PICES 2009 Annual Meeting Information and Presentations

General Information

The North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) announces its Eighteenth Annual Meeting to be held October 23 - November 1, 2009, at the International Convention Center (ICC) in Jeju, Republic of Korea. The meeting is hosted by the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (MLTM), in coordination with the PICES Secretariat. Local arrangements are made by the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, the National Fisheries Research & Development Institute (NFRDI) and the Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute (KORDI).
Keynote Speaker: Chang Ik Zhang
  • Chang Ik Zhang (Pukyong National University)
    Ecosystem-based fisheries assessment and management: A step towards FUTURE implementation of ecosystem approaches to management (EAM)

Session 1: Science Board Symposium
Understanding ecosystem dynamics and pursuing ecosystem approaches to management

  • Science Board Best Presentation Award
    S1 INVITED Presentation
    Erlend Moksness
    Major human activities affecting Norwegian coastal marine ecosystems: Present status and challenges

Co-Convenors: John E. Stein (SB), Michael J. Dagg (BIO), Mikhail Stepanenko (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) and Sinjae Yoo (Korea)

Invited speakers:
Suam Kim (Pukyong National University, Korea)
Mitsutaku Makino (National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan)
Erlend Moksness (Institute of Marine Research, Norway)
Franz Mueter (University of Alaska Fairbanks, U.S.A.)
John K. Pinnegar (Centre for Environment,Fisheries & Aquaculture Science, UK)
Michael Sinclair (Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada)
Anthony Smith (CSIRO Marine Research, Australia)

PICES undertakes a new science program, FUTURE (Forecasting and Understanding Trends, Uncertainty and Responses of North Pacific Marine Ecosystems), to understand the responses of marine ecosystems in the North Pacific to climate change and human activities, having the major questions: 1) How does ecosystem structure and function determine an ecosystem's response to natural and anthropogenic forcing? 2) How do physical and chemical processes respond to natural and anthropogenic forcing and how are ecosystems likely to respond to these changes in abiotic processes? 3) How do human activities impact coastal marine ecosystems and their interactions with offshore and terrestrial systems. We have only a limited ability to forecast how marine ecosystems will be affected by the changing global climate. Consequently, we still have limited knowledge on the assessment and management of marine ecosystems. Under this situation, it is necessary to improve our understanding of ecosystem structure and function, ecosystem stability and resilience, and to understand and quantify the impacts of human activities and climate on marine ecosystems. It is urgent that we develop and adopt a comprehensive ecosystem-based approach which will be required to manage depleted and deteriorated marine ecosystems. To this end, breakthroughs have to be made in many areas, including evaluation of ecosystem status.

  • S1 INVITED Presentation
    Suam Kim, Ana L. Rosa, Sang-Wook Yeh, Chung I. Lee, Sukyung Kang, Sinjae Yoo, Hyunwoo Kang and Yasunori Sakurai
    Effects of atmospheric and oceanographic variability on the common squid (Todarodes pacificus) in Korean and Japanese waters during the last 30 years

    Dr. Suam Kim (suamkim@pknu.ac.kr) received his B.Sc. (1976) and M.Sc. (1979) in Dept. of Oceanography from the Seoul National University and his Ph.D. in Fisheries Oceanography from the University of Washington in 1987. Currently he is a professor of the Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea. He served as the Director of the Polar Research Center of the Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute (KORDI) and Chairman of Korea GLOBEC.
    His areas of interest include fisheries ecology, especially recruitment variability focusing on early life histories of fish in relation to oceanic/climate changes. Suam represented Korea on several international organizations/programs such as: PICES (Co-Chairman for the CCCC Program), GLOBEC (SSC member), CCAMLR (Vice-Chair of the Scientific Committee), IPCC (Expert reviewer for 4th IPCC Report), IGBP and SCAR.
  • S1 INVITED Presentation
    Mitsutaku Makino, Chikako Watanabe, Masahito Hirota and Takumi Mitani
    Understanding the interactions between ecosystem structure and fisheries structure: The case of the sardine, anchovy, chub mackerel, and purse seine fisheries in Japan

    Mitsutaku Makino, M.Phil. (Cambridge), M.A., Ph.D.(Kyoto), is a researcher of the Fisheries Research Agency, Japan. He is specializing in the fisheries and ecosystem-based management analysis. He is involved in many international scholarly programs such as Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Asia-Pacific Fisheries Committees (APFIC), World Fisheries Congress (WFC), etc. He teaches in several universities in Japan, and currently serves as an editor of the Japanese Journal of Fisheries Economics.
  • S1 INVITED Presentation
    Franz J. Mueter and Michael A. Litzow
    The spatial footprint of biological re-organization in a demersal community

    Dr. Franz Mueter works as Assistant Professor at the Juneau Center of the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Born and raised in northern Germany, Franz began biological studies at the Rhino-Westphalian Technical Institute in Aachen before moving to Fairbanks in 1988 to pursue graduate degrees in biological (M.S.) and fisheries oceanography (Ph.D.), as well as biostatistics (M.S.). His research initially focused on the early life history of pollock and flatfishes in nearshore waters of the Gulf of Alaska, and gradually expanded to include adult groundfish communities throughout the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea. He has also modeled recruitment processes of salmon in relation to temperature variability throughout the Northeast Pacific and has worked on other anadromous species in Alaskan waters, including the Arctic. His research interests currently include the effects of environmental variability on the distribution, abundance, recruitment, and survival of fishes in subarctic and arctic waters. He is particularly interested in the applied aspects of this research as they relate to the management of fisheries resources in the face of global climate changes. He serves as co-chair of ESSAS Working Group 4 on “Climate Effects at Upper Trophic Levels” and is a member of the new PICES/ICES Working Group on “Forecasting Climate Change Impacts on Fish and Shellfish”.
  • S1 INVITED Presentation
    John K. Pinnegar, Steven Mackinson, Kathryn Keeble and Georg H. Engelhard
    How does ecosystem structure and function determine the response to natural and anthropogenic forcing?

    John Pinnegar is Programme Director for Marine Climate Change at Cefas, the UK government fisheries lab in Lowestoft, England. His research interests include, the impact of climate change on marine animal populations, marine food-webs and ecosystem modelling, stable isotope analysis and predator-prey interactions, marine protected areas, bioeconomic modelling. He is a current co-chair of the ICES Working Group on Multispecies Assessment Methods (WGSAM) and he has published widely on trophic interactions and the relative importance of fishing and climatic factors in determining fish stock status. He plays an active role in many EU and national research programmes, and completed his PhD in 2000, at the University of Newcastle, on Mediterranean food-webs and carbon-nitrogen-phosphorus budgets. He is an honorary lecturer at the University of East Anglia, and was awarded the Fisheries Society of the British Isles ‘FSBI Medal’ in July 2009, in recognition of younger scientists who are deemed to have made exceptional advances in the study of fish biology and/or fisheries.
  • S1 INVITED Presentation
    Michael Sinclair
    Ecosystem approach to management: The Scotian Shelf example

    Michael Sinclair did his graduate studies in biological oceanography at Southampton University and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From 1972 until 1978 he was a professor in the oceanography section at the University of Quebec, in Rimouski. Research during this period was on phytoplankton ecology in estuaries. He joined the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO) in 1978, initially working on herring population biology and fisheries advice. This was followed by research on invertebrate fisheries, and administration, at the Halifax Fisheries Research Laboratory (1982 to 1987). Since 1988 he has held administrative positions at BIO, being the director since 2002. Research interests have been on fish population ecology, fisheries management studies and the history of fisheries research.
  • S1 INVITED Presentation
    Tony Smith, Beth Fulton and David Smith
    Ecosystem approaches to managing marine systems – the human dimension

    Dr Anthony D.M. (Tony) Smith is currently a Senior Principal Research Scientist with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research, in Hobart, and a Stream leader in CSIRO’s Wealth from Oceans National Flagship. He currently chairs several scientific committees for the assessment and management of Australian fisheries and marine resources.
    Dr Smith has been with CSIRO for 20 years. Prior to that he had research assignments as an entomologist at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and as an epidemiologist with the Centre for Environmental Technology, Imperial College, London, UK.
    Dr Smith has contributed widely to the assessment and modelling of fisheries and marine resources in Australia as well as globally, including development of methods for scientific evaluation of fishery harvest strategies. In 2003, he was the recipient of the Centenary of Federation Medal for his contributions to Australian and international fisheries science. In recent years, Dr Smith has contributed to the development of the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries guidelines on the precautionary approach to capture fisheries, and on indicators for sustainable development of marine capture fisheries. He has made a major contribution to the development of the Commonwealth Harvest Strategy Policy in Australia, and to developing generic scoring guidelines for sustainable fisheries for the Marine Stewardship Council, and has recently become a member of their Technical Advisory Board. He has led development of a number of tools in support of ecosystem based fisheries management, including methods for ecological risk assessment of fisheries. Dr Smith has a BSc Honours (1st Class) from the University of Adelaide, Australia and a PhD (Zoology) from the University of British Columbia, Canada.

William Crawford and James Irvine
A group approach to understanding ecosystem dynamics in the northeast Pacific (S1-5887)

William J. Sydeman, Jarrod A. Santora, Stephen Ralston, Nandita Sarkar, Steven J. Bograd, and Robert M. Suryan
Krill of the California Current: Predictive habitat modeling for ecosystem protection? (S1-5800)

Hiroshige Tanaka, Seiji Ohshimo and Yoshiaki Hiyama
Long-term fluctuations in the biomass of sardine Sardinops melanostictus in the western Japanese waters (Sea of Japan and East China Sea) from 1953 to 2008, in relation to climate variability (S1-5855)

Chang Ik Zhang, Jennifer Boldt, Angie Greig, Anne B. Hollowed and Patricia Livingston
An assessment of fisheries management strategies in Alaska relative to the goals of ecosystem approaches to management (S1-5830)

Wei Zheng, Zongling Wang and Mingyuan Zhu
Impact of human activities on marine ecosystem services (S1-5618)
(permission to post denied)

Peter S. Ross
The pulse of the Pacific: Can science respond effectively to a changing ocean? (S1-5721)

Session 2: FIS Topic Session
Ecosystem-based approaches for the assessment of fisheries under data-limited situations

Co-Convenors: Yukimasa Ishida (Japan), Gordon H. Kruse (U.S.A.), Patricia Livingston (U.S.A.), Laura Richards (Canada), Mikhail Stepanenko (Russia) and Chang Ik Zhang (Korea)

Invited speakers:
Anthony Smith (CSIRO Marine Research, Australia)
Kevern Cochrane, Yimin Ye (Food and Agriculture Organization)

The World Summit on the Sustainable Development recommended implementation of the ecosystem-based management by 2010. Achievement of this goal will require holistic assessment and management of fisheries resources and their associated habitat and ecosystems. Therefore, consideration must be given to ecological interactions of target species with predators, competitors, and prey species, bycatch species, interactions between fishes and their habitat, and the effects of fishing on fish stocks and their ecosystems. The challenge associated with implementation of ecosystem-based management is the design of an approach that is capable of capturing the complexity of the system, while at the same time dealing with the varying quality and quantity of available information. The Ecological Risk Assessment for the Effects of Fishing (ERAEF) approach developed by Australia and the Marine Stewardship Council’s Fisheries Assessment Methodology provide two examples of pragmatic approaches. This session encourages contributions that: 1) describe the data and/or information requirements for the application of ecosystem-based assessments, 2) review existing and emerging ecosystem-based assessment methodologies, 3) describe indicators and reference points for these assessments, 4) identify research activities needed for developing an integrated framework for assessments, and 5) discuss indices for evaluating and assessing the ecosystem status and management. Selected oral and poster presentations from this session will be considered to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

  • S2 INVITED Presentation
    Tony Smith, Alistair Hobday, Shijie Zhou, David Johnson and Keith Sainsbury
    Ecological risk assessment for fisheries: Applications in Australia and in the Marine Stewardship Council

    Dr Anthony D.M. (Tony) Smith is currently a Senior Principal Research Scientist with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research, in Hobart, and a Stream leader in CSIRO’s Wealth from Oceans National Flagship. He currently chairs several scientific committees for the assessment and management of Australian fisheries and marine resources.
    Dr Smith has been with CSIRO for 20 years. Prior to that he had research assignments as an entomologist at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and as an epidemiologist with the Centre for Environmental Technology, Imperial College, London, UK.
    Dr Smith has contributed widely to the assessment and modelling of fisheries and marine resources in Australia as well as globally, including development of methods for scientific evaluation of fishery harvest strategies. In 2003, he was the recipient of the Centenary of Federation Medal for his contributions to Australian and international fisheries science. In recent years, Dr Smith has contributed to the development of the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries guidelines on the precautionary approach to capture fisheries, and on indicators for sustainable development of marine capture fisheries. He has made a major contribution to the development of the Commonwealth Harvest Strategy Policy in Australia, and to developing generic scoring guidelines for sustainable fisheries for the Marine Stewardship Council, and has recently become a member of their Technical Advisory Board. He has led development of a number of tools in support of ecosystem based fisheries management, including methods for ecological risk assessment of fisheries. Dr Smith has a BSc Honours (1st Class) from the University of Adelaide, Australia and a PhD (Zoology) from the University of British Columbia, Canada.
  • S2 INVITED Presentation
    Kevern Cochrane and Yimin Ye
    Using ecological indicators in the context of an ecosystem approach to fisheries for data-limited fisheries

    Kevern Cochrane is the Chief of the Fisheries Management and Conservation Service of the Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy. He is southern African by origin having grown up and studied in Zimbabwe before moving to South Africa in 1977. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in 1985 with a thesis on the fish populations of a hypertrophic inland impoundment. He subsequently moved to Cape Town to join what is now Marine and Coastal Management where he became head of the Stock Assessment Group. He joined FAO in 1995 and has worked for the Organization on a range of different aspects of fisheries but always with an emphasis on management and sustainable use

Kozo Ishii, Atsushi Yamasaki and Yukimasa Ishida
First Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) ecolabelling of fishery products from marine capture fisheries in Japan (S2-5696)

Inja Yeon, Chang Ik Zhang, M.H. Shon, H.J. Whang, Kwangho Choi, J.H. Lee and Yang-Jae Im
Ecosystem–based approach for blue crab stock assessment and management strategies in the West Sea of Korea (S2-5993)

Masahi Nishimura, Ken Kobayashi and Yukimasa Ishida
Marine Ecolabel Japan (MEL Japan): New ecolabelling of fishery products from marine capture fisheries in Japan (S2-5695)

