Jack Barth is a professor of oceanography in
Oregon State University’s College of Oceanic
and Atmospheric Sciences. He received a Ph.D in
Oceanography in 1987 from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Joint Program in Oceanography. Jack’s research
seeks to understand the spatially and temporally
variable circulation, water mass structure and
ecosystem response in coastal waters. He has led
a number of research, technology development and
ocean observing system projects off Oregon and
the Pacific Northwest. Jack was an active participant
in the GLOBEC Northeast Pacific research program,
including serving as Chief Scientist on several
interdisciplinary research cruises. His present
research includes a focus on the characteristics
and formation of low-oxygen zones off Oregon.
Jack’s research team uses autonomous underwater
gliders to study this region, logging over 38,000
km of measurements over the last several years.
He presently serves on the Oregon Ocean Policy
Advisory Council’s Scientific and Technical
Advisory Committee, the PICES MONITOR Committee
and is a Project Scientist for the National Science
Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative.
Invited
Speakers
Session
1 (Science Board Symposium)
North Pacific ecosystems today, and challenges in
understanding and forecasting change
Enrique Curchitser (enrique@marine.rutgers.edu)
is an oceanographer based at Rutgers University
in New Jersey, U.S.A. His main interests are the
intersection of climate and ecosystems, regional
climate impacts and numerical modeling. His current
projects range from understanding the role of
eastern boundary currents in the global climate
system to downscaling climate scenarios in the
Bering Sea to trying to understand the low-frequency
fluctuations in the global sardine populations.
Enrique is the current executive director of the
U.S. GLOBEC program and is a member of PICES Working
Group on Evaluation of Climate Change Projections
and the ESSAS modeling working group.
Minhan Dai obtained his PhD at University of
Paris VI, and is currently a Cheung Kong Chair
Professor of marine biogeochemistry and the director
of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental
Science at Xiamen University. Minhan Dai’s
research interests include carbon and trace metal
biogeochemistry in marginal and estuarine systems,
and geochemistry of radioactive elements in surface
and ground water. Minhan Dai has published more
than 60 papers in leading international journals.
He is a leading PI of a “973” program
on “carbon cycling in China Seas - budget,
controls and ocean acidification”. He has
served on many national and international committees,
such as a SSC member of SOLAS and GEOTRACES. He
has been the section president of Ocean Science
at AOGS (Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society) in
2008-2010 and was recently elected as the Secretary
General of AOGS for the term 2010-2012.
I am the son of an electrical engineer. In the
early 1970s I pursued traditional biology, but
ultimately focused on ecological modeling. One
especially inspiring figure from that era is the
late H. T. Odum, who 50 years ago described ecosystems
as self-designing circuitry. In the late 1970s
I spent my days sampling and modeling a freshwater
marsh in Florida, followed by two years modeling
the sea grasses of Chesapeake Bay at Horn Point
Laboratory. In the 1980s I shifted to physical
oceanography at the University of Washington in
Seattle, under the guidance of Drs. Barbara Hickey
and Peter Rhines. For the past 20 years I have
been employed by the Joint Institute for the Study
of the Atmosphere and the Oceans, collaborating
with a lively team of oceanographers, atmospheric
and fisheries scientists based at NOAA’s
Western Regional Center. With colleagues from
interdisciplinary programs (Eco-FOCI, GLOBEC,
BEST/BSIERP, and PICES itself), my primary focus
has been the merger of Lagrangian-IBM and Eulerian
models of fish, plankton, nutrients with circulation
models of the Northeast Pacific and the Bering
Sea. Given the explosive growth of computer power,
one enlightening (and entertaining!) aspect of
this work has been the immersive 3D visualization
of data and model output. Outside of work, I enjoy
playing hand percussion in a local samba ensemble.
I currently serve as President of the Eastern
Pacific Ocean Congress (EPOC).
James
Orr Laboratoire
des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement,
IPSL, France
I started working in oceanography
in 1969, assisting with studies of trace metal
distribution in the coastal waters of British
Columbia. When the Controlled Ecosystem Pollution
Experiment started in 1973, I moved to Vancouver
Island to help manage a variety of studies on
the effects of metals and organics on pelagic
ecosystems. Working with some of the premier ecologists
of this era was a rich experience. When our enclosure
studies ended, I began working in the NE Pacific.
For 17 years, I ran the Line P program, including
throughout the WOCE and JGOFS eras. As WOCE ended,
I had time to work with data collected for decades
along Line P and at Ocean Station P. The impact
of the El Niño intense 1990s produced a
strong signal in the amount of nutrient being
supplied to the upper ocean. My interest in nutrient
transport broadened as I wrote papers on transport
by mesoscale eddies and influences on sponge reef
communities. Late in my career, I began to work
with Line P oxygen data and realized the N Pacific
Ocean interior was becoming more hypoxic. It was
apparent this trend could have serious impacts
on continental slope habitat, a topic that has
been my recent focus. I retired from Fisheries
and Oceans in 2006 and consider myself now a hobby
scientist which means that sunny days and grandkids
usually take priority.
Since 1998 Dr. Yasuhiro Yamanaka has been an
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental
Earth Science, Hokkaido University. He received
his PhD from the University of Tokyo on research
about marine carbon-cycle modeling in 1995, spent
one year as visiting researcher at Princeton University
in 1997, and recently spent three months as visiting
fellow at the University of East Anglia in 2007-2008.
During his term as Assistant Professor of the
Center for Climate System Research (CCSR), University
of Tokyo, he developed the CCSR Ocean General
Circulation Model and CCSR/NIES Climate Model
contributing to IPCC TAR (2001).
He also plays as a SSC member in AIMES, a core
project of IGBP from 2008. His current research
includes ecosystem dynamics linking climate change
and variability of fisheries resources. His goal
is to develop an integrated ocean model synthesizing
the physical, chemical and biological processes
and to clarify dynamics and feedbacks relevant
to the impact of global warming on marine ecosystems.
