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MONITOR-2016
Background Briefing Book Technical
Committee on Monitoring
Version 2, October 4, 2016
PICES 2016
San Diego, USA
November 1-13, 2016
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Note to members. Oct. 4, 2016:
I. Due ASAP: Session, workshop proposals for PICES 2017
II. Due Oct. 24:
 Agenda Item 8e:
Review collaborations with other organizations, tiers, and trends.
III. Due prior to meeting (the sooner the better):
 Agenda Item 2: please consider being a judge of posters and presentations.
 Agenda Item 3:
o What are your event sponsorship expectations for 2017? For example 1.)
ocean observing training workshop, and 2.) sending a MONITOR representative
to annual NEAR-GOOS meeting.
o How many business meeting days do APs need at PICES 2017?
o Do you have any publications to report?
o Do you have any requests that require financial support?
 Agenda Item 3a: Discuss how to make FUTURE more prominent at PICES.
 Agenda Item 3a: How does your expert group map onto the FUTURE schematic (see
attached powerpoint draft)?
 Agenda Item 8b: review of standing committees. Identify main scientific
elements/activities and upcoming challenges.
IV. Science Board Agenda Items for your input. If you have opinions on these, please send
them to me before Oct. 24:
A: Discussion of PICES Annual Meeting Structure
 Length of meeting
 Number of workshops/sessions
 Funding model for invited speakers
 Online template, timelines, etc.
B: Schedule for PICES-2017 and Intersessional Workshops
Might consider concurrent full day paper sessions of BIO, POC, MEQ, FIS, MONITOR, and
TCODE (e.g., 6 concurrent sessions)
C. PICES Reports: electronic or paper
Nine MONITOR committee members provided feedback. Nine people preferred electronic
copies for themselves. In addition to an electronic copy, Sung Yong Kim also preferred a paper
copy for his students.
If you have a different opinion, please let me know.
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The Technical Committee on Monitoring (hereafter MONITOR) will meet in San Diego, USA from 18:00 to
20:00 on November 6, 2016 and from 14:00 to 20:00 on November 9, 2016. NOTE: times are different
than PICES Schedule. Prior to the meetings, this MONITOR briefing book, containing the draft agenda and
information regarding agenda items, was circulated to MONITOR members. The briefing book will be updated
and recirculated prior to the meetings, as new information on agenda items is provided.
DRAFT
MONITOR meeting agenda
NOTE: If Agenda Items are finished early, we will continue with the next
Agenda Item, so times may shift.
November 6, 2016
1. 18:00- 18:10 Welcome, Introductions and Sign-in (all)
2. 18:10-18:40 PICES-2016 information and judges
3. Reports from PICES groups (presenters, please reserve time for questions):
a. 18:40-18:55 Report from FUTURE SSC (Lobanov)
b. 18:55-19:10 Status of Pacific Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) program and activities of
SAHFOS and GACS (Batten)
c. 19:10-19:25 Activities of AP-NPCOOS (Barth and Kim)
d. 19:25-1940 Activities of AP-CREAMS and POC (Lobanov)
e. 19:40-19:55 Activities of SG-NPESR (Mundy or representative?)
