PICES/GLOBEC Symposium on
Climate variability and ecosystem impacts on the North Pacific:
A basin-scale synthesis

Theme 1: Regime shifts, especially, examination of the ocean and ecosystem responses to known strong, infrequent changes in the North Pacific, such as those that occurred in 1977, 1989, and 1998
Mechanisms of climate and human impacts on ecosystems in marginal seas and shelf regions

Theme 2: Ecosystem productivity and structural responses to physical forcing, with an emphasis on shorter than inter-decadal time-scales-interannual (El Niño-La Niña), seasonal and event scales

Theme 3: Pan-Pacific comparisons, with an emphasis on comparisons of similar species or processes from multiple coastal ecosystems and of open ocean-coastal linkages and climate connections