Recently, his group developed a 3-D high-resolution
(1/4 x
1/6 degrees horizontally) ecosystem model coupled
with a fish migration model.
Mingjiang
Zhou Institute
of Oceanology, CAS, China
Mingjiang Zhou is a Distinguished Professor in
the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS) in Qingdao, China. He was elected
as the Chair for the Chinese LOICZ since 2005
and served as members in the GEOHAB SSC since
2004 and in the SCOR WG 132 since 2008. He was
actively involved in PICES activities in the WG
8 as co-chairs and in the FIS and the WG 15 as
a member. He received several academic awards
including the Second Prize of Natural Science
Award of CAS in 1996 and the First Prize of the
Ministry of Education of China in 2003. In the
last decade, his research has focused on the ecological
and oceanographic mechanisms of large scale HABs
repeatedly occurring in the Chinese coast. He
is now taking the role as the PI again for second
phase of the CEOHAB (Chinese Ecology and Oceanography
of Harmful Algal Blooms, a project in the National
Basic Research Priorities Programme, 2010-2014
– “973” project) sponsored by
the MOST (Ministry Of Science and Technology)
of China.
Session 2
Understanding the role of iron in regulating biogeochemical
cycles and ecosystem structures in the North Pacific Ocean
Dr. Jay Cullen is an Associate Professor in the
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University
of Victoria. He received a PhD from Rutgers University
(2001) and studied as a Seward Johnson Postdoctoral
Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
in Massachusetts before joining the Faculty at
UVic in 2003. The primary goal of his research
is to understand the function and fate of trace
elements in the marine environment. Cullen has
developed novel analytical techniques using inductively
coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), applying
these as well as electrochemical and flow injection
analysis to investigate the distribution and chemical
speciation of trace elements in seawater. By combining
analytical expertise with targeted experimental
field and laboratory based investigations Cullen
has made significant advances toward understanding:
1) the factors that control the biological uptake
and basin scale distribution of Cd in the marine
environment which is critical to efforts to reconstruct
nutrient dynamics in the ocean over recent geologic
past, 2) the physicochemical speciation of Fe
in seawater and how Fe bioavailability affects
marine primary productivity, the chemical composition
of marine microbes and the ability of the oceans
to absorb anthropogenic carbon dioxide.
Huiwang Gao is a professor in Environmental Science
at Ocean University of China. His research interests
include atmospheric deposition and its ecosystem
effects, marine ecosystem dynamics and modeling.
The main aspects of interests are: 1) Dispersion
and deposition of atmospheric pollutants and their
effects on regional environment and marine ecosystem;
2) Modeling studies of marine pelagic ecosystem
in coastal and open oceans; 3) Development of
ship based air-sea mass flux measurement system;
4) Climate change and environmental health assessment.
He is presently a member of the China SOLAS Scientific
Steering Committee and a member and deputy director
of Working Group on Marine Environmental Protection,
Chinese Association of Environmental Science.
He has devoted himself to the development of ADOES
(Asian Dust and Ocean EcoSystem) since 2004 and
is currently the co-chair of this SOLAS task team.
He is active at international collaborations with
Japanese and German scientists on nitrogen cycling,
dust transportation and deposition, and shallow
sea ecosystem modeling.
Session 3
The Practical Handbook at 50: A celebration of the life
and career of Tim Parsons
Michio
Aoyama Meteorological
Research Institute, Japan
Dr. Michio Aoyama is a senior scientist at the
Geochemical Research Department, Meteorological
Research Institute, Japan since 1995. He works
in the filed of chemical oceanography, reference
materials of nutrients in seawater, changes of
nutrients and biogeochemical parameters in shallow
and deep oceans.
He organized three international inter-laboratory
comparison studies of reference materials of nutrients
in seawater in 2003, 2006 and 2008 and also held
several workshops related with chemical reference
materials in ocean science. The latest meeting
was “2010 Paris meeting of the joint IOC-ICES
Study Group on Nutrient Standards” which
was held on 23-24 March 2010 at UNESCO, Paris.
The meeting focused on the ongoing international
collaboration to establish global comparability
and traceability of the nutrient data in the world
oceans. Currently he serves as a chair of the
joint IOC-ICES Study Group on Nutrient Standards.
He also works on radio cesium in global ocean,
re-evaluate total amount of the global fallout
and confirmed that a new estimate of 765 ±
79 PBq as global 137Cs fallout for the Northern
Hemisphere is 1.4 times higher than that of 545
PBq in the UNSCEAR’s estimate. He developed
marine radioactivity database, a relational database,
HAM database, for radioactivity in the world ocean.
Dr. David Mackas (Dave.Mackas@dfo-mpo.gc.ca)
is a biological oceanographer at the Institute
of Ocean Sciences (Fisheries and Oceans Canada).
His research focuses on zooplankton spatial distributions,
on zooplankton phenology, and on how low frequency
zooplankton temproal variability is linked to
ocean climate. He recently co-chaired (with Hans
Verheye) SCOR Working Group 125 on Comparisons
of Zooplankton Time Series, and serves on the
PICES BIO and MONITOR committees and on the ICES
Working Group on Zooplankton Ecology. In off hours,
he often exercises his Russian genome and knowledge
of terrestrial ecology by foraging for wild mushrooms.
But he promises to bathe thoroughly before attending
the PICES Annual Meeting.
Yukihiro
Nojiri National
Institute of Environmental Studies, Japan
Vice Director, Center for Global Environmental
Research, National Institute for Environmental
Studies (NIES)
Manager, Greenhouse Gas Inventory Office of Japan
Professor, Interdisciplinary graduate School of
Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yukihiro Nojiri was born in 1956 at Fukui, Japan.