4. 19:55-20:00 Other business
November 9, 2016
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14:00-14:10 Welcome, Introductions, and Sign-in
14:10-14:30 MONITOR Terms of Reference and Action Plan
14:30-15:00 Proposals for PICES-2017
15:00-15:20 ICES ASC theme session proposals
15:20-16:20 Notes or action items from Science Board and ISB-2016 (Boldt)
a. SCOR proposal ranking
b. Review of Standing Committees
c. New Expert Groups
d. EAST I report
e. Collaborations with other organizations
f. 4th climate change symposium
g. Ideas for collaboration with ICES
16:20-16:35 Break
9. 16:35-16:40 Report on POMA (Boldt)
10. 16:40-18:40 Relations with specific international and national organizations and programs
5-10 minutes each
a. Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science(SAHFOS) – Wilson (confirmed)
b. International collaboration in ship-based ecosystem monitoring – Valdez (confirmed)
c. International Program for deployment of profiling floats (Argo) –Scanderbeg (confirmed)
d. Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) – Leinen
e. Ecosystem Study on the Sub-Arctic and Arctic Seas (ESSAS) –Saitoh (confirmed)
f. World Ocean Assessment II program –Chiba (confirmed)
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GOOS-Bio/Eco Panel –Chiba (confirmed)
North East Asian Regional (NEAR-GOOS) –Lobanov (confirmed)
Ocean Observing System (AOOS) –Janzen or Eisner (confirmed)
Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS) –Newton
(confirmed)
k. Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System (CeNCOOS) -Barth
l. Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS) –Anderson
m. North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) –Baker (confirmed)
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18:40-18:50 Break
11. 18:50-19:50 National reports – Written and Oral
a. Written national reports to be provided prior to the PICES meeting. Written reports should
include all relevant monitoring activities for all relevant years. Written reports will be posted to
the PICES web page.
b. Oral presentation should include highlights and updates in national reports of relevant
monitor/observation activities from the last year. Powerpoint presentations will be posted to the
PICES web page.
Canada
(Boldt, Ross)
China
(Li, Zhao, Zhang)
Japan
(Chiba, Saitoh, Tadokoro)
Korea
(Han, Kim, Park)
Russia
(Kulik, Lobanov)
United States
(Barth, Napp, Eisner)
12. 19:50-20:00
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Sunday, November 6, 2016
AGENDA ITEM 1
Welcome and introductions
MONITOR Chair, Dr. Jennifer Boldt, will call the meeting to order, participants will introduce themselves, and
the agenda will be reviewed and adopted.
AGENDA ITEM 2
PICES-2016 information
a. Topic Sessions and Workshops
S5: BIO/MONITOR/MEQ Topic Session
Understanding our Changing Oceans through Species Distributions and Habitat Models based on
Remotely Sensed Data
Convenors: Patrick O’Hara (Canada), Elliott Hazen (USA), Sei-Ichi Saitoh (Japan), Yutaka Watanuki
(Japan)
Invited Speakers: Robert Suryan (Oregon State University, OR, USA)
Determining marine animal distributions directly through at-sea observations or tracking is costly and
logistically challenging. Moreover, even with limitless time and resources, information is limited
because many species disperse over long distances including trans-hemispheric migrants. Species
Distribution Models (SDMs) provide a tool to estimate present distributions and to project into the
future (assuming species-environment relationships remain strong), but these models require substantial
environmental data to accurately predict distribution and change. Increasingly, SDM approaches rely on
remotely-sensed satellite data as indices of environmental conditions, particularly as proxies for primary
and possibly secondary productivity. Satellite datasets are inexpensive to use, widely served,
well-documented (i.e., scientifically defensible), and globally synoptic, allowing for easy
spatio-temporal comparisons. However, satellite-borne sensors measure characteristics of the ocean at
the surface while marine organisms respond to spatial and temporal features of the ocean at depth,
which may require more complex approaches. In this session, we will investigate the opportunities and
challenges of using satellite-based habitat models and ways we can advance SDMs for a better
understanding our changing oceans and for improving management. In particular, we solicit papers
exploring the benefits and tradeoffs of using satellite-borne data to detect mechanisms of distributional
and range shifts. This session will provide the PICES community and the FUTURE program with a
better sense of the quality of fisheries, seabird, and marine mammal SDM under development in relation
to climate change in the North Pacific.
S6: POC/MEQ/MONITOR/BIO Topic Session
What Factors make or break Trophic Linkages?
