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    Organization Structure

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    The Organization Structure changes summary (Oct. 2007):

    List of Member Groups' Acronyms

     

    Active Groups:
         
      GC Governing Council
      F&A Finance and Administratio n Committee
      SB Science Board
         
    Active Scientific Committees
      BIO Biological Oceanography Committee
      FIS Fishery Science Committee
      MEQ Marine Environment Quality Committee
      POC Physical Oceanography and Climate Committee
      TCODE Technical Committee on Data Exchange
      MONITOR MONITOR Technical Committee on Monitoring
         
    Active Working Groups
      WG-19 Working Group on Ecosystem-based management science and its application to the North Pacific
      WG-20 Working Group on Evaluations of Climate Change Projections (Oct. 2005 - Oct. 2010)
      WG-21 Working Group on Non-indigenous Aquatic Species (Oct. 2005 - Oct. 2012)
      WG-22 Working Group on Iron supply and its impact on biogeochemistry and ecosystems in the North Pacific Ocean (Oct. 2007 - Oct. 2010)
      WG-23 Working Group on Comparative ecology of krill in coastal and oceanic waters around the Pacific Rim (Oct. 2007 - Oct. 2010)
    new WG-24 Working Group on Environmental Interactions of Marine Aquaculture (Oct. 2008 - )
         
    Active Sections
      HAB-S Harmful Algal Blooms Section
      CC-S Section on Carbon and Climate
         
    Active Study Groups
    SG-COM Study Group on Communication (Oct. 2007 - )
      SG-FISP Study Group on Future Integrative Scientific Program(s) (May 2005 - )
    new SG-RAM Study Group on Restructuring of the PICES Annual Meeting (Oct.2008 - March 2009)
         
    Active Scientific Programs
      CCCC Climate Change and Carrying Capacity Scientific Program
      FUTURE Forecasting and Understanding Trends, Uncertainty and Responses of the North Pacific Ecosystem
         
    Active Task Teams
      MODEL Conceptual / Theoretical and Modeling Studies Task Team
      CFAME Climate Forcing and Marine Ecosystem Response Task Team
         
    Active Advisory Panels
      CPR Advisory Panel on Continuous Plankton Recorder Program
      MBM-AP Advisory Panel on Marine Birds and Mammals
      MIE-AP Advisory Panel on Micronekton Sampling Inter-Calibration Experiment
      CREAMS-AP Advisory Panel for a CREAMS/PICES Program in East Asian Marginal Seas
         
    Disbanded Groups:
         
    Disbanded Advisory Panels
    IFEP Advisory Panel on Iron Fertilization Experiment (Oct. 1998 - Oct. 2007)
      NPDB Advisory Panel on North Pacific Data Buoy (Oct. 2001 - Oct. 2006)
         
    Disbanded Study Groups
      SG-SC Study Group on Scientific Cooperation between PICES and non-member countries (Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2007)
      SG-ESR Study Group on Ecosytem Status Reporting (Oct. 2006 - 2007)
      SG-MAR Study Group on Marine Aquaculture and Ranching in the PICES region (Oct. 2006 - 2007)
      SG-GOOS Study Group to develop a strategy for GOOS (2005 - 2007)
      SGRPFR Study Group on PICES Rules of Procedure and Financial Regulations (Oct. 2004 - Oct. 2006)
      EBMSG Study Group on Ecosystem-based management science and its application to the North Pacific (Oct. 2003 - Oct. 2004)
      FERRRS Study Group on Fisheries and Ecosystem Responses to Recent Regime Shifts (Oct. 2003 - Oct. 2004)
      SISG Study Group on PICES Strategic Plan (Oct. 2003 - Oct. 2004)
      CBSG Study Group on PICES Capacity Building (Oct. 2002 - Oct. 2003)
         
    Disbanded Task Teams
      BASS Basin Studies Task Team
      MONITOR MONITOR Task Team
      NEXT NEMURO (North Pacific Ecosystem Model for Understanding Regional Oceanography) Experimental Plan Team
      REX Regional Experiments Task Team
         
    Disbanded Working Groups
      NPESR North Pacific Ecosystme Status Report
      WG-1 The Okhotsk Sea and Oyashio Region (Working Group 1)
      WG-2 Development of Common Assessment Methodology for Marine Pollution (Working Group 2)
      WG-3 Dynamics of Small Pelagics in Coastal Ecosystems (Working Group 3)
      WG-4 Data Collection and Quality Control (Working Group 4)
      WG-5 The Bering Sea (Working Group 5)
      WG-6 Subarctic Gyre (Working Group 6)
      WG-7 Modelling of the Subarctic North Pacific Circulation (Working Group 7)
      WG-8 Practical Assessment Methodology (formely WG-2) (Working Group 8)
      WG-9 Subarctic Pacific Monitoring (Working Group 9)
      WG-10 Circulation and Ventilation in the Japan Sea (East Sea) and its adjacent areas (Working Group 10)
      WG-11 Consumption of Marine Resources by Marine Birds and Mammals in the PICES Region (Working Group 11)
      WG-12 Crabs and Shrimps (Working Group 12)
      WG-13 CO2 in the North Pacific (Working Group 13)
      WG-14 Effective Sampling of Micronekton to Estimate Ecosystem Carrying Capacity (Working Group 14)
      WG-15 Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in the North Pacific (Working Group 15 )
      WG-16 Climate Change, Shifts in Fish Production, and Fisheries Management (Working Group 16)
      WG-17 Biogeochemical Data Integration and Synthesis (Working Group 17)
      WG-18 Working Group on "Mariculture in the 21st century – The intersection between ecology, socio-economics and production"
     
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