PICES 15th (2006) Annual Meeting Information and Presentations

General Information

The North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) announces its Fifteenth Annual Meeting to be held October 13 - 22, 2006, at the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1, in Yokohama, Japan. The meeting is hosted by the Government of Japan, in cooperation with the Fisheries Research Agency, in coordination with the PICES Secretariat.
Keynote Speaker: Akihiko Yatsu
  • Akihiko Yatsu (Hokkaido National Fisheries Research Institute)
    Biological production, animal migration and ecosystem regime shifts in the Kuroshio and Oyashio Currents: Perspectives for sustainable use

Session 1: Science Board Symposium
Boundary current ecosystems

  • Science Board Best Presentation Award
    John (Jack) A. Barth
     Intraseasonal wind oscillations and their influence on northern California Current coastal ecosystems
Co-Convenors:
Harold Batchelder (CCCC), Kuh Kim (SB), Michael J. Dagg (BIO), Gordon H. Kruse (FIS), John E. Stein (MEQ), Michael G. Foreman (POC), Suam Kim (CCCC), Jeffrey M. Napp (MONITOR), Igor I. Shevchenko (TCODE), Fangli Qiao (China) and Yukimasa Ishida (Japan)

Invited speakers:
Edmundo Casillas (Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S.A.)
Kenneth Drinkwater (ICES/Institute of Marine Research, Norway)
Robert Francis (School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, U.S.A.)
Tony Koslow (CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia)
Arthur Miller (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, U.S.A.)
Ichiro Yasuda (Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan)

The North Pacific is surrounded by boundary currents (e.g., Kuroshio, Tsushima, Oyashio, California, Alaska, Bering Slope) that support a diversity of ecosystems. These ecosystems are highly variable in space and time due to combinations of climate change, decadal "regime" shifts, ENSO and other interannual variability, seasonal and event mesoscale dynamics. This variability has led to dramatic changes at both low and high trophic levels, including productivity, range extensions, and species dominance. This theme will provide opportunities to address questions such as: 1) How will climate variation and projected climate change influence the dynamics and variability of boundary currents? 2) How will boundary current ecosystems respond to these physical property and transport changes? 3) How does human activity (e.g., fishing, hatcheries) alter the sensitivity of boundary current ecosystems to natural environmental forcing? and 4) What are appropriate management strategies to maintain healthy, sustainable living marine resources in boundary current systems that experience large environmental variations? Presentations that describe, compare and/or contrast physics, biology, fisheries, and geochemistry of boundary currents and the ecosystems they support are encouraged.

Akihiko Yatsu (Keynote)
Biological production, animal migration and ecosystem regime shifts in the Kuroshio and Oyashio Currents: Perspectives for sustainable use

Ichiro Yasuda (Invited)
The Kuroshio and Oyashio current system: Variability and impact on the ecosystem

Robert M. Suryan, Fumio Sato, Gregory R. Balogh, Noboru Nakamura, Paul R. Sievert and Kiyoaki Ozaki
Kuroshio and Oyashio boundary currents: Critical foraging habitat for the short-tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus), one of Japan’s natural monuments

Sanae Chiba, Hiroya Sugisaki and Toshiro Saino
Decadal changes of the Oyashio and Kuroshio affected spatio-temporal variation of the copepod community in the western North Pacific

Edmundo Casillas and William T. Peterson (Invited)
The Northern California Current Ecosystem: Variability, indicator development, and an ocean condition index for fishery management

Arthur J. Miller (Invited)
Long-term changes in the climate of the California Current, with biological impacts

Emanuele Di Lorenzo and Niklas Schneider
Intrinsic oceanic decadal variability in the North Pacific generated in the Eastern Boundary Current System

James Christian
The North Equatorial Countercurrent: An anomalous boundary current with biologically significant upwelling and a predictable response to climate forcing

J. Anthony Koslow, Ming Feng, Stephane Pesant and Peter Fearns (Invited)
The biophysical oceanography of the Leeuwin Current, a poleward-flowing eastern boundary current off the west coast of Australia

Kenneth F. Drinkwater and Svein Sundby (Invited)
The response of North Atlantic boundary currents and their ecosystems to climate change and variability - Contrasts and comparisons with the North Pacific

Juergen Alheit
Synchronous ecological regime shifts in the Kuroshio and Humboldt Currents

 

Session 2: BIO/FIS Topic Session
The human dimension of jellyfish blooms

Co-Convenors:
Richard D. Brodeur (U.S.A.), Juahua Cheng (China), Hiroshi Iizumi (Japan) and Won Duk Yoon (Korea)

Invited speakers:
Jennifer Purcell (Western Washington University, U.S.A.)
Shin-ichi Uye (Hiroshima University, Japan)

Large high-density jellyfish blooms are becoming increasingly common in many marginal seas in the North Pacific and in other regions of the world's oceans, and may be important regulators of marine ecosystems. These blooms may have direct effects on fish recruitment through predation on vulnerable early life stages of marine fishes, or indirect effects competing for limited food resources with exploited species. In addition, high concentrations of jellyfish influence humans in other ways like economic losses in tourism through beach closures, impeding commercial fishing through net clogging, and loss of energy production through clogging of power plant intakes. If jellyfish populations continue to increase in the coming decades, their impacts on human populations are also likely to increase. This session seeks to understand the causes of the proliferation and expansion of these blooms in coastal waters and whether climatic or anthropogenic changes have led to the recent blooms. In particular, studies examining the impacts of these blooms on humans and the economies that sustain them, and ways to predict their occurrence and spread are encouraged. The convenors are planning a special issue in a primary international journal (to be determined) so contributors to this session should express their interest in submitting a full manuscript during abstract submission.

Introduction by Convenors (pdf, 0.7 Mb )

Jennifer E. Purcell (Invited)
Interactions of multiple factors contribute to infestations of jellyfish

Shin-ichi Uye (Invited)
Bloom of the giant jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai: A threat to the East Asian Marginal Seas fisheries sustainability <

Tamara A. Shiganova (Invited)
Comparative analyses of invasive gelatinous species blooms in the Black, Azov, Caspian and Aegean Seas and their effect on ecosystems and fisheries

Hitoshi Iizumi, Osamu Katoh, Tatsuro Watanabe, Naoki Iguchi, Koh Nishiuchi, Toru Hasegawa, Kosei Komatsu, Kazufumi Takayanagi and Masaya Toyokawa
Mass appearance of the giant jellyfish, Nemopilema nomurai, along the coastal area of Japan

Joon-Yong Yang, Soo-Jung Chang, Jae Hong Moon, Won Duk Yoon and Donghyun Lim
Distribution of Nemopilema nomurai in Korean waters in 2005 and its possible origin

Jia-Hua Cheng, Feng-Yuan Ding, Sheng-Fa Li and Hui-Yu Li
Study on the quantitative distribution pattern of macro-jellyfish in the East China Sea

Jason S. Link, Michael D. Ford and Elizabeth Fulton
Widespread and persistent increase of Ctenophora in the Northeast U.S. shelf ecosystem: Evidence from spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) and implications for large marine ecosystems

Hye Eun Lee, Won Duk Yoon and Donghyun Lim
Predator on polyps of Nemopilema nomurai (Scyphzoa, Rhizostomeae)

Kristin Cieciel, Lisa Eisner, Angela Feldmann and Mary Courtney
Size structure, distribution, and interaction characteristics of dominant jellyfish from surface trawls in the Eastern Bering Sea

Haruto Ishii
Adaptation to coastal environmental changes in the polyp stage in relation to jellyfish blooms in Tokyo Bay

Richard D. Brodeur, Cynthia Suchman, Doug Reese, Todd Miller, Jim Ruzicka and Elizabeth Daly
Spatial overlap and trophic interactions between fish and large jellyfish in the northern California Current

Jing Dong, Chun-Yang Liu, Yang-Qing Wang and Bin Wang
Laboratory observations on the life cycle of Cyanea nozakii (Semeostomida, Scyphozoa)

Miyuki Hirose, Tohru Mukai, Kohji Iida and Doojin Hwang
Acoustic observations on the jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai in the East China Sea

 

Session 3: BIO Topic Session
Interactions between biogeochemical cycles and marine food webs in the North Pacific

  • BIO Committee Best Presentation Award
    Andrew L. King
     Macro- and micronutrient limitation of phytoplankton standing stock in the southern California Current System
  • BIO Committee Best Poster Award
    Satoshi Kitajima
     Nitrogen fixation in the subtropical and tropical western North Pacific
Co-sponsored by IMBER (Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research)

Co-Convenors:
Angelica Peña (Canada), Hiroaki Saito (Japan/IMBER) and Sinjae Yoo (Korea)

Invited speakers:
Kon-Kee Liu (Institute of Hydrological Sciences, National Central University, China-Taipei)
George A. Jackson (Texas A&M University, College Station, U.S.A.)