Convenors: Elliott L. Hazen (USA), Jameal Samhouri (USA), Shin-Ichi Ito (Japan), Jennifer Boldt
(Canada)
Invited Speakers: Masashi Kiyota (National Research Institute of Far Seas Fishereis, Fishey Resarch
Agency, Japan); Kenneth Rose (College of the Coast & Environment, Louisiana State University, USA)
Mechanistic linkages from physics to phytoplankton to zooplankton to fish remain central to
understanding climate forcing on marine ecosystems. Thus, it will be useful to understand how
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ecosystem linkages and species distribution are influenced by ocean features and how these linkages
translate through the food web. Specifically, what information can be gained from moving beyond a
single linkage (e.g. phytoplankton to zooplankton) towards a comparison across trophic levels in three
very different North Pacific ecosystems. Examples of such factors may include but are not limited to
broad scale anomalies (e.g. the blob, ENSO events, Kuroshio / Oyashio dynamics), temporal
mismatches among physical processes, prey, and predators (match / mismatch hypothesis), and
population fluctuations (e.g. lipid poor vs. lipid rich zooplankton). We have suggested (but are not
limited to) three study areas, the California Current, the Kuroshio Current, and the Bering Sea to
examine linkages from physics to phytoplankton, phytoplankton to zooplankton, zooplankton to fish,
birds and mammals, and fish to birds and mammals. By looking at multiple ecosystems and trends and
anomalies across multiple trophic linkages, we can better understand how climate variability and
anthropogenic forcing may cascade through these marine ecosystems. We propose a topic session that
will involve participation from multiple PICES committees and will focus on physical forcing and
trophic linkages from physics to top predators. Specifically, we request presentations on topics that (a)
examine how changes in physical oceanography lead to long term trends or anomalous responses in
primary production, zooplankton, fish, and top predators, (b) examine how trophic relationships may
respond to physical forcing and changes in species abundance and spatial distribution, and (c) test for
threshold responses (non-linearity) across trophic levels to changes in physical oceanography and the
population dynamics of other species (competitors, prey, and predators).
S12: MONITOR/BIO/TCODE Topic Session
Causes and Consequences of 25 Years of Variability in Ocean Conditions on the Ecosystems of the
North Pacific
Convenors: Bill Peterson (USA), Jack Barth (USA), Sanae Chiba (Japan), Yury Zuenko (Russia)
Invited Speakers: Emanuele Di Lorenzo (Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of
Technology, USA); Art Miller (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California-San Diego,
USA)
Climate change is upon us in terms of both slow chronic change and increased physical and ecosystem
variability. Slow increases in SST, ice melting, sea level, hypoxia, ocean acidification and northward
shifts in species are cause for concern, however for many scientists, climate variability at the
seasonal-to-interannual time scale is of greater interest. This is especially true for the North Pacific
where PICES scientists have been leaders in showing how increased variability in physical forcing at
the basin scale (e.g., the PDO, NPGO and ENSO) affects productivity of marine ecosystems. Indeed,
recognition of the impact of physical forcing at the basin scale on local ecosystems was among the
earlier focal points of PICES research and clearly opened our eyes to the need to look at the physical
forcing across the entire basin, not just local drivers of ecosystem variability. In the 25 years since
PICES was established, many unusual oceanographic events have occurred in the throughout North
Pacific that have affected the physics, plankton and fisheries: change in the PDO from 20-30 year cycles
to the 5-10 year cycles seen at present, the extended "warm ocean" period of 1993-1998 that resulted in
the listing of many salmon species as threatened or endangered, the really big El Niño events of
1997-98 and 2015-16, the 2002 sub-Arctic intrusion, the smaller 2003-2005 and 2009-10 El Niño events,
the cold North Pacific in 2008, and of course the warm Blob in 2014. We seek papers that analyze and
synthesize regional variations in recent climate variability and ecosystem response in coastal waters off
Asia as well as the Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea, and the major current systems: Kuroshio, Oyashio,
North pacific and California Currents.
