PICES 14th Annual Meeting (2005) Information and Presentations

General Information

The North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) announces its Fourteenth Annual Meeting to be held September 29-October 9, 2005, at the Hyundai Hotel, in Vladivostok, Russia. The meeting is hosted by the Russian Federation, represented by its Delegates to PICES, in cooperation with the Federal Agency on Fisheries, in coordination with the PICES Secretariat.
Keynote Speaker: Vladimir I. Radchenko
  • Vladimir I. Radchenko (Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Russia)
    Far-eastern sea shelf ecosystems yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Session 1: Science Board Symposium
Mechanisms of climate and human impacts on ecosystems in marginal seas and shelf regions

  • Science Board Best Presentation Award
    William Peterson
    Extreme climate variability in the northern California Current: Can we explain the current anomalous warm state and its effects on the coastal upwelling ecosystem off Washington and Oregon?
Co-Convenors:
Kuh Kim (SB), Michael J. Dagg (BIO), Yukimasa Ishida (FIS), John E. Stein (MEQ), Michael G. Foreman (POC), Igor I. Shevchenko (TCODE), Phillip R. Mundy (MONITOR), and Harold P. Batchelder and Suam Kim (CCCC)

There are many examples of statistical correlations that demonstrate relations between climate or human impacts and ecosystems. While retrospection may be informative in revealing patterns, it rarely leads to mechanistic understanding required for eventual prediction. This session, instead, will focus on physical and biological mechanisms in the marginal seas and shelf regions. Many coastal species have life histories/cycles that rely on specific geographic features and they may be particularly vulnerable to the effects of human activities and climate variability. In order to predict the impacts of climate and human activities, we need to understand the mechanisms responsible for shifts in ecosystem structure and function. We will consider “wind to whales” in this session. This theme will provide opportunities to address questions such as: How widespread is bottom-up control of fluxes? At what spatial and temporal scales are: 1) trophodynamic demands and food supply in balance?, 2) signals amplified in food webs?, and 3) physical processes most important in impacting marine populations? The human impacts that could be considered include fishing and fisheries enhancement, changes in biodiversity, petroleum development, eutrophication, mariculture, non-point source pollution, and others.


Franz J. Mueter, Jennifer Boldt, Bernard A. Megrey and Randall Peterman (Invited)
Spatial and temporal scales of variability in the productivity of Northeast Pacific fish stock

Sok Kuh Kang, Joseph Y. Cherniawsky, Michael G.G. Foreman, Sinjae Yoo, Hong Sik Min, Cheol-Ho Kim and Hyoun-Woo Kang (Invited)
Patterns of recent sea level rise in the East/Japan Sea and their ecological implication in the Ulleung Basin

Vyacheslav Lobanov, Vladimir Zvalinsky, Pavel Tishchenko, Anatoly Salyuk, Sergei Zakharkov, S. Ladychenko and E. Shtraikhert
Mechanisms of fast changes in physical and biological fields along the Primorye coast in the Japan Sea

Chun-Ok Jo and Kyung-Ryul Kim
Effects of melting sea ice in the Tatarskiy Strait on spring bloom along the Primorye coast in the East Sea

Hyun-cheol Kim, Sinjae Yoo and Im Sang Oh
The relationship between the mixed layer depth and surface chlorophyll in the Japan/East Sea

Masahide Kaeriyama, Sei-ichi Saito and Akihiko Yatsu
Comparison of the growth pattern for Japanese chum salmon in the Okhotsk Sea and the Bering Sea

Elizabeth A. Logerwell, A.B. Hollowed, C.D. Wilson, P. Walline, P. Munro, M.E. Conners, S. McDermott, S. Neidetcher, D. Cooper and K. Rand
Fish movement plays a key role in understanding the potential for commercial fishing to impact prey fields of endangered Steller sea lions

John A. Barth, Stephen D. Pierce, Timothy J. Cowles and William T. Peterson
Flow-topography interaction and its influence on ecosystem dynamics in the northern California Current System

Vjacheslav S. Labay and Georgy V. Shevchenko
Hydrodynamic influences on macrobenthos structural characteristics of the northeastern Sakhalin shelf

Session 2: BIO Topic Session
Life history and ecology of euphausiids in coastal and oceanic waters around the Pacific Rim

  • BIO Committee Best Presentation Award
    Jaime Jahncke
    Krill and krill-predators: Habitat associations in the dynamic Gulf of the Farallones, California
Co-Convenors:
Michael J. Dagg, William T. Peterson (U.S.A.) and Anatoly Volkov (Russia)

Euphausiids are among the most important links in coastal and oceanic food webs, transferring energy from primary and secondary producers to higher trophic level animals such as salmon, herring, sardines, mackerels, Pacific whiting, sablefish, many rockfish species, auklets, shearwaters, and whales. Given their importance in the food chain, euphausiids may be regarded as keystone sentinel taxa. Moreover, many PICES scientists are interested in formulating ecosystem models that better parameterize the euphausiid component. This session invites scientific papers that review and discuss results of research on the ecology and life history of euphausiids in the North Pacific Ocean, with a focus on comparative studies in continental shelf and slope waters around the Pacific Rim.


Sonia Batten, David Welch and Doug Moore
Seasonal distribution of euphausiids on a transect from the Gulf of Alaska to the Bering Sea

Leah R. Feinberg, William T. Peterson, C. Tracy Shaw and Jaime Gomez-Gutierrez
Euphausiid reproduction off the Oregon Coast, U.S.A.

