Dear Colleagues, We would like to bring to your attention a session focused on integrative climate impacts on fisheries (see details below) that we will be convening at the Japan Geoscience Union-American Geophysical Union (JpGU-AGU) Joint Meeting in May, 2017 in Chiba, Japan. We think that this session will be relevant to many of you and we encourage your participation.
Please forward this to colleagues who may be interested, and apologies for any cross listing. Abstract submission will open on January 6 and closes February 16. For more information on this conference and how to register, please see http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2017/. We hope to see you in Japan! Cheers, Rebecca Asch (Princeton University/East Carolina University), Colleen Petrik (Princeton University), Gabriel Reygondeau (University of British Columbia), and Maria de Oca (Duke University) *Session Topic:* Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences (A), Ocean Sciences and Ocean Environment (OS) *Session ID:* A-OS18 (May 23) *Session Title:* Beyond physics-to-fish: Integrative impacts of climate change on living marine resources *Abstract: * This session will take a “physics-to-fish” approach to identify the impacts of climate variability and anthropogenic climate change on marine organisms with a particular focus on living marine resources (i.e., commercially targeted fish and invertebrates and protected species, such as marine mammals, seabirds, and sea turtles). Talks will investigate bottom-up oceanic forcing, connecting physical atmospheric and oceanographic processes to lower trophic levels, which in turn influence the abundance, biogeography, phenology, migration patterns, growth rates, reproduction, and physiology of higher trophic level marine organisms. Presentations can address this topic with observational, experimental, or model-based approaches. We especially encourage submission of presentations that include an “integrative” element. Presentations can integrate across: multiple life history stages to address cumulative population level effects of climate; multiple species to identify key ecological characteristics that influence species responses to climate change; multiple modes of climate variability in order to attribute the source of observed changes in living marine resources; multiple regions to pinpoint hot spots of climate change impacts; multiple stressors to gauge how individual impacts may be amplified or counteracted by other ecosystem stressors, or; multiple scientific disciplines to better develop climate change solutions that can be implemented by resource managers and other stakeholders. Lastly, special consideration will be given to presentations that can directly inform and improve marine policy.