Email S12 Convenors
Email S12 Invited Speakers
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S13: MONITOR/TCODE Topic Session
Understanding the Changing Coastal Ocean: Advances and Challenges in Multi-parameter Observations
Convenors: Vyacheslav B. Lobanov (Russia), Matthew Baker (USA), Sung Yong Kim (Korea), John
Barth, USA (USA), Daisuke Ambe (Japan)
Invited Speakers: Hidekatsu Yamazaki (Department of Ocean Sciences, Tokyo University of Marine
Science and Technology, Japan)
Major changes in coastal ocean ecosystems occur across the North Pacific and its marginal seas on a
variety of time scales, from weeks to years. Examples include warming events associated with low (e.g.,
El Nino) and high latitude (“warm blob”) forcing, and coastal hypoxia influenced by both natural and
anthropogenic forcing. These major changes involve physical, chemical, and biological processes and
their interaction. Sustained, high-quality, multi-parameter coastal observations are required to discern
changes from normal seasonal patterns and to detect long-term trends. We invite contributions that
address the role of coastal ocean observations in advancing our understanding of these major
physical-biological changes in North Pacific coastal oceans. These may include techniques for
sustaining multi-sensor time series and the use of new measurement platforms, as well as new
measurements and understanding of regional interactions and coastal-deep ocean interactions at various
areas of PICES region. Subsequent discussion will facilitate an exchange on how major regional
phenomena (e.g., ENSO, anomalous warming) are expressed at localized scales, best practices and new
approaches in observational techniques, and regional comparisons.
W7: MONITOR Workshop:
Delivering quality multi-parameter data from the coastal ocean
Co-sponsor: Ocean Networks Canada
Convenors: Akash Sastri (Canada), Chuanxi Xing (China)
Invited Speakers: Rich Pawlowicz (University of British Columbia, Canada); Zhifeng Zhang
(National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center (NMEMC), SOA, PR China)
This workshop is a priority for the PICES Advisory Panel on North Pacific Coastal Ocean Observing
Systems (AP-NPCOOS). We propose a 1-day workshop of talks and discussion toward the goal of
developing ‘best practices’ for ensuring high-quality sensor observations in coastal marine ecosystems
in the North Pacific. The coastal ocean is a region with important fisheries and other ecosystem benefits,
while at the same time being subject to human pressures. In order to assess coastal marine ecosystem
status and changes, including any long-term trends, high-quality observations of a variety of physical,
chemical and biological variables must be made and sustained. Sensor-based observations are critical to
coastal observation programs and are used as part of ship-based sampling programs, fixed-point
platforms (i.e. long-term mooring and cabled deployments), mobile platforms (i.e. gliders, ferries), and
are necessary to ground-truth remote sensing observations (i.e. turbidity, chlorophyll and CDOM). The
quality of these observations depends on sensor choice, pre-deployment sensor preparation and
calibration, platform and sensor deployment, post-deployment sensor calibration and data processing
and dissemination. We invite contributions that deal with all aspects of delivering high-quality data from
the coastal ocean, in particular techniques for measuring biogeochemical parameters (oxygen, nutrients,
chlorophyll) and mitigating biofouling and sensor drift.
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b. Judges for the best presentation award (MONITOR members)
MONITOR was tasked by the Science Board Chairman to judge MONITOR-sponsored Topic Sessions and
Workshops. New this year and approved by Science Board: only early career scientists to be judged in all
sessions (speakers and posters).
Sessions to be judged (this may be updated at the meeting):
ID
Session Title
S5 (presentations and posters)
Understanding our Changing Oceans through Species Distributions and
Habitat Models based on Remotely Sensed Data
S6 (presentations and posters)
What Factors make or break Trophic Linkages?
S13 (presentations and posters) Understanding the Changing Coastal Ocean: Advances and Challenges in
Multi-parameter Observations
General poster session
MONITOR Poster Session
W7 NPCOOS
Delivering quality multi-parameter data from the coastal ocean
AGENDA ITEM 3
Reports from FUTURE SSC, CPR, and Expert Groups
a. Report from FUTURE SSC (Lobanov)
Notes from ISB 2016
 Expert groups to be mapped onto the FUTURE schematic diagram.