Marine food webs and their components influence and respond to the abundance and distribution of biogenic elements in the ocean. Organic matter produced by phytoplankton is continuously transferred from lower to higher trophic levels, and transferred back to constituent elements through decomposition and re-mineralization by detritivores and microbes. Changes in microbial and phytoplankton activity, due to changes in the availability of macro and micronutrients, can alter the composition, production and transfer of organic matter to upper trophic levels and its subsequent degradation. A better understanding of the fundamental interactions between biogeochemical cycles and food webs is necessary to advance our understanding and prediction of the responses of marine ecosystems to natural and anthropogenic perturbations, such as changes in physical dynamics and carbon cycle chemistry, dust events, eutrophication and marine harvest. The North Pacific and adjacent seas include a wide range of ecosystems and some unique environmental conditions, providing opportunities to investigate and compare the role of biological processes on biogeochemical cycles in different systems. In this session, we encourage presentations that expand our understanding of the interactions between biogeochemical cycles and marine food webs in the North Pacific Ocean, and the sensitivity of biogeochemical cycles, ecosystems and their interactions to global change.

Introduction by Convenors
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Kon-Kee Liu, Chun-Mao Tseng, I-I Lin, Hong-Bin Liu and Anond Snidvongs (Invited)
Effects of photoaclimation of phytoplankton and benthic-pelagic coupling on primary production in the South China Sea: Recent observations and modeling

Kazuaki Tadokoro, Tsuneo Ono, Akihiro Shiomoto and Hiroya Sugisaki
Trends and bidecadal oscillations in PO4 concentration in the Oyashio and Kuroshio-Oyashio mixed waters

Hernan E. Garcia, Tim P. Boyer, Sydney Levitus, Ricardo A. Locarnini, John I. Antonov, Daphne Johnson and Alexey Mishonov
Climatological annual cycle of inorganic nutrient content anomaly in the Pacific Basin

Sinjae Yoo, Man-Sik Choi, Sang-Hwa Choi, Jung-Ho Hyun, Hyung-Ku Kang, Dongseon Kim, Hyun-cheol Kim, Chang Rae Lee, Jeong-Ah Lee, Taehee Lee, Jae Hoon Noh, Chang-Woong Shin and Eun Jin Yang
Productivity and structure of lower trophic level communities and carbon flux in the Ulleung Basin in the JES in the summer of 2005

TaeKeun Rho, Sei-ichi Saitoh, Akihiro Shiomoto, Takahiro Iida and Toshiyuki Konish
Variability of summer primary production in the Subarctic North Pacific and the southeastern Bering Sea shelf

Hiroaki Saito, Takashi Ota, Koji Suzuki, Jun Nishioka and Atsushi Tsuda
Role of heterotrophic dinoflagellate Gyrodinium sp. in biogeochemical cycles

Koji Omori, Hidejiro Ohnishi, Toru Fukumoto, Shunsuke Takahashi, Hideki Hamaoka, Miyuki Ohnishi, Kenji Yoshino, Motomi Kato and Todd W. Miller
Two sources of primary production of sand bank ecosystems in Seto Inland Sea, Japan

Masahiko Fujii, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Yukihiro Nojiri, Michio J. Kishi and Fei Chai
Comparison of seasonal characteristics in biogeochemistry among the subarctic North Pacific stations described with a NEMURO-based marine ecosystem model

George A. Jackson (Invited)
Using coagulation theory to predict maximum particle concentrations and fluxes from the surface ocean

Akira Kuwata
Resting spore formation and sinking of bloom forming diatoms in the Oyashio region of the western subarctic Pacific Ocean

Toru Kobari, Deborah K. Steinberg, Atsushi Tsuda and Minoru Kitamura
Active carbon transport by the ontogenetically migrating copepods in the western subarctic gyre

Atushi Yamaguchi, Yuji Watanabe, Hiroshi Ishida, Takashi Harimoto, Kazushi Furusawa, Shinya Suzuki, Joji Ishizaka, Tsutomu Ikeda and Masayuki M. Takahashi
Taxonomic and size composition of plankton community down to the greater depths in the western North Pacific Ocean

Angelica Peña, M. Foreman and J. Morrison
Modeling summer nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics off the entrance of Juan de Fuca Strait

Lei Gao, Dao-Ji Li, Yan-Ming Wang, Li-Hua Yu, Ding-Jiang Kong, Mei Li and Yun Li
Nitrogen and silicon cycling in sediment and porewater of Dongtan tidal flat in the Changjiang (Yangtze River) estuary

David Checkley, Russ Davis, Alex Herman, George Jackson, Brian Beanlands, Jesse Powell and Lloyd Regier
Simultaneous assessment of particles, including plankton, in the North Pacific by use of the SOLOPC

 

Session 4: BIO Topic Session
Synthesis of in situ iron enrichment experiments in the eastern and western subarctic Pacific

Co-convenors:
Maurice Levasseur (Canada), Shigenobu Takeda and Atsushi Tsuda (Japan)

Invited speaker:
Philip Boyd (NIWA Centre for Chemical & Physical Oceanography, University of Otago, New Zealand)

Three successful meso-scale iron enrichment experiments have been conducted in the subarctic North Pacific (SEEDS-I & II and SERIES) over the last four years. This session will synthesize the key findings of these experiments and initiate the development of a common database. We invite contributions specifically comparing and contrasting these three experiments. In addition, the unpredicted response of a recent meso-scale iron enrichment experiment (SEEDS-II) highlights our limited understanding of how iron affects biogeochemical cycles, and the complexity of ecosystem responses to iron in High Nutrient Low Chlorophyll waters. We also encourage papers investigating how iron influences, and is in turn, influenced by ocean-atmospheric exchanges, plankton activities and community structure, micronutrient chemistry, and other processes in the subarctic North Pacific.

Philip W. Boyd (Invited)
Mesoscale iron enrichments - A valuable tool to understand how Pacific HNLC waters function

Atsushi Tsuda, Shigenobu Takeda, Hiroaki Saito, Jun Nishioka, Yukihiro Nojiri and Isao Kudo
SEEDS I summary

Paul Harrison, Maurice Levasseur, Philip Boyd, C.S. Wong, Richard Rivkin and Tom Pedersen
Mesoscale Fe enrichment produces a large diatom bloom, draws down CO2, but with limited production of DMS and carbon export in the NE Subarctic Pacific

Hiroaki Saito and SEEDS II participants
SEEDS II summary

Daisuke Tsumune, Jun Nishioka, Akifumi Shimamoto, Yutaka Watanabe, Shigenobu Takeda and Atsushi Tsuda
The physical behavior of the iron patches detected by SF6 tracer during SEEDS-I and SEEDS-II

S. Takeda, J. Nishioka, C.S. Wong, W.K. Johnson, M. Kinugasa, Y. Kondo, K. Kuma,
S. Nakatsuka, H. Obata, E. Roy, M. Sato, N. Sutherland, Y. Sohrin, H. Takata, H. Tani, A. Tsuda and M.L. Wells
Iron geochemistry of SEEDS-I, -II and SERIES

Jun Nishioka, Tsuneo Ono, Hiroaki Saito, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Shigenobu Takeda, Takeshi Yoshimura, Koji Suzuki, Kenshi Kuma, Shigeto Nakabayashi, Humio Mitsudera and Atsushi Tsuda
Iron supply to the western subarctic Pacific: Importance of lateral iron transport from the Sea of Okhotsk and winter mixing

Yukihiro Nojiri, Keiri Imai and Takafumi Aramaki
Analysis of changes in water and particulate material chemistry during iron-enrichment experiments in the subarctic North Pacific (SEEDS, SERIES and SEEDS-II)

Takeshi Yoshimura, Hiroshi Ogawa, Keiri Imai and Jun Nishioka
The dynamics of dissolved organic matter during in situ iron enrichment experiments in the subarctic North Pacific

Koji Suzuki, Hiroaki Saito, Akira Hinuma, Hiroshi Kiyosawa, Akira Kuwata, Kyoko Kawanobe, Toshiro Saino and Atsushi Tsuda
Comparison of community structure and photosynthetic physiology of phytoplankton in two mesoscale iron enrichment experiments in the NW subarctic Pacific

Charles G. Trick, William P. Cochlan, Mark L. Wells and Julia N. Betts
Complexity of grow-out experiments: Further iron stimulation of planktonic communities from the iron-fertilized mesoscale patch during SEEDS

Isao Kudo, Yoshifumi Noiri, Jun Nishioka, Yousuke Taira, Hiroshi Kiyosawa and Atsushi Tsuda
Phytoplankton community response to Fe and temperature gradients in the NE (SERIES) and NW (SEEDS) subarctic Pacific Ocean

Mark L. Wells, Charles G. Trick, William P. Cochlan and Julian Herndon
The persistence of iron limitation during the SEEDS-II mesoscale iron enrichment experiment

Atsushi Tsuda, Hiroaki Saito and Akash R. Sastri
Meso- and microzooplankton responses in the iron-enrichment experiments in the subarctic North Pacific (SEEDS, SERIES and SEEDS-II)

Maurice Levasseur, Anissa Merzouk, Martine Lizotte, Michael Scarratt, Sonia Michaud, Yvonnick Le Clainche, Chi Shing Wong and Richard Rivkin
Impact of iron enrichment on DMS cycling in the subarctic Pacific: A synthesis of SERIES and SEEDS-II

Ippei Nagao, Shinya Hashimoto, Shuji Toda, Shungo Kato, Yoshizumi Kajii, Yasushi Narita, Mitsuo Uematsu, Atsushi Tsuda, Hiroaki Saito and Koji Suzuki
Seawater and atmospheric DMS concentrations during SEEDS-II (Western North Pacific)

Yoko Iwamoto, Yasushi Narita and Mitsuo Uematsu
Single particle analysis of oceanic suspended matters during SEEDS-II

 

Session 5: BIO Topic Session
Advances in epi- and meso-pelagic ecosystem research

Co-Convenors:
Alexei M. Orlov (Russia), Evgeny A. Pakhomov (Canada) and Orio Yamamura (Japan)

Invited speakers:
Richard Brodeur (Hatfield Marine Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S.A.)
Hiroaki Saito (Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan)

Micronekton is an important component of epi- and meso-pelagic ecosystems linking mesozooplankton and higher trophic levels. Due to their intermediacy and mobility, quantitative sampling of micronekton has long been regarded as virtually impossible. Recent advances in acoustic devices and efforts in standardizing sampling gear have made the sampling of micronekton more precise. In the PICES area, various ongoing projects such as BASIS (NPAFC), US-GLOBEC and DEEP (Japan FRA) are studying micronekton. The session will synthesize new knowledge on micronekton biology including distribution, life history and vertical migrations, relationships with commercial species and its functional role in the North Pacific boundary current and open ocean ecosystems. Presentations on quantitative sampling are also welcome.

