PICES Press, Vol. 13, No. 1, January 2005

The state of PICES science - 2004 (pdf 0.7 MB) 2004 Wooster Award (pdf 0.2 MB) Micronekton – What are they and why are they important? (pdf 0.5 MB) Upscaling for a better understanding of climate links to ecosystems (pdf 0.1 MB) PICES Interns (pdf 0.1 MB) Report of the APN workshop on “Climate interactions and marine ecosystems” (pdf 0.6 MB) Photo highlights of PICES XIII (pdf 0.3 MB) Recent trends in waters of the subarctic NE Pacific – summer 2004 (pdf 0.1 MB) The state of the western North Pacific in the first half of 2004 (pdf 0.3 MB) The Bering Sea: Current status and recent events (pdf 0.1 MB) Study Group on Fisheries Ecosystem Responses to Recent Regime Shifts completes its mandate for the provision of scientific advice (pdf 0.1 MB) PICES Calendar (pdf 0.1 MB) The new PICES Working Group on Ecosystem-based management (pdf 0.05 MB) CO2 data integration activity for the North Pacific (pdf 0.2 MB) Carbon cycle changes in the North Pacific (pdf 0.8 MB) New and upcoming PICES publications (pdf 0.8 MB)

PICES Press, Vol. 12, No. 2, July 2004

The future of PICES [pdf, 1.7 MB] Paris by day - Symposium on "Quantative ecosystem indicators in fisheries management" [pdf, 0.2 MB] The Bering Sea: Current status and recent events [pdf, 0.4 MB] The state of the western North Pacific in the second half of 2003 [pdf, 0.7 MB] The state of the eastern North Pacific entering spring 2004 [pdf, 0.4 MB] PICES-IFEP Workshop on "In-situ iron enrichment experiments in the eastern and western subarctic Pacific" [pdf, 1.4 MB] Canadian SOLAS/PICES-IFEP session on "Response of the upper ocean to meso-scale iron enrichment" [pdf, 0.3 MB] Fisheries and ecosystem responses to recent regime shifts [pdf, 0.8 MB] PICES Interns [pdf, 0.8 MB] Did a regime shift occur in 1998 around Japan?- Highlights from a symposium addressing this question [pdf, 0.8 MB] The Global Ocean Carbon Observing System - Connecting national programs and regional networks [pdf, 1.7 MB] The North Pacific Ecosystem Metadatabase [pdf, 1.2 MB] International GLOBEC Symposium on "Climate variability and Sub-Arctic marine ecosystems" [pdf, 0.2 MB] PICES Calendar [pdf, 0.2 MB] PICES/GLOBEC Symposium on "Climate variability and ecosystem impacts on the North pacific: A basin-scale synthesis" [pdf, 0.2 MB]

PICES Press, Vol. 12, No. 1, January 2004

The state of PICES science - 2003 (pdf 281 KB) 2003 Wooster Award (pdf 764 KB) The state of the eastern North Pacific through summer 2003 (pdf 448 KB) The Bering Sea: Current status and recent events (pdf 951 KB) The state of the western North Pacific in the first half of 2003 (pdf 684 KB) The status of oceanic zooplankton in the eastern North Pacific (pdf 390 KB) The precautionary approach to the PDO (pdf 976 KB) Photo highlights of PICES XII (pdf 2.79 MB) William G. Pearcy: Renaissance oceanographer (pdf 2.86 MB) KORDI/PICES/CoML Workshop on "Variability and status of the Yellow Sea and East China Sea ecosystems (pdf 785 KB) PICES/IOC Workshop on "Harmful algal blooms - Harmonization of data" (pdf 330 KB) From physics to predators: Monitoring North Pacific ecosystem dynamics (pdf 270 KB) Toward a coast-wide network of Northeast Pacific coastal-ocean monitoring programs - a brief workshop report (pdf 640) PICES publications (pdf 103 KB) PICES calendar (pdf 45 KB)

