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U.S. GLOBEC research and the Northeast Pacific Coordinating Office are jointly supported by the National Science Foundation and NOAA Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research.


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Maintained by:
Hal Batchelder
hbatchelder@coas.oregonstate.\edu
COAS
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-5503
phone: 541-737-4500
FAX 541-737-2064
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Last modified: 30 March 2009

Program in a Nutshell

Goal: To understand the effects of climate variability and climate change on the distribution, abundance and production of marine animals (including commercially important living marine resources) in the eastern North Pacific. To embody this understanding in diagnostic and prognostic ecosystem models, capable of capturing the ecosystem response to major climatic fluctuations.

Approach: To study the effects of past and present climate variability on the population ecology and population dynamics of marine biota and living marine resources, and to use this information as a proxy for how the ecosystems of the eastern North Pacific may respond to future global climate change. The strong temporal variability in the physical and biological signals of the NEP will be used to examine the biophysical mechanisms through which zooplankton and salmon populations respond to physical forcing and biological interactions in the coastal regions of the two gyres. Annual and interannual variability will be studied directly through long-term observations and detailed process studies; variability at longer time scales will be examined through retrospective analysis of directly measured and proxy data. Coupled biophysical models of the ecosystems of these regions will be developed and tested using the process studies and data collected from the long-term observation programs, then further tested and improved by hindcasting selected retrospective data series.



Upcoming Meetings of Interest

  • EPOC 2009, British Columbia; 23 - 26 September 2009

(For additional meetings, click on the "Meeting Calendar" link on the left sidebar).



Serving U.S. GLOBEC Northeast Pacific Data.
U.S. GLOBEC NEP data are made available using a datasystem developed within the JGOFS (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study) program. This database has been used extensively in the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank program. Access to GLOBEC data is available by clicking on the link Gateway to U.S. GLOBEC Online Datasets located at left.