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Carrie Hadden, Al Hermann, Allen Macklin, Ann Matarese, Jeff Napp, Jim Overland, Ron Reed, Phyllis Stabeno, Debbie Blood (rapporteur)ANNOUNCEMENTS
1) Conduct a conference on regime shifts to gather together people both within and outside of NOAA.
2) Conduct a frontal study of forage fish (pollock, eulachon, capelin). During climate change will these fish show fidelity to the fronts? This work will build on the Pribilof Island studies.
3) Investigate migration of age-0 pollock. Whereas pollock larvae drift downstream from Shelikof Strait, the age-0s seem to come back upstream later in a counter migration.
4) Acquire additional gear to study pollock and their prey.
5) Continue Miriam Doyle's GLOBEC work on a retrospective analysis of forage fish and look at interannual comparisons of such.
6) Conduct long-term ichthyoplankton sampling into summer and fall during which time many forage fish spawn. Sampling would be piggybacked onto the summer Great Pacific cruise and fall juvenile cruise. This sampling data would be compared to data collected during the 1970s.
FOCI scientists agreed that the proposals would be stronger if physical and biological aspects were integrated.
CORRECTIONSThe next FOCI PI meeting will be at 10 a.m. on Thursday, 8 February 2001, in the Cloud Chamber (3/2065). Please submit to Allen Macklin, no later than the day before the meeting, agenda items and fax-ready copies of figures or handouts that you intend to present at the meeting. Alternately, presentation materials may be posted on the WWW or e-mailed to remote participants before the meeting.
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