He graduated Chemistry Department, University
of Tokyo in 1979. His earlier work was application
of emission spectrometry into aquatic environmental
analysis. Since 1981, he involved research projects
for ocean bottom hydrothemalism, volcanic lake
surveys and greenhouse gas emission measurement
from fresh water environment in NIES. After 1995,
his major works are ocean carbon studies including
ocean surface pCO2 observation by commercial ships
over the Pacific, meso-scale iron fertilization
and ocean acidification manipulation experiment.
He is one of SSC members of IOCCP (International
Ocean Carbon Coordination Project) and also of
SOLAS (Surface Ocean and Lower Atmosphere Study).
Session 4
Census of Marine Life - Exploring ocean life: Past, present
and future
Vera
Alexander University
of Alaska Fairbanks, U.S.A.
Dr. Tim D Smith received his PhD in Biomathematics
at the University of Washington in 1973, and worked
for NOAA as a research fisheries scientist. He
also taught at the University of Hawaii, the University
of Rhode Island and the University of New Hampshire
from time to time. He began studying the history
of fisheries science and fisheries in the mid-1980s
while working for NOAA at the Northeast Fisheries
Science Center in Woods Hole, MA. In the mid-1990s
this resulted in a book (Scaling Fisheries).
In early 2000 he initiated with the historian
Poul Holm a multidisciplinary study on the history
of fisheries. This became the History of Marine
Animal Populations project and part of the Census
of Marine Life. He continued to be active in this
project after retiring from NOAA in 2005 from
NOAA, with a specific focus on the history of
whaling. He is now wrapping this project up, specifically
working on a book on the changing spatial distribution
of American whaling in the 19th century.
Dr. Paul Snelgrove is a Professor at Memorial
University of Newfoundland’s Ocean Sciences
Centre. He received his B.Sc. Hons. from Memorial,
his M.Sc. from McGill University, and his Ph.D.
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution. He currently holds
the Canada Research Chair in Boreal and Cold Ocean
Systems, and studies the role of transport of
larval fish and invertebrates and how these and
other variables contribute to species recruitment
and biodiversity patterns in marine bottom communities.
He is the Director of the NSERC Canadian Healthy
Oceans Network, a national research network in
Canada that has partnered with Fisheries and Oceans
Canada to develop new scientific approaches for
sustainable oceans. He also leads the Synthesis
Group that is working to pull together the findings
of the Census of Marine Life. He has written a
book entitled “Discoveries of the Census
of Marine Life: Making Ocean Life Count”
that Cambridge University Press will publish in
October 2010.
Session 5
Oceanographic and demographic processes affecting the
reproductive biology of exploited marine stocks
Edward
Trippel St.
Andrews Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans
Canada
Edward Trippel is a Research Scientist at the
St. Andrews Biological Station, Fisheries and
Oceans Canada. His long-term interest lies in
fish reproduction with the aim of incorporating
its elements into improved fisheries management
advice in order to assist in rebuilding the depleted
marine fishery resources of the North Atlantic.
His extensive research in stock-recruitment theory
includes characterizing gamete quality, mating
behaviour and understanding the relative roles
of maternal and paternal factors and temperature
in shaping early life history success. Dr. Trippel
is Chair of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
Working Group on Reproductive Potential and leads
this productive group in pioneering efforts to
synthesize state-of-the-art knowledge required
to integrate reproductive biology into stock assessment
advice. He has an active international laboratory,
sits on the editorial board of a number of aquatic
resource journals, and enthusiastically publishes
with students and colleagues. Dr. Trippel is an
active member of the International Council for
the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) serving on a
number of committees, working groups, and organizing
special sessions and conferences.
Session 6
Observations of ecosystem mixing under climate change
Gilly received a BSE from Princeton University
(Electrical Engineering, 1972) and a Ph.D. (Physiology
and Biophysics, 1978) from Washington University
with additional training at Yale University School
of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and the
Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. Most
of his career has focused on mechanisms of electrical
excitability in nerve and muscle cells and employed
the giant axon system of the squid for molecular
and biophysical approaches. Additional studies
made in the living squid revealed unexpected complexities
in how the giant axon system controls escape responses,
and how mechanisms governing that control are
subject to modification.
Gilly's current research concentrates on the behavior
and physiology of Dosidicus gigas, the
Humboldt squid. Over the last 10 years fieldwork
in the Gulf of California has employed a variety
of tagging techniques in order to elucidate short-term
vertical movements and long-distance migrations.
Parallel analyses of water-column properties and
stomach-content provide a more complete picture
of this intriguingly adaptable predator. Current
laboratory studies assess the behavioral impacts
of the physical conditions associated with the
oxygen minimum zone, an environment in which the
squid spends a great deal of time. Recent efforts
have expanded to include northern California,
Oregon and Washington as Dosidicus has
been invading and establishing itself in these
new regions.
Hjálmar Hátún obtained his
PhD from the Geophysical Institute at the University
of Bergen in close collaboration with the Nansen
Environmental Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) and
the Faroe Marine Research Institute (FAMRI). He
did his Post. Doc. at the University of Washington
under the guidance of Prof. Peter Rhines.
His PhD focused on the pole-ward flow of relatively
warm and saline water from the North Atlantic
Ocean into the Nordic Seas – a vital branch
of the climatically important ThermoHaline Circulation.
Hjálmar has collectively used remote sensing
data, output from numerical ocean circulation
models and in situ oceanographic observations,
to give a large-scale perspective of important
oceanic processes in the northeastern Atlantic.
In particular, he has demonstrated the importance
of the Atlantic subpolar gyre for the marine climate
in these subpolare waters. Using observations
from novel Seagliders, which are autonomous underwater
vehicles (AUVs) developed at the University of
Washington, he has given a detailed description
of large eddies (Irminer Rings) that modulate
the deep water formation in the Labrador Sea.