C. Tracy Shaw, Leah R. Feinberg and William T. Peterson (Invited)
Seasonal variations in intermolt period and growth of Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa spinifera in the coastal Pacific Northwest

Se-Jong Ju, H. Rodger Harvey, William T. Peterson, Leah Feinberg and Tracy Shaw (Invited)
Understanding the nutritional status, diet, and demographic structure of Euphausia pacifica through multiple organic markers

Session 3: BIO Topic Session
Factors affecting distribution, foraging ecology, and life histories of top predators in the northwestern Pacific Ocean and its marginal seas

Co-Convenors:
Hidehiro Kato (Japan), Alexander Kitaysky, William Y. Sydeman (U.S.A.) and Andrew Trites (Canada)

Top predators may integrate fluctuations in lower trophic levels and ocean climate, and may therefore serve as reliable indicators of change. But, how ubiquitous are these patterns, spatially and temporally? What are the time lags between the occurrence of an environmental change and the responses of top predators? What taxa, guilds and parameters would be best suited to serve as ecosystem "samplers" and "monitors?" This multi-disciplinary, multi-trophic level topic session will examine the oceanographic and ecological factors determining the distribution, foraging ecology, and life history dynamics of top marine predators in the northwestern North Pacific and its marginal seas, focusing on the Sea of Okhotsk/Oyashio and western Bering Sea. Focal organisms include predatory marine fish, marine birds and mammals, and their prey resources (copopeds, euphausiids, squids, forage fishes). We invite presentations describing spatio-temporal variation in distribution, abundance, life history, demography, and food habits of predators and/or prey species or communities in relation to atmospheric and physical oceanographic variability, including ice cover. In particular, we hope to deepen our understanding of the response of top predators to ocean climate variability and change in the northwestern Pacific Ocean regions. These questions are critical to future efforts to monitor the North Pacific, as well as important to fisheries oceanography in the Sea of Okhotsk and western Bering Sea.


Edward J. Gregr, Stephen Ban, Ryan Coatta and Andrew W. Trites
Ecological characterization of Steller sea lion terrestrial sites

W.J. Sydeman, J. Jahncke, B.L. Saenz, C. Rintoul and R. Bradley
2005: An Unprecedented Breeding Failure for Planktivorous Auklets in the Central CCS

Yutaka Watanuki, Motohiro Itoh and Hiroshi Minami
Do parents of seabirds feed chicks with prey that is different from their own?

Aleksey Yu. Merzlyakov, Elena P. Dulepova and Valerii I. Chuchukalo
Modern state of pelagic communities in the Okhotsk Sea

Tomio Miyashita, Valery L. Vladimirov and Hidehiro Kato
Current status of cetaceans in the Sea of Okhotsk

Rolf R. Ream and Vladimir Burkalov
Trends in abundance of Steller sea lions and northern fur seals across the North Pacific Ocean

Yuri M. Yakovlev and Olga Yu. Tyurneva
Photo-identification of the western gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) on the northeastern Sakhalin shelf, Russia, 2002-2004

Session 4: CCCC / CFAME Topic Session
The comparative response of differing life history strategists to climate shifts

Co-convenors:
Hyung-Ku Kang (Korea) and Gordon A. McFarlane (Canada)

In recent years, we have come to accept that regime shifts are real and produce species and ecosystem-level responses, however not all species and ecosystems are equal. In particular, there is the need to move beyond correlative indices between climate variables and species indicators and consider the temporal and spatial scale of the mechanisms, especially as they may differ between different life history strategists within an ecosystem. We invite contributions which examine the scale of response of species to climate, especially from an east/west comparative perspective. We especially encourage papers investigating the underlying mechanisms of responses, with an emphasis on targeting critical life history stages and differences in sensitivity to climate for different life history strategists (for example, between equilibrium and opportunistic strategists). It is intended that selected papers (oral and poster) will be published in an international scientific journal.


Kazuaki Tadokoro, Toru Kobari, Hiroaki Saito and Hiroya Sugisaki
Interdecadal variability in body size of Neocalanus copepods in the Oyashio waters from 1960 to 2002 - A study of the Odate Project

David L. Mackas and Moira D. Galbraith
Appearance and rapid increase of the exotic copepod Acartia tonsa on the British Columbia continental margin

Hiroya Sugisaki and Hiroshi Ito
Long term variation of species and life stage composition of zooplankton in the western North Pacific: Introduction of the Odate projec

Alexander A. Goryainov, Tatiyana A. Shatilina, Guram Sh. Tsitsiashvili and Vera A. Kochetova
The relationship between atmospheric processes above the Asian continent and the North Pacific ocean and the abundance of Asian chum salmon and pink salmon in 20th century

Jacquelynne R. King and Gordon A. McFarlane
Life history strategies: Applications to fisheries management

Yongjun Tian, Hideaki Kidokoro and Tatsuro Watanabe
Differing response patterns of pelagic and demersal fish assemblages to the late-1980s regime shift in the Japan Sea

Shin-ichi Ito, Kenneth A. Rose, Maki Noguchi-Aita, Bernard A. Megrey, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Francisco E. Werner and Michio J. Kishi
Interannual response of fish growth to the 3-D global NEMURO output with realistic atmospheric forcing. Part II: Pacific saury growth

Shang Chen, Yoshiro Watanabe and Yan Ma (Invited)
Ecological regime shift events in the East China Sea

Guram Sh. Tsitsiashvili, Tatiyana A. Shatilina, Alexander A. Goryainov, T.A. Radchenkova and L.Yu. Matyushenko

Todd TenBrink, Anne Hollowed and Kerim Aydin
Evaluating the climate-moderated fishing vulnerability of different life history strategists in Alaskan waters

Vladimir V. Sviridov
Adaptive significance of spatial distribution patterns as reflection of life history strategy and density dependence in populations of some pelagic fish, squid and jellyfish species in Russian EEZ of North Pacific

