Keith Alverson is the Head of the Climate Change Adaptation and Terrestrial Ecosystems Branch of the Division on Environmental Policy Implementation at the UN Environment Program (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya. In this role he coordinates UNEP’s Ecosystems Based Adaptation to Climate Change flagship, the Global Climate Change Adaptation Network and efforts to assist developing countries in accessing adaptation funding from bilateral and multilateral sources. From 2004-2011, Keith served as Head of Ocean Observations and Services at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO and director of the Global Ocean Observing System, based in Paris, France. Prior to 2004, he was director of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme’s core project Past Global Changes (PAGES) in Bern, Switzerland.
Keith has degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and East Asian Studies from Princeton University (1988) and a doctorate in Physical Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1995). He has over 100 publications including Past Global Changes and Their Significance for the Future (Elsevier, 2000), Paleoclimate, Global Change and the Future (Springer Verlag, 2002), Watching over the world’s oceans (Nature, 2005) and Taking the Pulse of the Oceans (Science, 2006). Keith has served on a number of high level scientific panels including as president of the International Commission for Climate of the International Association for Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences and Chair of the United Nations Interagency Coordination and Planning Committee for Earth Observations.
Peter G. Brewer
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA
Dr. Brewer is an ocean chemist, and Senior Scientist, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Prior to joining MBARI in 1991 he spent 24 years as a researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, rising to the rank of Senior Scientist. He served as Program Manager for Ocean Chemistry at the National Science Foundation 1981-1983, receiving the NSF Sustained Superior Performance Award. He has taken part in more than 40 deep-sea cruises and also has served as Chief Scientist on well over 100 ROV dives, and has served as Chief Scientist on major expeditions worldwide. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Internationally he has served as a Lead Author for the 2005 IPCC Special Report on CO2 Capture and Storage, as a member of SCOR, and as Vice-Chair of JGOFS. He has served as a member of the Vice-President Gore’s Environmental Task Force, and as a member of MEDEA. He served as President of the Ocean Sciences Section of AGU from 1994-1996. Dr. Brewer holds a “By Courtesy” appointment in the Stanford University Dept. of Geological and Environmental Science. In 2010 he received the Zheng Zhong Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from Xiamen University, and a UK Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellowship. He is appointed as an independent scientist to the BP Gulf Research Institute Board overseeing the research devoted to the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil release.
At MBARI he served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1991-1996, completing major laboratory and SWATH ship construction programs and doubling the size of the Institution, before returning to full time research. His research interests are broad, and include the ocean geochemistry of the greenhouse gases. He has devised novel techniques both for measurement and for extracting the oceanic signatures of global change. At MBARI his current interests include the geochemistry of gas hydrates, the bio-geochemical impacts of the growing oceanic fossil fuel CO2 signal and the multiple impacts of ocean acidification, and the development of in situ laser Raman spectrometry techniques for real-time measurement in the deep-sea. He served as co-Chair of the NSF Decadal Report Ocean Sciences at the New Millennium, and on the US National Methane Hydrates Advisory Committee, and now serves on the IPCC WG II Fifth Assessment Report. He is author, or co-author, of over 160 scientific papers, and the editor of several books.
Dr. Brewer and his wife Hilary were both born in England; they have three children and are naturalized US citizens. They make their home in Carmel, California.
Dr. Anthony Charles is a professor of Management Science and Environmental Science at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada (http://husky1.smu.ca/~charles). His work focuses on governance, management and economics of fisheries and marine social-ecological systems, including impacts of climate change on marine economies and coastal communities. Dr. Charles is particularly known for his work in four key areas: development of management measures for sustainability and resilience of fisheries and coasts, analysis of uncertainty and its impacts in fisheries and marine systems, incorporation of human dimensions into ecosystem-based ocean management, and implementation of participatory marine governance. He is Past-President of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, and works regularly on global policy issues with the OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. In Canada, Dr. Charles is involved in regional and national initiatives, and served as founding director of the Ocean Management Research Network. He is the author of several books, including Sustainable Fishery Systems, FAO’s Coastal Fisheries of Latin America and the Caribbean, and Canadian Marine Fisheries in a Changing and Uncertain World. Dr. Charles has been designated a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, and recently received a Gulf of Maine Visionary Award for his innovative fisheries and oceans work in the Atlantic region of Canada.