Richard D. Brodeur (Invited)
Micronekton and their importance in the northern California Current Ecosystem

Andrey V. Suntsov
Adaptive radiations in mesopelagic fishes: The role of key innovations

Vladimir I. Radchenko
Ratio of myctophid and bathylagid fish biomasses as an index of mesopelagic fish community status

Michael J. Miller and Katsumi Tsukamoto
Distribution and ecology of leptocephali in the western North Pacific gyre ecosystem

Hiroshi Kubota, Yoshioki Oozeki and Ryo Kimura
Factors responsible for the differences in feeding habits of mesopelagic fishes (Myctophidae and Gonostomatidae) and larval and juvenile Japanese anchovy

Todd W. Miller, Richard D. Brodeur and Greg H. Rau
Trophic relationships of nekton and zooplankton in the northern California Current: Insights from diet and stable isotope analysis

Hiroya Sugisaki, Masatoshi Moku, Kazuhisa Uchikawa, Kotaro Tsuchiya, Yuji Okazaki and Makoto Okamoto
Vertical distribution and feeding habit of mesopelagic fishes and squids off northeastern Japan

Oleg N. Katugin, Gennady A. Shevtsov and Mikhail A. Zuev
Distribution and life cycle patterns of the squid Gonatopsis octopedatus and Gonatopsis japonicus (Cephalopoda: Gonatidae) in the northwestern Pacific Ocean

Kaori Takagi, Akihiko Yatsu, Hiroshi Itoh, Masatoshi Moku, Ken Mori and Hiroshi Nishida
Distribution and prey composition of juvenile small epipelagic fishes and myctophids in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Transition Zone in spring, 2002-2004

Hiroaki Saito (Invited)
Dynamic linkage between epipelagic and mesopelagic ecosystems by horizontal and vertical migrations of myctophids

Alexei M. Orlov and Anatoly K. Gruzevich
Distribution of micronekton within lower mesopelagic layers of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea in relation to hydrological and hydrochemical environmental parameters

Galina V. Belova and Vadim F. Savinykh
Reproductive biology of the mesopelagic fishes Tarletonbeania crenularis and Ceratoscopelus warmingii (Osteichthyes: Myctophidae) from the northwestern Pacific

Jun Yamamoto, Mio Tateyama Yoshihiko Kamei, Keiichiro Sakaoka Naoto Kobayashi and Yasunori Sakurai
Interannual variability of the community structure of epipelagic nekton along 155ºE longitude in early summer

Session 6: CCCC Topic Session
Modeling and historical data analysis of pelagic fish, with special focus on sardine and anchovy

Co-Convenors:
Shin-ichi Ito, Michio J. Kishi (Japan), Bernard A. Megrey and Francisco E. Werner (U.S.A.)

Invited speakers:
Salvador Lluch-Cota (Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, México)
Kenneth Rose (Louisiana State University, U.S.A.)
Akinori Takasuka (National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan)

During the synthesis phase of the CCCC Program, comparisons of life-history strategies in relation to climate change are recommended for pelagic species such as pollock, pink salmon, capelin, sardines, anchovies, saury, euphausiids and squid, among others. In this session we will focus on modeling and analyses of processes affecting growth, survival and recruitment of sardine and anchovy, and their relevance to management. We are calling for presentations on models and historical data analysis on the temporal and spatial variability of recruitment processes of sardine and anchovy, their linkages to changes in climate, human impacts and regional ecosystem structure. Advances in general modeling approaches that couple pelagic fish population dynamics with lower trophic ecosystems are also encouraged.

Introduction by Convenors

Salvador E. Lluch-Cota, Daniel Lluch-Belda and Daniel Lluch-Cota (Invited)
Eastern North Pacific sardine spawning through climate, latitudinal, and inshore-offshore gradients

Akinori Takasuka, Yoshioki Oozeki, Hiroshi Kubota, Hiroshige Tanaka, Ichiro Aoki and Salvador E. Lluch-Cota (Invited)
Potential biological mechanisms of anchovy and sardine alternations: Species-specific temperature optima and synergistic factors

Kenneth Rose, Vera Agostini, Larry Jacobson, Carl van der Lingen, Salvador Lluch-Cota, Shin-ichi Ito, Bernard Megrey, Michio Kishi, Akinori Takasuka, Manuel Barange, Francisco Werner, Yunne Shin, Lucho Cubillos, Yasuhiro Yamanaka and Hao Wei (Invited)
Towards coupling sardine and anchovy to the NEMURO lower trophic level model

Tadaaki Kuroyama, Akira Nihira and Sei-Ichi Saitoh
Larval anchovy catch distributions in the Kashima-nada relative to environmental features observed by satellite remote sensing

Xiangxin Li
Individual-based models of anchovy

Shin-ichi Ito, A. Takasuka, Y. Oozeki, A. Yatsu, M. Noto, M. Kishi, Y. Yamanaka, T. Hashioka, M. Aita, K. Rose, B. Megrey, F. Werner, C. Lingen, M. Barange, Y. Shin, L. Cubillos, L. Jacobson, V. Agostini, S. Lluch-Cota, G. Onitsuka and Y. Kamezawa
A sardine growth model coupled with the NEMURO lower trophic level ecosystem model

Haruka Nishikawa and Ichiro Yasuda
Species replacement between Japanese sardine and Pacific saury in relation to variations in feeding environment

Yury I. Zuenko and Svetlana V. Davidova
Empirical modeling the stock fluctuations of sardine in the Japan/East Sea

Naoki Yoshie and Yasuhiro Yamanaka
Development of a lower trophic ecosystem model representing prey of juvenile pelagic fish in the subtropical western North Pacific

Fumitake Shido, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shin-ichi Ito, Taketo Hashioka, Daiki Mukai and Michio J. Kishi
A two-dimensional fish model simulating the biomass of Pacific saury

Session 7: FIS/CCCC Topic Session
Key recruitment processes and life history strategies: Bridging the temporal and spatial gap between models and data

  • Best CCCC Poster Award
    Yasuko Kamezawa
     Bioenergetics model of Japanese chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) growth
Co-Convenors:
Kerim Aydin (U.S.A.), Shin-ichi Ito (Japan), Jake Schweigert (Canada), Paul Spencer (U.S.A.), Akihiko Yatsu (Japan) and Yuri Zuenko (Russia)

Invited speaker:
Lorenzo Ciannelli (Centre for Ecologial and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, Norway)
Maki Suda (National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan)

Stock-recruitment relationships for exploited fishery stocks quite often show large deviations from theoretical curves. This results from the tremendous variability in survival rates in the early life stages of marine species. In the synthesis phase of the PICES CCCC Program, comparison of life-history strategies in relation to climate changes are recommended for pollock, pink salmon, capelin, sardines, anchovies, saury, euphausiids, squids, and others. Among the potential causes of succession of different life-history strategists, recruitment variability is one of the most important factors. To perform scientific management for target species, appropriate modeling of recruitment processes, including environmental effects, is needed. Under this theme, we will review the temporal and spatial variability of recruitment processes of key species, their linkages to climate changes, human impacts and regional ecosystem structure. Moreover, we will explore new methodologies to plug the gaps between data and the current state of modeling.