DRAFT:
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Discuss how to make FUTURE more prominent at PICES.
o MONITOR suggestions:
 Having the slot for the FUTURE special session (whole meeting rather than a
parallel session) with some key note speakers would work. This is already
applied for the San Diego meeting.
b. Status of Pacific Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) program and activities of SAHFOS and GACS
(Batten)
c.
Activities of AP-NPCOOS (Kim and Barth)
d. Activities of AP-CREAMS and POC (Lobanov)
EAST II report?
e.
Activities of SG-NPESR (Eisner, Kulik, Mundy?)
AGENDA ITEM 4
Other business
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Tuesday, November 9, 2016
AGENDA ITEM 5
MONITOR Terms of Reference and Action Plan
Members to discuss MONITOR Terms of Reference (TORs) and Action Plan. Previously, it was noted that
mission #3 regarding the NPESR may need to be revised depending on SG-NPESR outcomes. Also, TORs
should contain a generic line item to interact with expert groups (e.g., AP-NPCOOS, AP-CREAMS).
2015 Action: MONITOR to discuss Mission (TORs) and Action Plan once PICES finalizes its Strategic Plan
(for which MONITOR has already provided feedback).
2015 Recommendation: Add some terminology regarding interactions with MONITOR expert groups
(AP-NPCOOS, AP-CREAMS).
AGENDA ITEM 6
Proposals for PICES-2017
Members to discuss proposals for PICES-2017 and MONITOR support for topic sessions, workshops, and
inter-sessional workshops:
Topic Sessions:
To be determined
Workshops:
To be determined
Inter-sessional workshops:
To be determined
Note: The MONITOR committee ranks Session and Workshop proposals at MONITOR business meetings.
Some members may be aware of the online tool that will allow Session and Workshop submissions up until the
last minute, but will not accommodate ranking by committee members. Committee Chairs may need to
email members after the committee meetings to poll them on late session or workshop proposals or
Chairs may have to make an executive decision at Science Board meetings. Science Board decided to have
a collective pool of funds for Sessions (rather than a designated amount for each committee) to ensure fair
distribution of funds among Sessions.
AGENDA ITEM 7
ICES ASC theme session proposals
MONITOR members to discuss and rank ICES theme session proposals for its 2017 Annual Science
Conference.
AGENDA ITEM 8
Notes or action items from Science Board and ISB-2016
a.
SCOR proposal ranking
Six MONITOR members provided feedback on SCOR working group proposals for PICES affiliate status.
Other committees also provided feedback on SCOR working group proposals. Based on feedback from all
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committees, Science Board supported proposal P10 EBUE Eastern Boundary Upwelling Ecosystems:
inter-comparisons, variability and forecasting responses to climate and global change (one of the top 3 ranked
proposals by MONITOR).
b. Review of Standing Committees
MONITOR to summarize 3 or 4 main scientific elements/activities (high priority areas that committee
works on) that are important and identify any upcoming challenges (identify 2 or 3 challenges or gaps or
new and emerging ideas you see for the MONITOR committee or PICES). Are the challenges in how
we deliver science a function of PICES Structure?
DRAFT:
A. Scientific elements/activities:
1. Promote ocean/ecosystem monitoring in the North Pacific, and encourage/promote international and
inter-organisational collaboration on observation and data sharing (with TCODE). Facilitate method
development and inter-comparison workshops to promote calibration, standardization and
harmonization of data sets
2. Identify principal monitoring needs of the PICES region, and develop approaches to meet these
needs, including training and capacity building;
3. Contribute to the development of the North Pacific Ecosystem Status Report, advising editors and
lead authors on monitoring issues, identifying the need for particular time series and their
continuities.
4. Others?
B. Upcoming challenges or gaps
1. There is a clear trend in the international ocean science communities to establish global observation
network and data sharing. PICES (MONITOR) has the important roles as the North Pacific
representative in communicating organisation in the other oceans such as ICES in Atlantic Ocean.
