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Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI)The AFSC and NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) cosponsored a multinational
workshop, “North Pacific Climate Regimes and Ecosystem Productivity” at the Talaris Conference Center in Seattle,
Washington 13-14 September 2004. In attendance were 37 scientists from the AFSC, PMEL, University of Alaska
Fairbanks, University of Washington, University of California Irvine, International Global Ocean Ecosystem
Dynamics (GLOBEC) and the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES). Scientists from NOAA Fisheries,
Office of Science and Technology (Ned Cyr and Kenric Osgood) and NOAA NOS, Coastal Ocean Program (Elizabeth
Turner) also participated. The purpose of the workshop was to present and discuss information that will guide
the development of a science and implementation plan to monitor the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea for the purpose
of providing management with indicators of climate-induced change in the Alaska marine ecosystems. The plan will
describe the scientific design and rationale for a climate regimes and ecosystem productivity program. It will
also identify partners, priorities, and a timeline. The program is called North Pacific Climate Regimes and
Ecosystem Productivity. NOAA Open House in St. Paul
The Groundfish Assessment Program’s Bering Sea team had an opportunity to conduct a “NOAA Open House Day”
aboard the chartered fishing vessel Aldebaran during its stay in St. Paul Harbor shortly after completing
the annual Bering Sea shelf crab-groundfish bottom trawl survey. The children attending were all 6-12 year old
Pribilof Islands (St. Paul and St. George) residents attending a summer educational program called Pribilof
Stewardship Camp. Michael Etnier of the AFSC’s National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle directed the program
this summer, which is in its twelfth year of providing cultural and science-based education for children. The
main emphasis of the program, which started as a joint effort between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the
Pribilof School District, is to revive traditional Aleut knowledge of the Bering Sea ecosystem and combine
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AFSC Quarterly Research Reports July-Sept 2004 ContentsFeature ABL Reports NMML Reports RACE Reports REFM Reports Quarterly Index Quarterly Home |
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