Introduction by Convenors

Lorenzo Ciannelli and Kerim Aydin (Invited)
Relating recruitment mechanisms to life-history strategies for Alaskan groundfish populations

Maki Suda, Tatsuro Akamine and Hiroshi Nishida (Invited)
A population dynamics model for Japanese sardine, Sardinops melanostictus, off the Pacific coast of Japan, consisting of spatial early-life stage and age-structured adult sub-models

Brenda L. Norcross, Sean-Bob Kelly, Peter-John Hulson and Terrance J. Quinn II
An early life history model for Pacific herring in Prince William Sound, Alaska

Oleg Bulatov
The Ricker model and the pollock recruit abundance

Anatoly V. Smirnov
Parent-progeny relationships in the Okhotsk Sea walleye pollock

Paul D. Spencer
The effect of spawner age on stock productivity: Influences of life-history pattern and recruitment variability

Thomas C. Wainwright, Richard D. Brodeur, Robert L. Emmett, Peter W. Lawson, William T. Peterson, James J. Ruzicka and Laurie A. Weitkamp
Climate variation and salmon recruitment: Comparing climate indices for predicting salmon marine survival in the Northern California Current ecosystem

Motomitsu Takahashi, David M. Checkley Jr., Akihiko Yatsu and Yoshiro Watanabe
Growth of larval and early juvenile sardine (Sardinops spp.) and anchovy (Engraulis spp.) in the eastern and western North Pacific Ocean

R.J. Beamish, C.M. Neville and R.M. Sweeting
Life history strategies of sea lice in the subarctic Pacific
(N/A, access denied)

Chih-hao Hsieh, Christian S. Reiss, John R. Hunter, John R. Beddington, Robert M. May and George Sugihara
Fishing elevates variability in the abundance of exploited species

C. Tracy Shaw, Leah R. Feinberg, Hongsheng Bi and William T. Peterson
Analysis of key recruitment processes for Euphausia pacifica off the Oregon coast

Yoshioki Oozeki, Ryo Kimura, Hiroshi Kubota and Hiroshi Hakoyama
Patchiness structure and mortality of Pacific saury, Cololabis saira, larvae in the northwestern Pacific Ocean

Taro Ichii, Kedarnath Mahapatra, Mitsuo Sakai and Denzo Inagake
Life cycle characteristics of the neon flying squid associated with the oceanographic regime in the North Pacific

Jae Bong Lee, Chang Ik Zhang, Anne Hollowed, Dong Woo Lee and Sang Cheol Yoon
Variations in recruitment of small pelagic species around Korean waters

Yasunori Sakurai, Jun Yamamoto, Ken Mori, Tsuneo Goto and Hideaki Kidokoro
Can we explain and predict stock fluctuations of Japanese common squid, Todarodes pacificus, related to climatic regime shifts?

Jie Zheng and Gordon H. Kruse
Crab larval advection and recruitment in the Eastern Bering Sea

Chris J. Harvey
Using bioenergetics models to estimate sensitivity of California Current groundfish to temperature anomalies

Session 8: FIS/MEQ Topic Session
Aquaculture and sustainable management of the marine ecosystem

  • MEQ Program Best Presentation Award
    Naoaki Tezuka and Masami Hamaguchi
     Biological impacts caused by the release of the imported manila clam, Ruditapes philippinarum, in Japan
Co-Convenors:
Toyomitsu Horii (Japan), Jie Kong (China) and Michael B. Rust (U.S.A.)

Invited speakers:
J.E. Jack Rensel (Rensel Associates Aquatic Sciences Consultants, U.S.A.)
Zhimeng Zhuang (Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, China)

Activities associated with aquaculture can result in both positive and negative impacts on the marine ecosystem. The environmental, ecological and genetic capacities of the marine environment need to be considered to maintain sustainable aquaculture development and a healthy wild ecosystem. At various levels of aquaculture production, environmental hazards can be assessed and management measures developed to minimize those hazards to the marine ecosystem and/or their probability (risk) of occurrence. PICES WG 18 has begun to consider environmental and ecological impacts associated with aquaculture. These include ecological hazards associated with nutrient release, escaped or released cultured organisms (predation, competition), and the potential for disease transfer. In addition, the escape of genetic selected species used for aquaculture may have harmful effects on the genetics of wild populations of native species. Genetic risks should be evaluated based on potential impacts to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation using proper evaluation techniques. These techniques should be consistent among researchers where possible. Moreover, it is necessary to consider the influence on ecosystem and genetic diversity when artificially produced seedlings are released for stock enhancement or rebuilding. To promote responsible aquaculture in a healthy marine ecosystem, it is critical to continuously evaluate and manage the aquaculture activity. Clearly defining the potential hazards to the ecosystem, assessing the probability that hazards will occur and implementing mitigation strategies to reduce or eliminate hazards can facilitate this oversight. The goal of this session is to identify and establish evaluation techniques and models for potential hazards which aquaculture exerts on genetic diversity, ecosystem function and/or the marine environment. The potential for standardization of methods and models that deal with interactions between aquaculture and wild organisms will also be explored.

Introduction by Convenors
(N/A)

J.E. Jack Rensel, Dale A. Kiefer and Frank J. O’Brien (Invited)
AquaModel: Mariculture model development and testing

Colin E. Nash and William T. Fairgrieve
Ecological risk assessment of marine fish aquaculture in the coastal zone

Michael B. Rust
Risk and risk management for feed and seed for carnivorous marine fish aquaculture

Galina S. Gavrilova
Shellfish mariculture in the Russian Far East

R.J. Beamish, C.M. Neville and E. Gordon
Sea lice production on farmed salmon – Not what you read in textbooks

Hee Won Park and Chang Ik Zhang
A study on the ecosystem-based resource management system of self-regulatory community fisheries in Korea

Yoh Yamashita and Yutaka Kurita
Carrying capacity of nursery grounds for Japanese flounder in relation to stocking densities

Tomohiko Kawamura, Hideki Takami and Toyomitsu Horii
Factors affecting recruitment fluctuations of abalone – Assessment of the stock management and enhancement activities in the last 30 years in Japan

Tetsuo Fujii
Conservation of the genetic diversity of Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus under successive mass release of hatchery-reared juveniles

Graham E. Gillespie, Antan C. Phillips, Debbie M. Paltzat and Tom Therriault
Distribution of non-indigenous intertidal species on the Pacific Coast of Canada

Vasily Radashevskiy
Alien polychaete worms (Annelida, Polychaeta) in the North Pacifi

Session 9: MEQ Topic Session
Harmful algal blooms in the PICES region: New trends and potential links with anthropogenic influences

Co-Convenors:
William Cochlan (U.S.A.) and Ichiro Imai (Japan)

Invited speaker:
Theodore J. Smayda (Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, U.S.A.)

This session will highlight recent advances in the understanding of the ecology and physiology of harmful algal bloom (HAB) species in the coastal waters of the PICES region. Of particular interest will be laboratory and field research where anthropogenic factors have been studied in order to elucidate if links exist between the apparent increase in the duration, distribution and impact of HABs, and environmental factors associated with human activities, including urban and agricultural runoff, climatic change and mariculture. This session will complement the continuing series of annual MEQ workshops where two new HAB genera found in the PICES region are examined in detail, but encourages studies of other HAB genera of interest in the coastal waters of the North Pacific Ocean.

Introduction by Convenors

Theodore J. Smayda (Invited)
Harmful algal blooms: Global spreading or global synchrony?

Paul J. Harrison, Alvin Ho, Kedong Yin and Xu Jie
Nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics in Hong Kong and their response to sewage abatement

Ichiro Imai, Mineo Yamaguchi and Yutaka Hori
HAB occurrences and eutrophication in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan

In-Seong Han, Hee-Dong Jeong and Ki-Tack Seong
Physical oceanic conditions on summer time related with harmful algal blooms around the Korean Peninsula

Kanako Naito and Ichiro Imai
Iron and harmful algal blooms

Tamiji Yamamoto and Gen Hatta
Does dam construction induce harmful algal blooms?

Ken Furuya, Takuo Omura and Thaithaworn Lirdwitayaprasit
Noctiluca scintillans with endosymbiont, successful red tide species in SE Asian waters

Janice E. Lawrence (Invited)
The role of viruses on harmful algal bloom dynamics

Keizo Nagasaki, Yuji Tomaru, Hiroyuki Mizumoto, Yoko Shirai and Yoshitake Takao
Viral impact on the population dynamics of HABs

Session 10: POC/MONITOR/CCCC Topic Session
Synchronous and asynchronous responses of North Pacific boundary current systems to climate variability

Co-Convenors:
Jack Barth, Steven Bograd (U.S.A.), Shin-ichi Ito, Kosei Komatsu (Japan) and Vyacheslav B. Lobanov (Russia)

Invited speakers:
Andy Bakun (University of Miami, U.S.A.)
Masami Nonaka (Frontier Research Center for Global Change (FRCGC), Japan)
Igor Zhabin (Pacific Oceanological Institute, Russia)
Bo Qiu (University of Hawaii at Manoa, U.S.A.)

A number of hypotheses have attempted to explain the synchronous low-frequency fluctuations in sardine populations off California and Japan. One hypothesis proposes that since the Kuroshio Current (subtropical western boundary current) and California Current (subtropical eastern boundary current) are driven mainly by wind stress, their variability should be closely related through basin-scale atmospheric teleconnections. However, basin-scale climate signals may be modulated by regional meso-scale processes, and both systems are impacted by a range of variability from decadal (e.g., regime shifts), to interannual (e.g., ENSO), to seasonal and shorter time scales. This variable forcing may lead to divergent and asynchronous ecosystem responses. This session will provide a comparative review of the physical and ecosystem variability of the boundary currents, discuss the degree of synchronicity of this variability, and facilitate understanding of the connectivity between North Pacific boundary current systems. A more comprehensive understanding of the boundary current systems requires modeling approaches, although the data for model validation is often limited. This session will also provide consideration of observing system requirements and techniques for monitoring boundary current circulation and ecosystems, in particular the necessary combination of data and models.

