf variation in California Current Water mass structure

William Crawford
Variations in subsurface oxygen concentration in the Pacific Canadian transition zone

Angelica Peña
Interannual variability of biogeochemical conditions along the British Columbia continental shelf and slope
[Contact presenter]

Shinichiro Kida
A Lagrangian view of spring blooms and river-ocean dynamics
[Contact presenter]

Vera Oerder
Frontal activity and characteristics in an area of seasonal coastal upwelling near Punta Lavapié, Humboldt Current System
[Contact presenter]

François Colas
The impact of El Niño events on the fine-scale dynamics off Peru coasts: In-situ measurements and regional model analysis

Criscely Luján-Paredes
Ecological characterization of the pelagic habitat in the Peruvian Upwelling Ecosystem: Insights from the dynamics of the coastal shelf-open ocean transitional areas
[Contact presenter]

Michelle I. Graco
Connections between the Peruvian coastal upwelling and open ocean biogeochemistry with the plankton variability

Dante Espinoza-Morriberón
Interannual variability of the chlorophyll-a transitional zone in the Peruvian Upwelling System: Local and remote forcings

Avy Bernales
Impact of oceanographic variability in the nano- and microphytoplankton dynamics off the central coast of Peru – 12° S (2013-2016)

Roberto Quesquén
Answer of zooplankton indicator species to oceanographic variability in the transition zone off the central coast of Peru (2013-2017)

Katia Aronés
Zooplankton biomass in the Northern Humboldt Current System and its variability associated with areas of transition

Graciela Pérez-Mora
Surface temperature and chlorophyll-a satellite, in coastal transition zones: Effect on the anchovy fishery (Engraulis ringens) of northern Chile

Wencheng Lau-Medrano
BEST PRESENTATION AWARD
The Peruvian anchovy and oceanographic fronts: Description of association and using as a proxy of presence
[Contact presenter]

Ioanna Bouloubassi
Imprints of physical, chemical and biological conditions in sedimentary proxies across the Peruvian shelf

POSTERS

S4-P-1 Ximena Orosco
Paralarvae of Argonauta spp. (Class: Cephalopoda) as indicators of ocean fronts in the NHCS

S4-P-2 Kazuo Ishikawa
Transport and recruitment of age-0 jack mackerel (Trachurus japonicus) from the East China Sea to coastal areas along the Kuroshio

S4-P-3 Ramiro Castillo
Behavior of schools of anchoveta (Engraulis ringens) on the fronts of coastal and oceanic water masses between 2015 and 2017

S4-P-4 Elda Pinedo
Spatial characterization offshore-inshore of euphausiids in the Northern Humboldt Current System

S4-P-5 Amaru Márquez
Persistence of a sub-surface fluorescence maximum within the Oxygen Minimum Zone in the Pacific off Mexico

Paul Snelgrove (Plenary S5)
Transitional habitats as an opportunity to understand drivers of ecosystem functioning
[Contact presenter]

Xinzheng Li (Invited)
Long time change of macrobenthos from the Yellow Sea and East China Sea, Northwestern Pacific

Víctor Aramayo
OMZ-influenced benthic responses along bathymetric gradients reflects coherent transitional ecological changes
[Contact presenter]

Cherisse Du Preez
Submarine islands of benthic biodiversity within and adjacent to an offshore transitional area

Jeffrey Crooks
Biological invasions at the land-sea-freshwater interface in the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, a Marine Protected Area in a binational watershed

Tammy Norgard
(presented by Cherisse Du Preez)
Understanding the Pelagic waters and Coastal Transition Zone within Canada largest Area of Interest for Protection on the Pacific Coast

Romeo Saldívar-Lucio
Restructuring reef-fish functional groups: No-fishing consequences into a transitional area

Sonia Batten (Invited)
Lower trophic level transitions determined from Continuous Plankton Recorder surveys

Bertha Lavaniegos (Invited)
Changes euphausiid species composition in the transition zone of the California Current during the period 1998-2016