Akihiko Yatsu, Hiroshi Kubota, Akinori Takasuka, Motomitsu Takahashi, Norio Yamashita, Hiroshi Nishida, Chikako Watanabe and Yoshioki Oozeki
Distribution and population dynamics of Japanese sardine, anchovy and chub mackerel in the Kuroshio/Oyashio system: Seeking for mechanistic responses to regime shifts

Julie A. Thayer, Yutaka Watanuki, Tomohiro Deguchi, Akinori Takahashi and William J. Sydeman
East/West comparative responses of a Piscivorous marine bird to oceanographic variability in the North Pacific Ocean: California versus Tsushima current systems

Session 5: CCCC / MODEL Topic Session
Modeling climate and fishing impacts on fish recruitment

  • CCCC Program Best Presentation Award
    Chiyuki Sassa , Youichi Tsukamoto, Yoshinobu Konishi, Songguang Xie, Yoshiro Watanabe and Hideaki Nakata (Invited)

    Recruitment processes of jack mackerel (Trachurus japonicus) in the East China Sea (ECS) in relation to environmental conditions
Co-Convenors:
Jacob Schweigert (Canada) and Yury I. Zuenko (Russia)

To model the state of fish populations, both individual growth and the population number are necessary. Recently the PICES MODEL Task Team has generalized ecosystem models for the North Pacific, and applied the prototype model of lower trophic models (NEMURO) for the growth of individual fish, at present Pacific saury and herring. However, the same developments were not implemented at the fish population level. Clearly, the abundance depends strongly on reproductive success and fish survival during early life stages, and these are, in turn, affected by the environment. This session will review existing models and related scientific knowledge on fish recruitment under varying environmental conditions, and create a foundation for their incorporation in the ecosystem model for the North Pacific and its regions.


Franz J. Mueter (Invited)
Detecting and modeling environmental effects on recruitment: Strategies and pitfalls

Alexander I. Abakumov and Irina V. Ishmukova
Using the model approach to understand functioning of the Okhotsk Sea ecosystem

R. Ian Perry and Jake Schweigert
Concepts of marine ecosystem carrying capacity, and their application to NE Pacific herring populations

Melissa A. Haltuch and Andre E. Punt
Life history, climate forcing, and fish stock assessment – Evaluating statistical power

Yury I. Zuenko and Svetlana V. Davidova
In situ experiments to investigate the japanese anchovy eggs development

Haruka Nishiakwa and Ichiro Yasuda
Population decline of Japanese sardine and variation of mixed layer depth in the Kuroshio Extension

Michael J. Schirripa and J.J. Colbert
Incorporating environmental effects in the assessment of sablefish ( Anoplopoma fimbria ) off the continental U.S. Pacific coast

Session 6: FIS / CCCC Topic Session
Evidence of distributional shifts in demersal fish in relation to short/long-term changes in oceanographic conditions

Co-Convenors:
Gordon A. McFarlane (Canada), Michael J. Schirripa (U.S.A.) and Mikhail Stepanenko (Russia)

Demersal fish, either on the continental shelves, slopes or sea mounts, support major fisheries in both the eastern and western Pacific. These include such fish as the rockfishes (genus Sebastes), thornyheads (genus Sebastolobus) and many flounders (family Pleuronectidae). These species are known to exhibit periodic shifts in their distribution either latitudinally (moving north-south) or longitudinally (moving east-west). While these shifts can at times be attributed to such things as life history characteristics, often they are due to changes in the fish’s environment. Changes in the fish’s environment can be the result of short-term phenomena, such as seasonal depletions in oxygen levels, or long-term phenomena, such as decadal climate shifts. Shifts in the spatial distribution of these species due to changes in the fish’s environment can cause these populations to move into and out of the areas traditionally covered by the fisheries they support, as well as the surveys that seek to assess their abundance. Consequently, resource surveys designed to develop annual indices of abundance for these species can produce erroneous trends, and as a result, the stock assessments that depend on these surveys will be inaccurate. If the causes of these distributional changes were known, indices of abundance could be modeled so as to account for these changes in ways other than changes in overall stock abundance. This session invites papers that describe the changes in demersal fishes distributions with specific emphasis on those changes due to changes in climate, either short- or long-term. The goal of the session will be to provide sound evidence for ecosystem-based distributional shifts that can be used to account for some of the year-to-year variability in survey trends of demersal fish, that may currently be attributed to changes in overall abundance.


Jin-Yeong Kim, Yang-Jae Im, Seok-Gwan Choi, Soon-Song Kim, Joo-Il Kim and Young-Yull Chun
Spatial limitation of demersal fish and ecosystem characteristics during wintering season in the southern waters of Korea

Oleg G. Zolotov
Long-term changes in Atka mackerel, Pleurogrammus monopterygius, distribution and abundance in waters off the northern Kurile Islands and southeastern Kamchatka

Alexei M. Orlov
Long-term and seasonal shifts of distribution of commercially important flat- and rockfishes in the Pacific off the northern Kuril Islands and southeastern Kamchatka: Probable affecting of changes in climatic and temperature conditions?

