FOCI International Workshop on Recent Conditions in the Bering Sea

November 9-10, 1998
NOAA Western Regional Center, Building 9
7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, Washington 98115-0070
 
AGENDA
 
Monday, November 9, 1998
 
9:00 a.m.
 Welcome Dr. Arthur Kendall, Jr. and  
Dr. Phyllis Stabeno
9:15 a.m.
 Pacific climate in 1997-98:  
El Nino? PDO? or another animal from the climate zoo?		 Dr. Nathan Mantua 
University of Washington
9:45 a.m.
 Temporal variability of water properties and currents over the eastern Bering Sea shelf Dr. Phyllis Stabeno 
NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Lab
10:15 a.m.
 Bering Sea nutrient dynamics:  Then and now Dr. Terry Whitledge 
University of Alaska Fairbanks
10:45 a.m.
 Break  
11:15 a.m.
 Southeastern Bering Sea zooplankton:  Known patterns and potential anomalies Dr. Jeffrey Napp 
NMFS/Alaska Fisheries Science Center 

Dr. Kenneth Coyle 
University of Alaska Fairbanks
11:45 a.m.
 Responses of marine birds to 
unusual conditions in the southeastern Bering Sea, 1997 and 1998		 Dr. George Hunt, Jr. 
University of California Irvine 
12:15 p.m.
 Lunch  
1:30 p.m.
 Redistributions of cetaceans in the southeastern Bering Sea relative 
to anomalous oceanographic conditions during the 1997 El Niño		 Dr. Cynthia Tynan 
University of Washington 
2:00 p.m.
 Implications of recent climate changes on salmon and crabs in the Bering Sea Dr. Gordon Kruse 
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
2:30 p.m.
 Bering Sea groundfish abundance and recruitment trends Ms. Patricia Livingston 
NMFS/Alaska Fisheries Science Center
3:00 p.m.
 Break  
3:20 p.m.
 International perspectives  
4:00 p.m.
 Voluntary presentations  
5:30 p.m.
 Reception  
6:00 p.m.
 Keynote address Mr. Bart Eaton, Vice President 
Trident Seafoods Corporation
7:00 p.m.
 Adjourn  
 
Tuesday, November 10, 1998
 
8:10 a.m.
 Coffee  
8:30 a.m.
 Instructions for Discussion Groups Organizing Committee
8:45 a.m.
 Discussion: 

What are the physical, chemical, and biological mechanisms and interactions causing the changes in the ecosystem observed in 1997 and 1998? 

What research is needed to better understand the origin and persistence of these changes? 

Given the large changes in the Bering Sea ecosystem, how do we manage marine resources in a fluctuating and highly variable environment?

 As assigned by group
11:00 a.m.
 Break  
11:30 a.m.
 Discussion Group reports Rapporteurs
12:30 p.m.
 Closing comments  
12:45 p.m.
 Adjourn