Recently, Hjálmar has shown how the subpolar
gyre regulates important components of the pelagic
ecosystem in the northeastern Atlantic –
reaching from phytoplankton, via zooplankton to
economically important pelagic fish species and
all the way to pilot whale migration. Hjálmar
has published in journals such as Science, Progress
in Oceanography, Canadian Journal of Fisheries
and Aquatic Science, Journal of Physical Oceanography,
ICES Journal of Marine Science, AGU book chapters,
Continental Shelf Research, journal of Atmospheric
and Oceanic Technology.
He serves as member in the ICES Working Group
of Oceanic Hydrography, project ASOF (Arctic-Subarctic
Ocean Fluxes), and he is chairing project SPACE
(SubPolar Atlantic – Climate and Ecosystems).
Session
7
Economic relation between marine aquaculture and wild
capture fisheries
James
L. Anderson University
of Rhode Island, U.S.A.
James L. Anderson is professor and chair of the
Department of Environmental and Natural Resource
Economics at the University of Rhode Island (URI).
His research in the area of fisheries and aquacultural
economics began in 1983 with a study on the bioeconomics
of salmon ranching in the Pacific Northwest. He
has published numerous research articles related
to fisheries and aquaculture management, seafood
marketing and international trade and seafood
price forecasting. Recent work has focused analysis
of scallop and tuna fisheries management, modeling
the impact of aquaculture on the salmon and shrimp
industries, the introduction of nonnative oysters
into the Chesapeake Bay and evaluating how aquaculture
and rights-based fisheries management are changing
the global seafood sector. In 2003, his book,
The International Seafood Trade was published
and in 2007 he co-authored (with Gunnar Knapp
and Cathy Roheim) The Great Salmon Run: Competition
between Wild and Farmed Salmon. He has been
the Editor of Marine Resource Economics since
1999. He received the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis
Award from the American Agricultural Economics
Association (1984), Research Scientist of the
Year Award from the URI, College of Environment
and Life Sciences (1994) and the Article of the
Year Award from the Editorial Board of Agricultural
and Resource Economics Review (1995).
He received his B.S. in Biology and Economics
from the College of William and Mary in Virginia
and his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics
from the University of California, Davis.
Sun Chen Obtained her PhD from the College of
economics and management at the Agricultural University
of China (Beijing) under the guidance of Tan Xiang-yong.
Her PhD examined the market of aquatic products
in China. While Sun Chen has continued her research
on the aquatic products market, she has also studied
the trade of aquatic products, the macroeconomic
policy of fisheries, the agriculture policy. Sun
Chen has published more than 40 articles in journals
such as Journal of Agricultural Economic Issues,
Journal of World Agriculture, Journal of Fisheries
Science and three academic books.
She is currently serves as a professor in College
of Economics and Management, Shanghai Ocean University
and is the number of Fisheries Association of
China, Institution of Fisheries Economics of Shanghai,
Fisheries Association of Asia, International Institution
of Economics and Trade of Fisheries.
Dr. Di Jin is a Senior Scientist at the Marine
Policy Center of the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics Marine
Resources from the University of Rhode Island.
He specializes in the economics of marine resources
management and marine industries. Dr. Jin has
substantial research experience with the commercial
fishing and aquaculture industries, the offshore
oil and gas industry, the marine transportation
industry, and coastal management problems. His
papers have been published in Aquaculture
Economics and Management, Ecological Economics,
Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal
of Environmental Economics and Management, Marine
Resource Economics and other journals.
Hisashi Kurokura received phD, from Graduate
School of Agricultural Sciences, The University
of Tokyo in 1979. The thesis title was “Studies
on cryopreservation of Salmonid sperm”.
After one years of work in private company as
engineer for technical cooperation to developing
countries, he got the position of assistant professor
in Fisheries Laboratory of Faculty of Agriculture,
The University of Tokyo in 1980. There, he learned
techniques for environmental and ecological field
survey beside his own research activities for
reproduction technology of aquatic animals. In
1983, he shifted his position to Faculty of Applied
biological Science, Hiroshima University and continue
his research as lecturer and associate professor.
He made wide and intimate human network among
aquaculturists and researchers of seed production
of aquatic organisms in western part of Japan,
After coming back to Fisheries Laboratory of Faculty
of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, He add
the studies for improvement of quality of seed
for stock enhancement to his research activities.
In that chance, he made many friends in local
society of coastal fishing town. In 1997, he shifted
his position from Department of Aquatic Biology
to professor of Department of Global Agricultural
Sciences, a newly established department for the
international cooperation for development in agricultural
field in that year. After that, he expand his
research field from basic biology of aquatic organisms
to social issues for the effective technology
transfer and development of local societies in
developing countries using his broad experiences
and human net work.
Yajie
Liu University
of Science and Technology, Norway
Dr. Yajie Liu is a research fellow (research
scientist) with the Centre for Economic Research
at Department of Economics, Norwegian University
of Science and Technology (NTNU). She obtained
her Ph.D in resource and environmental economics
from the University of British Columbia (UBC).
Her research interests include the economics and
management of natural resource uses and associated
environmental issues with an emphasis on marine
fisheries and aquaculture. She has developed and
applied bio-economic, production and consumer
demand models to tackle ecological and environmental
issues associated with fisheries resources and
aquaculture development. In recent years, she
has been working on interaction between salmon
farming and wild salmon fish stocks and fisheries
in Canada and Norway.
Seong-Kwae
Park Pukyong
National University, Korea
Seong-Kwae Park is the Chief of the Department
of Marine Business and Economics, Pukyong National
University, Busan, Korea. He got his Ph.D. in
Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University
of California (Davis). Right after Ph.D., he started
his research career at the Korea Rural Economic
Institute in the field of fisheries policy, covering
fisheries resource management, marine coastal
management, fishing village and coastal tourism
development and fisheries international trade.