PICES Press, Vol. 11, No. 2, July 2003

Cover [pdf, 1.2 Mb] PICES Science Board and Governing Council hold their first joint meeting [pp. 1-3] [pdf, 0.2 Mb] 3rd International Zooplankton Production Symposium [pp. 4-7] [pdf, 0.6 Mb] The state of the eastern North Pacific entering spring 2003 [pp. 8-9] [pdf, 0.4 Mb] The state of the western North Pacific in 2002 [pp. 10-13] [pdf, 0.6 Mb] The Bering Sea: Current status and recent events [pp. 14-15] [pdf. 0.7 Mb] Patricia Livingston [pp. 16-19] [pdf. 0.5 Mb] Recent changes in the abundance of northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) off the Pacific Northwest, tracking a regime shift? [pp. 20-21] [pdf. 0.6 Mb] Developing new scientific programs in PICES [pp. 22-26] [pdf. 0.2 Mb] Report of the Yokohama 2003 MODEL Task Team Workshop to develop a marine ecosystem model of the North Pacific Ocean including pelagic fishes [pp. 27-29] [pdf. 0.5 Mb] 3rd PICES Workshop on the Okhotsk Sea and adjacent Areas [pp.30-31] [pdf. 0.4 Mb] Recent oceanographic and marine environmental studies at FERHRI [pp.32-34] [pdf. 0.4 Mb] Symposium Announcement [p. 35] [pdf. 0.3 Mb] PICES announcements [p. 36] [pdf. 0.3 Mb]

PICES Press, Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2003

Editorial and Contents The state of PICES science - 2002 Second annual Wooster Award to Yutaka Nagata Qingdao Open Science Meeting: A major landmark for GLOBEC GLOBEC OSM Session Highhlights PICES/GLOBEC Data Management Workshop PICES and GLOBEC modelling Some personal impressions of the GLOBEC OSM Photo highlights of PICES XI and GLOBEC OSM PICES Climate Change and Carrying Capacity (CCCC) Integration Workshop PICES/CLIVAR Workshop on Climate Variability in the Pacific and its impact on the marine ecosystem IGBP/SCOR Open Science Meeting on Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Analysis Subarctic Ecosystem Response to Iron Enrichment Study (SERIES): eastern subarctic Pacific in July 2002 Introducing the GLOBEC International Project Office / GLOBEC Calendar 2003 Introducing the PICES Secretariat PICES Calendar

PICES Press, Vol. 10, No. 2, July 2002

International symposium on North Pacific transitional areas [pp. 1-4] [pdf, 0.8 Mb] PICES Volunteer Observing Ship (VOS) Workshop [pp. 5-7] [pdf, 0.3 Mb] Joint meeting on Causes of marine mortality of salmon [pp. 8-9] [pdf, 0.3 Mb] The state of the western North Pacific in the second half of 2001 [pp. 10-11] [pdf, 0.5 Mb] State of the eastern North Pacific in spring 2002 [pp. 12-13] [pdf. 0.4 Mb] The status of the Bering Sea in the second half of 2001 [pp. 14-15] [pdf. 0.3 Mb] PICES Workshop on “Perturbation analysis” on subarctic Pacific gyre ecosystem models [pp. 16-17] [pdf. 0.4 Mb] Status and future plans for SOLAS-Japan [pp. 18-20] [pdf. 0.5 Mb] China-Korea Joint Ocean Research Center: A bridge across the Yellow Sea to connect Chinese and Korean oceanographic institutes and scientists [pp. 21-22] [pdf. 0.3 Mb] Persistent changes in the California Current ecosystem [pp. 23-24] [pdf. 0.2 Mb] The Hokusei Maru: 53 years of research in the Pacific [pp. 25-28] [pdf. 0.5 Mb] First meeting of the CLIVAR Pacific Panel [pp. 29-30] [pdf. 0.3 Mb] Call for contributions to the North Pacific Ecosystem Status Report [p. 31] [pdf. 0.2 Mb] PICES announcements [p. 32] [pdf. 0.2 Mb]