Jung Hyun Lim, Jae Bong Lee and Chang Ik Zhang
Using size-based indicators to assess the sustainability for IFRAME (S2-5833)

Laura Richards
Research requirements for ecosystem-based assessments (S2-5791)

Jong Hee Lee, Jae Bong Lee, Chang Ik Zhang, Dong Woo Lee and Dae Soo Chang
Determining indicators and compatible reference points to assess coastal marine ecosystem risks (S2-5966)

Chang Ik Zhang and Bernard A. Megrey
A length-based stock assessment framework for data-deficient situations (S2-6004)

Paul Spencer, Olav Ormseth, Anne B. Hollowed and Patricia Livingston
Analyzing the vulnerability of fish stocks in the North Pacific Ocean (S2-5974)

Jon Schnute et al.
Ecosystem models: Can we trust ourselves? (S2-5903)

Chang Seung and Chang Ik Zhang
Multi-attribute utility function approach to developing socio-economic indicators for Alaska fisheries (S2-5653)

Yongjun Tian, Hideaki Kidokoro and Tadanori Fujino
Interannual-decadal variability of demersal fish community in the Japan Sea: Impacts of climate regime shifts and trawl fishing with recommendations for ecosystem-based management (S2-5624)

Sukgeun Jung, Young Shil Kang, Dong-woo Lee, Young-Sang Suh, Sukyung Kang and Yeong Gong
Climate-driven ecosystem shifts indicated in fishery catch statistics from Korean coastal waters over 1968-2008 (S2-5612)

Dohoon Kim and Chang Ik Zhang
Developing socioeconomic indicators for an ecosystem-based fisheries approach (S2-5630)

Réka Domokos
Environmental effects on forage and longline fishery performance for albacore ( Thunnus alalunga ) in the American Samoa Exclusive Economic Zone (W5-5570)

Session 3: FIS/BIO Topic Session
Early life stages of marine resources as indicators of climate variability and ecosystem resilience

Co-Sponsored by ICES

Co-Convenors: Richard D. Brodeur (U.S.A.), Douglas E. Hay (Canada), Suam Kim (Korea), Gordon H. Kruse (U.S.A.), Vladimir I. Radchenko (Russia) and Yoshiro Watanabe (Japan)

Invited speakers:
Mark Dickey-Collas (Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies, The Netherlands)
Miriam Doyle (Joint Institute for the study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, U.S.A.)
Motomitsu Takahashi (Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan)

As management strategies become more ecosystem-based and climate-driven, there is a need for more information on the role of species interactions and oceanographic variability in regulating fisheries resources. The early life stage of fish and invertebrates has been shown to be critical in determining year-class success and subsequent recruitment to the fisheries. This session will examine changes in the abundance, distribution, and ecological relationships of early life stages (eggs to juveniles) of important fish and invertebrate species in relation to climate fluctuations. Studies examining these stages in relation to adult recruitment and their use as indicators of ecosystem stress or variability are invited. Examples of the uses of ichthyoplankton or juvenile surveys in the assessment or management of stocks and in forecasting future trends in fisheries are highly encouraged. The session is especially interested in papers that examine the role of early life stage work relative to ecosystem structure and vulnerability of ecosystems to climate change, with particular reference to the processes of recruitment.

  • S3 INVITED Presentation
    Mark Dickey-Collas and Jonathan A. Hare
    Ichthyoplankton surveys, great for assessment and day to day management but are they so relevant for understanding the future?

    Mark Dickey-Collas is a research scientist and scientific adviser on fisheries based at Wageningen IMARES in the Netherlands. His research interests cover ichthyoplankton dynamics, recruitment processes, stock assessment methods, variable productivity, management strategy evaluations and pelagic fisheries. He is a member of ICES Science Committee (SCICOM) and has also been a member of the fisheries advisory committee ACFM. In the ICES community he is highly associated with research and advice on North Sea herring but his research outputs are also on cod, plaice and indeed copepods as well.
    Weblink: www.researcherid.com/rid/A-8036-2008
  • S3 INVITED Presentation
    Miriam J. Doyle
    Responding to the call for Ecosystem Based Management of marine fisheries: Perspectives from fish early life history studies in the Northeast Pacific Ocean

    Dr. Miriam Doyle is a research scientist with the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Oceans at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. Based at NOAA’s Western Regional Center in Seattle, she works with NOAA scientists at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center and the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, contributing to NOAA’s Ecosystem and Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (EcoFOCI) research program. The primary focus for this work is the early life ecology and recruitment processes of marine fish species in the Gulf of Alaska and Southeast Bering Sea, based on time-series of ichthyoplankton and oceanographic data from these regions. In this effort, she favors a multispecies approach to the investigation of spatial and temporal patterns in early life stages of marine fish, and their links to the ocean environment. At present, her major research interest is the connection between marine fish species life history strategies and their early life history exposure and response to climate and ocean variability. Originally from Ireland, Miriam began her career investigating the early life history of fish species in the Northeast Atlantic.
  • S3 INVITED Presentation
    Motomitsu Takahashi
    Contrasting responses in growth rates between anchovy and sardine to changes in water structures in the eastern and western North Pacific

    Motomitsu Takahashi is a research scientist at the Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute, Fisheries Research Agency, Japan. His interests concern the mechanisms relating population dynamics of small pelagic fishes to environmental variables. His initial work during his graduate and postdoctoral studies focused on Japanese anchovy and sardine in the Kuroshio-Oyashio transitional waters, a major nursery ground for both species. Dr. Takahashi proposed a theory of growth rate-dependent recruitment based on his examinations of otolith variability in the region. His interests have expanded to include northern anchovy and Pacific sardine in the California Current region, and he has been trying to elucidate possible mechanisms regarding the population dynamics of these taxa in the eastern and the western North Pacific since 2005. Currently, he also studies small pelagic fishes, chub mackerel, jack mackerel, and Japanese anchovy in the East China Sea.

Elizabeth A. Logerwell, Janet Duffy-Anderson, Matt Wilson and Denise McKelvey
Processes affecting the productivity of capelin and pollock in the Gulf of Alaska (S3-5581)

Sukgeun Jung, Dong-woo Lee, Yeonghye Kim, Hyung Kee Cha, Hak-jin Hwang and Jeong-yong Lee
Contrasting recruitment of two gadoid species ( Gadus macrocephalus vs. Theragra chalcogramma) to Korean coastal waters in relation to climate change (S3-5613)

Lu Guan, John Dower and Skip McKinnell
Quantifying long-term variability in composition of the Strait of Georgia ichthyoplankton community (S3-5651)

Andrey Suntsov and Tony Koslow
Nearshore ichthyoplankton communities off southern and central California (S3-5954)

Richard D. Brodeur, Toby Auth, Elizabeth A. Daly and William T. Peterson
Ichthyoplankton as indicators of climate change and recruitment variability of marine fishes and salmon along the northwest coast of the US (S3-5822)

Jun Shoji, Yasuhiro Kamimura, Ken-ichiro Mizuno and Shun-ichi Toshito
Fish production in seagrass habitat under global warming: Effects of temperature on early growth and production of a dominant species, black rockfish, in temperate waters of the western North Pacific (S3-5852)

John C. Field, Stephen Ralston and Keith Sakuma
Rockfish (Sebastes) recruitment and ecosystem indicators for the Southern California Current
(S3-5885)

Chiyuki Sassa and Youichi Tsukamoto
Distribution and growth of chub mackerel Scomber japonicus and spotted mackerel
S. australasicus larvae in the southern East China Sea (ECS) in response to oceanographic conditions (S3-5636)

David Checkley, Yoshioki Oozeki, Sam McClatchie, and Akinori Takasuka
Comparison of spawning habitats of anchovy and sardine in the Pacific Ocean off Japan and North America (S3-5999)

Masahide Kaeriyama, Hideaki Kudo, and Hyunju Seo
Global warming effects on the early ocean life of Hokkaido chum salmon (S3-5542)

Igor Zhigalov, Alexander Figurkin and Svetlana Ovsyannikova
Oceanographic conditions and the distribution of walleye pollock eggs in the southern Kuril Islands region during March – April of 2006 and 2007 (S3-5623)

Yoshiro Watanabe
Linear response of growth rates to ambient temperature in larval round herring Etrumeus teres in the Pacific coastal waters off southern Japan (S3-5684)

Nam-Il Won, Tomohiko Kawamura, Hideki Takami and Yoshiro Watanabe
Food web structures in crustose coralline algae bed during early life stages of abalone Haliotis discus hannai in relation with recruitment process (S3-5689)

Tadanori Fujino, Hideaki Kidokoro, Tsuneo Goto and Yongjun Tian
Effect of the oceanographic condition on the abundance of mesopelagic fish: Maurolicus japonicus in the Japan Sea (S3-5743)

Session 4: MEQ Topic Session
Mitigation of harmful algal blooms

Co-Convenors: Hak-Gyoon Kim (Korea) and Mark L. Wells (U.S.A.)

Invited speakers:
Hak Gyoon Kim (Pukyong National University, Korea)
Jack Rensel (Rensel Associates Aquatic Sciences, U.S.A.)

Mitigation includes any method that can reduce the impact or severity of harmful algal blooms (HABs). These methods involve both physical means, such as dispersal of clay to cause flocculation of cells from surface waters, and preventative means, such as better monitoring of coastal waters, allowing selective closures of shellfish beds (in contrast to coast-wide closures). The capability for mitigation and the choice of mitigative tools depend upon the bloom-forming species, the severity of the event, and the frequency and intensity of monitoring in a region. Presentations will represent the comprehensive nature of HAB mitigation within the Pacific Rim nations.

  • S4 INVITED Presentation
    Hak-Gyoon Kim, Heon-Meen Bae, Chang-Kyu Lee, Yang-Soon Kang, Young-Tae Park, Wol-Ae Lim, Sook-Yang Kim, Jeong-Min Shim, Chang-Su Jung and Kyoung-Ho An
    Recent approaches on the feasible mitigation and clay dispersal

    Dr. HakGyoon Kim has been working for more than 30 years as a scientist and Director General of the Department of Environment and Oceanography in the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, Republic of Korea. Most of his scientific research has been devoted to marine environment monitoring and assessment, and eco-physiology of harmful micro-algae, including mitigation of harmful algal blooms. He has participated as the Korean delegate to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), International Maritime Organization (IMO), Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP/UNEP), and Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (GEOHAB). He has worked as an adjunct professor in both the faculty of Earth Science of Pusan National University and departments of earth environmental sciences and oceanography in Pukyong National University in Busan, lecturing on the marine environment and teaching marine biology to undergraduate and graduate students. He was a visiting professor at Kyoto University, Japan from September 2008 to March 2009.
  • S4 INVITED Presentation
    J.E. Jack Rensel and Nicola Haigh
    Fish aquaculture and Harmful Algal Bloom mitigation in marine waters of North America

    Dr. Rensel works with business, academic, governments and native people in the U.S. and overseas. His primary expertise involves impact assessment of benthic and water column effects of aquaculture and related simulation modeling for inshore and offshore locations. Since the 1970s he has been involved in harmful algal bloom studies, particularly with regard to bloom dynamics and how they affect wild and cultured fish and shellfish. His company performs field assessments of physical and biological food web conditions in temperate and tropical marine waters as well as in freshwater riverine and high-altitude lakes in North and South America. He has been active in assisting state and federal governments, NGOs and industry to develop performance-based standards for aquaculture. He works with U.S. NOAA scientists and others to conduct bioenergetic studies of commercially important fish species for calibration of aquaculture simulation models (www.AquaModel.org). He has worked with Pacific Northwest Tribes, south American natives, and native Hawaiian peoples to protect and enhance their marine and freshwater fisheries resources and environmental quality with focus on nutrient dynamics, eutrophication of nearshore waters and sediment contamination studies.

Ichiro Imai
Promising prevention strategies for harmful algal blooms by utilization of seaweed- and seagrass-beds as huge sources of algicidal bacteria (S4-5782)

Donald M. Anderson
Suppression and control of harmful algal blooms: The slow pace of progress in an important area of HAB science (S4-5895)

Eunhye Kim, Daeuk Kim, Hyungbeen Lee, Jungyul Na, Jee Woong Choi and Donhyug Kang
A feasibility study on the acoustic monitoring of Cochlodinium Polykrikoides blooms and mitigation by ship-mounted cavitation generating system (S4-5971)

Young Baek Son, Joji Ishizaka and Young-Sang Suh (S4-5664)
The spectral discrimination of surface harmful algal bloom in complicated coastal water conditions

Goh Onitsuka, Naoki Hirose, Kazutaka Miyahara, Shuyo Watanabe, Hitoshi Semura, Reiko Hori and Tetsuya Nishikawa
Monitoring and modeling of Cochlodinium polykrikoides bloom in the southwestern Sea of Japan (S4-5659)

Takafumi Yoshida and Hidemasa Yamamoto
HAB Integrated Website demonstration (S4-5583)

Dongyan Liu, John K. Keesing, Zhijun Dong, Yu Zhen, Baoping Di, Yajun Shi and Ping Shi
Coastal Porphyra aquaculture as a nursery for large scale green tide events in the Yellow Sea (S4-6016)

Marina S. Selina, Tatiana V. Morozova and Tatiana Yu. Orlova
Species composition and seasonal changes in epiphytic dinoflagellates in Russian coastal waters of the Sea of Japan

Chunjiang Guan, Fengao Lin and Xiutang Yuan
Causes of 2008 green tide bloom in Yellow Sea and estimation for the absorption of C, N and H

Session 5: MEQ Topic Session
The role of submerged aquatic vegetation in the context of climate change

  • MEQ Committee Best Presentation Award
    I Nyoman Radiarta
    The impact of climate change on the development of marine aquaculture: A case study on Japanese scallop aquaculture in Funka Bay, Hokkaido, Japan
  • MEQ Committee Best Presentation Award
    Sang Rul Park
    Growth and photosynthetic characteristics of three Zostera spp. (Z. japonica, Z. marina and Z. caespitosa) along vertical gradient: Implications for seagrass zonation

Co-Convenors: Ik-Kyo Chung (Korea) and Hiroshi Kawai (Japan)

This session will focus on the practical measures utilizing submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) such as seaweeds and sea grasses in coping with climate change in coastal regions. Discussion is expected on immediate and practical SAV measures that mitigate and adapt against global warming and sea level rise. Participants will present papers highlighting their ideas on such practical measures against climate change and global warming as well as on other pertinent subjects.