He served as a vice-chair of the OECD fisheries
committee in 2000-2002. Now he is actively participating
in research of highly migratory/straddling fish
species management policy in the regional/sub-regional
dimension. Recently he conducted a study on Assessment
of Effectiveness of Improved Fisheries Management
Techniques (Buyback Programs) in the Yellow Sea
that was supported by the UNOPS.
Dr. Michael Rubino is the manager
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
Aquaculture Program. He joined NOAA in late 2004
to lead NOAA’s renewed commitment to marine
aquaculture. Under his leadership, the NOAA has
been at the forefront of a national discussion
on the role of sustainable aquaculture in the
U.S. seafood supply and as a viable technology
for supporting and restoring valuable commercial
and recreational fisheries and habitat. He is
currently coordinating the development of a new
national policy for marine aquaculture.
Prior to coming to NOAA, Dr. Rubino was the manager
for New Funds Development for the World Bank's
Carbon Finance Group. In the 1990s, Dr. Rubino
was at the International Finance Corporation,
a private sector affiliate of the World Bank,
where he developed renewable energy and biodiversity
investment funds. Earlier he was the CEO of an
aquaculture R&D company and a partner in a
shrimp farm in South Carolina. Dr. Rubino also
served as vice-chairman of the State of Maryland's
Aquaculture Advisory Committee. He holds a Ph.D.
in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan.
Session 8
Impact of climate variability on marine ecosystems: Understanding
functional responses to facilitate forecasting
Shin-ichi
Ito Tohoku
National Fisheries Research Institute, FRA, Japan
Dr. Shin-ichi Ito is Chief Scientist of the Physical
Oceanography Section in FRA’s (Fisheries
Research Agency of Japan) Tohoku National Fisheries
Research Institute. Shin-ichi completed his graduate
work in Physical Oceanography at Hokkaido University
and converted to an observational physical oceanographer
in FRA. His main field is the Oyashio Current
and the mixed water region. He deployed more than
30 moorings and is handling a water glider. His
research includes the development of a fish growth
model coupled to the lower-trophic-level ecosystem
model NEMURO.FISH (North Pacific Ecosystem Model
for Understanding Regional Oceanography For including
Saury and Herring).
He is Co-Chairman of the ESSAS Working Group on
Modeling Ecosystem Response. Within PICES, he
was Co-Chairman of the MODEL Task Team and serves
now as a member of the Physical Oceanography and
Climate Committee (POC), FUTURE SOFE Advisory
Panel and joint PICES/ICES Working Group on Forecasting
Climate Change Impacts on Fish and Shellfish (WGFCCIFS).
Dr. Franz Mueter works as Assistant Professor
at the Juneau Center of the School of Fisheries
and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Born and raised in northern Germany, Franz began
biological studies at the Rhino-Westphalian Technical
Institute in Aachen before moving to Fairbanks
in 1988 to pursue graduate degrees in biological
(M.S.) and fisheries oceanography (Ph.D.), as
well as biostatistics (M.S.). His research initially
focused on the early life history of pollock and
flatfishes in nearshore waters of the Gulf of
Alaska, and gradually expanded to include adult
groundfish communities throughout the Gulf of
Alaska and Bering Sea. He has also modeled recruitment
processes of salmon in relation to temperature
variability throughout the Northeast Pacific and
has worked on other anadromous species in Alaskan
waters, including the Arctic. His research interests
currently include the effects of environmental
variability on the distribution, abundance, recruitment,
and survival of fishes in subarctic and arctic
waters. He is particularly interested in the applied
aspects of this research as they relate to the
management of fisheries resources in the face
of global climate changes. He serves as co-chair
of ESSAS Working Group 4 on “Climate Effects
at Upper Trophic Levels” and is a member
of the new PICES/ICES
Working Group on “Forecasting Climate
Change Impacts on Fish and Shellfish”.
Hans-Otto
Pörtner Alfred
Wegener Institute, Germany
Education: University of Münster
and Düsseldorf, PhD in animal physiology,
1983, Habilitation 1990; Research fellowship,
German Research Council, Dalhousie and Acadia
Universities, Nova Scotia; Heisenberg fellow,
German Research Council, Lovelace Medical Foundation,
Albuquerque, NM.
Current Position: Professor
and Head, Div. of Integrative Ecophysiology, Alfred
Wegener Institute for Marine and Polar Research,
Bremerhaven, FRG.
Research interests:
Effects of climate scenarios on the physiology
of marine animals:
1. Physiological and biochemical mechanisms limiting
thermal tolerance and temperature dependent biogeography
in invertebrates and fish. Cellular and whole
animal energy budgets in various thermal regimes.
Molecular mechanisms of thermal adaptation and
limitation.
2. The concept of oxygen and capacity limited
thermal tolerance as a matrix integrating temperature,
oxygen and CO2 effects on marine animals and ecosystems.
3. Roles of climate oscillations in evolutionary
history
More than 210 publications in peer reviewed journals,
several invited contributions and keynotes.
Kazuaki
Tadokoro Tohoku
National Fisheries Research Institute, FRA, Japan
Kazuaki Tadokoro is a biological oceanographer.
He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo
in 1997. Then he worked in the National Research
Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, Hokkaido National
Fisheries Research Institute, Ocean Research Institute
of the University of Tokyo, Jamstec, and Hokkaido
University. He is focusing on the influence of
the climatic change to the marine ecosystem of
the North Pacific in his study life. And also
he is collecting and managing Odate collection
known as a long-term zooplankton collection in
the Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute.
Session 9
Conceptual and numerical models of HAB dynamics
Wolfgang
Fennel Leibniz
Institute of Baltic Sea Research, Germany
Wolfgang Fennel is a physicist by training and
is based at the Leibniz Institute of Baltic Sea
Research, at the University of Rostock, Germany.