Introduction by Convenors

Masami Nonaka, Hisashi Nakamura, Youichi Tanimoto, Takashi Kagimoto and Hideharu Sasaki (Invited)
Interannual-to-decadal variability in the Oyashio Current and its influence on the subarctic frontal region in an eddy-resolving OGCM

Harold P. Batchelder and Brie J. Lindsey
Modeling interannual variation of spring-summer transport of plankton and juvenile salmon in coastal regions of the northeast Pacific

Elena I. Ustinova and Yury D. Sorokin
Spring thermal conditions in the Northwestern Pacific boundary current systems

Steven J. Bograd, Roy Mendelssohn, Franklin B. Schwing and Cindy Bessey
On the (a)synchrony of long-term sea surface temperature trends in the western and eastern North Pacific

Andrew Bakun (Invited)
“Active opportunist” species and opportune multi-annual-scale events

Shoshiro Minobe
Anomalous SST warming over Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension from 1999 to 2001 and its possible ocean to atmosphere influence

George Shevchenko and Valery Chastikov
The influence of East Sakhalin Current on the South Kuril Region ecosystem

Bo Qiu (Invited)
Decadal variability of the Kuroshio Extension jet, recirculation gyre and mesoscale eddies, and its connection to PDOs

Shin-ichi Ito, Hiroshi Uchida, Yugo Shimizu and Shigeho Kakehi
Synchronous and asynchronous variability of the North Pacific western boundary currents: Kuroshio and Oyashio

David L. Mackas, William T. Peterson, Mark D. Ohman and Bertha E. Lavaniegos
Zooplankton anomalies in the California Current System before and during the warm ocean conditions of 2005

Ryan R. Rykaczewski
Decadal-scale variability in upwelling processes in the California Current Ecosystem and potential biological responses

William T. Peterson and Robert L. Emmett
An investigation into time lags between recent high-frequency changes in the PDO and response of various components of the ecosystem in the northern California Current

Peter W. Lawson, Robert C. Francis, Steven R. Hare, Nathan J. Mantua and Laurie Weitkamp
Patterns in salmon production in the Northeast Pacific: Inverse production regimes revisited

Kiyotaka Hidaka and Kaoru Nakata
Climate effects on interannual variation in winter-spring plankton community in the slope water and Kuroshio

Summary by Convenors

CCCC Paper Session

  • Best CCCC Presentation Award
    Muzzneena Ahmad Mustapha
     Interannual variations of sea ice and spring bloom occurrences at the Japanese scallop farming area in the Okhotsk Sea
Co-Convenors:
Harold P. Batchelder (U.S.A.) and Suam Kim (Korea)

Papers describing patterns and processes of North Pacific ecosystem responses to physical forcing and climate change are invited.

John A. Holmes and Kenneth D. Cooke
Changes in the distribution of Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) in response to climate and ocean variability in the California Current

Hyoung-Chul Shin, Kang Hyun Lee, Kyung Ho Chung and Sung-Ho Kang
Zooplankton distribution off Sakhalin Island during summer and comparison with other sub-arctic waters

Anne B. Hollowed, Elizabeth Logerwell, Rebecca Isquith and Chris Wilson
The impact of regime shifts on the oceanography of the northern Gulf of Alaska and its influence on the species interactions between walleye pollock, capelin, and Steller sea lions

Jeffrey M. Napp, Lawrence E. Schaufler, George L. Hunt Jr. and Kathy L. Mier
Summer food web structure in the eastern Bering Sea: Fatty acid composition of plankton, fish, and seabirds around the Pribilof Islands

Elena Dulepova and Svetlana Glebova
An East-West comparison of plankton communities of the northern Okhotsk Sea

Muzzneena Ahmad Mustapha and Sei-Ichi Saitoh
Interannual variations of sea ice and spring bloom occurrences at the Japanese scallop farming area in the Okhotsk Sea

Vadim Navrotsky, T. Zadonskaya, V. Darnitsky, V. Chuchukalo, L. Bokhan and
V. Napazakov
Hydrophysical and biological characteristics in the Kuril-Kamchatka Current and Oyashio region of the Northwestern Pacific

Hyejin Song and Young-shil Kang
Variations in zooplankton and oceanographic condition in the southwestern East/Japan Sea after the late 1990s

Takashige Sugimoto, H-Y. Kim, K. Tadokoro, K. Kuroda and N. Nagai
Stepwise increase of water temperature and zooplankton biomass after the mid-1980s in the East China Sea and their possible effect on the recovery of jack mackerel

Kyum Joon Park, Chang Ik Zhang, Zang Geun Kim, Seok Gwan Choi and Yong
Rock An
Abundance of finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) and their role in the eastern Yellow Sea ecosystem

FIS Paper Session

  • FIS Committee Best Presentation Award
    Min Ho Kang
     Genetic variations and differences of chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) collected from the Bering Sea and along the North Pacific region
  • FIS Committee Best Poster Award
    Atsushi Kawabata
     Distribution and biomass of the Japanese common squid, Todarodes pacificus, estimated by acoustic survey in the Pacific coastal waters off the northern Japan
Convenor: Gordon H. Kruse (U.S.A.)

Papers addressing various topics in fishery science and fisheries oceanography in the North Pacific and its marginal seas are invited.

Churchill Grimes, Daniel Goodman, Peter Lawson, Richard Marasco, Andre Punt and Terry Quinn

Chang-Ik Zhang, Jae Bong Lee and Sun-Kil Lee
Size-based indicators to evaluate ecosystem variations in Korean waters

Doug Hay and Tom Therriault
Climate change: Important impacts on unimportant species?

Naoki Tojo, Gordon H. Kruse and Terrance J. Quinn II
Environmental cues for herring spawning timing in northern Bristol Bay, Alaska

Jong-Hun Na, Zang Geun Kim and Chang Ik Zhang
Estimation of growth parameters of minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, in Korean waters

Hidetada Kiyofuji, Evan Howell, Katsuya Saitoh, Sei-Ichi Saitoh and Jeffrey Polovina
Spatial and temporal dynamics of albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) and blue shark (Prionace glauca) in the Kuroshio Extension area

Evan A. Howell, Donald R. Kobayashi and Jeffrey J. Polovina
Identifying critical habitat of swordfish and loggerhead turtles from fishery, satellite tag, and environmental data

Nanami Kumagai, Hidetada Kiyofuji and Sei-Ichi Saitoh
Distributions of squid fishing grounds and their relationship to sea surface temperature and chlorophyll-a concentration in the Japan Sea

Gordon A. McFarlane and Jacquelynne R. King
Migration patterns of big skate (Raja binoculata) based on a large-scale tagging study in northern British Columbia waters: Preliminary results

Alexander I. Glubokov
Status of fishes in the outer shelf and upper slope of the Northern and Western Bering Sea

Kazushi Miyashita, Atsumu Watanabe, Saho Morioka, Yoshihiro Ikewaki, Ryu-ichi Matsukura and Hiroki Yasuma
Acoustic monitoring of Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonicus) post-larvae “shirasu”

Min Ho Kang, Jung Youn Park and Suam Kim
Genetic variations and differences of chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) collected from the Bering Sea and along the North Pacific region

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 ecology plays a key role in understanding the potential for commercial fishing to impact prey fields of endangered Steller sea lions

POC Paper Session

  • POC Committee Best Presentation Award
    Ye Yuan
     Estimating suspended sediment concentration using ADCP, LISST-100 and OBS in Jiaozhou Bay and Laizhou Bay, China
  • POC Committee Best Poster Award
    Jong Jin Park
     Kinetic energy flux of inertial frequency motion out of the mixed layer and its balance with wind energy input in the global scale
Convenor: Michael G. Foreman (Canada)

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

William R. Crawford
Transport and mixing of continental margin waters into mid-basin by anticyclonic eddies: An example from the Gulf of Alaska

Masatoshi Sato and Tokihiro Kono
Seasonal variation of current structure in the subarctic North Pacific from Argo data

Young-Gyu Park, Chang-Hwan Park and Sang-Wook Yeh
The formation of the Tsushima Warm Current in a high resolution ocean circulation model

Ye Yuan, Wen-Sheng Jiang and Liang Zhao
Estimating suspended sediment concentration using ADCP, LISST-100 and OBS in Jiaozhou Bay and Laizhou Bay, China

Svetlana Yu. Glebova
Features of atmospheric circulation over the Asian-Pacific region in 2000-2006

Pavel Ya. Tishchenko, Sergey G. Sagalaev, Vyacheslav B. Lobanov, Alexander P. Nedashkovskiy, Galina Yu. Pavlova and Lynne D. Talley
Peculiarities in distribution of the N:P ratio in seawater of the Japan/East Sea

Melissa Chierici, Agneta Fransson and Yukihiro Nojiri
Evolution of the surface water carbon dioxide in relation to the annual trends in salinity and temperature in the Oyashio region

Agneta Fransson, Melissa Chierici and Yukihiro Nojiri
Comparison of interannual trends in the surface water pCO2, salinity and temperature in the subarctic North Pacific

Shigeho Kakehi, Kazuyuki Uehara, Shin-ichi Ito, Kosei Komatsu, Hiroaki Saito and Miwa Nakamachi
The processes of AOU change in the North Pacific

Konstantin Rogachev
Cooling at hot spots: Amplification of tidal currents over banks and 18.6-year tidal cycle in the Oyashio and Sea of Okhotsk

Michael G. Foreman, Patrick Cummins, Josef Cherniawsky and Phyllis Stabeno
Tidal energy and the 18.6-year cycle in the Bering Sea <