 

Xuelei Zhang, X.J. Zhang and J.W. Wang
Restoration of seagrass/algal beds as a measure to abate climate change (S5-5700)

Kwang-Seok Park, Hyung-Suek Kim, Heon-Woo Park, Gun-Mok Sohn and Hyeon Park
Climate change adaptation using seaweed bed of BioSlag in marine environment (S5-6000)

I. Nyoman Radiarta, Sei-Ichi Saitoh and Toru Hirawake
The impact of climate change on the development of marine aquaculture: A case study on Japanese scallop aquaculture in Funka Bay, Hokkaido, Japan (S5-5619)

Seokjin Yoon and Michio J. Kishi
Estimation of the role of eelgrass and associated epiphytic algae on the carbon cycle in Akkeshi Lake, Japan (S5-5637)

Taehee Na, Ik Kyo Chung and Tongsup Lee
Estimation of carbon sequestration by seaweed beds (S5-5589)

Hack-Churl You, Munho Sohn and Grevo Gerung
Red-algae pulp and paper, bio-ethanol (S5-5962)

Sang Yong Lee and Yong-Gun Gong
Seasonal variation in d13C and d15N values for the temperate seagrass Zostera marina and its relation to leaf production (S5-6003)

Tatyana N. Krupnova, Vladimir A. Pavlyuchkov and Vera V. Agarkova
Resource management of sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius on the basis of its biotic relations with brown alga Laminaria japonica (S5-5848)

Session 6: MEQ/FIS Topic Session
Marine spatial planning in support of integrated management - tools, methods, and approaches

Co-Sponsored by NOWPAP

Co-Convenors: Glen Jamieson (Canada), Vladimir Shulkin (NOWPAP, Russia) and Chang-Ik Zhang (Korea)

Invited speakers:
Erik Olsen (Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway)
Anatoly Kachur (NOWPAP POMRAC, Russia)

Marine spatial planning is receiving support from a growing number of PICES member countries as a means to develop a strategic approach to offshore ocean usage and resolve spatial conflict issues. While the concepts of integrated management (IM) and supporting marine spatial planning (MSP) are now often referred to at the policy level, there is generally only a vague and patchy understanding of how they might be practically implemented. The most obvious elements of MSP include marine protected or spatially regulated areas designed to meet one or more objectives of IM. This requires identifying and mapping marine features and processes, along with human activities and associated pressures and impacts. The session aims to explore the latest thinking and developments in MSP. Contributions are therefore invited on practical examples of MSP approaches or on any of its sub-components, including: 1) role of MSP in achieving IM objectives - success stories and problem areas to avoid in practical implementation of MSP; 2) criteria for identifying, mapping and assessing (based on observations and/or predictions) cumulative impacts of multiple human activities, including theoretical developments on community sensitivity, resilience and other features of ecological significance (e.g., mapping of human activities/impacts using spatially-resolved data or model predictions); and 3) criteria and guidelines used to design and locate MPAs to meet cross-sectoral IM objectives, i.e. not just fisheries or nature conservation objectives; included in this are theoretical considerations on interconnectivity amongst these areas. We are particularly interested in practical examples of marine planning or management systems or processes that bring together any combination of the above.

  • S6 INVITED Presentation
    Erik Olsen and Fanny Douvere
    Marine spatial planning: A practical approach to ecosystem-based management

    Erik Olsen is a senior scientist and heads the Research Program for Oil and Fish at the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen, Norway. He has a background as a fisheries biologist (PhD), but has since 2002 focused his research and advisory activities on marine spatial management by participating in developing the integrated and area-based management plans for the Barents Sea and Norwegian Sea. Key research areas within MSP have been the identification of ecologically valuable areas, areas of conflict of interest, the role of governance and cumulative vulnerability of ecosystem components to human use have been key areas of research.
  • S6 INVITED Presentation
    Anatoly Kachur
    Marine spatial planning in support of integrated management in North West Pacific Region – tools, methods, and approaches

    Director of Pollution Monitoring Regional Activity Center of North-Western Pacific Action Plan of UNEP (POMRAC NOWPAP).
    Field of interest: Pollution of atmosphere, surface, coastal and underground waters, Transboundary ecological problems of East Asia, Environmental Planning, Sustainable Development of Territories, GIS-technology.

Michio J. Kishi, Ayaka Sakamoto and Kenta Awa
Basic idea on ecosystem based management for aquaculture and artificially released chum salmon (S6-5686)

Brett R. Dumbauld
Managing estuarine resources at the landscape scale in Willapa Bay, Washington and similar U.S. West Coast estuaries (S6-5824)

Jong-Deuk Bang, Jung-Pyo Hong, Sang Un Park, Jung-Yeong Lee, Jae-Yeong Lee, Im-Gi Jeon and Jong-Hun Na
Marine enhancement program in Korean Peninsula: Introduction of marine ranching programs (S6-5685)

Hidemasa Yamamoto
Procedures for assessment of eutrophication status developed by NOWPAP CEARAC (S6-5571)

Ivan S. Arzamastsev
Zoning of Far Eastern Seas for integrated nature management (S6-5527)

Blake E. Feist, Carolina Parada, Kevin E. See and David A. Armstrong
Using ROMS ocean circulation models to predict the range expansion of non-indigenous European green crab ( Carcinus maenas ) along the west coast of North America (S6-5959)

David Nicolson, Natalie Ban, Julie Beaumont, Karin Bodtker, Christopher Bos, Tanya Bryan, Andrew Day, Glen Jamieson, Lynn Lee, Greg MacMillan, Glen Rasmussen, Charlie Short, Bruce Turris and Karen Topelko
Generating information to support integrated marine planning: Advantages and challenges of a collaborative approach (S6-5960)

Ian M. Dutton, Kerrie Wilson and Hedley Grantham
Making marine spatial planning real: Bridging the gap from planning to action (S6-5972)

Robinson Mugo, Sei-Ichi Saitoh, Akira Nihira and Tadaaki Kuroyama
Spatial prediction of skipjack tuna catch rates from remote sensing and geo-statistical approaches: Some tools for fisheries spatial planning and management in the western North Pacific (S6-5764)

Vladimir Shulkin
Spatial zoning of the sea coastal areas by the land-based influences as a part of ICARM (S6-5521)

Ning Lin, Nanyan Huang, Wenbin Xu and Qian Wang
Evaluation of marine function zoning: Research and practice in China (S6-5626)

Li-Feng Lu, Yasumasa Miyazawa, Kazuo Nadaoka, Sergey M. Varlamov and Aditya R. Kartadikaria
Responses of surface current and temperature to the local wind and tidal forcing within Sekisei Lagoon, Japan and their application to the regional coral reef connectivity (S6-5909)

Erik Olsen
Marine spatial planning in Norway: Lessons learned from developing and implementing integrated management plans for the Norwegian and Barents seas (S6-6008)

Session 7: MONITOR Topic Session
State of the art of real-time monitoring and its implication for the FUTURE oceanographic study

  • MONITOR Committee Best Presentation Award
    S7 INVITED Presentation
    Kelly J. Benoit-Bird
    Trophic cascades in Hawaii's nearshore ecosystem: Using observing technology to understand ecological interactions

    Dr. Kelly Benoit-Bird, an Assistant Professor in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, is the author of more than 30 journal publications applying acoustics to study the ecology of pelagic ocean ecosystems. Her work examines a wide range of animals including zooplankton, fish, squid, and marine mammals, in all cases emphasizing the mechanisms creating spatial and temporal dynamics in pelagic marine ecosystems, the effects these dynamics have on interactions between organisms, and the mechanisms animals use to cope with these patterns. She has been involved in the development of several new optical and acoustical instruments and has made fundamental acoustical measurements of a variety of species in the process of addressing ecological processes in the ocean. Dr. Benoit-Bird’s work was recently recognized by the Acoustical Society of America with the 2009 R. Bruce Lindsay Award for “contributions to marine ecological acoustics” and the American Geophysical Union which awarded her the 2008 Ocean Sciences Early Career Award for “innovative application of acoustical techniques”. Kelly is also the recipient of a United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a Young Investigator Award from the U.S. Office of Naval Research, and a U.S. National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers Fellowship.
  • MONITOR Committee Best Presentation Award
    Shin-ichi Ito

Co-Sponsored by Argo and GOOS

Co-Convenors: Jack Barth (U.S.A.), Dake Chen (China), David L. Mackas (Canada), Vyacheslav Lobanov (Russia), Young Jae Ro (Korea) and Hiroya Sugisaki (Japan)

Invited speakers:
Kelly J. Benoit-Bird (Oregon State University, U.S.A.)
Howard Freeland (Argo-Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada)
Dong-Young Lee (GOOS-Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, Korea)
Tomowo Watanabe (National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan)

As the technology for the Ocean Sciences and Engineering is advanced rapidly, the real-time data production will revolutionize the field investigation and laboratory analysis in many ways which will have the impact over the entire oceanographic paradigm in the end. This session will review the state of art technology for the ocean investigation on real-time and/or near real-time basis and will discuss the impact on the research and educational horizons made possible by it. Each nation will demonstrate their ocean monitoring network and their application. The exhibits from ocean monitoring companies are to occur in conjunction with this session.

  • S7 INVITED Presentation
    Howard J. Freeland
    The state of the art of real-time monitoring – The Argo experience

    Howard Freeland is a research scientist at the Institute of Ocean Sciences. From the start of his career Howard has been interested in Lagrangian approaches to measurement in the ocean, the free exchange of data in near real-time and the role of the oceans in climate change. This all came together in the global Argo project of which he is co-Chairman. Howard considers himself to have been exceedingly fortunate to be able to work with scientists from all parts of the world to build a global system for observing and reporting the state of the oceans globally and in real-time. Recently Howard has been using the Argo data to monitor changing conditions in the NE Pacific and exploring the use of Argo to monitor the steric contribution to global sea-level rise.
  • S7 INVITED Presentation
    Dong-Young Lee
    Status of real-time data exchange and strategy for the development of regional GOOS

    Dr. Dong-Young Lee is a coastal and oceanographic engineer working for Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI). He studied Oceanography at Seoul National University and served for ROK Air Force as marine weather forecaster. After getting Ph.D in Engineering Mechanics from University of Florida, he worked for Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering Laboratory, UF, before returning back to Korea to work for KORDI starting from 1985. He served as Head of Marine Environmental Engineering, Head of Coastal Disaster Prevention Research Lab., Director of Ocean Instrument, Data Management and Service Division in KORDI. He also served as NEARGOOS Chairman and Director of China-Korea Joint Ocean Research Centre in China and vice chair of GOOS Scientific Steering Committee. He has been working to build an operational coastal observing and prediction system in Korea. Dr. Lee is in charge of estimating design wave height and water level for the coastal waters of Korea.
  • S7 INVITED Presentation
    Tomowo Watanabe, Manabu Shimizu, Takashi Setou, Hiroshi Kuroda, Masachika Masujima and Makoto Okazaki
    Ocean monitoring system operated by fisheries institutes at waters around Japan

    Tomowo Watanabe is Director of the Marine Environmental Data Integrated Analysis Center at National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Japan. His division is carrying out development and operation of an ocean forecast system for the western North Pacific Ocean and he is playing an important role in data management for the data assimilation. His main research interest is in the mechanisms of long-term variations of the western North Pacific Ocean. He is now tackling the data rescue of old oceanographic observation data obtained by fisheries institutions in Japan in order to reconstruct oceanographic conditions around Japan in the last century.

Tsuyoshi Kitamoto, Hirotaka Hamanaka, Asako Toyozumi, Satoshi Tanaka, Hiroko Arataki, Yoichiro Ishibashi, Yukio Kishimoto, Hideaki Nakata, Satoru Futatsumachi, Joji Ishizaka, Hideaki Maki, Shuhei Nishida, Yukihiro Nojiri, Haruo Ogi, Yoshihisa Shirayama and Shinsuke Tanabe
Has pollution of the sea around Japan become better? A discussion based on more than 10 years of monitoring at depths up to 4000m (S7-5765)

Elena A. Shtraikhert, Sergey P. Zakharkov and Tatyana N. Gordeychuk
Some features of the distribution chlorophyll a in the north-western part of the Sea of Japan based on near real-time data (S7-5593)

Young Baek Son, Joji Ishizaka and Young-Sang Suh
Detection of Cochlodinium polykrikoides blooms using spectral classification in the South Sea of Korea (SSK) (S7-5665)

Hiroya Sugisaki and K. Sawada
Real-time monitoring for mesopelagic fish abundance using J-QUEST integrated system of echosounder and stereo TV cameras (S7-5611)

Yury N. Morgunov, Yury A. Polovinka and Dmitry S. Strobykin
Acoustic monitoring of hydrophysical processes in ocean shelf zones (S7-5740)

Natheer M. Alabsi, Hideaki Tanoue, Teruhisa Komatsu, Isamu Mitani, Mitsuhiro Kato, Toyomitsu Horii, Ichiro Aoki and Nobuyuki Miyazaki
Measurement of swimming behavior of alfonsino Beryx splendens in experimental tank using micro-data logger (S7-5929)

John Calder and David Hik
Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks - SAON

Tomoharu Senjyu, Takeshi Matsuno, Sang-Hyun Kim and Ig-Chang Pang
Monitoring of the Changjiang Diluted Water around the Jeju and Tsushima Straits using fisheries trap-nets (S7-5894)

Kwang-Soon Park, Dong-Young Lee, Jae-Il Kwon, Kwan Chang Lim, Sang-Ik Kim and Ki-Chun Jun
Development of real-time coastal monitoring network and operational oceanographic system in Korea (S7-5992)

Shin-ichi Ito, Yugo Shimizu, Shigeho Kakehi, Fumitake Shido, Taku Wagawa, Kazuyuki Uehara, Toshiya Nakano and Masafumi Kamachi
A profiling mooring buoy to observe mixed layer formations in the western North Pacific and its combination with a deeper type underwater glider (S7-5808)

Yasumasa Miyazawa, Ruo Chao Zhang, Sergey M. Varlamov, Takashi Setou, Daisuke Ambe and Tomowo Watanabe
Roles of in situ profile data obtained by Japanese fishery research agencies in quality of the eddy-resolving ocean reanalysis data: FRA-JCOPE2 (S7-5729)

David G. Foley, Elizabeth A. Becker and Karin Forney
Integrating ocean observing data to enhance protected species spatial decision support systems (S7-5953)

Chang S. Kim and Associates of SCRC
Long-term Monitoring & Prediction System for Saemangeum Coastal Waters in Korea
 

Session 8: POC/BIO Topic Session
Anthropogenic perturbations of the carbon cycle and their impacts in the North Pacific

Co-Convenors: James Christian (Canada) and Toshiro Saino (Japan)

Invited speaker:
Richard E. Zeebe (University of Hawaii, U.S.A)

Accumulation of anthropogenic carbon and associated changes in ocean chemistry (“ocean acidification”) affect all of the world’s oceans. Anthropogenic CO2 has multiple feedbacks to ocean chemistry and biology, such as reduction of calcification, shifts in phytoplankton species composition, and dissolution of particulate or sedimentary carbonates. The carbon system can also be affected by other anthropogenic factors such as changes in river flow and aeolian dust deposition. Carbon and nutrient biogeochemistry will be affected both directly and indirectly by ocean acidification. This session invites papers that address the biogeochemistry of anthropogenic carbon (processes controlling its distribution, processes by which it alters ocean chemistry), other anthropogenic impacts on carbon and nutrient cycles, acidification impacts on marine biota, and feedbacks among these.