He received his PhD from the University of Rostock
in 1973 and went 1976 to the Institute of Marine
Research in Rostock. Since 1994 he is the Professor
of Oceanography at the University of Rostock and
he is the head of the department of Physical Oceanography
in the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research.
Wolfgang Fennel has experience in interdisciplinary
work. His research encompasses theoretical oceanography
and numerical modelling. In the last 15 years
he become interested in physical biological interactions
and worked on coupled physical biological models.
His current research includes work on theoretical
consistent models of the food web from nutrient
to fish. He is president of SCOR and editor in
chief of the Journal of Marine Systems.
Ted Smayda is a Research Professor of Oceanography
at the Graduate School of Oceanography at the
University of Rhode Island. His research focus
has been on Phytoplankton Ecology, with special
interests in the ecological adaptations of the
diverse assemblage of functional groups and life
forms that comprise the marine phytoplankton,
and in the environmental regulation of their blooms,
succession and trophic dynamics. In addition to
experimentation on keystone species and natural
populations, he has carried out field research
in the Gulf of Panama, Sargasso Sea, the Northwest
African and Mexican (Pacific) upwelling systems,
and in Norwegian and U.S. coastal waters. He has
compiled a 38-year quantitative times series on
plankton and habitat in Narragansett Bay, RI,
documenting signficant long-term changes in phytoplankton
dynamics linked to a changing climatology. His
research has also focused on harmful algal bloom
dynamics, and he is founder and Editor of the
journal Harmful Algae. His awards include election
into the Norwegian National Academy of Science,
the Yasumoto Life Time Award from the International
Society for the Study of Harmful Algae, and the
Career Achievement Award from the Phycological
Society of America.
Tamiji Yamamoto is a Professor of the Graduate
School of Biosphere Science at Hiroshima University,
who has been working on water and sediment quality
and their effects on the total ecosystems in semi-enclosed
coastal seas. Impacts of anthropogenic activity
on the Japanese coastal marine ecosystems are
quite high, because of not only high material
loads from the land but also intensive fisheries
activity including aquaculture. His work focuses
on quantifying material budgets especially of
biophilic elements such as C, N and P, which will
provide scientific supports for governers/managers
to perform “integrated coastal zone management”.
Recently his study is extending to development
of practical remediation methods of sediment quality
in aquaculture grounds and ports and harbors where
almost no organisms are residing. He was awarded
in his young age the Okada Prize for promising
younger scientists from the Japanese Society of
Oceanography. He was also given a prize in 2008
for his excellent publication entitled “Environmental
Restoration of Semi-enclosed Coastal Seas”
from the Japanese Association for Coastal Zone
Studies.
Session 10
New and emerging technologies: Applications of genomics
for marine ecosystem studies
Cheryl
Woodley Center
for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular
Research, NOAA, USA
Takeshi Hayashibara has over 20 year career as
a coral reef biologist in Okinawa, Japan. In 2009,
he moved to the Oceanic Ecosystem section, National
Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, Fisheries
Research Agency, Japan, as a senior research scientist.
Now, he is engaged in the research activity of
the VME's, which represented by cold water corals,
in the high seas area.
He participated in the survey voyage in the Emperor
seamounts area as a chief investigator, in the
fall of 2009 and early summer of 2010. The results
of these two times survey voyage will be presented
at the PICES annual meeting.
Session 12
Anthropogenic forcing in North Pacific coastal ecosystems:
Understanding changes in ecosystem structure and function
Tom
Okey West
Coast Aquatic & University of Victoria, Canada.
Dr. Tom Okey is the Director of Ecosystem Sciences
for the West Coast Vancouver Island Aquatic Management
Board. He is an Adjunct Professor in the School
of Environmental Studies at the University of
Victoria, Canada, and he holds a Pew Fellowship
in Marine Conservation on the effects of climate
change on Pacific marine life and ecosystems.
He earned his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University
of British Columbia, based mostly at the UBC Fisheries
Centre, his M.S. in Marine Science from Moss Landing
Marine Laboratories, California; and his B.S.
in Biology and Environmental Studies at Saint
Lawrence University. His projects include the
development of an Integrated Ecosystem Assessment
for the West Coast of Vancouver Island as a case
study for distinguishing the effects of climate
change from other anthropogenic stressors in a
coastal marine setting, and as a practical application
for integrating ecosystem-based and multidisciplinary
marine and ocean science with policy. Other recent
initiatives include the development of international
networks and collaborations for the development
of marine climate impacts forecasting tools, and
for the development of marine climate adaptation
approaches. Tom has been involved marine ecological
studies in many areas of the Pacific during the
last 24 years. He has worked in government, academia,
the private sector, and with non-governmental
conservation organisations conducting work ranging
from small scale ecological field experimentation
to ecological and human health risk assessments
to the development and expansion of fisheries
and marine conservation programs to large-scale
ecosystem modelling and assessments. His original
training is in marine benthic disturbance ecology,
but is more recently renowned for constructing
high quality and highly articulated and trophodynamic
models of marine ecosystems in settings throughout
the world. He has initiated and is otherwise involved
in some meta-analyses of ecosystem models to understand
the impacts of climate change and fisheries. He
is the founder and Science Director of Conservation
Science Institute.
John
Stachowicz University
of California; Davis, U.S.A.
John (Jay) Stachowicz is a marine ecologist interested
in the causes of patterns of biodiversity in the
sea, as well as the consequences of variation
in diversity for ecosystem functioning. He uses
a combined experimental and observational approach
to address the consequences of changing marine
biodiversity in a variety of coastal ecosystems
including estuaries, seagrass beds, kelp forests,
and rocky intertidal zones. He also has interests
in invasion biology, particularly in what species
invasions can tell us about basic questions in
ecology, evolution and biogeography, and co-edited
a book on that topic. Jay received his Ph.D. at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
in Marine Sciences, then held a postdoctoral position
at the University of Connecticut before joining
the faculty at the University of California Davis
in the Department of Evolution and Ecology. He
is currently a professor at UCD and the Bodega
Marine Lab and the Director of UCD's Center for
Population Biology. He is an Aldo Leopold Leadership
Fellow and regularly engages in outreach at the
state and federal level regarding marine biodiversity
loss.