Sylvia P.A. Jiménez-Rosenberg
Bahía Vizcaíno as a transitional area for fish larvae communities in the Southern California Current

Kazuaki Tadokoro
Seasonal variation of plankton community and biodiversity in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Transition waters

Susana Cabrera-Núñez
Community structure and spatial distribution of zooplankton in the Mexican Transitional Pacific (April 2015)

Giancarlo Moron
Identifying biogeographical transition zones and nekton assemblages in the northern Humboldt Current System

Ruslan Pastor
(presented by Carmen Yamashiro)
Spatial-temporary distribution of biodiversity on the northern border of the Peruvian maritime domain (2014-2015)

Ruslan Pastor
(presented by Carmen Yamashiro)
The coastal El Niño 2017 and its effect on the space-time distribution of some fishes and invertebrates off the coast of Peru

David Petatán-Ramírez
Habitat suitability index of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) in the Mexican Pacific Ocean under climate change scenarios

Julio Lorda
Species range shifts, long term variability of temperature on coastal systems, and insights into the future

POSTERS

S5-P-1 Adriana Gomez-Leon, Nestor Rey-Villiers and Alberto Sanchez
BEST POSTER PRESENTATION
AWARD CERTIFICATE
Spatio-temporal variability in the relative abundance of benthic foraminifera in La Paz lagoon, Gulf of California

S5-P-2 David Torres, Patricia Ayón, Katia Aronés and Javier Castro
Changes in marine zooplankton diversity during El Niño 2015-2016 in a convergence area in northern Peru

S5-P-3 Natalia Arakaki, Patricia Carbajal, Alex Gamarra and Janeth Galarza
Distributional patterns of macroalgae from northern Peru

S5-P-4 Victoria Díaz-Castañeda and J. Kuk
Macrobenthic colonization of an artificial reef located in the west coast of Baja California, Mexico

Francisco Arreguín-Sánchez (Plenary S6)
Climate change, the challenge of fisheries management and the need of a change of paradigm: Ecosystem reference levels for sustainable fisheries

Thomas Therriault (Plenary S6)
Coastal Aquatic Ecosystems Under Stress: PICES experiences

Zengjie Jiang (Invited)
Potential impacts of coastal mariculture on marine ecosystems and sustainable approaches

Jon Chamberlain (Invited) (CANCELLED)
A review of the use of models to simulate environmental interactions of marine finfish aquaculture in BC and their potential application to other coastal zone management challenges

Arturo Aguirre-Velarde
Marine aquaculture vulnerability in the northern limit of the Peruvian upwelling system

Jingmei Li (Invited)
Valuing the loss of ecological benefits of wetland reclamation in Jiaozhou Bay based on choice experiments
[Contact presenter]

Meng Su (CANCELLED)
Preliminary analysis of the Jimo coastal ecosystem with the Ecopath model

Steve Kasperski
Understanding social vulnerability and resource dependence in Alaska fishing communities

Miguel Angel Ojeda Ruiz (CANCELLED)
Fisheries in Bahia Magdalena-Almejas: Evolution and the need to explore new policies and management paradigms

Lander Merma
Physical variability associated to the formation of water stratification events and emergence of anoxia in Paracas Bay (14º S) downstream the main Peruvian coastal upwelling cell

Ursula Mendoza
Sulfidic events in a bay of the Central Peruvian upwelling system

Juan A. Payan Alcacio
BEST PRESENTATION AWARD
Analysis of the community structure of the mangrove fish in the American Continent

POSTERS

S6-P-1 Ricardo Palomares-García
Seasonal cycle of the copepod community in an anti estuarine lagoon

S6-P-2 Sonia Sánchez
Seasonal variability in the distribution of phytoplankton in Paracas Bay/Peru, as a response to environmental conditions

S6-P-3 Jesus Roberto Oyervides-Figueroa
Genetic characterization of Artemia franciscana by isoenzymes