Fisheries and the Integrated Ocean Observing System

Moderator: Phil Mundy
Email: mundy@gci.net

Date: Monday, September 12, 2005
Time: 1:20 pm to 5:40 pm
Location: Egan 13

The Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observing System (IOOS) is the ideal opportunity for fisheries scientists to build lasting and productive connections across jurisdictions, disciplines and cultures. IOOS is the U.S. national contribution to the Global Ocean Observing System, GOOS. IOOS is being developed as a federally funded backbone of basic physical and biological observations in the coastal marine environment of the entire United States. The objective of the symposium is to inform AFS members and guests of the benefits and opportunities in the emerging national federation of coastal observing systems. The value of the symposium is to make AFS members and guests aware of opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration with physical, chemical and biological oceanographic disciplines in projects that span state and international boundaries. Speakers will address integration of physical and atmospheric observations with fisheries surveys and the use of biophysical models for fisheries applications. Speakers will also address opportunities for use of operational (real-time) oceanographic and atmospheric data in regulating fisheries and protecting sensitive habitats from oil spills and other human activities. Collaborations across international cultures will be illustrated by IOOS efforts that focus on study and management of transboundary marine resources. IOOS offers to add value to long-term fisheries observation sets such as the periodic trawl surveys and the California Cooperative Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) by embedding them into a network of supporting physical and biological observations. IOOS will also add value to short term intensive fisheries investigations, such as GLOBEC, by providing the opportunity to capitalize on findings by implementing long-term monitoring.

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