I was a paleontologist who was belonging to Department
of Earth Sciences, Graduate School of Science,
Chiba University, Japan and works on the evolutionary
systematic of barnacles based on morphology, (paleo-)
ecology, (paleo-) biogeography of shallow marine
fossils, their extinct and extant barnacles. After
1989, I was studying on the deep-sea hydrothermal
and cold seep barnacles that are the most primitive
living extant as "living fossil" and
have fossil record from early Tertiary or Cretaceous
in age. Recently, I am interesting on phylogeography
of shallow marine and deep-sea barnacles using
nucleotide sequences of DNA. I retired from Chiba
University at end of this March and am now belonging
to Research Institute for Integral Science, Kanagawa
University, Japan.
Session 13
Comparing the two major gyres of the subarctic North Pacific
- Seasonal and interannual variability and its predictability
Education
Ph.D: Tokyo University of Fisheries, 2000
Study theme: Spatio-temporal variation of Antarctic
zooplankton community structure.
Specialty
Biological oceanography (particularly on zooplankton)
Current Research Interests
Response of the lower trophic level marine ecosystem
to climatic forcing in interannual to multi-decadal
scales and its basin to global scale comparison.
Have been working on mechanisms of the long-term
ecosystem variation particularly in the western
North Pacific based on the Odate Collection, 50
yr historically collected zooplankton sample/data
sets. Since FY2009, started taking part in the
North Pacific CPR (Continuous Plankton Recorder)
project.
Activities related to PICES
Member of MONITOR,Jan 2010 ~
Member of CCCC/CFAME, 2005~2009
Joaquim
Goes Bigelow
Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, U.S.A.
Joaquim Goes is a Senior Research Scientist at
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Boothbay
Harbor, Maine. He obtained his M.Sc. in Marine
Microbiology from the University of Bombay, India
and a D.Sc in Ocean Biogeochemical Processes from
Nagoya University, Japan. His major research interests
centre around understanding the structure and
functioning of plankton ecosystems and their response
to physical forcing. For his research work, Joaquim
relies on an approach that examines phytoplankton
at the cellular level, where changes in phytoplankton
cell physiology, biochemistry and optical properties
are studied as a means of evaluating their role
and response to changes in the environment. With
the help of empirical or semi-analytical modeling
techniques, information obtained at the cellular
level is then extrapolated to regional and global
scales using data from satellites and ships. Research
on this front has led to the development of satellite
based methods that have made it possible to assess
how large-scale climatic events such as El-Niño
and La Niña, the North Atlantic Oscillation
impact atmospheric CO2 draw down by
phytoplankton (export production). Ship and satellite
studies, currently underway in the Arabian Sea,
have provided the first indications of rapid ecosystem
changes being brought about by global warming
and the rapid decline in snow over the Himalayan-Tibetan
Plateau region (Goes. Bio-optical and
phytoplankton physiological studies being undertaken
in the Bering Sea are aiding in the development
of regional satellite ocean color algorithms that
would help assess how the Bering Sea shelf ecosystem
is responding to an changes in sea-ice retreat.
Osamu Isoguchi received his PhD degree in geophysics
from Tohoku University. His thesis was dedicated
to the time-dependent ocean circulation of the
subarctic North Pacific by using altimetry. While
he has continued his research on the temporal
variation of the subarctic gyre, he has also studied
atmosphere-topography-ocean interaction focusing
on characteristic sea surface temperature (SST)
and Chlorophyll events and started coastal studies
using high-resolution satellite images like synthetic
aperture radar (SAR). He is currently working
as a researcher at the Earth Observation Research
Centre (EORC) of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
(JAXA) on the ocean application of remote sensing
data into coastal studies.
Session 14
Marine renewable energy development in coastal and estuarine
environments around the North Pacific
Henry began his career in the energy business
within the North Sea oil and gas industry, then
in 1998 he made the radical move into the emerging
commercial marine renewables sector. One of the
highlights of this was in 2000, when he was part
of the project team responsible for the installation
of the world’s first commercial grid-connected
marine energy device. In 2003, Henry took his
knowledge of the commercial marine energy sector
and transferred into academia. Henry’s present
position is with Edinburgh University where his
responsibilities include dissemination and internationalisation
of the UK Supergen Marine program and conducting
the UKERC road mapping work for the marine renewables
sector, which enables the identification of key
technology, investment and policy requirements
for the sector. More recently, this strategic
interest in marine energy has lead to Henry being
appointed by the International Electrotechnical
Commission to convene their standard for the performance
of marine energy devices and to chair the DECC
Marine Action Plan technology group.
Brian Polagye is a Research Assistant Professor
of Mechanical Engineering at the University of
Washington. He is also a member of the Northwest
National Marine Renewable Energy Center, a partnership
between Oregon State University and the University
of Washington which, through its research, supports
the responsible development of marine renewable
energy in the United States. His research at the
University of Washington focuses on various aspects
of tidal energy generation including the development
of instrumentation and methodologies to characterize
the physical and biological environment at tidal
energy sites, studies of biofouling and corrosion
of device component materials, and evaluations
of the environmental risks associated with tidal
energy project development. His doctoral research
applied numerical models to estimate the extractable
tidal energy resource and understand the regional
environmental implications of extracting that
energy. He recently helped to organize Environmental
Effects of Tidal Energy: A Scientific
Workshop, held in Seattle, WA in March, 2010,
which brought together over seventy subject matter
experts to discuss high priority areas of environmental
concern in collaborative, small group sessions.