Kyung-Ryul Kim is the Head of School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University and a director of BK21 SEES Program. He is the PI of Korean EAST (East Asian Seas Time series)-I Program and has been serving as a co-chair of CREAMS/PICES Advisory Panel since 2005 at PICES(North Pacific Marine Science Organization). Kyung-Ryul has a degree in Chemistry from the Seoul National University and a doctorate in Chemical Oceanography from University of California at San Diego. He has over 50 publications including Nature, Science, Marine Chemistry, and Geophysical Research Letters dealing with the isotopic studies on nitrous oxide, a strong greenhouse gas and rapid changes in oceanic environment associated with the recent climate changes, in particular, at the East Sea (Sea of Japan).
Peter Lemke, professor of physics of atmosphere and ocean at the University of Bremen and head of the Climate Sciences Research Division at the Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research, received his PhD in meteorology from the University of Hamburg in 1980. He has more than 30 years of experience of working in climate, sea ice and atmospheric research. Lemke has participated in seven polar expeditions with the German research icebreaker “Polarstern”. On five expeditions he acted as chief scientist. His special interests are observation and modelling of high-latitude processes, especially the interaction between atmosphere, sea ice and ocean. Lemke served on many national and international committees. Until 1999 he was a member of the Scientific Steering Group of the Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS) of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) and the chairman of the ACSYS Numerical Experimentation Group which co-ordinated international atmosphere-sea ice-ocean modelling activities. From 1995 to 2006 he was a member of the Joint Scientific Committee for the World Climate Research Programme and served as its chair from 2000 to 2006. In 1991 Lemke received the German Polar Meteorology Award (Georgi-Preis) and in 2005 he became an Honourable Professor of the China Meteorological Administration, Beijing. He was the Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 4 (Observations: Changes in Snow, Ice and Frozen Ground) of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report published in 2007. For this activity Lemke received recognition of a substantial contribution to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for IPCC in 2007. Since 2009 he coordinates the Climate-Initiative REKLIM (Regional Climate Change) of the Helmholtz Association (HGF), in which eight centres of the HGF are collaborating. In 2010 Lemke received the Bayer Climate Award.
Corinne Le Quéré is Professor of Climate Change Science and Policy at the University of East Anglia and Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. She conducts research on the interactions between climate change and the carbon cycle. She led a team that uncovered the weakening of the Southern Ocean CO2 sink in response to human-induced climate change, and played a role in quantifying the contribution of the ocean to atmospheric CO2 variability, and the contribution of marine ecosystems to oceanic CO2 variability.
Prof Le Quéré was author of the 3rd, 4th and 5th (ongoing) Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. She co-Chairs the Global Carbon Project, a non-governmental organization that fosters International research on the carbon cycle and publishes annual updates global emissions and sinks of carbon dioxide. Prof Le Quéré is originally from Canada. She completed a Ph.D. in oceanography in University Paris VI (1999), an M.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from McGill University and a B.Sc. in physics from University of Montréal. She has conducted research at Princeton University in the United States and at the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany.
Honors and Awards:
The Hidaka Prize, The Oceanographic Society of Japan, 1997: I. Yasuda and G.R. Flierl, 1995: Two dimensional asymmetric vortex merger: Contour dynamics experiment., J. Oceanogr., 51, 145-170
Article Prize, Fisheries Oceanographic Society of Japan, 2009: H. Nishikawa and I. Yasuda, 2008: Variation of Japanese sardine (Sardinops melanostictus) mortality in relation to the winter mixed layer in the Kuroshio Extension. Fish. Oceanogr. 17(5), 411-420.
Article Prize, Fisheries Oceanographic Society of Japan, 2010: Itoh, S., I. Yasuda, H. Nishikawa, H. Sasaki and Y. Sasai (2009), Transport and environmental temperature variability of eggs and larvae of the Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonicus) and Japanese sardine (Sardinops melanostictus) in the western North Pacific estimated via numerical particle tracking experiments. Fish. Oceanogr., 18(2), 118-133.