However, there are many obstacles in networking and data sharing among PICES countries
particularly in biological observation (difficult if compared to e.g. ICES countries). For example, so
far there are no observation programs similar to AtlantOS in the Atlantic Ocean. That situation makes
us difficult to figure out the PICES’s role in a partnership with international programs including
GOOS-Bio/Eco Panel.
2. Participation from all member countries and all members of committees (all PICES expert groups).
3. Others?
c. New Expert Groups:
Science Board approved two new expert groups:
1. A new working group on the North Pacific Ecosystem Status Report Synthesis was approved
and MONITOR and FUTURE will be co-parents.
2. Advisory Panel on Aquatic Non-indigenous Species (AP-NIS); MEQ will be the parent
committee.
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d. EAST I report
Science Board recommended this report for publication as a PICES Special Publication (the Foreward and
Appendices were reduced).
e. Collaborations with other organizations:
Please review the list (below) of our collaborations with other organizations and note if there are
organizations/programs that are missing or do not need to be on the list and are the rankings matched
appropriately.
From PICES ISB 2016:
“Organizing collaborations
At ISB-2015, Science Board was asked to consider for PICES-2015 how PICES might best utilize its
resources when dealing with collaborations with other organizations although Science Board did not have
time to discuss at PICES-2015. Presently the Secretariat must consider how to how to maintain key
collaborations and arrange priorities, while keeping costs down for PICES scientists to travel to meetings of
other organizations. In consultation with Dr. Therriault, the Secretariat developed a 3-tier system to better
understand PICES’ relations with other organizations, using the Standing List of International and Regional
Organizations and Programs (2014 GC decisions , GC Appendix B):
Tier 1: top-level involvement (e.g., SB/PICES Chair), co-sponsorship, etc.
Tier 2: PICES supported representative (e.g., PICES SB/ExG member), invited speaker, etc.
Tier 3: PICES-based member representing organization on outside funds, no PICES funds
Below is a list of suggested criteria that was developed for deciding tier level, followed by a table of
organizations and their suggested tier rankings for Science Board comment.
PICES Relationships with other bodies; Version 1.0
May 1, 2015
Tier 1: Organizations where PICES has a strong science contribution and where we have demonstrated
ability to partner
 Includes co-sponsors of major symposia,
 MAY include exchange of significant funding,
 Typically, PICES has some sort of recognized Observer status with these organizations (and vice
versa),
 Typically, PICES makes an effort and bears expenses for attendance at THEIR annual meetings,
 Typically, we anticipate that the Partner organization would be represented at OUR annual meeting,
 INCLUDES organizations where we have a collaboration framework in place or under
development.
Tier 2: Organization where PICES has moderate Science contribution/interest
 May include co-sponsoring of some activities/events of limited scope
 Frequently rely on a PICES member who is already attending the annual meeting of the partner
organization to represent us
Tier 3: Organizations where PICES has a modest science contribution overlaps, but where their activities
are of interest to PICES
 Ad hoc attendance at annual meetings
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MONITOR feedback:
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f.
not only the regional GOOS, but also IOC-GOOS could be included here
4th climate change symposium
MONITOR members had the opportunity to provide names of conveners and SSC members.
g. Ideas for collaboration with ICES
AGENDA ITEM 9
Report on POMA
Please encourage additional nominees for next year’s POMA (PICES Ocean Monitoring Service Award).
This award aims to recognize organizations, groups and outstanding individuals that have contributed
significantly to the advancement of marine science in the North Pacific through long-term ocean monitoring
and data management.
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Relations with specific international organizations/programs
a. Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science(SAHFOS) – Wilson
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b. International collaboration in ship-based ecosystem monitoring – Valdez
New light for time series: international collaboration in ship-based ecosystem monitoring
Dr. Luis Valdés1 and Kirsten Isensee2
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Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Santander, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
2
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Paris
The history of long-term ocean time-series started more than 100 years ago. But most of marine time-series
sites were established across different oceans (and managed by different countries) following the
recommendations from international programmes such as JGOFS and GLOBEC. Many of existing
time-series gained international prestige (HOTS, BATS, CPR, L4, HELGOLAND ROADS, RADIALES) in
particular for providing the reference baselines for different variables at local-regional scales and in different
ocean biogeographical provinces.
