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A Tour of Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI)

A Tour of Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI). The following 17 slides provide an overview of the FOCI program: its focus, goals, history, scientific approach, and techniques.

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A Tour of Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI)

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  1. A Tour of Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI) The following 17 slides provide an overview of the FOCI program: its focus, goals, history, scientific approach, and techniques. (If your browser has automatically started PowerPoint, you will not be able to execute the following step. Download the file instead.) To see the narrative accompanying each slide, turn on NOTES PAGE under the VIEW menu in PowerPoint. For additional information, contact Allen Macklin, FOCI Coordinator, at macklin@pmel.noaa.gov, 206-526-6798.

  2. Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations

  3. Science- and Product-oriented Goals 1. Increase understanding of the ecosystem using walleye pollock as a focus 2. Forecast pollock recruitment

  4. Growth of FOCI 1985 1991 2000 • started in Shelikof Strait, Gulf of Alaska • added Bering Sea in 1991 • level-funded program leveraged with focused research for Coastal Ocean Program, NSF, GLOBEC, etc.

  5. Physical forcing . . .

  6. Mooring site 2, Bering Sea marginal ice zone, spring 1999

  7. . . . produces biological effects.

  8. Jellyfish boom!

  9. Massive coccolithophore blooms in summer 1997, 1998, 1999 NASA SeaWiFS Sept 1997

  10. Repercussions up the food chain

  11. Focus on early-life stage of pollock development (March-June)

  12. NOAA Ship Miller Freeman

  13. Moorings

  14. Trajectories of satellite-tracked drift buoys • 91 drifters deployed from 1986-1999 • drogued at ~40-m depth

  15. Biological surveys • 10-nm grid • standard fine-mesh net (bongo) tows • ~10 days in late May and early June

  16. Biophysical Circulation Model

  17. FOCI Recruitment Forecasts Information Flow Forecast Summary

  18. Outreach Opportunities • web sites • publications • brochures • radio and TV interviews • press releases • videos • presentations • newspaper and magazine articles

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