Paul D. Spencer and Tom W. Wilderbuer
Geographic distributions of eastern Bering Sea flatfish: Effects of environmental variability and population abundance

Franz J. Mueter and Bernard A. Megrey
Geographical shifts in the spatial distribution of Northeast Pacific groundfish populations in relation to water temperatures

Session 7: MEQ/FIS Topic Session
Current and emerging issues of marine and estuarine aquaculture in the Pacific region: Carrying capacity, ecosystem function and socioeconomics

  • MEQ Committee Best Presentation Award
    Xuelei Zhang
    Benzene toxicity to the scallop, Chlamys farreri, and the shrimp, Penaeus japonicus
Co-Convenors:
Ik-Kyo Chung (Korea), Jian-Guang Fang (China), Carolyn Friedman (U.S.A.) and Galina S. Gavrilova (Russia)

It is well recognized that for successful and long-term utilization of waters for aquaculture and other uses, we must consider the allocation of resources and trophic structure of the system. Ecosystem-based management of resources requires ways to monitor current conditions and predict future states, particularly in response to known human activities that impact the marine environment. Mariculture is an important expanding industry in all PICES countries, and this session will consider mariculture as a case study on how the ecosystem impacts of a particular human activity can be managed. Indicators and predictive models are being used to evaluate and hypothesize the responses of an ecosystem to environmental impact and resulting management actions. This session will bring experts together to identify criteria for suitable indicators and the utilities of predictive models relevant to the impacts of mariculture, to assess the sensitivities of indicators, and to highlight gaps in current knowledge.


Galina S. Gavrilova
The current status of research and problems of invertebrate mariculture in the Russian Far East

Yongsik Sin
Use of ecosystem models for study and management of coastal estuarine ecosystems in Korea

Hisashi Yokoyama
Proposal of site selection guidelines for fish farming in Japanese coastal waters

Ik Kyo Chung, Yun He Kang and Yu-Feng Yang
Seasonal assembly of seaweed species in the sustainable seaweed integrated aquaculture system in Korea

Richard J. Beamish, Chrys-Ellen M. Neville and Ruston M. Sweeting
Regimes and the relationship between farmed and wild salmon in British Columbia

Igor Khovansky and Anastassia Mednikova
Perspectives of salmon sea ranching in the coast of the Okhotsk Sea and in estuaries of rivers

Larissa A. Gayko
Influence of environmental factors to forecast the yield of mollusks on marine farms (Sea of Japan)

Session 8: MEQ/FIS Topic Session
Ecosystem indicators and models

Co-Convenors:
Glen Jamieson (Canada), Xian-Shi Jin (China), Patricia Livingston (U.S.A.), Tokio Wada (Japan), Vladimir I. Radchenko (Russia) and Chang-Ik Zhang (Korea)

Ecosystem-based management (EBM) of resources will require ways to monitor current conditions and predict future states. Ecosystem indicators are single variables that reflect the status of broad suites of management activities or environmental conditions, and their assessment is key to monitoring the achievement of EBM. Predictive ecosystem models can be used to hypothesize the responses of an ecosystem to management actions, to assess the sensitivities of indicators, and to highlight gaps in current knowledge. This session will bring experts together to identify criteria for suitable indicators and the utilities of predictive models, and to present candidates of indicators and models that are actively in use in PICES areas.


Elizabeth A. Fulton, Michael Fuller and Anthony D.M. Smith (Invited)
Management strategy evaluation and indicators for ecosystem-based fisheries management

Gordon H. Kruse, Patricia A. Livingston and Glen S. Jamieson
Evolution of ecosystem-based fishery management

Sang Cheol Yoon and Chang Ik Zhang
A comprehensive ecosystem-based approach to management of fisheries resources in Korea

James E. Overland, J. Boldt, J. Grebmeier, J. Helle, P.J. Stabeno, M. Wang and Patricia Livingston

Michio J. Kishi, Ippo Nakajima and Yasuko Kamezawa
Fish growth comparisons around Japan using NEMURO.FISH

Vladimir I. Zvalinsky
Ecosystem parameters and stability: Theoretical considerations

Glen Jamieson and Cathryn Clarke
Identification of ecologically and biologically significant areas in Pacific Canada

Chuan-Lin Huo, Geng-Chen Han, Ju-Ying Wang and Dao-Ming Guan
EROD as bioindicator for monitoring of marine contaminants along the Dalian coast

Sun-Kil Lee, Jae Bong Lee, Chang-Ik Zhang and Dong Woo Lee
Comparisons in ecosystem effects of fishing in Korean waters

Zhenyong Wang, Hao Wei and Zuowei Zhang
Application of modified NEMURO Model to Jiaozhou Bay

Thomas C. Wainwright, James J. Ruzicka and William T. Peterson

Jie Li, Zengmao Wu and Xiaofang Wan
Modelling study of the new production and the microbial food loop impact in the Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass

Chris J. Harvey, Isaac C. Kaplan, Emily J. Brand, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Anthony D.M. Smith, Albert J. Hermann, M. Elizabeth Clarke and Phillip S. Levin
A spatially-explicit ecosystem model to examine the effects of fisheries management alternatives in the California Current

Session 9: MEQ Topic Session
Ecological effects of offshore oil and gas development and oil spills

Co-sponsored by the Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP) of UNEP

Co-Convenors:
Tatiana Belan (Russia), Kazuichi Hayakawa (Japan) and John Wardrop (Australia)

In recent years, offshore oil and gas production expanded to new areas of the world ocean. Unfortunately, oil and gas exploration and extraction can be associated with negative ecological consequences. For example, seismic surveys may interfere with commercial fishing, installation of platforms disturb habitats of marine fish and invertebrates, and the discharge of drilling muds introduce a number of contaminants into the surrounding waters. Oil spills associated with offshore operations or with tanker accidents also threaten the marine environment. Recent spills have demonstrated vulnerability of coastal communities. Oil slicks at sea can kill or otherwise adversely affect marine birds and mammals, zooplankton, as well as the eggs and larvae of fish and invertebrates. The goal of this session is to bring together marine scientists working on these issues and to discuss what steps can be taken to minimize adverse ecological effects of offshore oil and gas production.


