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How is PICES working with large-scale ocean research
projects?
Presented at the Third SCOR Summit of International Marine
Research Projects
March 30 – April 1, 2009
Michael Dagg
PICES
Biological Oceanography Committee, Chairman
The North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)
was established in 1992 to promote and coordinate marine
research in the northern North Pacific and adjacent seas.
Its present members are:
Canada
Japan
People's Republic of China
Republic of Korea
Russian Federation
United States of America.
The PICES Mission
- advance scientific knowledge and capacity available to the
Contracting Parties,
- provide a mechanism for collaboration among scientists in
addressing timely and critical scientific questions.
The PICES Mission calls for:
- Providing leadership on scientific issues and identifying research priorities and
problems pertaining to the North Pacific Ocean, as well as appropriate
methods for their solution;
- Promoting the collection and exchange of data related to marine scientific research
in the North Pacific Ocean;
- Recommending coordinated research programs and related activities pertaining to
the North Pacific Ocean to be undertaken through the national efforts of
the participating partners;
- Establishing effective arrangements for scientific consultation and exchange;
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(ctd) ……The PICES Mission calls for:
- Coordinating and enhancing physical, chemical, biological, and interdisciplinary
research;
- Developing and implementing large-scale research;
- Synthesizing scientific information regarding the regions, and making the results
widely available;
- Responding to requests from the Contracting Parties to provide advice on scientific
issues relating to the North Pacific Ocean;
- Building capacity within the scientific communities of the Contracting Parties;
- Fostering partnerships with other organizations that share a common interest;
- Informing interested parties and the public about marine ecosystem issues.
PICES (see http://www.pices.int/ ) does not
directly fund research but rather it coordinates,
encourages, and supports international science by
the work of its:
Scientific Programs
Committees
Working Groups
Sections
Study Groups
Task Teams
Advisory Panels
For example…….Scientific Programs
PICES Scientific Programs
The first PICES Scientific Program was “Climate Change and Carrying
Capacity”
goal of CCCC was to forecast the consequences of climate variability on
the ecosystems of the subarctic Pacific. CCCC was linked closely
with GLOBEC
The CCCC Scientific Program provided the guiding framework of
GLOBEC Science to the PICES region. In turn, CCCC provided an
outlet for regional GLOBEC science. e.g. PICES/GLOBEC symposium
in April 2006 “Climate Variability and Ecosystem Impacts on the
North Pacific: a Basin-scale Synthesis.” (see special volume of DSR
II).
CCCC is ending this fall at the PICES annual meeting and a new
Scientific Program called FUTURE will begin, expected to be a 10
year PICES program
FUTURE : Forecasting and Understanding Trends, Uncertainty and
Responses of North Pacific Marine Ecosystems
Science Plan – Feb 2008
Implementation Plan (anticipated final approval – November 2009)
The FUTURE program evolved from the research conducted by its
predecessor, the PICES/GLOBEC Climate Change and Carrying
Capacity (CCCC) Program
FUTURE continues a focus on understanding climate impacts on marine
systems and places additional emphasis on coastal anthropogenic
influences, ecosystem forecasting, and providing information to a
broad community in useful formats.
PICES Committees
Biological Oceanography Committee (BIO)
Fishery Science Committee (FIS)
Marine Environmental Quality Committee (MEQ)
Physical Oceanography and Climate Committee (POC)
Technical Committee on Data Exchange (TCODE)
Technical Committee on Monitoring (MONITOR)
All committees have their own Terms of Reference, Mission Statements,
etc but all share the same general goals as stated in the PICES mission,
including the development and strengthening of relationships with other
international organizations and programs.
Some specific mechanisms……
Co-sponsoring scientific sessions at PICES Annual Meetings
Of 9 scientific topic sessions to be held in fall 09 PICES annual
meeting, 4 are co-sponsored:
S3 – Early life stages of marine resources as indicators of climate
variability and ecosystem resiliency (FIS/BIO, co-sponsored by
ICES)
S6 – Marine spatial planning in support of integrated management –
tools, metghods and apporaches (MEQ/FIS, co-sponsored by
NOWPAP - the NW Pacific Action Plan of the Regional Seas
Program – Japan, S. Korea, China, Russia).
S7 – State of the art of real-time monitoring and its implication
for the FUTURE oceanographic study (MONITOR, co-sponsored
by Argo and GOOS).
S9 – Outlooks and forecasts of marine ecosystems from an earth
system science perspective: Challenges and opportunities.
(POC/FUTURE, co-sponsored by IMBER)
Co-sponsoring Workshops
10 workshops scheduled during the 2009 Annual Meeting, including
W1 – Natural supplies of iron to the North Pacific and linkages
between iron supply and ecosystem responses (BIO, co-sponsored by
SOLAS).
W3 - Integrating marine mammal populations and rates of prey
consumption in models and forecasts of climate change – ecosystem
change in the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans (BIO, cosponsored by ICES).
W4 - Marine ecosystem model intercomparisons (BIO, co-sponsored by
ESSAS)
Also intersessional workshops
Working Groups and Sections focus on specific scientific issues:
Examples:
WG-22: Working Group on "Iron supply and its impact on
biogeochemistry and ecosystems in the North Pacific Ocean" (Oct.
2007 - Oct. 2010).
