Slideshow Overview - Ecosystem Studies
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The Ecosystem Studies Program was developed within the context of ecosystem research. We are a group of oceanographers, marine ecologists, statisticians, and software programmers. Our basic goal is to provide a framework within which to interpret trends in the distribution and abundance of the protected living marine resources that are involved in management actions by NOAA Fisheries. By expanding research efforts to include the physical and biological habitat, and other marine organisms, we establish a context which can be used to better interpret results of directed abundance surveys. An effective data set for these purposes will:
sample physical and biological habitat,
sample multiple taxa and multiple trophic levels and
target organisms that are easily sampled.
Accordingly, we conduct research aboard most assessment cruises to study physical, chemical, and biological oceanography, and ecology of plankton, micronekton, seabirds, and additional selected taxa.
Geographic Themes: | Items of Interest: | | - Antarctic killer whale field work in 2011: Updates on tagging efforts and results
more> - New insights on the characterization of the thermocline
more>![The previous link
is a link to a non-Federal government web site. Click to review the NOAA
Fisheries disclaimer. The previous link is a link to a
non-Federal government web site. Click to review the NOAA Fisheries
disclaimer.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130306093957im_/http://swfsc.noaa.gov/images/global/exit.gif) - Absence of scale dependence in dolphin-habitat models for the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean
more>![The previous link is a link to a non-Federal government web site. Click to review the NOAA Fisheries disclaimer. The previous link is a link to a non-Federal government web site. Click to review the NOAA Fisheries disclaimer.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130306093957im_/http://swfsc.noaa.gov/images/global/exit.gif) - "Wake of the Baiji" Report Posted Online
more> - Dolphin Numbers Still Low Despite "Safe" Tuna Fishing, Experts Say
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