Chang-Gu Kang, Seong-Gil Kang and Jeong-Hwan Oh (Invited)
Oil spills - Risk, preparedness and response in the Northwest Pacific

Kazuichi Hayakawa, Maki Nomura, Takuya Nakagawa, Seiji Oguri, Takuya Kawanishi, Akira Toriba and Ryoichi Kizu
Study on damage and recovery of coastlines for three years after the Nakhodka oil spill

Valentina V. Andreeva, Tatyana V. Konovalova, Paul G. Mowatt and Olga V. Samoilyuk
Review of monitoring results in the area of Moliqpak platform (north-eastern shelf of Sakhalin)

Review by A.V. Belan based on the following 4 abstracts

Tatyana V. Konovalova, Alexander V. Moshchenko, Tatyana A. Belan and Nadezhda K. Khristoforova
Alterations of biotopical conditions and variations of benthos distribution near Molikpaq platform (North-East Sakhalin Island shelf)

Alexander V. Moshchenko, Tatyana V. Konovalova and Nadezhda K. Khristoforova
Changes of granulometric composition of bottom sediments near Molikpaq platform (North-East Sakhalin Island shelf)

Evgeniyi V. Karasev, Tatyana S. Lishavskaya, Tatyana. A. Belan, Alexander V. Tkalin, Alexander V. Moshchenko and Anastasia S. Chernova
Ecological investigations on the Sakhalin Island shelf, including Molikpaq platform monitoring: A review of FERHRI studies

Tatyana V. Konovalova, Alexander V. Moshchenko, Tatyana S. Lishavskaya and Nadezhda K. Khristoforova
Interrelation of the contents of petroleum hydrocarbons, metals and granulometric composition of sediments near Molikpaq platform (North-East Sakhalin Island shelf)

Takuya Kawanishi, Masayuki Kunugi and Kazuichi Hayakawa
Monitoring chemical substances in surface sea water in North Pacific Area

Review by G. Moyseychenko based on the following 2 abstracts:

Galina Borisenko and Galina Moyseychenko
The quantification of natural radioactive background levels of radioactivity in offshore bottom sediments of northeastern part of Sakhalin Island (pdf,

Inna Nemirovskaya, Galina Moyseychenko and Yury Blinov
Concentrations and compositions of aliphatic and polycyclic hydrocarbons in bottom sediments off Sakhalin Island

Galina Moyseychenko and Alla Ogorodnikova
Possible influence of accidental oil spills on the Far Eastern Sea shelf biota

Svetlana V. Davydova and Sergey A. Cherkashin
Ichthyoplankton as an indicator of the state of coastal ecosystems in the areas of oil and gas deposits on Sakhalin shelf

Session 10: TCODE Topic Session
Marine data management and delivery systems to support ecosystem monitoring

Co-Convenors:
S. Allen Macklin, Bernard A. Megrey (U.S.A.) and Igor I. Shevchenko (Russia)

A stated objective of PICES is to provide data in exchangeable formats to better enable the evaluation of North Pacific ecosystems status and trends, and to support other strategic pursuits. PICES scientists face challenges in managing and delivering data in a shareable way. Furthermore, a growing number of ocean observing systems require data management and communication methodologies that conform to rigid standards and protocols. For the most part, traditional science education of the past century offered little training in data management. Today’s typical scientist, although supportive of data exchange, lacks the background to understand techniques to facilitate it.

This session will acquaint PICES scientists with state-of-the-art information about metadata description, data delivery and data browsing techniques, with emphasis on existing standards and web services recommended for ocean observing systems. Basic to advanced methods will be presented in a graduated format. Presenters and participants will describe and explore existing successful systems. Participants will learn ways to map existing data structures into conformant, exchangeable formats using no-cost, open-source applications.


Anthony W. Isenor (Invited)
Data exchanges, XML, and why the exchange problem is still unsolved

Deng-Wen Xia
Marine data exchange prototype based on XML

BEST PRESENTATION
Dmitry. D. Kaplunenko, Vyacheslav B. Lobanov, Young Jae Ro and Mikhail Danchenkov
Merging Argo data and ship CTD observations to study mesoscale patterns in the Japan/East Sea

Natalia I. Rudykh, Elena V. Dmitrieva and Vladimir I. Ponomarev
Use of diverse database aggregation for the study of variability in oceanographic parameters of the Japan/East Sea

Shin-ichi Ito, Shigeho Kakehi, Motohiko Kashima, Yoshioki Oozeki and Kazuyuki Uehara
A system development for near-realtime data exchange between ship and shore-based analysts in Japan’s Fisheries Research Agency (FRA)

Benoît Pirenne and Robin Brown
NEPTUNE and VENUS: Data management and archival system for cabled ocean observatories

Kimberly Bahl, Hee Dong Jeong, Kyu Kui Jung, Hae Seok Kang, S. Allen Macklin and Bernard A. Megrey
Federated metadata of PICES member nations: Information sharing across international boundaries

Igor D. Rostov, Vladimir I. Rostov, Natalia I. Rudykh, Elena V. Dmitrieva and Alexander A. Pan

Sei-Ichi Saitoh, Hidetada Kiyofuji, Daichi Tachikawa, Mihoko Abe, Kazuhiko Tateyama and Motoki Hirak i
Research and development of ubiquitous information services for integrated fisheries activities in the offshore around Japan

Anatoly I. Alexanin, Marina G. Alexanina, Pavel V. Babyak and Michail V. Kruglov
Problems of satellite data delivery and their solution by the FEB RAS Centre for Regional Satellite Environment Monitoring

FIS Paper Session

  • FIS Committee Best Presentation Award
    Eun Jung Kim, Suam Kim, Dae-Yeon Moon and Jeong-Rack Koh
    The vertical and horizontal distribution of bigeye (Thunnus obesus) and yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) related to ocean structure
Convenor: Yukimasa Ishida (Japan)

Papers on all aspects of fishery oceanography in the North Pacific and its marginal seas are invited.