The Society Prize, The Oceanographic Society of Japan, 2011: Studies on North Pacific Intermediate Water
S1: Climate variability versus anthropogenic impacts; analysing their separate and combined effects on long-term physical, biogeochemical and ecological patterns
Kenneth Drinkwater Institute of Marine Research, Norway
Ken Drinkwater has been involved in research on physical oceanography and climate variability and their effects on the marine ecosystem including fish and fisheries for over 35 years. The first 30 years were at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO) in Dartmouth, Canada, where he worked closely with fisheries scientists and marine biologists to examine evidence for impact of climate variability on marine food webs and their processes. For his work, he was awarded the Applied Oceanography Prize from the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. In August of 2003, he joined the Institute of Marine Research and the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research in Bergen Norway where he has continued his work on ocean climate and its marine impacts. During the International Polar Year (IPY) he led an interdisciplinary studying investigating the physical and ecological processes at the Arctic fronts in the Norwegian and Barents seas. He is a former chair of the ICES/GLOBEC Cod and Climate Change (CCC) Program is presently co-chair of the Ecosystems Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas (ESSAS) Program under IMBER. He was co-author of the the Marine System chapter in the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) to assess possible consequences of climate change on the Arctic and is presently a review editor for the Ocean Systems chapter within Working Group II of the IPCC. He also sits on the Scientific Steering Committee of IMBER and the Scientific Steering Group of CLIVAR.
Nathan Bindoff is Professor of Physical Oceanography at the University of Tasmania, and CSIRO Marine Research Laboratories, Director of the Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing and Project Leader of the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre’s Modelling Program.
Nathan is a physical oceanographer, specializing in ocean climate and the earth’s climate system. He was the coordinating lead author for the ocean chapter in the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report and Fifth Assessment reports. Nathan and colleagues documented some of the first evidence for changes in the climate change signals in the Indian, North Pacific, South Pacific and Southern Ocean’s and shown some of the first evidence of changes in the Earths hydrological cycle. He has also worked in the Antarctic, determined the total production of Adelie Land Bottom Water formation and its contribution Antarctic Bottom Water Formation, contributed to the development of some of the largest and highest resolution model simulations of the oceans for the scientific study of mixing in the oceans. Nathan has been deeply involved in oceanographic data and data management as the chairman of the Data Products Committee for the World Ocean Circulation Experiment and the International Polar Year. He contributed to the Inter-Governmental Panel for Climate Change winning the Noble Peace Prize in 2007, shared with Al Gore.
Dr. Shin-ichi Uye, born in 1950, is a professor of biological oceanography of Hiroshima University. He initially studied zooplankton production ecology through intensive studies on the population dynamics and productivity of major copepod species in Japanese coastal waters. Around 1990, he noticed a significant increase of unhealthy copepods coated in jellyfish mucus, and then gradually shifted his research interest to jellyfish biology. He is now involved in two jellyfish research projects, one is STOPJELLY (http://tnfri.fra.affrc.go.jp/kaiyo/POMALweb/e-pomal.html) as PI and another as a co-investigator in an international project studying the blooms of the giant jellyfish, Nemopilema nomurai.
Dr. Uye was formerly President of the Plankton Society of Japan (2001-2004) and also formerly President of the World Association of Copepodologists (2005-2008). He was awarded the Oceanographic Society of Japan Prize in 2010 for his contribution in understanding the functional roles of zooplankton in coastal marine ecosystem. He is one of co-chairs of the newly established PICES (North Pacific Marine Science Organization) Working Group onJellyfish Blooms around the North Pacific Rim: Causes and Consequence.
S2: Systematic, sustained and integrated global ocean observations
Pedro Monteiro Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research, (CSIR), South Africa
Dr Pedro M.S. Monteiro is a Principal Oceanographer at CSIR with a special interest in using a systems-scale approach to understand how and why the ocean biogeochemistry of oxygen and carbon adjusts to climate variability. The use of numerical modelling and observations to link physics and biogeochemical scales is a particular aspect of this interdisciplinary focus towards understanding variability.
Current activities and research interests includes:
Understanding the coupled carbon-climate system in the Southern Ocean and the way that natural and anthropogenic CO2 fluxes in the Southern Ocean influence the long term trend of atmospheric CO2;
Understanding and modelling the incidence and variability of oxygen in shelf and oceanic systems and their ecosystem implications; and
Using models and data to understand the biophysical processes which start and sustain phytoplankton new production in upwelling and open ocean systems and how they influence surface ocean carbon variability.
He initiated and currently heads the Southern Ocean Carbon – Climate Observatory programme.
Dr. Hee-Dong Jeong is a principal researcher at National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI), Korea. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Oceanography of National Fisheries University of Pusan (now Pukyong National University) in 2001. He has been worked at NFRDI since 1985. His research interests include fisheries oceanography (climate change), sea water property and circulation, air-sea interaction. From 2000 to 2006, He served as a representative of Korea for Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. Currently, he is working as chair of Korea PICES committee, a member of PICES/POC, a member of national focal points for NOWPAP/DINRAC and chair of IOC/WESTPAC Coordinating Committee for NEAR-GOOS.
