2007 PISCO Scientific Symposium & Advisory Committee Meeting December 10-14, 2007 (Symposium Dec 10-13, Advisory Committee meeting Dec 13-14) Corvallis, Oregon

information, registration, & deadlines schedule & meeting materials travel information  topic sessions & guidelines working groups training sessions posters Dec 13 "New Insights"

December 13: New Insights into the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME)

updated: Dec 6

Overview of December 13 Agenda

December 13 is dedicated to presentations focused on PISCO's large-scale and interdisciplinary syntheses.  Participants include PISCO researchers and staff, invited collaborators, PISCO's Advisory Committee, and invited representatives from state and federal agencies and other organizations. 

Results are a culmination of work completed since 1999 by PISCO researchers and collaborators.  Presenters will highlight major findings and provide ample time for discussion. The synthetic topic sessions will focus on major results related to (a) larval dispersal, (b) marine reserves, and (c) climate change.

Location, Registration, & General Schedule

Location

LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. travel information

General Schedule for December 13

For more information, contact Kristen Milligan.

Session Agenda and Speaker List

Full symposium agenda (*.pdf)

Morning, 9 am - 12:10 pm

Session S6.  Larval dispersal and recruitment: What are the underlying oceanographic mechanisms? Co-chairs: Mark Carr and Anthony Kirincich.  This session will focus on the scales of oceanographic processes that determine larval dispersal and recruitment.  Speakers will explore the extent to which field experiments, models, microchemistry, and genetics approaches can help validate or elucidate mechanisms.  Cross-species comparisons will be highlighted. Policy and management implications will be addressed.

• Anthony Kirincich, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Oregon State University.  "The control of variable inner-shelf circulation on along-shelf biological distributions on the central Oregon coast."
  
• Chris Edwards, University of California, Santa Cruz."A numerical study of larval dispersal and recruitment along the central California coast."
  
• Scott Hamilton University of California, Santa Barbara. "Realized connectivity: Using otolith microchemistry to link post-settlement survival to larval source."
  
• Steve Palumbi, Stanford University: "Fences in the ocean: testing how well ocean models predict dispersal using population genetics of fish and invertebrates"
• Sarah Dudas, Oregon State University. "Exploring linkages between nearshore oceanography, onshore larval supply, and settlement."
  
• Margaret McManus and Brock Woodson, University of Hawaii and University of California, Santa Cruz. "Catching a wave, riding a front, or cruising along: Working group results of study on larval distributions and recruitment in northern Monterey Bay."
  
• Jennifer Caselle, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Recruitment of reef fishes in the Santa Barbara Channel and Northern Channel Islands, California."
  
• Steve Gaines, University of California, Santa Barbara.  "Larval recruitment in the CCLME: How much of the variation can we explain?"
  

Lunch: 12:10 - 1:10 pm

Afternoon, 1:15 - 1:55 pm 

Special presentation and discussion: Science of marine reserves in the CCLME.  Chair: Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Oregon State University.  This special session will summarize findings-to-date in the Channel Islands, emerging findings in other regions of California, and discuss new issues of marine reserves in coastal ocean areas of Oregon and other regions. 

Afternoon, 2:00 - 5:00 pm

Session S7. Climate change in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME).  Co-chairs: Jane Lubchenco and Jack Barth.  This session will focus on ecological responses to climate change in the CCLME and the extent to which changes in upwelling winds drive the observed ecosystem changes.  Historical observations in the context of changes occurring in other upwelling regions will be reviewed.  Presentations will synthesize the information to-date, elucidate underlying mechanisms, and project the necessary next steps. 

• Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University: "Overview: Climate-related changes expected in the CCLME"
• Gretchen Hofmann, University of California, Santa Barbara: "Double trouble: Interactive effects of acidification and temperature"
• Francisco Chavez, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. "Phytoplankton shifts in eastern Pacific coastal upwelling ecosystems with implications for present and future climate change."
  
• Bill Sydeman, Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research. "Climate change- ecosystem change in the Gulf of the Farallones."
  
• Bruce Menge, Oregon State University: "Natural experiments in climate change: what can ENSO events tell us about food chain effects?"
• Jack Barth, Francis Chan, Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University. "Integrating cross-scale climate-ecosystem linkages: Insights from the rise of shelf hypoxia in the CCLME."