  • S8 INVITED Presentation
    Richard E. Zeebe
    The future ocean: More acid, less calcifying, and more transparent to sound?

    Richard E. Zeebe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Bremen in Germany and worked at Columbia University in New York as a post-doctoral scholar. His research focuses on the global carbon cycle, biogeochemistry and paleoclimatology. This includes a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from physico-chemical properties of molecules and the biogeochemistry of tiny marine organisms to climate change and ocean acidification at the global scale. He has authored and co-authored more than forty publications in peer-reviewed international journals and has published a book on CO2 chemistry in seawater. He is also an editor of the international journals Climate of the Past and Paleoceanography.

Shu Saito and Akihiko Murata
Decadal changes in CaCO3 saturation state along 179°E in the Pacific Ocean (S8-5842)

Christopher L. Sabine, Richard A. Feely, François M.M. Morel, Eric S. Egleston and Dana Greeley
Past and present trends in ocean carbon uptake and storage in the North Pacific (S8-5888)

Tsuneo Ono and A-line monitoring team
Interannual variation of DIC in the Oyashio region along the A-line transect (S8-5625)

Lauren W. Juranek, Richard A. Feely, William T. Peterson, Simone R. Alin, Jay Peterson, Kitack Lee, Christopher L. Sabine and Burke Hales
A novel method for determining seasonal variations in aragonite saturation state in the eastern North Pacific continental shelf using multi-parameter analysis (S8-5883)

James R. Christian
The future ocean carbon cycle: Projections with the Canadian Earth System Model CanESM1 (S8-5775)

Keith B. Rodgers, Laurent Bopp, Olivier Aumont, Daniele Iudicone, Jorge L. Sarmiento, Anand Gnanadesikan and John Dunne
Changes in North Pacific Delta pCO2 and air-sea CO2 fluxes over the 21st century in coupled models (S8-5904)

Steven S. Rumrill, Alicia R. Helms and Adam S. DeMarzo
Long-term pH shift in a Pacific Northwest estuary: Potential relationship between ocean acidification and alkalinity within the South Slough (Coos Bay, Oregon, USA) (S8-5950)

Tae-Wook Kim, Kitack Lee, Richard A. Feely, Christopher L. Sabine, Hae Jin Jeong and Kwang Young Kim
Prediction of East/Japan Sea acidification over the past 40 years using a multiple-parameter regression model (S8-5780)

Ryo Kimura, Hideki Takami, Tsuneo Ono, Toshihiro Onitsuka and Yukihiro Nojiri
Effects of elevated pCO2 on early development of the Ezo abalone Haliotis discus hannai (S8-5784)

Shinya Fukuda, Iwane Suzuki, Takeo Hama and Yoshihiro Shiraiwa
Control of seawater pH by the coccolithophorid, Emiliania huxleyi (Haptophyceae) (S8-5841)

Takeo Hama, Shoko Kawashima, Yuhi Satoh, Koich Shimotori, Yuko Omori, Taiki Adachi, Shun Hasegawa, Hiroko Endoh, Takeshi Nakayama, Isao Inoue, Takashi Midorikawa, Masao Ishii, Shu Saitoh and Daisuke Sasano
Experimental study on the effect of ocean acidification on microbial structure and bioelemental cycles (S8-5693)

Session 9: POC/FUTURE Topic Session
Outlooks and forecasts of marine ecosystems from an earth system science perspective: Challenges and opportunities

Co-Sponsored by IMBER

Co-Convenors: Harold P. Batchelder (U.S.A.), Michael Foreman (Canada), Anne B. Hollowed (U.S.A.) and Hiroaki Saito (Japan)

Invited speakers:
Manuel Barange (GLOBEC IPO)
Michael Dalton (Alaska Fisheries Science Center, U.S.A.)
Raghu Murtugudde (University of Maryland, U.S.A.)
Takeshi Okunishi (National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan)

The prediction of responses of marine ecosystems to future climate scenarios is an important objective of PICES’ new science program, FUTURE (Forecasting and Understanding Trends, Uncertainty and Responses of North Pacific Marine Ecosystems). However, the marine ecosystem is part of the earth system and its prediction needs integrated knowledge from physical, chemical, and biological perspectives. Earth system science is an interdisciplinary approach that integrates anthropology, atmospheric science, biology, oceanography, geophysics and policy to provide predictions of ecosystem response to climate change. The earth system is complex with non-linear feedbacks, threshold responses, and, in some cases, irreversible change. Understanding the mechanisms controlling these system properties is critical to accurately forecasting future states of nature in a changing climate. Moreover, conducting large-scale experiments on the earth system is impossible. Therefore, regional marine ecosystem models should include the earth system science links that are essential for producing better predictions of marine ecosystem response to future climate scenarios. This session will focus on multi-disciplinary coupled models and theoretical, observational and experimental studies designed to provide outlooks and/or forecasts of marine ecosystems. Outlooks and forecasts differ in that outlooks are qualitative with (often) unbounded uncertainties, while forecasts are often quantitative, but must have bounded certainties. Presentations that focus on both long-term and short-term predictions, and that link two or more disciplines (such as physical oceanography, climate, ecosystem dynamics, marine resource management, or socio-economic systems) are welcome. Presentations that explore what additional information or data are needed to provide outlooks and forecasts, and especially to transition from providing outlooks to providing forecasts are desired.

  • S9 INVITED Presentation
    Manuel Barange, Icarus Allen, Eddie Allison, Marie-Caroline Badjeck, Julia Blanchard, James Harle, Robert Holmes, Jason Holt, Simon Jennings, Gorka Merino, Christian Mullon and Emma Tompkins
    Predicting the impacts and socio-economic consequences of climate change on global marine ecosystems and fisheries: The QUEST_Fish framework

    Manuel Barange is Director of the International Project Office of GLOBEC, based at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK. He is also Principal Investigator of the QUEST_Fish project, aiming at assessing the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystem functioning, global fish production, and the socio-economic implications of these. His scientific interests include climate and anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems, bioeconomic modelling and management of natural resources and physical-biological interactions in the marimne environment. Manuel has published 70 peer-reviewed papers, co-chairs the new PICES/ICES Working Group on Forecasting Climate Change Impacts on Fish and Shellfish, and is a past member of the European Commission Framework 7 Advisory board for Environment (including climate change).
  • S9 INVITED Presentation
    Michael Dalton
    Climate change and marine ecosystems: Demographic and economic implications under IPCC scenarios

    Mike Dalton is an economist in the Economics and Social Sciences Research Program, Alaska Fisheries Science Center. His research interests are in the economic relationships between people and ecosystems in the context of climatic variability and long term climate change. His current research focuses on the development and use of statistical bioeconomic models to improve understanding of fishery dynamics, notably spatial dynamics, when there is uncertainty in climate, fish stocks, market conditions, regulations, and other factors. His other area of research uses a global economic model for integrated assessment of climate change that couples economic, demographic, and biogeochemical components.
    Goals of this multidisciplinary work are to improve the treatment of demography, food production, and trade in future emissions scenarios with a better understanding of consequences for climate change and ocean acidification that apply to marine ecosystems in the North Pacific. Mike received his PhD in economics from the University of Minnesota in 1995, worked at Stanford University as a postdoctoral research associate from 1995-1998, and was an associate professor at California State University Monterey Bay until joining NOAA Fisheries in 2006.
  • S9 INVITED Presentation
    Raghu Murtugudde
    Marine ecosystem forecasting with an Earth System Prediction model

    Prof. Murtugudde's research has focused on the ocean's role climate from intraseasonal to decadal time-scales including the impacts of climate on fisheries, agriculture, water resources, carbon cycle, and air-sea interaction processes of scale selection. He has conducted rainwater harvesting in urban areas and watershed management in rural areas using the agroforestry technique as a sustainable method for rural development. His most recent research has focused on Earth System Prediction for air and water quality, human health, agriculture, water and energy resources, fisheries, and future projections for decision makers, policy wonks, and educational institutions. The Chesapeake Bay Forecast Project that he leads is the first such Earth System Prediction model to issue routine forecasts of useful environmental package for Joe, the plumber. This is one of the few projects that will combine expertise from climate scientists, bioinformatic experts, computer scientists, geographers, architects, public health and epidemiology experts, public policy and health information researchers, agro-economists, social scientists, biologists providing a campus-wide connection to fill the research needs for sustainable governance of the Earth System. Eventually, this research to operations transition will develop an academia-private-military-government partnership that will be seamless and essential.

Takeshi Okunishi, Shin-ichi Ito, Atsushi Kawabata, Hiroshi Kubota, Taketo Hashioka, Hiroshi Sumata and Yasuhiro Yamanaka (Invited)
A multi-trophic level ecosystem model for understanding mechanisms of small pelagic fish species alternation (S9-5745)

Fei Chai, Francisco Chavez, Yi Chao, Lei Shi, Hongchun Zhang and Richard Barber
Using remote sensing and modeling in operational forecasting of fisheries (S9-5934)

Keiji Kiyomatsu, Takuji Waseda and Yasumasa Miyazawa
Reconstruction of high-resolution historical February SST in the northwestern Pacific and its application to larval dispersion (S9-5898)

Yury I. Zuenko
How trends, shifts, and interdecadal fluctuations in climate reconstruct the ecosystem of the Japan/East Sea (S9-5549)

V.S. Labay
Evolution of a benthos of coastal lagoons of Sakhalin Island: Causes and consequences (S9-5958)

Yumiko Yara, Masahiko Fujii, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Naosuke Okada, Hiroya Yamano and Kazuhiro Oshima
Projected effects of global warming on coral reefs in seas close to Japan (S9-5798)

Hiroaki Saito
Modeling of organic matter dynamics in the mesopelagic zone: A perspective on modeling and ecosystem studies (S9-5692)

Enrique N. Curchitser, Kenneth A. Rose, Kate Hedstrom, Jerome Fiechter, Shin-ichi Ito, Salvador Lluch-Cota and Bernard A. Megrey
Development of a climate-to-fish-to-fishers model: Progress, issues, and some solutions (S9-5979)

Anne B. Hollowed, Nicholas A. Bond, James E. Overland and Thomas Wilderbuer
Future conditions in the Bering Sea: Applications to walleye pollock and flatfish (S9-5973)

Akihiko Yatsu, Sanae Chiba, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shin-ichi Ito, Yugo Shimizu, Masahide Kaeriyama and Yoshiro Watanabe
Future of Kuroshio/Oyashio ecosystems: An outcome of the CFAME Task Team and WG20 (S9-5600)

Harold P. Batchelder, Enrique N. Curchitser and Kate Hedstrom
Modeling physical processes in the Northeast Pacific: model-data comparisons for assessing when model skill is sufficient as a basis for ecosystem simulation (S9-5969)

Jie Shi, Hao Wei and Liang Zhao
Numerical study of the aquaculture carrying capacity in a typical raft culture bay of China (S9-5787)

Hernan Garcia, Sydney Levitus, Tim Boyer, Ricardo Locarnini, John Antonov, Daphne Johnson, Olga Baranova, Alexey Mishonov, Dan Seidov, Igor Smolyar, Melisa Zweng and Evgeney Yarosh
The World Ocean Database and Atlas 2009 (S9-6005)

Steven J. Bograd, Bryan A. Black, William J. Sydeman, Isaac Schroeder and Peter Lawson
Wintertime ocean conditions synchronize rockfish growth and seabird reproduction in the California Current (S9-5889)

BIO Paper Session

  • BIO Committee Best Presentation Award
    Bryan A. Black
    Growth-increment chronologies reflect ecosystem responses to climate variability in the northeastern Pacific
  • BIO Committee Best Presentation Award
    Tetsuichi Fujiki
    Time-series observation of phytoplankton productivity in the western subarctic gyre of the North Pacific

Co-Convenors: Michael J. Dagg (U.S.A.) and Sinjae Yoo (Korea)

Oral and poster presentations on biological aspects of the Annual Meeting theme 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 S3 and S8). Early career scientists are especially encouraged to submit papers to this session.