Gennady A. Kantakov and Sergey D. Bukin
Oceanographical conditions changing and Pandalus borealis redistribution in the northern part Sea of Japan

Yuri Yu. Nikonov, Andrey S. Krasnenko and Valeriy N. Chastikov
Numerical analysis of the Paralithodes brevipes larvae migration in the Southern-Kurile strait’s region

John R. Bower
Paralarval distribution patterns of the gonatid squid Berryteuthis anonychus in the North Pacific

Hyoung-Chul Shin, Don Hyug Kang and Yoon-Seon Yang
Fate of the common squid population in Korean waters; a natural oceanographic experiment over various time scales

Toshiyuki Konishi, Hidetada Kiyofuji and Sei-Ichi Saitoh
Predictability of Pacific saury fishing grounds in the Northwestern North Pacific using satellite remote sensing data

Oleg Bulatov
The Bering Sea pollock and regime shifts

Alexei M. Orlov and Andrei N. Stroganov
Prerequisite of the study of Pacific cod population structure (n/a)

George Shevchenko and Olga Shershneva
Monitoring of SST in the areas adjacent to the river mouths of Sakhalin applied to the problem of fry salmon release

Hyunju Seo, Suam Kim, Sukyung Kang and Kibeik Seong
A new estimation of salmon return rate and its use in environmental studies

Vladimir A. Rakov, Valentina V. Goncharova and Yulia V. Zavertanova
Monitoring of macrobenthos and larvae of fish at the Vrangel Bay (Sea of Japan)

Hyejin Song, Gun Wook Baeck and Suam Kim
Food and feeding of the common squid Todarodes pacificus (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae) off Busan, Korea

Hiroshi Kubota, Yoshioki Oozeki and Ryo Kimura
Feeding ecology of larval and juvenile black snake mackerel (Nealotus tripes, Gempylidae) and their roles in the fish communities of the Kuroshio Extension Region

Dongwha Sohn, Sukyung Kang and Suam Kim
Comparison of otolith microchemistry between chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) and cherry salmon (Oncorhynchus masou) in Korean waters

David Welch, Peggy Tsang, Jayson Semmens, Sonia Batten and R. Scott McKinley
Performance of the POST (Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking) array in 2004-05, and plans for the future

POC Paper Session

  • POC Committee Best Presentation Award
    Yuri Nikonov
    Water and chlorophyll circulation modeling of Aniva Gulf according to oceanographic data from the year 2002
  • POC Committee Best Presentation Award
    Satoshi Osafune
     Bidecadal variability in the intermediate waters of the northwestern subarctic Pacific and the Okhotsk Sea in relation to the 18.6-year nodal tidal cycle
  • POC Committee Best Poster Award
    Hanna Na
     Temporal variation of the estimated volume transport through the Korea and Tsugaru Straits
Convenor: Michael G. Foreman (Canada)

Papers are invited on all aspects of physical oceanography and climate in the North Pacific and its marginal seas, particularly those related to the impacts of future climate change.

Michael G. Foreman (Introduction by POC Chairman)
Evaluation of climate change projections: A new Working Group under the PICES Physical Oceanography and Climate Committee

Hiroyasu Hasumi, Tatsuo Suzuki, Takashi T. Sakamoto, Seita Emori, Masahide Kimoto and Akimasa Sumi (Invited)
Present and future of the North Pacific simulated by a high resolution coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model

Muyin Wang and James E. Overland (Invited)
A first look at the new IPCC AR4 climate model simulations over the North Pacific

Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Taketo Hoshioka, Maki N. Aita and Michio J. Kishi
Changes in ecosystem in the western North Pacific associated with global warming (n/a )

Larissa A. Gayko
The analysis of temperature regimes in coastal areas of the north-west Japan/East Sea by climatic periods (n/a)

Ichiro Yasuda, Satoshi Osafune and Hiroaki Tatebe
Possible mechanism of bi-decadal North Pacific ocean/climate variability in relation to the 18.6-year period nodal cycle

Skip McKinnell
Detecting the 1972/73 El Niño in the Northeast Pacific with an improved tropical teleconnection index

Victor I. Kuzin, Aleksandr S. Lobanov and Valery M. Moiseev
Analysis and modeling of north and tropical Pacific SST variability

Yulia N. Tananaeva and Marat A. Bogdanov
Interannual variability of cold and warm seasons and their duration in the North West Pacific

Satoshi Osafune and Ichiro Yasuda
Bidecadal variability in the intermediate waters of the northwestern subarctic Pacific and the Okhotsk Sea in relation to the 18.6-year nodal tidal cycle [BEST PRESENTATION]

Fangli Qiao, Changshui Xia, Zhenya Song, Yongzeng Yang and Yeli Yuan
Ocean surface waves play an essential role in air-sea interaction from an atmosphere-wave-ocean coupled model (n/a)

Shin-ichi Ito, Shigeho Kakehi, Motohiko Kashima, Kosei Komatsu, Takashi Setou and Yasumasa Miyazawa
Predictability of location of the Kuroshio Extension and the Oyashio First Branch by JCOPE

Michael Foreman, Wendy Wiggins, Angelica Peña, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Barbara Hickey, Amy MacFadyen and Vera Trainer
Modelling and observational studies of the Juan de Fuca Eddy

Gennady A. Platov, Elena N. Golubeva, Young Jae Ro and John F. Middleton
Numerical study of the general circulation in the Japan/East Sea with simple assimilation of temperature and salinity data

Olga O. Trusenkova, Vyacheslav B. Lobanov and Aleksandr A. Nikitin
Seasonal and interannual variation of currents in the western Japan/East Sea: Numerical simulation in comparison with infrared satellite imagery

Hao Wei, Yunchang He, Qingji Li and Zhiyu Liu
Seasonal hypoxic zone adjacent to the Changjiang Estuary