Eric Lindstrom National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA
Dr. Eric Lindstrom is a Program Scientist in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C. He is Program Scientist for the QuikSCAT, Jason, Jason-2, Jason-3, SWOT and Aquarius satellite missions and is the leader for Earth Science Division Climate Focus Area. He has degrees in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1977) and Physical Oceanography from University of Washington (1983). His scientific interests include the circulation of the ocean and air-sea exchange processes.
Under Dr. Lindstrom’s leadership the NASA Physical Oceanography program has become a more active participant with other US agencies in developing the integrated global ocean observing systems of the future. He is now serving as chairman of the international Ocean Observations Panel for Climate (OOPC) of the Global Climate Observing System and Co-chair of the US Interagency Ocean Observations Committee (IOOC).
S3: Projections of climate change impacts on marine ecosystems and their uncertainty
Since 1998 Dr. Yasuhiro Yamanaka has been an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo on research about marine carbon-cycle modeling in 1995, spent one year as visiting researcher at Princeton University in 1997, and recently spent three months as visiting fellow at the University of East Anglia in 2007-2008. During his term as Assistant Professor of the Center for Climate System Research (CCSR), University of Tokyo, he developed the CCSR Ocean General Circulation Model and CCSR/NIES Climate Model contributing to IPCC TAR (2001).
He also plays as a SSC member in AIMES, a core project of IGBP from 2008. His current research includes ecosystem dynamics linking climate change and variability of fisheries resources. His goal is to develop an integrated ocean model synthesizing the physical, chemical and biological processes and to clarify dynamics and feedbacks relevant to the impact of global warming on marine ecosystems. Recently, his group developed a 3-D high-resolution (1/4 x
1/6 degrees horizontally) ecosystem model coupled with a fish migration model.
Noel Keenlyside Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway
Noel Keenlyside holds a professorship in Tropical Meteorology at the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen. He also leads a research group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), under the prestigious Emmy Noether Programme. He has worked extensively on understanding the mechanisms and predictability of climate from intra-seasonal-to-decadal timescales, focusing both on the tropics and the North Atlantic. His work in the area of decadal climate prediction is internationally recognized.
Keenlyside obtained his PhD from Monash University, Australia in 2001. He then worked in Germany, first at the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology (2001-2003) and then at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) till 2011. In 2006, he jointly received the WMO NORBERT GERBIER–MUMM International Award with 25 others for a research paper on seasonal prediction, and 2007 he became an Emmy Noether fellow of the DFG. He has also been awarded grants through various funding schemes both in Germany and the European Union. Keenlyside has also had leadership roles in a number of European Union funded projects. He is active in supervising students and pursues national and international collaboration.
Markus Meier Sveriges Meteorologiska och Hydrologiska Institut, Sweden
Markus Meieris a physical oceanographer with 20 years’ experience of numerical modelling of ocean circulation, sea-ice and marine biogeochemical cycles. He has a Diploma in physics, University of Kiel, 1989, a PhD in oceanography, University of Kiel, 1996, and a Docent degree (Associate Professor) in physical oceanography, University of Göteborg, 2005. Since July 2006 he is the head of the oceanographic research unit at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden. During 20% of his working time he is teaching and supervising as adjoint lecturer with affiliation at the Meteorological Institute at Stockholm University. He has experience as project coordinator of EU projects, chairman of international working groups and coordinator of international workshops. His recent research focuses on coupled physical-biogeochemical modeling of the Baltic Sea to study marine ecosystems in past and future climates. He has a particular interest in the assessment of uncertainties of regional climate change simulations using ensemble techniques.
Ryan Rykaczewski is a postdoctoral researcher with the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program at Princeton University and a Senior Nereus Fellow with the Nippon Foundation. He received his PhD in Oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2009) for his investigations of the influence of wind conditions on the size structure of planktonic communities and its implications for the feeding and growth of planktivorous fishes. Prior to his graduate studies, Ryan earned a BS from the University of Miami in Marine Science and Biology and worked as an observer in the US groundfish fishery on the Bering Sea. His research focuses on the mechanisms through which physical atmospheric and oceanic processes influence biological productivity and trophic interactions in the ocean, and he has a particular interest in physical-biological coupling in upwelling ecosystems. Recently, Ryan has been using coupled general circulation models to examine the impacts of global climate change on marine biogeochemical fluxes and fisheries production.