David Mackas, Sonia Batten, Ken Coyle and Russ Hopcroft
Perspectives on a decade of change in the Alaska Gyre: A comparison of three Northeast Pacific zooplankton time series (BIO-P-5937)

Bryan A. Black
Growth-increment chronologies reflect ecosystem responses to climate variability in the northeastern Pacific (BIO-P-5884)

Seung-Hyun Son, Meng-Hua Wang and Jae Hoon Noh
Satellite-observed chlorophyll a data in the dump site of the Yellow Sea (BIO-P-5703)

Shinji Shimode and Atsushi Tsuda
Geographical distribution and ontogenetic migration of Eucalanus californicus (Johnson) in the western North Pacific Ocean (BIO-P-5851)

Mi Hee Chung and Won Duk Yoon
Variation of the epiphytic community and biomass on Zostera marina (eelgrass) related to the host plant and environmental factors (BIO-P-5863)

Tatyana N. Krupnova and Yury I. Zuenko
Development Laminaria japonica early stages in the coastal waters of Primorye caused by climate change (BIO-P-5810)

Hongyan Bao, Ying Wu, Lixin Tian, Jing Zhang and Guiling Zhang
Sources and distributions of terrigenous organic matter in a mangrove-dominant small tropical estuary, South China (BIO-P-5867)

Evgenia E. Vekhova, Michael I. Kusaykin and Konstantin V. Kiselev
The phytoplankton contribution to the common mussel diet (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) of the Sea of Japan (BIO-P-5835)

Anastasia Dolganova
Modern condition of fauna of Polychaeta in the Amur Bay (Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan) (BIO-P-5565)

Toru Kobari, Haruko Mori and Hitomi Tokushige
Nucleic acid and protein contents of ontogenetically migrating copepods in the subarctic Pacific Ocean as influenced by development stage and depth (BIO-P-5561)

Young-Ok Kim, Pung-Guk Jang, Eun-Jin Yang, Seung-Won Jeong and Kyoungsoon Shin
Tintinnid species as biological sensors for monitoring the Kuroshio Extension in Korean coastal waters (BIO-P-5897)

Yuichiro Nishibe, Shuhei Nishida and Atsushi Yamaguchi
Vertical distribution, population dynamics and lipid storage of the cyclopoid copepod Oithona similis in the Oyashio region, western subarctic Pacific (BIO-P-5813)

Julie E. Keister, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Cheryl A. Morgan, William T. Peterson, Vincent Combes and Neri Mariani
Zooplankton species composition is linked to ocean transport in the Northern California Current (BIO-P-5850)

Elena Dulepova and Anatoly Volkov
East-west contrasts in production of zooplankton communities in the Bering Sea (BIO-P-5546)

Naoki Tojo, Ryuichi Matsukura, Hiroki Yasuma, Kenji Minami, Akira Nishmura, Orio Yamamura, Tetsuichiro Funamoto, Satoshi Honda and Kazushi Miyashita
Environmentally driven seasonal distribution of zooplankton along the Pacific coast off eastern Hokkaido, Japan (BIO-P-5701)

Yugo Shimizu, Kazutaka Takahashi, Shin-ichi Ito, Shigeho Kakehi, Hiroaki Tatebe, Ichiro Yasuda, Akira Kusaka and Tomoharu Nakayama
Transport of large subarctic copepods from the Oyashio area to the mixed water region by the coastal Oyashio intrusion (BIO-P-5577)

C. Tracy Shaw, Leah R. Feinberg and William T. Peterson
Population dynamics of the euphausiids Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa spinifera off Newport, OR, USA in relation to environmental conditions (BIO-P-5523)

Olga Yu. Tyurneva, Yuri M. Yakovlev and Vladimir V. Vertyankin
Photographic identification of the Korean-Okhotsk gray whale ( Eschrichtius Robustus ) offshore northeast Sakhalin Island and southeast Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia), 2008 (BIO-P-5641)

Tabitha C.Y. Hui, Rowenna Flinn, Edward J. Gregr, Ruth Joy and Andrew W. Trites
Are Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) affected by prey availability in the western Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands? (BIO-P-5667)

FIS Paper Session

  • FIS Committee Best Presentation Award
    Hyunjung Kang
    Maturity and spawning of small yellow croaker, Larimichthys polyactis
  • FIS Committee Best Presentation Award
    Tatiana Tunon
    Using classification trees to capture a manager’s interpretation of Bayesian projections

Co-Convenors: Gordon H. Kruse (U.S.A.) and Mikhail Stepanenko (Russia)

Papers addressing general topics in fishery science and fisheries oceanography in the North Pacific and its marginal seas are invited (except S2, S3 and S6 topics).

Chul-Woong Oh, Jong-Hun Na and Hye-Min Park
Reproductive biology of Exopalaemon carinicauda (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) in the Hampyong Bay of Korea (FIS-P-5676)

Hyunjung Kang, Yeonghye Kim, Jinkoo Kim, Sungyeon Kim, Sukgeun Jung, Dong-woo Lee and Dae Soo Chang
Maturity and spawning of small yellow croaker, Larimichthys polyactis (FIS-P-5859)

Eunhui Lee, Yeonghye Kim, Hyunjung Kang, Haekyoung Kim, Sukgeun Jung, Dong-woo Lee and Dae Soo Chang
Reproduction and growth of shotted halibut, Eopsetta grigorjewi , in southern coastal areas of Korea (FIS-P-5861)

Hyunju Seo, Kohei Matsuda and Masahide Kaeriyama
Long-term variations in body size and relative abundance of Pacific salmon during 1943-2007 (FIS-P-5754)

Yasuhiro Kamimura and Jun Shoji
Estimation of cohort-specific mortality of larval and juvenile black rockfish in a macro-algae habitat in the central Seto Inland Sea (FIS-P-5854)

Sukgeun Jung
Generalized size-dependent formulation for natural mortality of fish based on their fecundity (FIS-P-5615)

Hee Won Park, Young Il Seo, Jae Bong Lee and Chang Ik Zhang
Developing indicators and reference points for assessing fisheries in marine ranching ecosystems (FIS-P-5832)

Oleg Bulatov and Georgiy Moiseenko
The experience of using GIS technology for stock assessments of marine fishes (FIS-P-5534)

Elizabeth A. Logerwell, Kimberly Rand, Sandra Parker-Stetter, John Horne and Tom Weingartner
Beaufort Sea survey: Oceanographic linkages and climate change impacts (FIS-P-5587)

Oleg N. Katugin, Gennady A. Shevtsov and Mikhail A. Zuev
Patterns of spatial, bathymetric and seasonal distribution of the schoolmaster gonate squid Berryteuthis magister (Berry, 1913) in the Sea of Okhotsk and adjacent waters of the northwestern Pacific Ocean (FIS-P-5524)

Aymen Charef, Seiji Ohshimo and Ichiro Aoki
Vertical distribution patterns of acoustically classified fish schooling aggregations (FIS-P-5606)

Sukyung Kang, Suam Kim, Ki Baik Seong and Hyung Kee Cha
Effects of biological and oceanographic variability on migration timing of Korean chum salmon (FIS-P-5956)

Fumitake Shido, Shin-ichi Ito, Taizo Morioka, Naoto Murakami, Takashi Ichikawa, Norio Shirafuji, Tadashi Andoh, Yasuhiro Ueno and Yasuhiro Yamanaka
Influence of temperature on cruising speed of Pacific saury: Laboratory experiments with simple video techniques (FIS-P-5809)

Yurii P. Diakov
Generation stock abundance dynamics of flounders in the eastern Okhotsk Sea in view of inner and outer population factors (FIS-P-5514)

William R. Bechtol and Gordon H. Kruse
Factors leading to stock collapse of Kodiak red king crabs and their failure to recover (FIS-P-5530)

Anatoliy Ya. Velikanov and Kim Sen Tok
Peculiarities of climatic and oceanological influence on the long-term changes in species composition and abundance of pelagic and bottom fishes in Tatar Strait (FIS-P-5548)

Eugene V. Samko and Alexander V. Kapshiter
Using the satellite altimetry data to reveal perspective areas of the Japanese flying squid fishery in the Japan Sea (FIS-P-5722)

Gottfried Pestal and Tatiana Tunon
Statistical and practical performance of Bayesian decision-support tools for terminal fisheries targeting Atnarko River, British Columbia, Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) (FIS-P-5919)

You Jung Kwon, Jae Bong Lee, Do Hoon Kim, Hyeok Chan Kwon and Chang Ik Zhang
Ecosystem-based risk assessment and forecasting for the Korean large purse seine fishery (FIS-P-5797)

Minling Pan and Chin-Hwa (Jenny) Sun
Structural breaks and price linkage between Hawaiian and Japanese tuna sashimi markets (FIS-P-5890)

POC Paper Session

  • POC Committee Best Presentation Award
    Satoshi Osafune
     Numerical study of bidecadal water mass variations in the subarctic North Pacific related to the 18.6-year tidal cycle

    Second PICES Best Presentation Award
    (First award received at PICES-2005 Annual Meeting)

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 (except S8 and S9 topics).

Dake Chen and Tao Lian
A theoretical framework for tropical Indo-Pacific climate variability (POC-P-5758)

Jürgen Alheit
Impact of climate variability on northern hemisphere marine ecosystems: Regime shifts and teleconnection patterns (POC-P-5760)

Chan Joo Jang
North Pacific mixed layer depth projections from IPCC AR4 models (POC-P-5991)

Howard J. Freeland and Denis Gilbert
A new estimate of the steric contribution to global sea-level rise (POC-P-5647)

Enrique N. Curchitser, William Large, Kate Hedstrom and Jon Wolf
Downscaling climate simulations in the North Pacific Ocean using a fully coupled multi-scale model (POC-P-5978)

Young Jae Ro
Impact of the Indonesian Through Flow on the water characteristics in western Pacific marginal seas (POC-P-5674)

Fan Wang and Chuanyu Liu
A warm tongue intrusion into the Yellow Sea in winter and its inter-annual variability (POC-P-5543)

Olga O. Trusenkova, Timofei Gulenko, Dmitry D. Kaplunenko and Vyacheslav B. Lobanov
Large-scale patterns of the Japan/East Sea sea level and its dynamic forcings (POC-P-5547)

Dmitry D. Kaplunenko, Vyacheslav B. Lobanov and Olga O. Trusenkova
Effects of variability ‘separation’ for the northern Japan/East Sea obtained from satellite data (POC-P-5795)

Hanna Na, Kwang-Yul Kim, Kyung-Il Chang and Kuh Kim
Relationship between the interannual variability of the Korea Strait Bottom Cold Water, upper water temperatures and surface heat fluxes in the East Sea (POC-P-5785)

John Calder and Jackie Grebmeier
Synthesis of recent ocean data from the Pacific sector of the Arctic by the Pacific Arctic Group (POC-P-5967)

Victor Kuzin, Valentina Malakhova and Elena Golubeva
Dissolved methane transport in the Arctic water: Observed data and simulation (POC-P-5816)

Eduard A. Spivak, Nina I. Savelieva and Anatoly N. Salyuk
Summer hydrography of the southeastern part of the Laptev Sea – Results from the Pacific Oceanological Institute expedition in September 2006 (POC-P-5668)

Humio Mitsudera, Keisuke Uchimoto and Tomohiro Nakamura
Mechanisms of the cold water belt formation off the Soya Warm Current (POC-P-5840)

Michael Foreman, Piotr Czajko and Dario Stucchi
Simulating spring–neap salinity variations in Knight Inlet, Canada (POC-P-5713)

Anastasiya A. Abrosimova and Igor A. Zhabin
Interaction of sea and river waters in the estuary of the Amur River (POC-P-5749)

Hitoshi Kaneko, Ichiro Yasuda and Sachihiko Itoh
Direct measurement of turbulence mixing along a meridional transect in the western North Pacific (POC-P-5924)

Elena A. Vilyanskaya, G.V. Shevchenko, O. Kusaylo and A. Kato
Water temperature changes in the nearshore zone of Aniva Bay from mooring observations (POC-P-5544)

W1 BIO Workshop
Natural supplies of iron to the North Pacific and linkages between iron supply and ecosystem responses

Co-Sponsored by SOLAS

Co-Convenors: Fei Chai (U.S.A.), William R. Crawford (Canada) and Shigenobu Takeda (Japan)

Invited speakers:
Kenneth Bruland (University California Santa Cruz, U.S.A.)
Stephanie Dutkiewicz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.)
Yasuhiro Yamanaka (Hokkaido University, Japan)

In the subarctic North Pacific Ocean, iron plays a central role in regulating phytoplankton productivity and pelagic ecosystem structure. There are several processes that supply iron from land, shelf sediment and deep waters to the upper ocean. The goal of this workshop is to examine mechanisms of these iron supply processes, including atmospheric deposition of mineral aerosols and combustion substances, lateral transport of coastal iron-enriched waters by eddies and boundary currents, and deep vertical mixing during winter or by strong tidal currents at narrow straits. Such knowledge will be used to identify key biogeochemical pathways that should be introduced into the ecosystem models and to plan international scientific programs for better understanding of marine ecosystem responses to changing iron supplies in the North Pacific.

  • W1 INVITED Presentation
    Kenneth W. Bruland
    Reactive iron in the subarctic North Pacific; natural iron enrichments

    Kenneth Bruland is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He was awarded the Clair C. Patterson Medal for Environmental Geochemistry from the Geochemical Society in May 2005 and was elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in May 2005. In the last decade, much of his research has focused on the role of iron in productive regions of the North Pacific. These regions include eastern boundary upwelling areas off California, Oregon and Washington; the northern Gulf of Alaska; and the Bering Sea. This research includes studies of the speciation of dissolved iron, Fe(III)-binding organic ligands, and the role of reactive forms of particulate iron.
  • W1 INVITED Presentation
    Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Fanny Monteiro and Mick Follows
    Interplay between ecosystem structures and iron availability in a global marine ecosystem model

    Stephanie Dutkiewicz is a research scientist in the Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts U.S.A. Her research interests include the development of models of marine microbes to investigate the relationships of individual organisms, the community structure and their nutrient and physical environment. This work is done as part of the "Darwin Project". Additionally, she is involved in considering the marine physical and biological environments' role in the earth's climate system, particularly in terms of the carbon cycle. This work is done as part of the "MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change". Publications
  • W1 INVITED Presentation
    Yasuhiro Yamanaka, S. Lan Smith, Hiroshi Sumata, Naoki Yoshie, Taketo Hashioka, Takeshi Okunishi, Masahiko Shigemitsu, Maki N. Noguchi and Naosuke Okada )
    New NEMURO-based model incorporating the iron cycle

    Since 1998 Dr. Yasuhiro Yamanaka has been an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo on research about marine carbon-cycle modeling in 1995, spent one year as visiting researcher at Princeton University in 1997, and recently spent three months as visiting fellow at the University of East Anglia in 2007-2008. During his term as Assistant Professor of the Center for Climate System Research (CCSR), University of Tokyo, he developed the CCSR Ocean General Circulation Model and CCSR/NIES Climate Model contributing to IPCC TAR (2001).
    He also plays as a SSC member in AIMES, a core project of IGBP from 2008. His current research includes ecosystem dynamics linking climate change and variability of fisheries resources. His goal is to develop an integrated ocean model synthesizing the physical, chemical and biological processes and to clarify dynamics and feedbacks relevant to the impact of global warming on marine ecosystems. Recently, his group developed a 3-D high-resolution (1/4 x 1/6 degrees horizontally) ecosystem model coupled with a fish migration model.