In a time of increasing pressures on the marine environment, time-series are central to understanding past,
current and future alterations in ocean biology and to monitoring future responses to climate change. There are
an extraordinary number of unexploited data sets obtained by long-term ocean time-series. Analyzing the data
sets obtained at multiple ocean sampling sites has a high scientific value, but sharing data has also important
economic and social benefits. The demand from different stakeholders and decision makers for answers to the
challenges posed by changes in the marine environment is growing rapidly and sharing and accessing
time-series data would reduce the uncertainties in the management of marine resources and ecosystem services.
Given that individual time-series are distributed across different oceans and managed by different countries,
open collaboration with countries’ institutions conducting the time-series is essential.
This poster aims to deliver new insights into existing biogeochemical and ecological ship-based times-series
and also features an overview of the gaps and needs for a better sampling coverage in the different ocean
basins and seas.
c. International Program for deployment of profiling floats (Argo) –Scanderbeg
d. Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) – Leinen
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e. Ecosystem Study on the Sub-Arctic and Arctic Seas (ESSAS) –Saitoh
1st ANNOUNCEMENT
ESSAS International Open Science Meeting
Moving in, out and across the Subarctic and Arctic marine ecosystems:
shifting boundaries of water, ice, flora, fauna, people and institutions
Tromsø, Norway
Radisson Blu Hotel
11-15 June 2017
International Sponsors: ICES; PICES; IMBER
Local Sponsor: IMR; Co-Sponsors: NOAA, NPRB, NPFMC (US)
Background and Objectives
During the last decade or more there has been a rapid increase in the air and sea temperatures
in the Arctic and a corresponding decline in summer sea-ice cover in the Arctic Ocean. In the
Subarctic seas there have also been large changes in sea temperatures but with spatial
variability. For example, generally warm conditions have been observed in the Barents and
Nordic Seas of the North Atlantic while in the Bering Sea in the Pacific temperature conditions
have varied between warm and cold periods with corresponding decreases and increases in
winter sea-ice cover, respectively. These changes in the water and ice properties, together with
increased ocean acidification, have resulted in major changes in the biogeochemistry and ecology
of these regions including distributional shifts of many species of plankton and fish. The
resulting changes in fish distribution have resulted in difficulties for fisheries management that
are based on historical fishing rights, e.g. Atlantic mackerel in the North Atlantic. This
symposium is intended to document the changes that have occurred in the distant to recent past,
the processes that led to these changes, and how future changes are likely to further affect these
marine ecosystems. It will also provide a forum to discuss how the people who depend upon
these ecosystems may best cope with these changes and examine the economic and societal
pressures that will come to bear on coastal communities and nations. To place the present day in
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a longer-term perspective, the symposium will include a session on the paleo-ecology of
ecosystems and people in Subarctic and Arctic regions related to changing temperature and
sea-ice conditions in the past.
Scientific Program
The format of the meeting will include morning plenary sessions by keynote speakers and up to
three parallel sessions in the afternoon of contributed talks. The morning plenary sessions will
focus on the topic of the afternoon’s theme sessions. The theme sessions include:
 Paleo-Ecology: This session will span paleoclimate-paleoecology-archaeology-human history
dimensions of climate and sea-ice change.
 Ecosystem impacts of advection and mixing: This session will explore the influence of
advection and mixing on marine ecosystems, ranging from effects on hydrography and
nutrients to marine mammals and seabirds.
 Timing/phenology and match-mismatch: are they critical issues? : What is the observational
evidence for the match-mismatch hypothesis or other phenology-related hypotheses in
Sub-Arctic and Arctic ecosystems?
