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Applying IPCC-class Models of Global Warming to Fisheries Prediction

A workshop sponsored by the Cooperative Institute for Climate Sciences

Princeton University, June 15-17, 2009
 

Monday, June 15

8:00-8:30: Continental breakfast, introductions, objectives of workshop

8:30-9:15: Fisheries variability and its physical drivers
                Dr. Francisco Werner
                Rutgers University, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences

9:15-10:00: Fisheries data and fisheries management (with respect to climate issues)
                  Dr. Jason Link
                  NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole Laboratory

10:00-10:30: Break

10:30-10:50: Fisheries and Ecosystems
                    Dr. Simon Levin
                    Princeton University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

10:50-11:15: From fixed functional types to flexible models of microbial community structure in the oceans
                    Dr. Michael Raghib
                    Princeton University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

11:15-12:30: Discussion Session 1

12:30-1:30: Lunch

1:30-2:15:  Overview of the coupled model intercomparison project (CMIP) and IPCC AR5 activities
                 Dr. Ronald Stouffer
                 NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

2:15-3:15:  IPCC-class models: issues for fisheries applications
                 Dr. Gabriel Vecchi
                 NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

3:15-3:45: Break

3:45-5:30: Discussion session 2

6:00-8:00: Reception and poster session

Tuesday, June 16

8:00-8:30: Continental Breakfast, outline day 2 objectives

8:30-9:15: Projecting global impacts of climate change on marine biodiversity and fisheries
                Dr. William Cheung
                University of East Anglia

9:15-10:00: Forecasting climate change impacts on Alaskan ecosystems when processes are uncertain
                  Dr. Anne Hollowed
                  NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center

10:00-10:30: Break


10:30-11:15: Climate impacts on the Southern Ocean Ecosystem
                   Dr. Eileen Hofmann
                   Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography
                    (ICED: Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean)

11:15-12:00: Past and future impacts of climate on North Atlantic Cod
                   Dr. Keith Brander
                   The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
                   (Report from ICES workshop on Cod and Future Climate Change)

12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-1:45: Forecasting population trends of tuna under climate change scenarios
                Dr. Patrick Lehodey
                Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

1:45-2:30: Climate variability and the Peruvian anchovetta
                Dr. Francisco Chavez
                Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

2:30-3:00: Break

3:00-5:00: Discussion Session 3

Wednesday, June 17

8:00-8:30: Continental breakfast, outline day 3 objectives

8:30-9:15: Decadal climate variability and predictability - focus on the North Atlantic
                Dr. Thomas Delworth
                NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

9:15-10:00: Physics to fishers modeling: a proof of principle using sardine and anchovy in the California Current
                  Dr. Kenneth Rose
                  Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences

10:00-10:30: Break

10:30-11:15: The future of fisheries observations with a focus on the California Current
                   Dr. Jonathon Phinney
                   NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center

11:15-12:00: Discussion Session 4