Session 15
Development and use of ocean observing and forecasting
systems in coastal and marine management
Sonia
D. Batten Sir
Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, UK/Canada
Dr Sonia Batten (soba@sahfos.ac.uk) is a biological
oceanographer with the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation
for Ocean Science which operates the Continuous
Plankton Recorder survey. After completing her
PhD at Southampton University (UK) and then spending
7 years in Plymouth working with the Atlantic
CPR survey Sonia moved to Nanaimo, Canada, and
began coordinating the North Pacific CPR survey.
Her research interests include the role of zooplankton
in large-sale oceanic ecosystems; the effects
of the physical environment on their dynamics
and the interactions between zooplankton and higher
and lower trophic levels. She contributes to the
PICES CPR Advisory Panel and Technical Committee
on Monitoring.
Glenn Nolan has 15 years experience as an oceanographer
and in the management and roll-out of oceanographic
and marine climate programmes. Responsible for
the Irish National Weather Buoy Network, Irish
Tide Gauge Network, Ocean Modelling, Remote Sensing,
Coastal and deep water oceanography at the Marine
Institute, he headed the newly formed Marine Climate
Change team at the Marine Institute between 2007
and 2009. His own research is primarily in the
area of coastal processes and in the descriptive
physical oceanography of the Irish region having
conducted more than 30 research cruises in Irish
waters, the Caribbean and the sub-polar regions,
17 as chief scientist.
Committees
Board Member: European component of the Global
Ocean Observing System (EuroGOOS) 2005-present.
Co-Chair: Technology Plan Working Group (EuroGOOS).
Steering Group Member: Iberia Biscay Ireland Regional
OOS (2006-present). Steering Group Member: North
West Shelf OOS (2005-present). ICES Working Group
on Oceanic Hydrography (2004-Present) (co-chair
since 2008). National Global Monitoring for Environment
and Security (GMES) Advisory Council (2003-present).
Toshio
Suga Graduate
School of Science, Tohoku University, Japan
Dr. Guimei Liu received her PhD from the Institute
of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao,
China, followed by a postdoctoral researcher
to young scientist at the University
of Maine, USA, and a research associate to
full research professor at the National Marine
Environmental Forecasting Center, Beijing, China.
Her research interests include interaction between
physical and biological processes, coupled biogeochemical
lower-trophic-level marine ecosystem dynamics
modeling study, understanding of key ecosystem
and carbon cycle responses to global change, as
well as the operational forecast of the ecosystems
in the northwest Pacific.
Angelica Peña is a research scientist
with Fisheries and Oceans, Canada at the Institute
of Ocean Sciences (IOS), Sidney, British Columbia.
Her research interests include biogeochemical
cycles and phytoplankton ecology of the NE subarctic
Pacific, and the development of coupled circulation
ecosystem models to study the dynamic relationships
that exist between the plankton and its environment.
She received her B.S. from the University of Concepcion,
Chile and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in oceanography
from Dalhousie University, Canada. She has been
involved in several international programs including
JGOFS, GLOBEC and ECOHAB. She is a member of the
PICES Biological Oceanography Committee.
Workshop 2
Beyond Lagrangian: Modeling migratory fish behavior in
Global Circulation Models
Geir Huse works at the Institute of Marine Research
(IMR) in Bergen, Norway, where he is Head of the
Research programme Ecosystem and stock dynamics.
He received a PhD in 1998 at the University of
Bergen, where he worked until 2003 when he started
working at his present employer. His main research
interests are the spatial- and population dynamics,
fish behavior and interactions between fish stocks.
A key method in his work has been individual based
modeling which he has used extensively in modeling
the spatial dynamics of fish and zooplankton populations.
His main research focus has been on herring, capelin
cod and Calanus populations in the Barents - and
Norwegian Sea ecosystems.
Workshop 3
New technologies and methods in HAB detection: I. HAB
species detection
Satoshi
Nagai National
Research Institute of Fisheries and Environment
of Inland Sea, Japan
Satoshi Nagai is a senior researcher of the toxic
phytoplankton section at National Institute of
Fisheries and Environmental of Inland Sea, who
has been working on population genetics of harmful
algal bloom causing species (HAB) in Asian coastal
waters using highly polymorphic genetic markers
to reveal globalization and expansion mechanisms.
He succeeded in developing molecular techniques
to identify not only local populations but also
individuals in several species and showed the
evidence of possible transfer of HAB populations
by ocean currents and/or human activities through
translocation shellfish stocks. Recently his population
genetic study is extending to starfish, coral
and sea cucumber species to provide a scientific
basis for determining Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
in the south East Asia in west Pacific regions
by revealing the reef connectivity among populations
and identifying the supply source of larvae. He
was awarded the Encouraging Prize for promising
younger scientists from the Plankton Society of
Japan in 2001. He was also given excellent research
prizes from the Japanese Society of DNA Polymorphism
Research in 2004 and 2006.
For the past 20 years my research interests have
focused on global scale oceanographic issues related
to climate change. My efforts have been two pronged:
(1) assembling fully-calibrated high-quality data
sets that could be used to address global biogeochemical
issues and (2). using radiocarbon to study oceanographic
ventilation, meridional overturning circulation,
and air-sea gas exchange. All of this work has
been highly collaborative. Notable data releases
include GLODAP which was used to produce the first
global oceanic inventories and 3-D distributions
for natural and bomb produced radiocarbon, total
inorganic carbon, alkalinity, CFC-11 and CFC12,
and anthropogenic CO2. The radiocarbon inventories
were used to revise global average air-sea gas
exchange rates. The second major data release,
later this year, will be called CARINA. CARINA
supplements GLODAP and provides new coverage in
the far North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. The
combination of CARINA and GLODAP will be used
to investigate decadal scale change processes.
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