 Future Sub-Arctic and Arctic Marine Ecosystems under Climate Change: This session will
focus on what will happen under future climate change to the atmospheric climate,
oceanography, ecology, fish, fisheries and human institutions in the Sub-arctic and Arctic
regions.
 Shifting habitats, persistent hot spots, and the distribution of benthos, plankton, fish,
seabirds and marine mammals - observations, effects, mechanisms and models: This session
will focus on exploring the mechanisms linking organisms to biophysical habitats.
 Ocean Acidification: The formation and transport of corrosive waters in the Arctic and
Subarctic–do they matter?
 Multiple Stressors: This session will examine the combined effects of multiple stresses, such
as climate change, ocean acidification, invasive species, fishing, etc., on Arctic and Sub-Arctic
ecosystems and their management and governance.
 Science, Policy and Management: This session will explore the influence of science on policy
and management decisions, what policy developers and managers really need from science,
and how to improve communications between science and managers.
 General Open Session: This session will provide an opportunity to those whose work does not
fit within any of the more focused sessions.
Potential participants are invited to submit titles and abstracts (maximum of 250 words) for oral
presentations or posters. All abstracts will be reviewed for merit and relevance. Posters will be
displayed throughout the meeting and sufficient provision given for the authors to discuss them
with the meeting participants.
The day prior to the start of the Open Science Meeting, a small number of workshops are also
planned. The topics of these workshops will be determined based upon submitted workshop
proposals.
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Publication
The symposium proceedings will be published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science within 18
months of the meeting. Papers, including those based on poster presentations, will be
considered for publication following peer review. To assist in the process, contributors are
asked to submit an electronic version of their manuscript at the time of the meeting.
Participation
The Symposium is open to all scientists, students, managers, and the public who are interested in
Subarctic and Arctic marine ecosystems. Limited financial assistance will be available to early
career scientists (less than 35 years of age or less than 5 years post PhD).
Registration
On-line registration, abstract submission, and applications for
financial assistance for Early Career Scientists will be available 1
November.
Important Dates
1
October 2016
15 October
2016
1
November 2016
15 January
2017
15 February 2017
15 March
2017
15 March
2017
11 June
2017
12-15 June
2017
Workshop Proposal Deadline
Notification of Workshop Acceptance
Website Open for Abstract Submissions and Registration
Deadline for abstract submissions
Notification of abstract acceptance
Deadline for early fee payment
Notification of financial support requests
Workshops
Open Science Meeting
Further information about the symposium can be found at:
http://www.imr.no/essas/essas_open_science_meeting_2017/en.
Co-Convenors:
Dr. Ken Drinkwater (Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway)
Dr. Franz Mueter (University of Alaska Fairbanks, Juneau, USA)
Dr. Sei-Ichi Saitoh (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)
Scientific Steering Committee:
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Dr. Ólafur Ástþórsson (Marine Research Institute, Reykjavik,
representative)
Dr. Andrey Dolgov (PINRO, Murmansk, Russia)
Dr. Naomi Harada (JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan)
Dr. Alan Haynie (NOAA, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, USA)
Dr. George Hunt, Jr. (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Dr. Shin.Ichi Ito (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
Dr. Gudrun Marteinsdottir (University of Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland)
Dr. Sue Moore (NOAA, PMEL, Seattle, USA)
Dr. Jean Eric Tremblay (Laval University, Quebec City, Canada)
Dr. John Walsh (University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA)
Dr. Paul Wassmann (University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway)
Dr. Jinping Zhao (Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China)
f.
Iceland;
ICES
World Ocean Assessment II program -Chiba
g. GOOS-Bio/Eco Panel –Chiba
h. North East Asian Regional (NEAR-GOOS) –Lobanov
i.
Ocean Observing System (AOOS) –Janzen or Eisner
j.
Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS) –Newton
k. Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System (CeNCOOS) –Barth
l.
Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS) –Anderson
m. North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) –Baker
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National reports
Please send reports as soon as possible
See MONITOR Endnote 1 for National reports.
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Country Reports for 2016
Canada
China
Japan
Korea
Russia
USA
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