Jun Nishioka, Tsuneo Ono, Hiroaki Saito, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Shigenobu Takeda,
Wm. K. Johnson and C.S. Wo ng
Comparison of iron distribution between the western and the eastern subarctic Pacific (W1-5750)

Eric Roy, Mark Wells and Fei Chai
The role of Haida eddies in iron transport to the eastern subarctic Pacific Ocean (W1-5681)

Hiroaki Saito, Kazutaka Takahashi, Yoshiko Kondo, Jun Nishioka, Tomonori Isada, Akira Kuwata, Miwa Nakamachi, Yuji Okazaki, Yugo Shimizu and Koji Suzuki
Factors controlling the spatial variability of spring bloom dynamics in the Oyashio Region (W1-5691)

Roberta C. Hamme, Sonia Batten, William Crawford, Kathleen Dohan, Steven Emerson, Karina Giesbrecht, Jim Gower, Maria Kavanaugh, Deirdre Lockwood, Christopher L. Sabine and Frank Whitney
Natural volcanic iron fertilization of the Subarctic North Pacific (W1-5905)

Ai Hattori-Saito, Tomonori Isada, Natsuko Komazaki, Hiroshi Hattori, Kenshi Kuma,
R. Michael L. McKay, Tsutomu Ikeda and Koji Suzuki
Fe nutrition in micro-sized diatoms in the Oyashio region of the NW subarctic Pacific during spring 2007 (W1-5748)

Keisuke Uchimoto, Tomohiro Nakamura, Jun Nishioka, Humio Mitsudera, Michiyo Yamamoto-Kawai, Kazuhiro Misumi and Daisuke Tsumune
A simulation of chlorofluorocarbons in the Sea of Okhotsk (W1-5751)

W2 BIO Workshop
Standardizing methods for estimating jellyfish concentration and development of an international monitoring network

Co-Convenors: Hideki Akiyama (Japan), Richard D. Brodeur (U.S.A.) and Young-Shil Kang (Korea)

Invited speaker:
Jennifer E. Purcell (Western Washington University, U.S.A.)

Some jellyfish make massive blooms in the North Pacific coastal and oceanic waters, damaging fisheries and causing large social and economic problems. To date, there have been discussions about bloom mechanisms, distribution, and biological and ecological characteristics of the jellyfish species. However, there are limitations in understanding the dynamics of these massive blooms and providing scientific information to management. One major limitation is standards for sampling and a lack of monitoring. The goals of this workshop are:
1) to understand the problems and develop techniques for estimating concentrations of jellyfishes; 2) to evaluate the status of national/regional monitoring systems for jellyfishes; 3) to emphasize why standard methods and international monitoring are needed; and 4) to develop an implementation plan and schedule for improving abundance and distribution information on jellyfish blooms.

  • W2 INVITED Presentation
    Jennifer E. Purcell
    Broad-scale research on jellyfish

    Jennifer (Jenny) Purcell received her PhD in 1981 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, followed by postdoctoral appointments at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and Assistant Professor at Oregon State University to Full Professor the University of Maryland. She currently is a Marine Scientist at the Shannon Point Marine Center of Western Washington University and a visiting researcher at the Coastal and Marine Resources Centre of the University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author of over 80 publications, editor of three symposium volumes, and associate editor of Marine Biology. She has studied the trophic interactions and population dynamics of pelagic cnidarians and ctenophores in many regions of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans. She explores the roles of jellyfish as predators and competitors of zooplanktivorous fish, and climate effects on the formation of jellyfish blooms.

Kazuhiro Sadayasu, Yoshimi Takao and Ryuichi Matsukura
Echo trace counting method for estimating the giant jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai density and distribution using a quantitative echosounder (W2-5877)

Kyoung-Hoon Lee, Soo-Jeong Jang, Won Duk Yoon, Chang-Doo Park and Seong-Wook Park
Density estimates of Nemopilema nomurai jellyfish in Yellow Sea during 2006-2009 (W2-5874)

Hideki Ikeda, Hiroko Okawachi, Atsushi Yoshida, Miwa Hayashi and Shin-ichi Uye
Spatio-temporal distribution of the giant jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai in East Asian waters by sighting survey from a ferry (W2-5535)

Haruto Ishii, Yasuyuki Nogata and Noriaki Endo
Horizontal and vertical distribution of jellyfish, Aurelia aurita medusae, and estimation of its abundance with underwater video system in Tokyo Bay (W2-5711)

Richard D. Brodeur, Cynthia L. Suchman, Elizabeth A. Daly and Lanaya N. Fitzgerald
Habitat and ecology of large medusa in the northern California Current: An overview of recent studies (W2-5821)

Naoki Fujii, Shinya Magome, Atsushi Kaneda and Hidetaka Takeoka
Monitoring method for moon jellyfish abundance in the western Seto Inland Sea, Japan (W2-5849)

Hao-Hsien Chang, Chang-Yu Lai, and Wen-Tseng Lo
A study on the ecological significance of the box jellyfish, Carybdea rastonii Haacke (Cnidaria: Cubozoa), from the east coast of Taiwan (W2-5868)

Chang-Hoon Han and Shin-ichi Uye
Quantification of the abundance and distribution of the common jellyfish Aurelia aurita s.l. with a Dual-frequency IDentification SONar (DIDSON) (W2-5680)

Akira Okuno, Tatsuro Watanabe, Naoto Honda and Katsumi Takayama
Jellyfish transport simulation taking the diurnal vertical migration into account (W2-5661)

W3 BIO Workshop
Integrating marine mammal populations and rates of prey consumption in models and forecasts of climate change-ecosystem change in the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans

Co-Sponsored by ICES

Co-Convenors: Hidehiro Kato (Japan), Begoña Santos (ICES, Spain) and William J. Sydeman (U.S.A.)

Invited Speakers:
Begoña Santos (Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Spain)
Andrew Trites (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Hiroshi Okamura (National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, Japan)

In many marine ecosystems from tropical to arctic waters, marine mammals are showing considerable changes in abundance. In general, cetaceans, recovering from historical exploitation, are increasing, whereas some pinniped species are declining regionally, while others are increasing. Models of marine mammal prey consumption indicate that ~20-60% of secondary production may be taken by these top consumers. Therefore, marine mammals may exert «top-down» control on food webs, as well as functioning as competitors to fish, seabirds, and humans for mid-trophic level food resources. One of the goals of PICES and ICES science is to enhance forecasts of ecosystem change attributable to climate and anthropogenic forcings. Given this goal, the workshop will review and assess rates of marine mammal population and prey consumption changes in the North Pacific and North Atlantic. Presentations are invited on changes in marine mammal abundance, distribution, diet, and prey consumption. Discussion will focus on how to best integrate this information into models of ecosystem dynamics, with and without climate change and fishing impacts.

  • W3 INVITED Presentation
    M. Begoña Santos and Graham J. Pierce
    Integrating marine mammal populations and rates of prey consumption in models and forecasts of climate change-ecosystem change in the North Atlantic Ocean

    Dr. M. Begoña Santos PhD in Zoology (University of Aberdeen, UK, 1998). Research Scientist at IEO since 2006. She works in the fields of ecology, abundance estimation and feeding ecology of marine mammals and also on fisheries of small pelagic fish in the Northeast Atlantic. She has participated in more than 20 international projects including studies on ecology of pelagic fish and their predators and also projects on fish stock assessment and fisheries management. She is currently involved in monitoring and studying the pelagic ecosystem of the Galician and Cantabrian shelf (N Spain), the distribution of the species and their relationships with the environment, using the information gathered via two annual acoustic cruises. She has published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Currently she co-supervises several PhD students on subjects related with the ecology of different cetacean species and their interactions with fisheries in the waters of the NE and SW Atlantic. She is a member (alternate) of the ICES Scientific Committee and of the ICES WGMME.
  • W3 INVITED Presentation
    Andrew W. Trites
    Marine mammals in multi-species models: Assumptions, limitations and theoretical considerations

    Dr. Andrew Trites is a Professor at the University of British Columbia where he is Director of the UBC Marine Mammal Research Unit and Research Director of the North Pacific Universities Marine Mammal Research Consortium. Dr. Trites has been studying marine mammals in the North Pacific for over 25 years. His research involves captive studies, field studies and simulation models that range from single species to whole ecosystems. His research program is designed to further the conservation and understanding of marine mammals, and resolve conflicts between people and marine mammals. The training of students, and the collaboration between researchers specializing in other disciplines (such as nutrition, ecology, physiology and oceanography) is central to the success of his research program.
  • W3 INVITED Presentation
    Hiroshi Okamura, Hiroshi Nagashima, and Shiroh Yonezaki
    Quantitative assessment of impacts on the sandlance population by consumption of minke whales

Frank A. Parrish
Top-down pressure of foraging monk seals on subphotic fish communities; a possible symptom of a marine mammal population at carrying capacity (W3-5511)

Rolf Ream and Lowell Fritz
Pinniped population changes in the North Pacific: Recent trends in northern fur seal and Steller sea lion abundance (W3-5964)

Hiroto Murase, Tsutomu Tamura, Tatsuya Isoda, Ryosuke Okamoto, Hidehiro Kato, Shiroh Yonezaki, Hikaru Watanabe, Naoki Tojo, Ryuichi Matsukura, Kazushi Miyashita, Hiroshi Kiwada, Koji Matsuoka, Sigetoshi Nishiwaki, Denzo Inagake, Makoto Okazaki, Hiroshi Okamura, Yoshihiro Fujise and Shigeyuki Kawahara
Prey preferences of common minke ( Balaenoptera acutorostrata ), Bryde’s (B. edeni) and
sei (B. borealis) whales in the western North Pacific (W3-5724)

Jarrod A. Santora, William J. Sydeman and Christian S. Reiss
Of whales and krill: Investigating the patch dynamics between foraging whales and krill (W3-5725)

Valeriy I. Fadeev
Benthos and food supply studies in feeding grounds of the Okhotsk-Korean gray whale population off the northeast coast of Sakhalin Island (Russia), 2004-2008 (W3-5718)

Kyung-Jun Song, Zang Geun Kim, Seok-Gwan Choi, Yong-Rock An and Chang Ik Zhang
Stomach contents of bycaught minke whales ( Balaenoptera acutorostrata ) in Korean waters (W3-5853)

W4 BIO Workshop

Co-Sponsored by ESSAS

Co-Convenors: Harold P. Batchelder (U.S.A.), Shin-ichi Ito (Japan) and Bernard A. Megrey (U.S.A.)

Invited Speakers: Angelica Peña (Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada)
Yvette Spitz (Oregon State University, U.S.A)
Naoki Yoshie (Ehime University, Japan)

The objective of the Marine Ecosystem Model Inter-comparison Project (MEMIP) is to compare the performance of various lower trophic level marine ecosystem simulation models at predicting the abundance and distribution of zooplankton functional groups. Models with high performance and broad generality will be priority candidates for examining the state of marine ecosystem’s response to future global climate change.

This workshop will be technical, “hands-on”, and focus on beginning to parameterize, execute and calibrate various 1-D versions of biogeochemical lower trophic level (LTL) marine ecosystem models. Multiple ecosystem models will be configured to three Pacific Ocean “location testbeds”. The 1-D physical forcing for each site will be fixed (e.g., to enforce a common physical environment) so that differences observed among simulations at a single site are due only to differences in ecosystem models. The three testbeds will be selected based on the availability of data sets suitable for this exercise-data for multiple years, good seasonal coverage, and breadth of state variables spanning inorganic nutrients, chlorophyll (or preferably phytoplankton carbon or nitrogen), and zooplankton biomass measures are needed. We plan to apply LTL models to Oyashio locations such as stations along Japan’s A line, the middle shelf of the eastern Bering Sea (i.e., at mooring M2), and a shelf station on the Newport line to represent the California Current upwelling system. The models will be used to identify mechanisms that are important controls on the level and variability of secondary production and to bound the levels of uncertainty in model predictions by calculating ensemble statistics. Comparisons of identical ecosystem model formulations (e.g., not tuned to each specific location) at multiple locations will provide information on the spatial-temporal robustness of particular model structures and parameterizations.

  • W4 INVITED Presentation
    Angelica Peña
    Comparing the responses of simple plankton ecosystem models to alternate formulations and increasing complexity

    Angelica Peña is a research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans, Canada at the Institute of Ocean Sciences (IOS), Sidney, British Columbia. Her research interests include biogeochemical cycles and phytoplankton ecology of the NE subarctic Pacific, and the development of coupled circulation ecosystem models to study the dynamic relationships that exist between the plankton and its environment. She received her B.S. from the University of Concepcion, Chile and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in oceanography from Dalhousie University, Canada. She has been involved in several international programs including JGOFS, GLOBEC and ECOHAB. She is a member of the PICES Biological Oceanography Committee.
  • W4 INVITED Presentation
    Yvette H. Spitz
    Considerations and challenges inherent to the intercomparison of pelagic ecosystem models

    Dr. Yvette Spitz is an associate professor in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. Her research interests include ecosystem dynamics and physical/biological interactions. In the last decade, her research has focused on the development of ecosystem models that can be applied to the world ocean, spanning tropical microbes to ice algae. Her past and present regions of interest include the eastern boundary upwelling region off Oregon, the North Pacific basin, the Arctic ocean and the North Sea. She is also an expert in data assimilation applied to coupled circulation and ecosystem models.
  • W4 INVITED Presentation
    Naoki Yoshie, Shin-ichi Ito, Kosei Komatsu, Takahiko Kameda, Tsuneo Ono, Kiyotaka Hidaka, Toru Hasegawa, Akira Kuwata, Miwa Nakamachi, Yuji Okazaki, Takeshi Okunishi, Kazuaki Tadokoro, Hiroaki Saito and Yasuhiro Yamanaka
    Comparison of two marine ecosystem models NEMRUO and eNEMURO in the western North Pacific

    Naoki Yoshie is a Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Marine Environmental Studies at Ehime University since last April in 2009. He received his Ph.D from the Hokkaido University on research about lower-trophic-level marine ecosystem modeling in the western North Pacific in 2002 and worked at Hokkaido University as a post-doctoral scholar until 2006. From 2006 to 2009, He has been developed and applied an ecosystem model to reproduce 5 different ecological provinces around Japan collaborating with field monitoring groups of Fisheries Research Agency, Japan. His main interest is in the Plankton Functional Types (PFTs) model with affection for the marine ecosystem. Since last April, his group tries to develop a 3-D high-resolution ecosystem model for the coastal regions such as the Seto Inland Sea and East China Sea.

W5 FIS Workshop
Understanding the links between fishing technology, bycatch, marine ecosystems and ecosystem-based management

Co-Convenors:
Heui Chun An (Korea), Kaoru Fujita (Japan) and Craig Rose (U.S.A.)