S4: Climate change effects on living marine resources: From physics to fish, marine mammals, and seabirds, to fishermen and fishery-dependent communities
Manuel Barange is Director of Science at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and Chair of the Science Committee of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). His scientific interests include Climate and Anthropogenic impacts on Marine Ecosystems, Assessment and management of marine fisheries and Marine Physical/Biological interactions. He recently led the QUEST_Fish research programme (http://www.quest-fish.org.uk/), investigating how climate change would affect the potential production for global fisheries resources. He is currently a PI of the EuroBASIN project (http://www.euro-basin.eu/), developing bio-economic tools for the basin scale assessment of climate change and economic globalisation on North Atlantic resources. From 1999 to 2009 Dr Barange was Director of the IGBP-SCOR international GLOBEC (Global Change and Marine Ecosystems). Manuel has published 80 peer-reviewed publications and has recently edited books on Climate Change and the Economics of the World's Fisheries (Elgar) and on Marine Ecosystems and Global Change (Oxford University Press). He is an advisor to the UK Natural Environmental Research Council, the UK Department of Environment, Fisheries and Rural Affairs and the Food and Agriculture Organisation, and is involved in the planning for the European Framework Programme ‘Horizon 2020’.
Shin-ichi Ito Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan
Shin-ichi Ito is Chief Scientist of the Physical Oceanography Group in Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute of the Fisheries Research Agency in Japan . Dr. Ito completed his graduate work in Physical Oceanography at Hokkaido University. His main research interest the relation between ocean properties and circulation and marine ecosystems, particularly in the subarctic Oyashio Current and mixed water region where it collides with the warm Kuroshio Current east of Japan. He deployed more than 40 moorings and a water glider, and his research work includes the development of a fish growth model coupled to the lower-trophic-level ecosystem model NEMURO.FISH (North Pacific Ecosystem Model for Understanding Regional Oceanography For including Saury and Herring).
Dr. Ito is Co-Chairman of the GLOBEC Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas Working Group on Modeling Ecosystem Response. Within the PICES North Pacific Marine Science Organization he has served as Co-Chairman of the MODEL Task Team and as a member of the Physical Oceanography and Climate Committee (POC), FUTURE SOFE Advisory Panel and joint PICES/ICES Working Group on Forecasting Climate Change Impacts on Fish and Shellfish.
S5: From genes to ecosystems: Genetic and physiological responses to climate change
Ann Bucklin is a professor and head of the Department of Marine Sciences and Director of the Marine Sciences and Technology Center at the University of Connecticut. During 1992 – 2005, she was a professor of Zoology, director of the New Hampshire Sea Grant College Program, and member of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Norway (1992-1993) and was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement for Science in 1995. Dr. Bucklin was the principal investigator and lead scientist for a Census of Marine Life ocean realm field project, the Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ), during 2004-2010. Dr. Bucklin received the B.A. in Biology from Oberlin College and the Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley. The theme underlying her research interest – spatial and temporal patterns of molecular genetic variation in marine organisms – developed from her earlier studies of sea anemones. Her current focus is the population genetics, phylogeography, environmental transcriptomics, and phylogenetics of marine crustacean holozooplankton, especially copepods and euphausiids.
Carl van der Lingen Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, South Africa
Carl van der Lingen is a Specialist Scientist and head of pelagic research in the Directorate: Resources Research of the South African Department of Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF). He is also an Honorary Research Associate at the Marine Research Institute of the University of Cape Town (UCT). Carl has been interested in fish from an early age, and received his PhD in Zoology from UCT for his work on the trophic ecology of southern Benguela sardine. Subsequently, his research has focussed on the trophic and reproductive ecology of small pelagic fish species in the Benguela Current ecosystem, their role in ecosystem functioning, and the impacts of climate variability on their population sizes and distributions. He has collaborated widely with scientists working on small pelagic fish elsewhere, particularly on aspects of their trophic ecology. Carl is a current member and previous Chair of DAFF’s Scientific Working Group for the management of South Africa’s fishery for small pelagic species, and has recently led research to examine the population structure of South African sardine. Carl was an Executive Committee member and Co-Chair of the Small Pelagic Fish and Climate Change (SPACC) programme of GLOBEC, and is a member of the Editorial Board of Fisheries Oceanography and an Editor of the African Journal of Marine Science. He has authored or co-authored almost 80 scientific publications and has co-supervised over 20 postgraduate students.
