Southeast Bering Sea Carrying Capacity will hold a meeting of its Principal Investigators on Monday and Tuesday, December 15-16, 1997, at the Seattle Battelle Conference Center. Watch this space for further announcements.

Agenda

Monday, December 15
730 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
830 Welcome: Perceptions, Purpose, Charge Project Management Team (PMT)
900 MODELING
Circulation modeling Hermann, Stabeno, Haidvogel, Musgrave
Individual-based modeling Hinckley, Megrey, Hermann
Spatial model of upper-trophic-level interactions Livingston, Hinckley
1015 COFFEE
1045 MONITORING
Altimetric census of eddies Okkonen
Monitoring and development of indices Schumacher, Stabeno, Brodeur, Napp, Hunt
1145 LUNCH
1300 RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES
Atmospheric forcing, the cold pool, and ecosystem dynamics Niebauer, Wyllie-Echeverria, Bond, Schumacher, Stabeno
Foraging trips by northern fur seals Loughlin
Relationships between recruitment and correlates Megrey, Wespestad
1430 LOWER-TROPHIC-LEVEL PROCESSES
Origin and dynamics of nutrients Whitledge
Primary productivity, composition of sinking organic matter Goering, Henrichs
1515 BREAK
1545 Optical measurements Stabeno
1615 UPPER-TROPHIC-LEVEL PROCESSES
Incubation of pollock eggs Blood
Habitat differences in frontal regions Brodeur, Napp, Doyle
Acoustics and juvenile pollock Swartzman, Brodeur
1730 RECEPTION
Tuesday, December 16
730 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
830 Summary of research by scientific approach SINCO
930 COFFEE
1000 Present Status of SEBSCC PMT, Advisors
1045 Future Directions: An Open Discussion All
1145 1998 Field Operations All
1230 LUNCH
1330 Continued Discussion, Final Comments, Wrap-up All
1430 PIs Adjourn/BREAK
1500 SINCO and PMT/Advisors Meetings
1630 SINCO and PMT/Advisors Adjourn

Comments
On the first day, after introductory remarks by the PMT (10 mins each), the focus of sessions is on progress in the five scientific approaches: modeling, monitoring, retrospective analysis, and lower- and upper-trophic-level processes. Each of the 15 research projects is alloted ~15 mins with a 5-min period for questions. Project PIs may elect to make the full presentation themselves or share the time with their co-PIs.

The second morning provides SINCO (10 mins for each member), PMT and Advisors (20 mins for each group) opportunity to comment on the project in light of the previous day's presentations, an open discussion of future research, time to plan details of the upcoming field season, and a final wrap-up.

After the workshop adjourns, the PMT will meet with the Advisors, and the SINCO will hold its second meeting. The PMT comprises Vera Alexander, Anne Hollowed, and Jim Overland. SINCO representatives are Al Hermann (modeling), Jim Schumacher (monitoring), Bern Megrey (retrospection), Susan Henrichs (lower-trophic-level processes), Ric Brodeur (upper-trophic-level processes), and George Hunt (member-at-large). Advisors are Mike Dagg, Bart Eaton, Eileen Hofmann, Tom Royer, Al Tyler, and Warren Wooster.
 

 

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Updated 12/97; send comments, corrections to FOCI Coordinator.