Ecosystems and Oceanography Division
The Ecosystems and Oceanography Division (EOD) conducts research to advance our understanding of the structure and dynamics of central North Pacific marine ecosystems. In particular, we seek to understand how marine populations change in response to both direct changes in their predators and prey as well as from broader habitat-based changes in the ocean climate including El Niño, La Niña, and other interannual or decadal events. More...
News and Highlights
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November 26, 2012
PIFSC scientists are partnering with colleagues at the NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) and the University of Maryland to expand the NOAA TurtleWatch program with the objective of helping to reduce incidental fishery interactions with endangered leatherback sea turtles. More... -
November 26, 2012
To effectively achieve conservation goals and regulate human activities in marine ecosystems, resource managers need to understand the connectivity of fish and other biota in the ecosystem—how organisms in a particular area or habitat are related to those in a different location through colonization and movement in a spatially-structured environment. More... -
August 17, 2012
PIFSC scientists Phoebe Woodworth and Jeff Polovina, along with colleagues Julia Blanchard (University of Sheffield) and John Dunne (NOAA's Geophysical Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)), have coupled a size-based ecosystem model with a climate model to project the effects of climate change on fish abundance and catch for the North Pacific pelagic ecosystem over the 21st century. More... -
August 17, 2012
During March 2012, PIFSC scientists on the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette completed a multifaceted research mission in the inshore waters around American Samoa. More...
Recent Staff Publications
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January 15, 2013Ecosystem size structure response to 21st century climate projection: large fish abundance decreases in the central North Pacific and increases in the California CurrentWoodworth-Jefcoats PA, Polovina JJ, Dunne JP, Blanchard JL
[2012] Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12076 -
December 11, 2012Vertically migrating micronekton and macrozooplankton communities around Guam and the Northern Mariana IslandsSuntsov A, Domokos R
[2013] Deep-Sea Research I 71: 113-129. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2012.10.009 -
November 26, 2012Relative influence of climate variability and direct anthropogenic impact on a sub-tropical Pacific top predator, the Hawaiian monk sealBaker JD, Howell EA, Polovina JJ
[2012] Marine Ecology Progress Series 469: 175-189. DOI: 10.3354/meps09987 -
November 26, 2012Reevaluation of the DPS designation for Hawaiian (now main Hawaiian Islands) insular false killer whalesOleson EM, Boggs CH, Forney KA, Hanson MB, Kobayashi DR, Taylor BL, Wade PR, Ylitalo GM
[2012] Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, PIFSC Internal Report, IR-12-038, 39 p -
November 14, 2012Bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) status reviewKobayashi D, Friedlander A, Grimes C, Nichols R, Zgliczynski B
[2011] U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NOAA-TM-NMFS-PIFSC-26, 101 p + Appendices -
October 30, 2012Climate-induced primary productivity change and fishing impacts on the Central North Pacific ecosystem and Hawaii-based pelagic longline fisheryHowell EA, Wabnitz CCC, Dunne JP, Polovina JJ
[2012] Climatic Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0597-z