PICES Press, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 2002

Cover [pdf, 0.2 Mb] The state of PICES Science - 2001 [pp. 1-2] [pdf, 0.2 Mb] Reception remarks at PICES X [pp. 3-4] [pdf, 0.3 Mb] The state of the western North Pacific in the first half of 2001 [pp. 5-7] [pdf, 0.8 Mb] The status of the Bering Sea: January - August 2001 [pp. 8-9] [pdf, 0.4 Mb] The state of the eastern Norht Pacific since spring 2001[pp. 10-11] [pdf, 0.3 Mb] 2001 SEEDS experiment in the western Norht Pacific [pp. 12-13] [pdf, 0.5 Mb] Plans for the Canadian SOLAS Iron Enrichment Experiment [pp. 14-15] [pdf,. 0.4 Mb] Photo highlights of the PICES Tenth Annual Meeting [pp. 16-17] [pdf,. 0.3 Mb] NEAR-GOOS 2001 Ocean Environment Forecasting Workshop [pp. 18-19] [pdf, 0.6 Mb] IRI/IPRC Pacific Climate-Fisheries Workshop [pp. 20-21] [pdf, 0.2 Mb] PICES North Pacific Ecosystem Status Report [p. 21] [pdf,. 0.2 Mb] U.S. GLOBEC Northeast Pacific Ocean Program [pp. 22-26] [pdf, 0.5 Mb] New PICES Committee and Program Chairmen biographies [pp. 27-29] [pdf,. 0.4 Mb] Upcoming PICES publications and meetings [p. 30] [pdf,. 0.2 Mb] North Pacific Transitional Areas Symposium [p. 31] [pdf, 0.5 Mb] Gijon Symposium and other PICES announcements [p. 32] [pdf, 0.4 Mb]

PICES Press, Vol. 9, No. 2, July 2001

Cover [pdf, 0.2 Mb] Climate, biodiversity and ecosystems of the North Pacific [pp. 1-2] [pdf, 0.2 Mb] The state of the western North Pacific in the second half of 2000 [pp. 3-5] [pdf, 0.8 Mb] The status of the Bering Sea: June – December 2000 [pp. 6-7] [pdf, 1.5 Mb] The state of the eastern North Pacific since autumn 2000 [p. 8] [pdf, 0.3 Mb] Korean Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem Program [pp. 9-12] [pdf, 0.5 Mb] Past and ongoing Mexican ecosystem research in the northeast Pacific Ocean [pp. 13-15] [pdf, 0.3 Mb] Vera Alexander [pp. 16-19] [pdf, 1.0 Mb] North Pacific CO2 data for the new millennium [pp. 20-21] [pdf, 0.3 Mb] PICES Higher Trophic Level Modelling Workshop [pp. 22-23] [pdf, 0.4 Mb] Argo Science Team 3rd Meeting (AST-3) [pp. 24-25] [pdf, 0.3 Mb] 2001 coast ocean / salmon ecosystem event [p. 26-27] [pdf, 0.3 Mb] Shifts in zooplankton abundance and species composition off central Oregon and southwestern British Columbia [pp. 28-29] [pdf, 0.3 Mb] The CLIVAR - Pacific Workshop [p. 30] [pdf, 0.2 Mb] PICES dialogue with Mexican scientists [p. 31] [pdf, 0.2 Mb] Announcements [p. 32] [pdf, 0.2 Mb]

PICES Press, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 2001

The state of PICES science – 2000 [pp. 1-2] [pdf, 0.6 Mb] The state of the western North Pacific in the first half of 2000 [pp. 3-5] [pdf, 0.7 Mb] The status of the Bering Sea: January – August 2000 [pp. 6-7] [pdf, 0.3 Mb] The state of the eastern North Pacific since spring 2000 [pp. 8-9] [pdf, 0.4 Mb] Makoto Kashiwai [pp. 10-14] [pdf, 0.9 Mb] Alkalinity measurement quality improves for PICES nations [pp. 15-16] [pdf, 0.4 Mb] Dr. Timothy R. Parsons Awarded 2001 Japan Prize [p. 17] [pdf, 0.2 Mb] Highlights of the PICES Nineth Annual Meeting [pp. 18-19] [pdf, 0.4 Mb] Tangible outline of the whole elephant (Results of ecosystem studies of biological resources in the far-eastern seas in 1990s) [pp. 20-24] [pdf, 0.7 Mb] The Oshoro Maru: A short history of Hokkaido University's workhorse in the North Pacific [pp. 25-28] [pdf, 0.4 Mb] Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean Theme Page [pp. 29-30] [pdf, 0.3 Mb] PICES IX Japan/East Sea cruise [pp. 31-34] [pdf, 1.1 Mb] 35 PICES Wooster Award [p. 35] [pdf, 0.2 Mb] PICES Intern Program [p. 35] [pdf, 0.2 Mb] Obituary - Prof. Michael M. Mulin [p. 36] [pdf, 0.2 Mb]