Young Jae Ro and Kwang Young Jung
Realtime monitoring of oceanic state variables in Kangjin Bay, South Sea, Korea

Yuri Yu. Nikonov, Valeriy N. Chastikov and Ludmila Yu. Gavrina
Water and chlorophyll circulation modeling of Aniva Gulf according to oceanographic data from the year 2002 [BEST PRESENTATION]

Vladimir I. Matveev
Interannual changes of dissolved oxygen in an active layer of the Okhotsk Sea

Nafanail V. Bulatov and Natalya G. Obukhova
One type of eddy development in the north-eastern Kuroshio branch

Yugo Shimizu, Lynne D. Talley, Shin-ichi Ito and Miyuki Tatesawa
Distribution and transport variations of source waters for North Pacific Intermediate Water formation revealed by multiple tracer analysis

George Shevchenko and Valery Chastikov
Seasonal variability of oceanological conditions in the southern part of the Okhotsk Sea from CTD surveying on standard section Cape Aniva – Cape Dokuchaev

Andrey G. Andreev and Victoria I. Baturina
Impacts of the tides and atmospheric forcing variability on salinity and dissolved oxygen in the western subarctic Pacific

Young-Gyu Park, Kyung-Hee Oh and Moon-Sik Suk
Meridional mass and heat transport across the 38-40°N line in the East/Japan Sea

Hiroki Takemura and Sei-Ichi Saitoh
Spatial phytoplankton distributions affected by eddy dynamics in the Eastern Kamchatka Current and Oyashio regions during the spring between 1998-2004

Vladimir A. Luchin and Igor A. Zhigalov
Typical distribution of interannual variations of water temperature in the active layer of the Okhotsk Sea and their possible prediction

BIO Poster Session

Convenor: Michael J. Dagg (U.S.A.)

Posters on various aspects of biological oceanography in the North Pacific and its marginal seas are welcome. Please submit your poster to BIO Poster Session if it does not fit offered BIO Topic Sessions (S2 and S3).

CCCC Poster Session

Co-Convenors: Harold P. Batchelder (U.S.A.) and Suam Kim (Korea)

Numerous GLOBEC and GLOBEC-like studies linking atmospheric forcing, ocean climate and physical variability, and ecosystem structure and pattern have occurred in the past decade. This POSTER session provides a forum for a review of the observational evidence linking climate to ecosystem pattern, and inferring the mechanisms or processes that link climate forcing to ocean physics and ecosystem pattern and dynamics. Presentations related to dynamics and processes on multiple temporal (event to seasonal to interannual and longer) and multiple spatial (local to mesoscale to regional to basin-wide) scales are encouraged. Inferring mechanism (process) from spatial and/or temporal patterns is emphasized in this session, but contributions on related topics are encouraged as well.

MEQ Poster Session

Convenor: John E. Stein (U.S.A.)

Posters on various aspects of marine environmental quality in the North Pacific and its marginal seas are welcome. Please submit your poster to MEQ Poster Session if it does not fit offered BIO Topic Sessions (S7, S8 and S9).

MEQ Workshop (1 day) & laboratory demonstration (½ day)
Review of selected harmful algae in the PICES region: I. Pseudo-nitzschia & Alexandrium

Co-Convenors: Tatiana Orlova (Russia) and Mark Wells (U.S.A.)

This workshop is the beginning of an annual series in which harmful algal bloom (HAB) species that impact all or most countries in the North Pacific are discussed in detail. In 2005, we will focus on two genera, Pseudo-nitzschia and Alexandrium. Topics will include detection methods, ecosystem comparison, and new advancements in physiology and ecology from each of the member countries. In particular, we would like to stress those factors which need additional study in order to develop a predictive capacity for these HABs. Specific subjects will include: a comprehensive listing of both macro- and micro-nutrient requirements, toxin production, light and temperature requirements, environmental conditions, species and strain variability, cyst formation, shellfish species impacted, modeling, and genetics. We will document our knowledge on the ecophysiology of these HAB species as a result of this workshop. During future workshops we anticipate discussing additional HAB species, including: Cochlodinium, Heterosigma akashiwo, Dinophysis, Heterocapsa, Chattonella, Gymnodinium catenatum, and Karenia mikimotoi. This workshop will be preceded by a ½-day laboratory demonstration on detection techniques for algal toxins at the TINRO-Center in Vladivostok.

Workshop 2: MEQ Workshop
Introduced species in the Norh Pacific

Co-sponsored by ICES

Co-Convenors: Yasuwo Fukuyo (Japan/PICES), Stephan Gollasch (Germany/ICES) and Glen Jamieson (Canada/PICES)

The workshop will include presentations on the status of introduced organisms in member countries and progress in developing inventories of introduced species; reports of activities related to research on vectors, including natural (currents and organisms such as turtles and birds), and anthropogenic (ballast water, hull fouling, fisheries, etc) ones; reports of activities related to the Ballast Water Management Convention, especially measurement of compliance with ballast water exchange protocols, and measurement of effectiveness and development of systems of ballast water treatment. The workshop aims to have a discussion on the establishment of a Working Group on introduced species under MEQ.