Satoshi Osafune and Ichiro Yasuda
Bidecadal variations of water properties around the Bering Sea and the relation with the 18.6-year period nodal tidal cycle

Fangli Qiao and Xingang Lv
The upwelling system in the East China Sea in winter and summer

Se Han Lim, Chan Joo Jang and Im Sang Oh
Spatial and temporal variations of the mixed layer depth in the East Sea

Olga O. Trusenkova, Sergey V. Stanichny and Yuri B. Ratner
Variability modes and typical patterns of surface wind over the JES and adjacent land

Tokihiro Kono, Tomonori Hamatsu, Keizo Yabuki, Kazutoshi Watanabe and Michael G. Foreman
Transport of walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) eggs between 1989 and 1995 and its causes on the southwest coast of Hokkaido, Japan

Jae-Yul Yun, Kuh Kim, Kyung-Il Chang, Yang-ki Cho and Lorenz Magaard
The El Niño teleconnection to the isopycnal fluctuations in the southwestern East Sea/Japan Sea

Changshui Xia, Fangli Qiao, Yongzeng Yang and Yeli Yuan
The development of a wave-tide-circulation coupled model and its application in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea

MEQ Poster Session

  • MEQ Program Best Presentation Award
    Minkyu Choi
    Behavior and contamination of estrogenic nonylphenols in Masan Bay, Republic of Korea Poster Presentation
Convenor: John E. Stein (U.S.A.)

Posters on various aspects of marine environmental quality in the North Pacific and its marginal seas (excluding S8 and S9 topics) are welcome.

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 (excluding S2-S5 topicts) are welcome.

Workshop 1: IFEP/MODEL
Modeling iron biogeochemistry and ocean ecosystems

Co-sponsored by SOLAS (Surface Ocean - Low Atmosphere Study)

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

Invited speaker:
Marie Boye (Institut Universitaire European de la Mer, France)

Synthesis of data from three successful meso-scale iron enrichment experiments in the subarctic North Pacific (SEEDS-I & II and SERIES) has been underway, which helps development of ocean ecosystem models. This workshop will enhance communication between experimentalists and modelers working on iron biogeochemistry and modeling. The workshop will focus on a couple of key questions: 1) What have we learned regarding iron biogeochemistry in the ocean from natural observation and iron-enrichment experiment? and 2) How can ocean models be improved with detailed iron dynamics to better represent ocean ecosystems? The workshop will provide an opportunity for experimentalists and modelers to share their latest results and understanding on iron biogeochemistry and ocean ecosystems, and make recommendations for future iron cycle observations and ocean ecosystem modeling in the subarctic Pacific.

Welcome and introductions (pdf, 0.7 Mb)

Marie Boye, Olivier Aumont, Constant M.G. van den Berg and Hein J.W. de Baar (Invited)
The organic complexation in modeling the iron geochemistry and bioavailability (W1-3036)

Atsushi Ooki, Jun Nishioka and Tsuneo Ono
Determination of iron solubility of Asian dust in the surface seawater

Daisuke Tsumune, Keith Lindsay, Gokhan Danabasoglu, Scott C. Doney, Jun Nishioka, Takeshi Yoshimura, Frank O. Bryan and Nakashiki Norikazu
Phosphate and iron concentrations in an ocean carbon cycle model

Fei Chai, Lei Shi, M-S Jiang, Yi Chao, Francisco Chavez and Richard T. Barber
Modeling responses of iron enrichment in the equatorial Pacific Ocean

Masahiko Fujii and Fei Chai
Influences of initial plankton conditions and mixed layer depth on the outcome of iron-fertilization experiments

Albert J. Hermann, Thomas M. Powell, Elizabeth L. Dobbins, Sarah Hinckley, Enrique N. Curchitser, Dale B. Haidvogel and Kenneth Coyle
A comparison of different NPZ models for the Northeast Pacific

Naoki Yoshie, Katsunari Sato, Yasuhiro Yamanaka and Jun Nishioka
Incorporating iron cycle into a lower trophic level marine ecosystem model, NEMURO

Workshop 2: FIS Workshop
Linking climate to trends in productivity of key commercial species in the subarctic Pacific

Co-Convenors:
Richard J. Beamish (Canada), Anne B. Hollowed (U.S.A.), Masahide Kaeriyama (Japan), Suam Kim (Korea) and Vladimir I. Radchenko (Russia)

PICES Working Group 16 has completed its report on the impacts of climate and climate change on the key commercial species in subarctic Pacific. An important conclusion was that climate is a major factor affecting the productivity of virtually all key species. The mode of climate variability varied among species, but it was clear that climate-related trends in production were common. It was also apparent that a relatively small number of species make up a large percentage of all commercial landings. Assessing the impacts of climate and climate change on commercial fisheries was one of the main reasons that PICES was established. An objective of this workshop is to achieve consensus on a list of 12 - 15 of the most important commercial species that will help to identify the specific linkages between climate and trends in production. After this agreement is achieved and there is further clarification of the effects of climate variability, the key species would then become an index of climate-related impacts. With time, this could become an important forecasting tool for industry and governments. Linking annual trends in key species production with climate and ocean indices would also introduce a dimension to the PICES ecosystem status report that will attract a more general audience, including the popular press.

Richard J. Beamish
The impact of future climate trends on the key species and their fisheries off the Pacific coast of Canada
(N/A, permission denied)

Vladimir I. Radchenko
Trends in Russian fisheries in the North Pacific in relation to basic stock conditions and their variability under the climate change

Yeong Gong, Hee-Dong Jeong, Jong-Hwa Park, Ki-Tack Seong, Sang-Woo Kim and In-Seong Han
Fluctuations of fish populations in the waters off Korea and its adjacent regions

Masahide Kaeriyama
Long-term fluctuations of chum salmon and Pacific herring populations in Hokkaido during 1883-2000

Anne B. Hollowed and Jennifer Boldt
An overview of evidence for climate impacts on Northeast Pacific marine fishes and recommendations for a framework for forecasting annual marine production

Theme 2: Management implications

Z.T. A’mar, A.E. Punt and M.W. Dorn
The Management Strategy Evaluation approach and the Gulf of Alaska walleye pollock fishery

Michael J. Schirripa
The potential effects of including/excluding environmental factors into stock assessments

Jae Bong Lee, Suam Kim, Chang-Ik Zhang, Jin-Yeong Kim and Sukyung Kang
Evidences of climate-induced impacts on key commercial species around Korean waters

Workshop 3: MEQ/FIS Workshop
Criteria relevant to the determination of unit eco-regions for ecosystem-based management in the PICES area

Co-Convenors:
Glen Jamieson (Canada), Patricia Livingston (U.S.A.) and Chang Ik Zhang (Korea)

Invited speakers:
Elizabeth Fulton (CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia)
Ian Perry (Pacific Biological Station, Canada)

The management of human activities that impact ocean ecosystems requires planning and engagement of stakeholders to meet the objectives of ecosystem-based management, which in turn requires identification of areas to determine which stakeholders need to be involved in each specific process. Area boundaries are typically based upon science (i.e. eco-regions), human community (i.e. coastal community composition), administrative (i.e. historical resource management areas) and international considerations (i.e. transboundary issues). This workshop will consider the science requirements for eco-region identification in the PICES area, and we solicit presentations that: 1) highlight national or regional experiences or frameworks in place for delineating marine sub-regions or eco-regions; 2) demonstrate the use of a variety of physical and/or biological criteria for region identification; or 3) explain the specific management purposes behind various sub-regional identification schemes. Workshop discussion will involve participants in reviewing the existing Large Marine Ecosystem boundaries of the PICES area and developing recommendations for criteria to be used in sub-regional identification in the North Pacific.

Introduction by Convenors

Elizabeth Fulton, Vincent Lyne and Donna Hayes (Invited)
Bioregionalisation and ecosystem-based management in Australia

Glen S. Jamieson
Canada’s ecoregion determination approach

Jae Bong Lee, Chang Ik Zhang, Dong Woo Lee, Jong Hwa Park and Jong Hee Lee
Marine sub-regions determined with physical and biological criteria in Korean waters

Chris J. Harvey, Isaac C. Kaplan and Phillip S. Levin
Selecting model domains and boundaries in ecosystem modeling of the U.S. West Coast: Process determines scale

David L. Fluharty
Aligning institutions with ecosystems for marine science

Patricia A. Livingston and John F. Piatt
Progress in U.S. ecoregion definitions for ocean ecosystems and an Alaskan example

R. Ian Perry (Invited)
Ecosystem typologies in the North Pacific – A useful concept for ecosystem-based management?

Michael P. Seki and Jarad Makaiau
Archipelagic fishery ecosystem plans for the U.S. central and western Pacific islands

William J. Sydeman, Sonia D. Batten, Michael Henry, Chris Rintoul, David W. Welch, Ken H. Morgan and K. David Hyrenbach
Meso-marine ecosystems of the North Pacific: Application to ecosystem-based management

Vadim A. Shtrik
Use of the classification and structure of coastal zone macro-vegetation for global and local eco-regional identification of coastal areas in the North Pacific

Tatsu Kishida
Physical and biological criteria for region identification around Japan <

Workshop 4: MEQ Workshop and HAB Meeting
Review of selected harmful algae in the PICES region: II. Dinophysis and Cochlodinium and HAB-S Meeting

Co-Convenors:
Charles Trick (Canada) and Yasunori Watanabe (Japan)

Invited speakers:
Patrick Gentien (IFREMER, France)
Kazumi Matsuoka (Nagasaki University, Japan)
Beatriz Reguera (Instituto Español de Oceanografia, Spain)

This workshop is the second 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 2006, we will focus on two genera, Dinophysis and Cochlodinium. Dinophysis, including DSP (Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning) producing species such as D. acuminata, D. acuta, D. caudata and D. fortii, is distributed in the PICES region. The integration of the information from each country will advance our understanding of this genus. Cochlodinium polykrikoides causes serious damage to finfish aquaculture in Korea and Japan. It also has potential to spread to other countries. Topics will include detection methods, ecosystem comparisons, 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. This workshop will be preceded by a half-day laboratory demonstration on detection techniques for algal toxins.