CC-S: Section on “Carbon and Climate” (incl Ocean Acidification)
Members participate in entire scope of scientific activities
associated with these topics and bring information to PICES and
bring the PICES perspective to wider audience. Members are often
scientific participants in large programs or developing programs
Publications - wide variety including
annual reports,
scientific reports,
special publications,
technical reports,
primary journals,
brochures,
books,
PICES press
Example – primary journal resulting from a collaboratively sponsored
symposium:
Deep Sea Research II. Volume 54, Issues 23-26 (2007). Effects of
Climate Variability on Sub-Arctic Marine Ecosystems - A GLOBEC-ESSAS
Symposium on "Effects of climate variability on sub-arctic marine
ecosystems” Victoria, BC, Canada, 16-20 May 2005, Edited by George L.
Hunt Jr., Kenneth Drinkwater, Stewart M. McKinnell and David L. Mackas
Sponsoring (with other international organizations and programs)
international symposia or meetings
Examples:
2008, Oct 6-8, Monaco
PICES/ICES Theme Session on “The effects of ocean acidification on
fisheries and ecosystems” at the International Symposium on “The Ocean
in a High CO2 World – II.” sponsored by SCOR, IOC, IAEA and IGBP.
2008, May 19-23. Gijón, Spain
International Symposium on Effects of climate change on the world's
oceans. sponsored by ICES, PICES, IOC
2009, Jun 22-26, International Symposium, Victoria, Canada
3rd GLOBEC Open Science Meeting. Sponsored by GLOBEC, PICES
In addition, PICES provides logistical support, web page support and
hosts web sites for many events like these.
PICES has a standing list of international organizations and
programs that are invited to attend the Annual meeting as
observers
e.g. last year’s annual meeting: 27 observers
Representatives of several programs and organizations make
oral presentations to Committees and/or their subsidiary
bodies: e.g. 2008 Annual meeting: Argo, BEST, ESSAS, IMBER,
IWC, NEAR-GOOS, NOWPAP, NPAFC, PAG, SOLAS, CLIVAR
Some show posters outlining their programs and program
objectives at our poster sessions.
How to do more?
How to do more?
PICES has two technical committees that address issues common to
most international organizations and programs:
TCODE – PICES Technical Committee on Data Exchange
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Identify the data management requirements of PICES;
Develop strategic plans to meet these requirements;
Recommend establishment of ad hoc task groups to deal with
specific functions of TCODE;
Review the progress of task groups and provide Annual Reports
to Science Board on the work of TCODE; and
Advise the PICES Secretariat on its data exchange activities.
MONITOR - PICES Technical Committee on Monitoring
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Identify principal monitoring needs of the PICES region, and develop
approaches to meet these needs, including training and capacity building;
Serve as a forum for coordination and development of inter-regional and
international components of the North Pacific Ocean Observing
Systems, including the GLOBAL Ocean Observing System, GOOS.
Facilitate method development and inter-comparison workshops to
promote calibration, standardization and harmonization of data sets;
Contribute to the development of the North Pacific Ecosystem Status
Report, advising editors and lead authors on monitoring issues,
identifying the need for particular time series and their continuities,
the period on which they need to be updated for the FUTURE forecast
products, and recommend to Science Board that they endorse the need
to establish or maintain particular time series;
Recommend interim meetings to address monitoring needs and PICES–
GOOS activities;
Provide annual reports to Science Board and the Secretariat on
monitoring activities in relation to PICES;
Interact with TCODE on management issues of monitoring data.
How to do more?
Enhance Scientific Exchange
Address program relevant themes at annual meetings (co-sponsorship)
Develop PICES – program coordinated efforts (under FUTURE but
also all PICES is not FUTURE)
PICES can bring suggestions to committees OR Individuals can work
with committee members (all listed on PICES web page) to develop and
propose theme sessions. Also for WGs, Aps, etc.
Sessions at PICES annual meetings can bring in contributions on
similar themes from several regions – i.e. bring in participants from
outside the PICES region but on a similar topic – e.g. iron enrichment
experiments. We do this now by ‘invited speakers’
How to do more?
Provide additional support for co-sponsored summer schools and
educational activities – capacity building
Example –
ICES/PICES Early Career Scientist Conference in Baltimore USA
How to do more?
Work collaboratively to get more marine science in next IPCC Report
NPESR II – 2003-2008 status and trends across the PICES
region
Nine regional chapters plus a synthesis chapter
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California Current system (Steve Bograd, USA)
Coastal Gulf of Alaska (Phil Mundy, USA)
Bering Sea (George Hunt, USA)
Okhotsk Sea (Vladimir Radchenko, Russia)
Kuroshio Current system (Hiroya Sugisaki, Japan)
Oyashio Current system (Sanae Chiba, Japan)
Japan / East Sea (Vladimir Lobanov, Russia)
Yellow Sea (Sinjae Yoo, Korea)
Oceanic North Pacific (Sonia Batten, Canada)
How to do more?
collaboration on brochures, reports or educational products of
global relevance, building on information provided by regional
activities, e.g. Climate Change, El Nino effects
e.g. FUTURE will have three layers of Forecasting products:
Status Reports are a web-based, updated version of PICES Special
Publication 1, Marine Ecosystems of the North Pacific.
Forecasts have a requirement for quantification and uncertainty
measures.
Outlooks are intermediate products that do not yet meet the full
requirements of Forecasts. Outlooks may be categorical and can be
based on limited available information, coming from models or expert
knowledge.
Summary
We’re doing a lot but more can be done