Alexander Yu. Zvyagintsev
Introduction of species into the northwestern Sea of Japan

Li-Jun Wang and Bin Wang
Marine introduced species in China seas and action plans

Hiroshi Kawai, Takeaki Hanyuda and Shinya Uwai
Macroalgal diversity of hull communities on trans-ocean coal carriers (n/a)

Glen Jamieson, Colin Levings, Dorothee Kieser and Sarah Dudas
Marine and estuarine non-indigenous species in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada

John E. Stein
Invasive species in the North Pacific – review of US research

Mitsunori Iwataki, Hisae Kawami, Kazumi Matsuoka, Takuo Omura and Yasuwo Fukuyo
Phylogeny and geographical distribution of Cochlodinium polykrikoides population (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae) collected from Japanese and Korean coasts

Sergej Olenin (Invited)
Xenodiversity versus biodiversity: Invasive alien species in European coastal marine ecosystems

Stephan Gollasch
Overview on introduced aquatic species in Europe – With focus on ICES Member Countries

Dan Minchin (Invited)
Vectors and processes involved in biological invasions (n/a)

Akiko Tomaru, Yasuwo Fukuyo, Masanobu Kawachi and Hiroshi Kawai
Effect of mid-ocean exchange of ballast water on bacterial community in ballast tanks

Yasuwo Fukuyo, Katsumi Yoshida and Shin-ichi Hanayama
Importance of inputs from scientists to effective implementation of ballast water management convention

Shinichi Hanayama and Miyuki Ishibashi
Efforts of IMO to avoid secondary toxicity risk on the marine environment by chemical treatment of Ballast Water Management System

Helge Botnen and Stephan Gollasch
Tests of a ballast water treatment system onboard an ocean-going vessel and hints on a new sampling device for larger volumes of water

Discussion on the establishment of a PICES Working Group to study on marine bioinvasion including the following two brief presentations:

John E. Stein
Advantage of organizing a PICES Working Group on marine bioinvasions for future cooperation among PICES and ICES

Stephen Gollasch
Recommendation from the Chairman of ICES/IOC/IMO WGBOSV for the consideration by PICES in preparing the TOR for the new PICES Working Group

Workshop 3: IFEP/MODEL Workshop
Modeling and iron biogeochemistry: How far apart are we?

Co-Convenors: Fei Chai (U.S.A.) and Jun Nishioka (Japan)

Synthesis of data from three successful meso-scale iron enrichment experiments in the subarctic North Pacific (SEEDS-I & II and SERIES) is underway. This workshop will enhance communication between experimentalists and modelers. For the most part, iron is not explicitly represented in current ecological models. The goal of this workshop will be to examine the structure of iron biochemical models with respect to what is known about iron biogeochemistry. The purpose will be to establish a framework for organizing a 2-3 day workshop to address this problem in detail and to compare ecological models that describe how plankton ecosystem respond to meso-scale iron enrichment in the high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll waters of the subarctic Pacific.


Peter L. Croot (Invited)
The importance of iron speciation and kinetics in understanding iron biogeochemical cycling in the open ocean: Effects on budget estimates from meso-scale tracer release experiments

Naoki Yoshie, Yasuhiro Yamanaka and Shigenobu Takeda (Invited)
Development of a marine ecosystem model including intermediate complexity iron cycle

Michio J. Kishi, Takeshi Okunishi and Yukiko Ono
Lower trophic ecosystem model including effect of iron in the Okhotsk Sea and adjacent areas

M. Angelica Peña, K.L. Denman, C. Voelker and R.B. Rivkin
Modelling the ecosystem response to iron fertilization during SERIES

Masahiko Fujii, Naoki Yoshie, Yasuhiro Yamanaka and Fei Chai
Simulated biogeochemical responses to iron enrichments in three high nutrient, low chlorophyll (HNLC) regions

James Christian and Christoph Voelker
Modelling the ocean iron cycle – The major uncertainties

Workshop 4: MONITOR Workshop
Filling the gaps in the PICES North Pacific Ecosystem Status Report

Co-Convenors: Vyacheslav B. Lobanov (Russia), Phillip R. Mundy (U.S.A.), R. Ian Perry (Canada) and Sei-Ichi Saitoh (Japan)

In 2004, PICES published the first status report on the marine ecosystems of the North Pacific (PICES. 2004. Marine ecosystems of the North Pacific. PICES Special Publication 1, 280 p). It reviewed climatic, oceanographic, and fisheries conditions for all major regions in the North Pacific, with a focus on 1999-2003, and identified some of the critical factors causing changes in these ecosystems. Much was learned about the process of assessing the status of marine ecosystems, but much was also left out of the report. For example, benthic organisms, near-shore regions and contaminants were only sparsely discussed, and there were few attempts to provide synthetic or summary indices of ecosystem state that might be comparable among regions. In 2004, PICES also produced a report on Fisheries and Ecosystem Responses to Recent Regime Shifts, which included updated information that was not in the Ecosystem Status Report. The new MONITOR Technical Committee has accepted the responsibility to update this Ecosystem Status Report and to produce the next version. The purpose of this workshop is to examine the process used to develop and review the first status report (what worked, what did not), to consider other models of ecosystem status reports (e.g., ICES, Global International Waters Assessment, and the recently released Millennium Ecosystem Assessment), and to identify themes and data sources that were poorly, or not at all, included in the first version. Presentations on these topics, and on existing monitoring programs that could contribute to the next Ecosystem Status Report, and on new sampling, observation and data processing technologies which might contribute directly to the next report, are invited.


R. Ian Perry and Skip McKinnell
PICES report on the marine ecosystems of the North Pacific: Why, how, and what’s needed next

David L. Fluharty
Putting ecosystem science to work

Jacqueline Alder (Invited)
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Lessons learned

P. Robin Rigby, Tetsuya Kato and Yoshihisa Shirayama (Invited)
Broadening our understanding of the North Pacific nearshore ecosystem: Integrating PICES and NaGISA

Sinjae Yoo
Filling the gaps: The case of the Yellow Sea

Peter S. Rand, Xanthippe Augerot and Cathy D. Pearson
Progress on a range-wide inventory for Pacific salmon monitoring data

Phillip R. Mundy
Hypothesis-driven ecosystem monitoring in the Gulf of Alaska