MEQ Workshop

Introduction by Convenors

Cochlodinium

Kazumi Matsuoka (Invited)
Recent progress of the study on a harmful dinoflagellate - Cochlodinium polykrikoides

Hak-Gyoon Kim, Chang-Kyu Lee, Kyong-Ho An, Wol-Ae Lim, Sook-Yang Kim and Young-Tae Park
The known and unknown on the initiation of Cochlodinium polykrikoides blooms in Korean waters

Kazutaka Miyahara, Ryosuke Uji and Mineo Yamaguchi
Harmful blooms of Cochlodinium polykrikoides in the southwestern Sea of Japan (San-in coastal waters)

Takafumi Yoshida and Takashi Ogawa
Activity of CEARAC about Harmful Algal Blooms in the NOWPAP region

Cochlodinium and Dinophysis

Vera L. Trainer and Charles G. Trick
Cochlodinium and Dinophysis in western U.S. and Canada

Dinophysis

Patrick Gentien (Invited)
The rare marine protist Dinophysis acuminata<

Beatriz Reguera, L. Escalera, S. Gonzalez-Gil, G. Pizarro, L. Velo and J.M. Franco (Invited)
What we know and what we do not know about Dinophysis
(pdf, 1.6 Mb )

Ichiro Imai and Goh Nishitani
Are Dinophysis spp. always responsible for DSP toxicity of bivalves?

Toshiyuki Suzuki, Akira Miyazono, Yutaka Okumura and Takashi Kamiyama
LC-MS/MS analysis of lipophilic toxins in Japanese Dinophysis species

Jinhui Wang, Yutao Qin, Caicai Liu, Xiangshen Chen and Ren Xu
Dinophysis spp.: The abundance, distribution and the toxicity of DSP in the East China Sea


HAB-S Meeting

Vera Trainer and Hak-Gyoon Kim
Welcome, goals of HAB Section meeting

Hao Guo
The Monitoring System on HABs in China

Vera L. Trainer, Barbara M. Hickey and Michael G. Foreman
A regional U.S. west coast observing system for toxigenic Pseudo-nitzschia

Henrik Oksfeldt Enevoldsen and Monica Lion
Progress in the development of an international collaborative harmful algal event data base: The joint IOC-ICES-PICES HAE-DAT

Discussion and assistance in entering year 2002 data into HAE-DAT

Country Reports/HAE-DAT (year 2002) reports

Japan (Yasunori Watanabe)

China (Jinhui Wang)

Korea (Hak-Gyoon Kim)

Russia (Tatyana Yu. Orlova)

Canada (Charles G. Trick))

U.S.A. (Vera L. Trainer)

 

Workshop 5: POC Workshop
Evaluation of climate change projections

Co-Convenors:
Michael G. Foreman (Canada) and Yasuhiro Yamanaka (Japan)

Invited speakers:
Curtis Covey (Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.S.A.)
Michio Kawamiya (Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan)
Keith Rodgers (AOS Program, Princeton University, U.S.A.)

The most recent set of global climate model projections have been submitted to, and are being analyzed by, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the publication of their Fourth Assessment Report in 2007. PICES Working Group 20 was created to perform an evaluation of these projections for the North Pacific and its marginal seas, and to compute products, such as ensemble averages, that would assist PICES groups like the Climate Forcing and Marine Ecosystem Response Task Team (CFAME), in their analysis of climate effects on marine ecosystems, and ecosystem feedbacks to climate. In this workshop, presentations and discussions will focus on ongoing research that addresses the terms of reference of the new working group, and on strategies for future work that is needed to fill the gaps. Presentations related to the direct analysis of global climate projections and the calculation of ensemble averages; to results from higher-resolution regional ocean and coupled atmosphere-ocean models that are forced by, and take their boundary conditions from the IPCC models; and to the development of local and regional data sets (e.g., SST, river flow, sea ice cover) based on either model projections or historical observations, will all be welcome. The development of work/action plans, liaisons with other PICES groups and outside organizations (e.g., CLIVAR), and future activities will also be discussed.


Introduction by Convenors

Curtis Covey (Invited)

Hiroyasu Hasumi and Takashi T. Sakamoto
Overview of the present state and future projection of North Pacific climate simulated by CCSR/NIES/FRCGC global coupled models

Muyin Wang, James E. Overland and Nicholas A. Bond
What will the North Pacific look like in the next 40 years?

Michael G. Foreman
Highlights from recent publications describing climate projections for the North Pacific

Rong-Shuo Cai, Ji-Long Chen and Rong-Hui Huang
The response of marine environment in the offshore area of China and its adjacent ocean to recent global climate change

Michio Kawamiya, Chisato Yoshikawa, Tomomichi Kato and Taroh Matsuno (Invited)
Significance of ocean’s response to climate warming in the global carbon cycle

Keith B. Rodgers, Christophe Menkes, Thomas Gorgues, Laurent Bopp and Olivier Aumont (Invited)
A modeling study of interannual to decadal variability in Equatorial Pacific biogeochemistry and ecosystems

Sang-Wook Yeh, Cheol-Ho Kim, Young-Gyu Park and HongSik Min
Characteristics of Pacific sea surface temperature variability associated with global warming during the 20th century

Zhenya Song and Fangli Qiao
The establishment of the atmosphere-surface wave-ocean circulation coupled numerical model and its applications

Elena I. Ustinova
Evaluation of climatic variability in the Far-Eastern Seas using regional data sets

William Crawford, Jake Galbraith and Nick Bolingbroke
Temperature and salinity along Line-P: Fifty years of observations

Hee-Dong Jeong, In-Seong Han, Ig-Chan Pang, Ki-Tack Seong, Woo-Jin Go, Sang-Woo Kim, Won-Deuk Yoon, Yong-Kyu Choi and Jun-Yong Yang

Masao Ishii, Takayuki Tokieda, Shu Saito, Takashi Midorikawa, Shinji Masuda and Akira Nakadate
Decadal trend of dissolved oxygen in the North Pacific along 165ºE – A preview

Dong-Young Lee and K.C. Jun
Estimation of design wave height through long-term simulation of sea states for the North East Asia regional seas

 

Workshop 6: MONITOR/TCODE Workshop
Data management, delivery and visualization of high-volume data products

Co-Convenors:
David L. Mackas (Canada), Thomas C. Royer (U.S.A.) and Sei-Ichi Saitoh (Japan)

Invited speaker:
Lynn DeWitt (Environmental Research Division (ERD), Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC))

Long-term monitoring of multidisciplinary data in boundary currents is a high priority for PICES nations. Boundary currents are locations where many monitoring activities now take place. They are very important economically and also highly variable in both space and time. Dense near real-time data from many disciplines are vital to describe the systems or the timely management of the coastal resources. Rapid analysis of the data is essential, however, increased data rates and their diversity are challenging the users. Cabled arrays and satellite altimeter, color and scatterometer (wind) measurements are examples of these new dense data sets. This workshop will discuss the availability of such data and how we can effectively use them, focusing especially on availability, uses, GIS applications and other methods of display and analysis tools. A re-population of the North Pacific Metadata Base will be emphasized. Demonstrations of data archiving, displays and real time availability are welcome.