Invited speaker:
Tatsuro Matsuoka (Kagoshima University, Japan)

The methods and gears used to capture fish affect how many unwanted fish are captured (bycatch) and can disrupt other ecosystem components. Bycatch and discards significantly impede the sustainable use of living marine resources that are captured by commercial fisheries. To minimize unintended impacts on the environment, commercial fisheries should strive to improve selectivity to reduce the bycatch and discards of non-target species, as well as undersized commercial species. Research is exploring other effects of fishing gears on ecosystems, such as habitat damage and ghost fishing of derelict fishing gear, and developing new technologies to minimize such unintended impacts. This workshop will focus on the linkages between fishing technologies, ecosystems and ecosystem-based management, as well as on recent methodologies to reduce unintended effects of fishing. Particular emphasis will be placed on studies that have changed commercial fishing practices.

  • W5 INVITED Presentation
    Tatsuro Matsuoka
    Negative impacts in capture fisheries: Bycatch, discards, derelict fishing gear, and ghost fishing

    Dr. Tatsuro Matsuoka is the professor in International Fisheries Development and Management of the Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University, Japan. His academic career is composed of anthropology, naval architect and fishing technology. Dr. Matsuoka has recently been conducting field and analytical research on negative impacts in capture fisheries, e.g. estimation of bycatch and discards and assessment of derelict fishing gear and ghost fishing mortality. His methodological proposal for the estimation of bycatch has appeared in FAO publications and a review on ghost fishing appeared in the journal Fisheries Science. He has extensive experience in academic and technical cooperation in the South Pacific, Southeast Asian, African, South American and Caribbean countries. He is the former Director of the Education and Research Centre for Marine Resources and Environment and the Dean of the Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University.

Craig S. Rose
Fishing gear technology to reduce bycatch and other ecosystem effects of Alaska trawl fisheries: Cooperative research with the fishing industry (W5-5763)

Jong-Hun Na, Chul-Woong Oh and Sung-Tae Kim
Variations in species composition, biomass, and density in shrimp trawl bycatch across seasons and tidal phases in southern Korean waters: Developing a fisheries risk management approach (W5-5679)

Heui Chun An, Bong Jin Cha, Seong Hun Kim, Chang-Doo Park, Kyoung-Hoon Lee, Seong- Wook Park and Jong Keun Shin
Modification of white-spotted conger eel Conger myriaster net trap for reducing bycatch of non-target species (W5-5610)

Réka Domokos
Environmental effects on forage and longline fishery performance for albacore (Thunnus alalunga) in the American Samoa Exclusive Economic Zone (W5-5570)

Yonghae Kim and Daesung Whang
The effect of netting twine contrast on escape of juvenile sea bream in model trawl cod-ends
(W5-5930)

Kaoru Fujita, Yoshiki Matsushita and Seizo Hasegawa
Development of bycatch reduction trawl nets to have benefits for fishermen (W5-5875)

W6 MEQ Workshop
Review of selected harmful algae in the PICES Region: V. Cyst forming HAB species

Co-Convenors: Changkyu Lee (Korea) and Charles Trick (Canada)

Invited Speaker:
Kazumi Matsuoka (Nagasaki University, Japan)

Analogous to the seeds of terrestrial plants, phytoplankton cysts are the hardy resting forms that allow phytoplankton (usually flagellates) to survive during extreme environmental conditions. These cysts fall out of the water column into sediments often after large blooms, thereby forming seed beds. Characterization of the distribution of seed beds in coastal waters can assist with forecasting the intensity of HAB events. However, proper identification is often difficult as many cysts can look alike. This workshop will focus on new methods for identification of cysts as well as findings on their ecology and physiology. Presentations are encouraged on known distributions of cysts in coastal waters (cyst mapping), and studies on their ecophysiology.

  • W6 INVITED Presentation
    Kazumi Matsuoka
    Modern dinoflagellate cyst study

    Kazumi Matsuoka is Professor of Institute for East China Sea Research and also of Department Marine Science and Technology in the Graduate School of Science and Technology of Nagasaki University. His current interests are following topics; Dinoflagellate cysts as indicators for eutrohicaton in coastal areas, Establishment of the cyst-motile relationship using cyst incubation experiments and molecular phylogenetic analysis, Geographical distribution of harmful dinoflagellates, and Paleoceanography in the East China Sea and adjacent areas. Under these topics, he is involved in several international co-operative projects with Korea, China and Southeast Asian countries. He is a co-author of “Technical guide for modern dinoflagellate cyst study” published in WSATPAC-HAB/WESTPAC/IOC in 2000 and of “Manual on Harmful Marine Microalgae” published in Monographs on Oceanographic Methodology UNESCO in 2002. He was rewarded the title of " The Scientific Award of the Palaeontological Society of Japan” in 1990.

Ruixiang Li, Jun Pan, Yan Li and Ping Sun
Distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments in the Yellow Sea in autumn (W6-5694)

Tatiana V. Morozova and Tatiana Yu. Orlova
Resting stages of HAB species in recent marine sediments from Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan (East Sea) (W6-5531)

Hyeon Ho Shin, Yang Ho Yoon and Kazumi Matsuoka
Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages as an indicator of changed nutrient levels in Korean and Japanese coastal areas (W6-5737)

Donald M. Anderson, B.A. Keafer, K. Norton, D.J. McGillicuddy, R. He, C.H. Pilskaln,
D. Couture and J. Martin
Toxic blooms of Alexandrium fundyense in the Gulf of Maine: The role of cysts in population dynamics and long-term patterns of shellfish toxicity (W6-5892)

Ichiro Imai, Shigeru Itakura and Mineo Yamaguchi
Cyst dynamics and occurrences of red tides of Heterosigma akashiwo and Chattonella spp. in temperate coastal waters (W6-5781)

Ken-ichiro Ishii, Mitsunori Iwataki, Kazumi Matsuoka and Ichiro Imai
Species identification of resting spores of Chaetoceros (Bacillariophyceae) (W6-5786)

Mingyuan Zhu and Zongling Wang
The study on the occurrence of green tide in Yellow Sea in 2009 (HAB-5708)

John K. Keesing, Dongyan Liu, Qianguo Xing, Ping Shi and Peter Fearns
Recurrent large scale macroalgal blooms in the Yellow Sea (HAB-6015)

W7 MEQ/FIS Workshop
Interactions between aquaculture and marine eco-systems

Co-Convenors: Katsuyuki Abo (Japan), Kevin Amos (U.S.A.), Galina Gavrilova (Russia) and Hyun Jeong Lim (Korea)

Invited Speakers:
Jack Rensel (Rensel Associates Aquatic Sciences, U.S.A.)
Dario Stucchi (Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada)
Tamiji Yamamoto (Hiroshima University, Japan)

Open-water marine aquaculture has ongoing interactions with its surrounding environment. Some of these interactions have the potential to cause negative and positive effects on the other. For example, pathogens may be transmitted from wild reservoirs to cultured animals and vice versa with the consequence of disease and mortality. Another example is the dispersal of nutrients from a farm site which in some instances negatively impacts the benthos while in other areas may enhance a nutrient-deficient marine zone or contribute to the culture of another aquatic species. Also, changing marine environments, including those impacted by global warming and ocean acidification, have the potential to affect these ecosystem interactions so as to investigate the culture of new farmed species - species that may perform better in altered environments. The PICES Working Group on Environmental Interactions of Marine Aquaculture (WGEIMA) has been charged to evaluate existing and potentially new interactions and to develop models that assess the risk of these interactions to include escapes of farmed marine animals (considerations for genetics, competition, and pathogen transfer), discharge of effluent from culture facilities, use of non-native species in culture, and the exchange of pathogens between farmed and wild aquatic animals. Major goals of this workshop include: 1) discussion of tools and models currently used by member countries to assess types of interactions and risks posed by them; 2) developing consensus on aquaculture technologies and indicators of interactions that will be used in completing the terms of reference and preparing report of WGEIMA to include species and methods of culture; and 3) identifying the process by which the work will be carried out under the terms of reference.

  • W7 INVITED Presentation
    J.E. Jack Rensel, Dale A. Kiefer and Frank O’Brien
    Aquaculture modeling using a GIS-integrated simulation model

    Dr. Rensel works with business, academic, governments and native people in the U.S. and overseas. His primary expertise involves impact assessment of benthic and water column effects of aquaculture and related simulation modeling for inshore and offshore locations. Since the 1970s he has been involved in harmful algal bloom studies, particularly with regard to bloom dynamics and how they affect wild and cultured fish and shellfish. His company performs field assessments of physical and biological food web conditions in temperate and tropical marine waters as well as in freshwater riverine and high-altitude lakes in North and South America. He has been active in assisting state and federal governments, NGOs and industry to develop performance-based standards for aquaculture. He works with U.S. NOAA scientists and others to conduct bioenergetic studies of commercially important fish species for calibration of aquaculture simulation models (www.AquaModel.org). He has worked with Pacific Northwest Tribes, south American natives, and native Hawaiian peoples to protect and enhance their marine and freshwater fisheries resources and environmental quality with focus on nutrient dynamics, eutrophication of nearshore waters and sediment contamination studies.
  • W7 INVITED Presentation
    Dario Stucchi, Michael Foreman, Ming Guo and Piotr Czajko
    A coupled biophysical sea lice model for the Broughton Archipelago

    Dario Stucchi is a physical oceanographer at the Institute of Ocean Science. He has more than 30 years of experience in many aspects of coastal physical oceanography in British Columbia. His research activities have been mainly directed towards environmental issues dealing with the impacts of wastes (sewage, pulp mills and mines) in the coastal waterways and fjords of BC. In the last decade his focus has been on aquaculture issues in British Columbia. He has modelled the near-field waste deposition from finfish farms and worked with numerical modellers on the development of ecosystem scale coastal ocean models. Most recently, Dario has collaborated with the salmon farming industry on the development of coupled biophysical models of disease transmission and sea lice interactions in the Broughton Archipelago.
  • W7 INVITED Presentation
    Tamiji Yamamoto, Hajime Maeda, Osamu Matsuda and Toshiya Hashimoto
    Effects of culture density on the growth and fecal production of oyster Crassostrea gigas

    Tamiji Yamamoto is a Professor of the Graduate School of Biosphere Science at Hiroshima University, who has been working on water and sediment quality and their effects on the total ecosystems in semi-enclosed coastal seas. Impacts of anthropogenic activity on the Japanese coastal marine ecosystems are quite high, because of not only high material loads from the land but also intensive fisheries activity including aquaculture. His work focuses on quantifying material budgets especially of biophilic elements such as C, N and P, which will provide scientific supports for governers/managers to perform “integrated coastal zone management”. Recently his study is extending to development of practical remediation methods of sediment quality in aquaculture grounds and ports and harbors where almost no organisms are residing. He was awarded in his young age the Okada Prize for promising younger scientists from the Japanese Society of Oceanography. He was also given a prize in 2008 for his excellent publication entitled “Environmental Restoration of Semi-enclosed Coastal Seas” from the Japanese Association for Coastal Zone Studies.

Xuelei Zhang
Challenges and opportunities of environmental issues faced by coastal aquaculture in China

Galina S. Gavrilova
Some ecological aspects of invertebrate mariculture in semi-closed bights (W7-5654)

Jill B. Rolland and Lori L. Gustafson
A model to exclude endemic pathogens from semi-open or open aquaculture facilities: Utilizing compartmentalization to promote epidemiologic separation in shellfish hatcheries (W7-5881)

Lori L. Gustafson and Jill B. Rolland
Marine reservoirs for infectious salmon anemia virus in pen-reared Atlantic salmon: Do they play a role in the U.S.? (W7-5879)

Kevin H. Amos
A review of infective doses of viral and bacterial pathogens for modeling interactions between marine pen-reared salmon and wild cohorts (W7-5801)

Katsuyuki Abo and Toshinori Takashi
Assessing nutrient environments of Nori (Porphyra) aquaculture area by using numerical model (W7-5628)

Brett R. Dumbauld and Jennifer L. Ruesink
Evaluating the effects of bivalve shellfish aquaculture and its ecological role in the estuarine environment in the United States (W7-5823)

Edward A. Black
Aquaculture risk assessments and ecosystem-based management (W7-5989)

Motoyuki Hara and Toyomitsu Horii
Evaluation of the impacts of seedlings on abalone reproduction by genetic approach (W7-5940)

Qtae Jo, Su-Kyoung Kim, Chae Sung Lee, Jin Yeong Kim and Victor D. Dzizyurov
Production of healthier Patinopecten yessoensis seeds for aquaculture on the Korean and Russian coasts of the East Sea (W7-5827)

W8 POC Workshop
Exploring the predictability and mechanisms of Pacific low frequency variability beyond inter-annual time scales

  • POC Committee Best Presentation Award
    Xiaohui Tang
    Influence of reducing weather noise on ENSO prediction

Co-Sponsored by CLIVAR

Co-Convenors: Emanuele Di Lorenzo (U.S.A.) and Shoshiro Minobe (Japan)

Invited Speakers:
Michael Alexander (Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, U.S.A.)
Curtis Deutsch (University California Los Angeles, U.S.A.)
Sumant Nigam (University of Maryland, U.S.A)
Masami Nonaka (Frontier Research Center for Global Change, JAMSTEC; Japan)
Bo Qiu (CLIVAR-University of Hawaii at Manoa U.S.A.)
Bunmei Taguchi (The Earth Simulator Center, JAMSTEC, Japan)
Daniel J. Vimont (University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A)

Understanding the dynamics that control climate variability in the Pacific basin is essential for exploring the degree of predictability of the ocean-atmosphere and sea-ice climate systems of the North Pacific. The goal of this workshop is to improve the conceptual and quantitative frameworks used by the PICES community to interpret low-frequency climate variability in the Pacific basin, ranging from interannual to multi-decadal timescales. Contributions are invited on a broad range of topics including: 1) studies that link regional to basin scale dynamics; 2) investigations of “regime shift”, specifically the extent to which sharp transitions in the climate system are predictable and connected with low-frequency variations in the ocean-atmosphere and sea-ice systems; (3) studies that separate the stochastic and deterministic components of low-frequency climate fluctuations; (4) analysis of long-term observations collected in regional environments across the Pacific, specifically their relationship to large-scale climate processes as opposed to local-scale dynamics; (5) climate change and how it may impact the statistics of Pacific climate (e.g., frequency of “regime shifts”); and (6) more generally studies that propose new mechanisms underlying low-frequency Pacific climate variability.