PICES Press, Vol. 8, No. 2, July 2000

Beyond El Nino Conference The status of the Bering Sea: June - December, 1999 The state of the western North Pacific in the second half of 1999 The state of the eastern North Pacific since autumn 1999 Project Argo Report of the ICES Zooplankton Ecology Working Group/PICES meeting Shark abundance increases in the Gulf of Alaska PICES Lower Trophic Level Modeling Workshop, Nemuro On the third meeting of the LMR-GOOS Panel Ocean Ecology of Juvenile Salmonids along the North American Coast

PICES Press, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 2000

The state of PICES science - 1999 The status of the Bering Sea: January - July, 1999 The state of the western North Pacific in the second half of 1998 The state of the eastern North Pacific since February 1999 MEQ/WG 8 Practical Workshop Michael M. Mullin - A biography Highlights of Eighth Annual Meeting Mechanism causing the variability of the Japanese sardine population: Achievements of the Bio-Cosmos Project in Japan Climate change, global warming, and the PICES mandate – The need for improved monitoring The new age of China-GLOBEC study GLOBEC activities in Korean waters Aspects of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)

PICES Press, Vol. 7, No. 2, July 1999

Improving PICES CO2 measurement quality The status of the Bering Sea: July - December 1998 The state of the eastern North Pacific since October 1998 The state of the western North Pacific in the second half of 1998 Paul Henry LeBlond Report on the ICES/SCOR Symposium on Ecosystem Effects of Fishing What is the carrying capacity of the North Pacific Ocean for salmonids? Southeast Bering Sea Carrying Capacity (SEBSCC) The Whole Earth System: The role of regional programs Sub-Arctic Gyre Experiment in the North Pacific Ocean (SAGE) The Alaska Predator Ecosystem Experiment (APEX): An integrated seabird and forage fish investigation sponsored by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council ICES and GOOS: A progress report Report on GOOS Living Marine Resource Panel Meeting

PICES Press, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 1999

Taking stock and looking to the future - note from former PICES Chairman The state of the western North Pacific in the first half of 1998 The status of the Bering Sea in the first eight month of 1998 The state of the eastern North Pacific since February 1998 Highlights of PICES VII, review of SB activities and future workplan The second PICES Workshop on the Okhotsk Sea and ajacent area PICES-GLOBEC Climate Change and Carrying Capacity Program: A report from PICES VII Data management for the CCCC Program Report on GOOS Living Marine Resource Panel Meeting Photos from PICES VII Vjatcheslav Petrovich Shuntov GLOBEC Canada: Who we are, what we’ve been doing and where we’re headed The Ocean Carrying Capacity Research Program (OCC) at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Auke Bay Laboratory, Juneau, Alaska JAMSTEC research activities in the northern North Pacific People and events

PICES Press, Vol. 6, No. 2, July 1998

CREAMS, PICES and the exploration of the Japan/East Sea The state of the eastern North Pacific from September 97 to February 98 The state of the western North Pacific in the second half of 1997 The status of the Bering Sea in the second half of 1997 Hyung Tack Huh Report on GOOS Living Marine Resource Panel Meeting Global connections: A report of the GLOBEC International Open Science Meeting Update on U.S. GLOBEC research projects and coordination activities in the Northeast Pacific Institutional framework for oceanographic research in Japan The Kuroshio Edge Exchange Processes (KEEP) Project Report on NPAFC Workshop on Climate Change and Salmon Production A new ocean time series station in the western subarctic Pacific

PICES Press, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1998

Highlights of PICES VI The state of the eastern North Pacific in the first half of 1997 The state of the western North Pacific in the first half of 1997 The status of the Bering Sea in the first eight month of 1997 Organization of fisheries, environmental and ocean science in Canada Richard James Beamish PICES-GLOBEC Climate Change and Carrying Capacity Program Epipelagic fish production in the open Subarctic Pacific: bottom up or self-regulating control? Activity Report of SCOR Working Group 105 Establishment of Marine Information Research Center: new strategy on oceanographic data management in Japan Bering Sea Ecosystem Biophysical Metadatabase: a collaborative research tool for fisheries-oceanography and ecosystem investigations