Lynn M. deWitt (Invited)
Simplifying data integration and interoperability through standardized data access and transport protocols

Takashi Yoshida
NEAR-GOOS and Japanese operational oceanographic observations

Gongke Tan, D.Y. Lee, X. Hu and M. Li
Design and operation of offshore observing platform in the Yellow Sea

Molly McCammon, G. Carl Schoch and Mark Johnson
AOOS: Implementing an Ocean Observing System in Alaska

John A. Barth, Jan A. Newton and NANOOS Colleagues
Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS)

M. Elizabeth Clarke, Bob Gref, Frank Schwing, Chris Goldfinger, Chris Romsos and Jonathan T. Phinney
A pilot data system for the Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System (PaCOOS)

Vera L. Trainer, Barbara M. Hickey and Michael G. Foreman
A regional U.S. west coast observing system for toxigenic Pseudo-nitzschia

Nobuyuki Shikama
Japanese Argo Program

S. Allen Macklin, Bernard A. Megrey, Kimberly Bahl and Toru Suzuki
A federation of PICES member country metadatabases

Clarence Pautzke and Molly McCammon
The Alaska Marine Information System – A collective database for Alaska’s large marine ecosystems

Takashi Setou, Kosei Komatsu and Yasumasa Miyazawa
Modification of the OI parameters for effective introduction in situ data obtained by Japanese local fisheries research institutions into the JCOPE Ocean forecast system

Katsuya Saitoh, Hitoshi Iizumi, Osamu Kato, Tatsuro Watanabe, Kosei Komatsu, Shi-ichi Ito, Kaoru Nakata and Kouji Aoyagi
Giant jellyfish monitoring system in Japan

Sei-Ichi Saitoh, Fumihiro Takahashi, Daichi Tachikawa, Motoki Hiraki, Masami Yoshida, Teruaki Hiura and Hidetada Kiyofuji
Research and development of ubiquitous information services for sustainable fisheries operation and management in the offshore around Japan

Young Jae Ro and Kwang Young Jung
Real-time monitoring experiences in the coastal waters in Korea: Implementation and scientific application

Posters and E-Posters

Stepan G. Antushev, Vitaly K. Fischenko and Andrey V. Golik
Implementation of distributed oceanographic data management and data processing technologies in FEBRAS

Hernan E. Garcia, Tim P. Boyer, Sydney Levitus, Ricardo A. Locarnini, John I. Antonov, Daphne Johnson, Igor Smolyar, Olga Baranova and Alexey Mishonov
The World Ocean Database and Atlas 2005

Andrey V. Golik, Stepan G. Antushev and Vitaly K. Fischenko
About scope of OpenGIS technology in oceanographic data management and visualization

Alex Kozyr and Misha Krassovski
Web-Accessible Visualization and Extraction System (WAVES) for oceanographic data

Dmitry D. Kaplunenko, Vyacheslav B. Lobanov, Olga O. Trusenkova and Svetlana Y. Ladychenko
Web-based system to study mesoscale water dynamics and structure by merging satellite and in situ data

Jee-Eun Min, Joo-Hyung Ryu, Yu-Hwan Ahn and Kyu-Sung Lee
Optical properties of marine particles around the Southwest Sea of the Korean peninsula

A. Gavrev, A. Pan, V. Plotnikov, V. Rostov and I. Rostov
Web-based sea ice data bases application

Joon-Yong Yang, Hee-dong Jeong, Kyu Kui Jung and Ki-Tack Seong
Real-time oceanographic information for pelagic fishery based on Argo data

Workshop 7: CCCC/CFAME Workshop
Climate forcing and marine ecosystems

Co-Convenors:
Kerim Aydin (U.S.A.), Jacquelynne R. King (Canada) and Akihiko Yatsu (Japan)

Invited speakers:
Victor Lapko (Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries & Oceanography (SakhNIRO), Russia)
Vera Agostini (University of Miami, U.S.A.)
Young-Shil Kang (National Fisheries Research & Development Institute, Korea)

The CFAME (Climate Forcing and Marine Ecosystems) Task Team is developing new theoretical and mathematical frameworks to extend the traditional single species concept of carrying capacity into the multi-species and ecosystem domains. Three major ecosystems of the North Pacific were selected for this approach: Sea of Okhotsk, California Current System and East China/Yellow Sea. For each ecosystem the Task Team will review the physical processes that define an ecosystem, build an overview of dominant species across trophic levels, and describe how the population dynamics of these species have changed over time. The conceptual linkages between the physical processes and food-web structures will allow a comparison of varying responses of the different North Pacific marine ecosystems to basin-wide climate forcing events. This workshop is a continuation of work that was initiated at a CFAME workshop in January 2006 (Tokyo, Japan). It will focus on key species data for the East China/Yellow Sea and Sea of Okhotsk regions, to facilitate inter-comparisons among the three target ecosystems.

Introduction by Convenors
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• Introductions
• Review CFAME Workplan
• Ecosystem Workshop Objectives

Vera Agostini, G.A. McFarlane and J.R. King (Invited)
An overview of the California Current ecosystem

Victor Lapko (Invited)
An overview of the Okhotsk Sea ecosystem

Young Shil Kang, Seung Heo, Jae-Kyoung Shon and Gyung Soo Park (Invited)
Variations of zooplankton and oceanographic conditions in response to climatic changes in the East China/Yellow Sea

Discussion
• other potential ecosystems of interest
• conceptual mechanisms of climate forcing for selected ecosystems

Sarah K. Gaichas, Kerim Y. Aydin and Vera N. Agostini
Quantitative methods for comparative ecosystem analysis: Relationships and thresholds in the Gulf of Alaska and the California Current

Discussion
• methods of classifying ecosystems
• approaches to comparing ecosystem responses

Workshop 8: BIO/POC Workshop
Responses of marine mammals and seabirds to large-scale and long-term climate change: Mechanisms of environmental forcing

Co-Convenors:
Yutaka Watanuki and Shoshiro Minobe (Japan), Rolf Ream and William J. Sydeman (U.S.A.)

Invited Speakers:
Julie Thayer (PRBO Conservation Science, U.S.A.)
Arthur Miller (Institution Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, U.S.A.)
Sarah Wanless (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, U.K.)
Shin-ichi Ito (Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, FRA, Japan)
Sei-Ichi Saitoh (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Distribution and abundance, diets, and breeding performance of marine mammals and seabirds reflect local marine environments. A number of studies from the western and eastern North Pacific indicate interannual to interdecadal changes in these environment. In particular, low-frequency climate changes sometimes result in profound effects on marine ecosystems, yet the influence of these factors on seabirds and mammals has not been adequately quantified. In the North Atlantic, their breeding performance and population dynamics has been related to changes in the NAO. Papers that examine synchrony in responses by these taxa to interannual to interdecadal climate variability in the North Pacific are solicited. Studies describing and testing mechanisms of environmental forcing from physics to prey, on seabirds and marine mammals are of particular interest. With sufficient interest by the participants, an appropriate primary journal will be approached to publish the papers presented at the workshop.

Shin-ichi Ito, Kenneth A. Rose, Bernard A. Megrey, Francisco Werner, Douglas Hay, Maki Noguchi Aita, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Michio J. Kishi, Jake Schweigert, Matthew Birch Foster, Dan Ware, David Eslinger, Robert Klumb and S. Lan Smith (Invited)
Responses of fish growth to large-scale and long-term climate change: A comparison of herring and saury in the North Pacific using NEMURO.FISH, a coupled fish bioenergetics and lower trophic level ecosystem model

Sei-Ichi Saitoh, Takahiro Iida, Suguru Okamoto, TaeKeun Rho and Toru Hirawake (Invited)
Temporal and spatial variability of primary production in the sub-arctic North Pacific using satellite multi-sensor remote sensing

Arthur J. Miller (Invited)
The climate-ocean regime shift hypothesis of the Steller sea lion decline in Alaska

Andrew W. Trites, Pamela M. Lestenkof and Erin Ashe
Responses of northern fur seals to large-scale and long-term climate change

Julie A. Thayer, Scott A. Hatch, Mark Hipfner, Leslie Slater, Yutaka Watanuki and William J. Sydeman (Invited)
Forage fish prey of a piscivorous seabird in the North Pacific: Synchrony and relationships with ocean climate

Shoshrio Minobe, William J. Sydeman, Yutaka Watanuki and Vernon Byrd
Climate influences on seabirds in the Japan and Bering Seas and California Current

Sarah Wanless and Morten Frederiksen (Invited)
Climate responses of avian predators in a heavily exploited shallow sea ecosystem: Effects on trophic interactions and consequences for ecosystem control in the North Sea

Hyun Woo Kim, David W. Weller, Amanda L. Bradford and Zang Geun Kim
Body condition of western gray whales in relation to environmental change in the North Pacific

Workshop 9: MIE-AP Workshop
Micronekton sampling gear inter-calibration experiment

Convenors:
Evgeny A. Pakhomov (Canada) and Orio Yamamura (Japan)

The PICES Advisory Panel on Micronekton sampling inter-calibration experiment (MIE-AP) was established to evaluate efficacy of sampling gears and the procedures employed by different investigators to sample micronekton in the North Pacific and other parts of the world’s oceans. MIE-AP carried out their first 8-day cruise from October 6-13, 2004, aboard the NOAA ship Oscar Elton Sette in Central North Pacific waters off the west side of Oahu Island (MIE-1). The second cruise (MIE-2) took place from September 27 to October 3, 2005, on board R/V Hokko Maru in Oyashio waters off Japan. The workshop reviewed data and findings from both cruises.

Evgeny A. Pakhomov, M.P. Seki, A.V. Suntsov, R.D. Brodeur and K.R. Owen
Comparison of three sampling gears during the first Micronekton Intercalibration Experiment (MIE-1): Size composition of selected taxonomic groups and total macroplankton and micronekton

Andrey V. Suntsov, Michael P. Seki, Evgeny A. Pakhomov and Richard D. Brodeur
Diversity and abundance of Hawaiian ichthyoplankton: Comparison of three types of midwater nets

Orio Yamamura, Hiroya Sugizaki, Shin-suke Abe, Kazuhiro Sadayasu, Ryu-ichi Matsukura, Kazushi Miyashita, Akihiro Hino and Tadashi Tokai
Inter-calibration of micronekton sampling gear during the 2005 MIE-2 cruise

Hiroki Yasuma, Kazushi Miyashita and Orio Yamamura
Acoustic identification and density estimate of a lanternfish, Diaphus theta, off Hokkaido, Japan