  • W8 INVITED Presentation
    Michael Alexander, Daniel J. Vimont, Ping Chang and James Scott
    The impact of extratropical atmospheric variability on the tropical Pacific: Testing the seasonal footprinting mechanism

    Michael Alexander obtained his PhD from the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean icsciences at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) under the guidance of John Kutzback. His PhD examined the influence of ENSO-driven atmospheric teleconnections on oceans beyond the tropical Pacific, which has become to be known as the “atmospheric bridge”. While Michael has continued his research on the atmospheric bridge, he has also studied atmosphere-ocean interaction, ocean mixed layer dynamics and its impact on sea surface temperatures (SST) and marine ecosystems, the role of ocean Rossby waves and subduction on climate variability and the influence of sea ice changes on the atmosphere. Michael has published more than 50 articles in journals such as the Climate Dynamics, Conservation Biology, Deep Sea Research, Fisheries Oceanography, Journal of Climate, Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of Physical Oceanography, and Reviews of Geophysics and has authored several book chapters on climate variability.
    He is currently serves as an editor for the Journal of Climate, the co-chair of the US CLIVAR Phenomena Synthesis and Observations (POS) panel, co-chair of US CLIVAR Western Boundary Current working group and a member of the US GLOBEC scientific steering committee. Previously he was the chair of the American Meteorological Society Air-Sea Interaction Committee and co-chair of the Climate Variability Working Group for NCAR's Community Climate System Model.
  • W8 INVITED Presentation
    Curtis Deutsch and Taka Ito
    Oxygen variability in the North Pacific

  • W8 INVITED Presentation
    Sumant Nigam and Bin Guan
    Ocean-atmosphere structure of Pacific decadal variability

    Sumant Nigam is a Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland, with a joint appointment in the university's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center. His research interests include atmospheric general circulation, climate variability mechanisms, tropical ocean-atmosphere interaction, characterization of secular change in regional hydroclimates, aerosols and monsoons, climate model assessment, and recently, Great Plains hydroclimate and droughts. The interests are pursued through dynamical analysis of observation and simulation data sets, and diagnostic modeling of recurrent circulation variability including teleconnection patterns. Dr. Nigam has been involved with climate research activities for a number of years and is currently co-chair of the Climate Variability working group of NCAR's Community Climate System Model, and a member of the Climate Research Committee of The National Academies. He has previously served as co-chair of the US CLIVAR panel on Phenomena, Observations and Synthesis; Director of the Large-scale Dynamic Meteorology program at the National Science Foundation; Editor of the Journal of Climate; and on the AMS Committee on Climate Variability and Change. Dr. Nigam is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. He obtained his Ph.D. in geophysical fluid dynamics from Princeton University in 1984, and postdoctoral training at MIT.
  • W8 INVITED Presentation
    Masami Nonaka, Hisashi Nakamura, Bunmei Taguchi, Youichi Tanimoto and Hideharu Sasaki
    Decadal variability in the oceanic frontal zones in the western North Pacific Ocean

    I am interested in decadal-scale variations in the North Pacific and tropical Pacific, and roles of the ocean circulations in them. For the tropical Pacific variability, I have studied impacts of the shallow meridional overturning cells, the Subtropical Cells, which connects subtropical and tropical oceans, on the tropical temperature fluctuations. For the North Pacific Ocean, I have been studying variability of the oceanic frontal zones in the western part of the basin based on a more-than-50-year-long integration of an eddy-resolving OGCM. I have been also studying If such oceanic variations in the frontal zone can have some feedback to the atmosphere.
  • W8 INVITED Presentation
    Niklas Schneider, Yoshinori Sasaki, Axel Lauer, Bo Qiu, Arthur J. Miller and Detlef Stammer
    Extratropical ocean to atmosphere coupling via atmospheric Ekman pumping

    Bo Qiu is a Professor at the Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa. His scientific interests include large-sacle ocean circulation variability, midlatitude air-sea interaction, geophysical fluid dynamics, and satellite oceanography. He has published more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and was recently a contributing author for the IPCC 4th Assessment Report. Bo was a recipient of the Okada Prize from the Oceanographic Society of Japan, as well as the New Investigators Award from the NASA's Mission to Planet Earth Program. He currently serves as a co-chair of the US-CLIVAR Western Boundary Current Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Working Group. He is also a member of the US Argo Implementation Panel, the International CLIVAR Pacific Panel, and the International CLIVAR Asia-Australian Monsoon Panel.
  • W8 INVITED Presentation
    Bunmei Taguchi, Hisashi Nakamura, Masami Nonaka, Nobumasa Komori, Akira Kuwano-Yoshida, Hideharu Sasaki, Koutarou Takaya and Shang-Ping Xie
    Decadal variability of the Kuroshio/Oyashio Extension fronts and their atmospheric influences

    Bunmei Taguchi received his Ph.D in Meteorology from University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2006. His Ph.D study examined decadal variability of the Kuroshio Extension (KE), a swift western boundary current (WBC) in the North Pacific ocean. Using high-resolution regional and global ocean models, he found that basin-scale, wind-forced Rossby waves are transformed into meridionally narrow jet structures, causing variations in the KE region with large amplitudes. Such variability narrowly-confined within the KE jet is relevant to local ecosystem variability as well as air-sea interaction in the region where intense heat and moisture exchanges are largely influenced by the frontal structures in sea surface temperature. Since he moved to Earth Simulator Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology after his graduation, he has been involved with development/diagnosis of ocean-atmosphere coupled models to study interactions among large-scale ocean circulations, ocean fronts and overlying large-scale atmosphere, and their roles in basin-scale climate and its variability.
  • W8 INVITED Presentation
    Daniel J. Vimont
    The role of thermodynamic coupling in connecting subtropical and tropical Pacific climate variations

    Weblink: http://www.aos.wisc.edu/~dvimont/

Sang-Wook Yeh, Yune-Jung Kang, Yign Noh and Arthur J. Miller
Characteristics in the North Pacific mean SST and its variability in climate transition periods
(W8-5901)

Skip McKinnell and Nate Mantua
Regimelettes – PDO variability in the 21st Century (W8-5882)

Muyin Wang, James E. Overland and Nicholas A. Bond
A means for reducing projection uncertainty of climate models on regional scale (W8-5846)

Xiaohui Tang, Ping Chang and Fan Wang
Influence of reducing weather noise on ENSO prediction (W8-5741)

Bo Qiu, Shuiming Chen and Niklas Schneider (Invited)
Forced versus intrinsic variability of the Kuroshio Extension system on the decadal timescales (W8-5657)

Shoshiro Minobe, Jiaxu Zhang and Miho Urasawa
Kuroshio Extension variability during the last 50-years and its predictability (W8-5829)

Rong-shuo Cai, Qi-long Zhang and Hong-jian Tan
The long-term transport variation of Kuroshio and its adjacent currents in the western North Pacific Ocean (W8-5554)

Elena I. Ustinova and Yury D. Sorokin
Low-frequency fluctuations of thermal conditions in the Far-Eastern Seas and large-scale climate processes (W8-5767)

Konstantin A. Rogachev and Natalia V. Shlyk
Surface freshening and mid-depth warming in the Pacific Western Subarctic since 1950s (W8-5518)

Emanuele Di Lorenzo , Niklas Schneider, Kim M. Cobb, Jason Furtado and Michael Alexander
ENSO and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation: An integrated view of Pacific decadal dynamics (W8-5586)

Arthur J. Miller, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Shoshiro Minobe and Niklas Schneider
North Pacific decadal variability: Current understanding and unresolved issues (W8-5820)

W9 POC/BIO Workshop
Mesoscale eddies and their roles in North Pacific ecosystems

Co-Convenors: Kyung-Il Chang (Korea), William R. Crawford (Canada), Shin-ichi Ito (Japan) and Vyacheslav Lobanov (Russia)

Invited Speakers:
Carol Ladd (Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA, U.S.A.)
Shoshiro Minobe (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Mesoscale eddies move through the ocean carrying physical, biological, and chemical anomalies. They translate over space scales of hundreds to thousands of kilometers and exist for periods lasting from months to years. Eddies are found throughout the North Pacific Ocean in association with strong boundary currents like the Kuroshio and Oyashio and the Alaskan Stream, and also with North Pacific eastern boundary currents like the California and Alaska Currents. They are also prevalent in marginal seas. Generation and evolution of eddies are thought to be related to the shear instability of boundary currents like the Kuroshio, and topographic features in the California and Alaska Currents. Mesoscale eddies affect the structure of marine plankton in various ways. Horizontal advection and vertical mixing by eddies contribute to the generation of high chlorophyll concentration off the coast. They draw shelf water containing nutrients and planktons into the deep offshore waters. Mesoscale eddies are also important for survival of larvae. Eddy pumping also plays a role in episodic nutrient injections into the photic zone resulting in enhanced primary production inside the eddy for cyclonic eddies. For anticyclonic eddies, ageostrophic upwelling and divergent Ekman pumping due to winds over the eddies yield upwelling within the eddy. This workshop will address: 1) dynamical characteristics of mesoscale eddies in different parts of PICES domain, focusing on their similarity and difference; 2) influences of eddies in constituting the dominant physical forcing on the ecosystems; and 3) expected future eddy activities and their possible impacts on North Pacific ecosystems.

  • W9 INVITED Presentation
    Carol Ladd, Elizabeth Atwood, William Crawford, Phyllis Stabeno and Frank Whitney
    Eddies in the Gulf of Alaska

    Carol Ladd completed her Ph.D. in physical oceanography from the University of Washington in Seattle in June 2000. Since that time, she has worked for the Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI) group at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory. Although trained as a physical oceanographer, she is particularly interested in the interdisciplinary aspects of oceanography, collaborating with chemists and biologists to investigate the influence of the physical environment on the ecosystem. Her research focuses on the Gulf of Alaska, the Aleutian Passes, and the eastern Bering Sea.
  • W9 INVITED Presentation
    Shoshiro Minobe, Kunihiko Aoki, Youichi Tanimoto, Yoshinori Sasaki and Yoshikazu Sasai
    Meridional eddy heat transport estimations using satellite data and eddy resolving OGCM

    Shoshiro Minobe is a physical oceanographer at Hokkaido University whose research interests are on decadal climate variability and air–sea interaction. Included in his publications is his widely referenced article proposing 50-yr variability and an interpretation of climate regime shifts associated with 50-yr and 20-yr climate variability. His recent paper on the ocean-to-atmosphere influence over the Gulf Stream was featured as the cover article of the journal Nature in 2008. Dr. Minobe convened meetings of the IUGG (1999, 2003) and IAPSO/IAMAS (2009) and PICES symposium and workshops (2000, 2006, 2007, 2009) for decadal climate variability and its relation to marine ecosystems. He is a member of the Implementation Plan Writing Team for the next PICES scientific program, FUTURE.

William Crawford and Nick Bolingbroke
Cross-shelf exchange by mesoscale eddies in the northeast Pacific Ocean (W9-5656)

Vincent Combes, Emanuele Di Lorenzo and Enrique N. Curchitser
Interannual and decadal variations in eddy-induced cross-shelf transport in the Gulf of Alaska (W9-5598)

Hiromichi Ueno, William Crawford and Hiroji Onishi
Impact of Alaskan Stream eddies on chlorophyll distribution in the central subarctic North Pacific (W9-5792)

Sonia Batten, William J. Sydeman, Mike Henry, David Hyrenbach and Ken Morgan
Ship of opportunity observations of mesoscale eddies in the Gulf of Alaska (W9-5819)

Vyacheslav B. Lobanov
A census of anticyclonic eddies in the northern Japan/East Sea (W9-5802)

Svetlana Y. Ladychenko and Vyacheslav B. Lobanov
Mesoscale eddies near the Primorye coast in the northwestern Japan/East Sea (W9-5756)

Sang-Shin Byun, Jong Jin Park, Jae-Hun Park and Kyung-Il Chang
Observation of near-inertial waves in an anticyclonic mesoscale eddy in the southwestern East/Japan Sea (W9-5585)

Sergey P. Zakharkov, Tatyana N. Gordeychuk and Elena A. Shtraikhert
Variations of the production phytoplankton parameters of mesoscale anticyclonic eddy in the northwestern part of Sea of Japan (W9-5655)

Sachihiko Itoh and Ichiro Yasuda
Characteristics of mesoscale eddies in the Kuroshio–Oyashio Extension Region detected in the distribution of the sea surface height anomaly (W9-5866)

Hiroshi Sumata, Taketo Hashioka, Maki N. Aita, Naoki Yoshie, Tatsuo Suzuki, Takashi T. Sakamoto, Naosuke Okada and Yasuhiro Yamanaka
Effects of eddy transport on the nutrient supply into the euphotic zone simulated in an ocean ecosystem model (W9-5727)

Xiao-Hua Zhu, Jea-Hun Park and Daji Huang
Observation and dynamics of baroclinic eddies southeast of Okinawa Island (W9-5805)

Prescilla Kurien, Motoyoshi Ikeda and Vinu K. Valsala
Mesoscale variability along the east coast of India in spring and fall revealed in satellite data and OGCM (W9-5617)

Natalya B. Luk’yanova and Igor A. Zhabin
The interaction of Soya Warm Current waters with the anticyclonic eddies in the southern Sea of Okhotsk (W9-5541)

W10 POC/BIO Workshop
Carbon data synthesis workshop

Co-Convenors: Masao Ishii (Japan) and Robert M. Key (U.S.A.)

Invited Speaker:
Robert M. Key (Princeton University, U.S.A.)

This workshop will be a major step forward in the implementation of the North Pacific carbon data synthesis. Investigators who submit data to the synthesis will collectively review the progress of the QA/QC process, and discuss the degree of success of the techniques applied and whether different or additional approaches are necessary. This is a highly "hands-on" activity that will involve data originators who submit data to the synthesis and investigators participating in the synthesis processes, and will lead directly to value-added data products and collective publications.

  • W9 INVITED Presentation
    Robert M. Key

    For the past 20 years my research interests have focused on global scale oceanographic issues related to climate change. My efforts have been two pronged: (1) assembling fully-calibrated high-quality data sets that could be used to address global biogeochemical issues and (2). using radiocarbon to study oceanographic ventilation, meridional overturning circulation, and air-sea gas exchange. All of this work has been highly collaborative. Notable data releases include GLODAP which was used to produce the first global oceanic inventories and 3-D distributions for natural and bomb produced radiocarbon, total inorganic carbon, alkalinity, CFC-11 and CFC12, and anthropogenic CO2. The radiocarbon inventories were used to revise global average air-sea gas exchange rates. The second major data release, later this year, will be called CARINA. CARINA supplements GLODAP and provides new coverage in the far North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. The combination of CARINA and GLODAP will be used to investigate decadal scale change processes.