S6: Marine spatial planning and risk management in the context of climate change: The living ocean and coast under changing climate
Hugh Possingham University of Queensland, Australia
Professor Hugh Possingham FAA BSc (Adelaide) DPhil (Oxford)
Australian Research Council Federation Fellow 2006-2011
Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Ecology, The University of Queensland
Director of The Australian Research Council
Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions http://ceed.edu.au/ 2011-2018.
Aside from his day job, Hugh has a variety of broader public roles advising policy makers and managers sitting on 16 committees and boards outside the University including: The Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists (founding member), Queensland Smart State Council, Chief Editor of Conservation Letters (an international scientific journal, Council of the Australian Academy of Science, and ENGO scientific advisory committee. He and Dr Barry Traill wrote “The Brigalow Declaration”, used by Premier Beattie to stop land clearing in Queensland thereby securing at least 1 billion tonnes of CO2.
The Possingham lab developed the most widely used conservation planning software in the world. Marxan www.ecology.uq.edu.au/marxan.htm was used to underpin the rezoning of the Great Barrier Reef and is currently used in over 100 countries by over 2500 users – from the UK to Brazil. Hugh has coauthored over 300 refereed publications covered by the Web of Science (21 in Science, Nature or PNAS) and has 7500 Web of Science citations. He currently directs two research centres, each of c$15 million, and he has supervised (or is supervising) 51 PhD students and 32 postdoctoral fellows.
John Pinnegar Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), UK
John Pinnegar is Programme Director for Marine Climate Change at Cefas, the UK government fisheries lab in Lowestoft, United Kingdom. His research interests include the impact of climate change on marine animal populations, marine food-webs and ecosystem modelling. He has published widely on trophic interactions and the relative importance of fishing and climatic factors in determining fish stock status. He has an interest in future scenarios and public perception of maritime climate issues.
He plays an active role in many EU and national research programmes, and regularly provides advice to the UK government and industry. He is an honorary lecturer at the University of East Anglia on fisheries and conservation biology. He was awarded the Fisheries Society of the British Isles ‘FSBI Medal’ in July 2009, in recognition of younger scientists who are deemed to have made exceptional advances in the study of fish biology and/or fisheries.
He is an honorary lecturer at the University of East Anglia on fisheries and conservation biology. He was awarded the Fisheries Society of the British Isles ‘FSBI Medal’ in July 2009, in recognition of younger scientists who are deemed to have made exceptional advances in the study of fish biology and/or fisheries.
S7: Coastal and low-lying areas
Carlos Duarte Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, CSIC, Spain
Born in 1960 in Lisbon, Portugal, and Spanish citizen, Carlos M. Duarte received his B.Sc. on Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1982, and his Ph.D. in 1987 from McGill University (Canada). Duarte is Director of the UWA Oceans Institute , University of Western Australia, and Research Professor with the Spanish Council for Scientific Research, in Majorca, Spain.
Carlos’ research is directed to the conservation and sustainability of marine ecosystems through the identification of their role in the functioning of the biosphere, their status and threats, and their responses to the various global pressures, natural or anthropogenic, acting upon them. Carlos’ projects currently focus on polar ecosystems, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean as vulnerable ecosystems to global change and is currently leading a large circumnavigation expedition, the Malaspina 2010 Expedition, where over 400 scientist from 40 institutions and 22 countries participate. Carlos has published over 440 papers in international journals and book chapters, including a book entitled Seagrass Ecology (Cambridge Univ. Press) and several books for the public. This research has received over 12,000 cites, for which Prof. Duarte was named Highly Cited Scientist by the Institute of Scientific Information (Philadelphia, USA), in 2005. Carlos received, in 2001, ASLO’s Evelyn G. Hutchinson Award to scientific excellence, in 2007 received the Spanish National Science Award and in 2009 received the Rey Jaime I Award. In September 2011 was presented with the Prix d’Excellence by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. In 2005 Carlos was appointed member of the Academia Europaea, and in 2009 was appointed, by the Council of Europe, member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, the highest-level scientific committee at the European Union. Carlos was presented with a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Université de Quebec a Montreal in 2010 and with a Doctorate Honoris Causa by Utrecht University, The Netherlands, in 2011, and with the “Prix d’Excellence” of ICES in the same year. Duarte served as President of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (until July 1st 2010) and as co-editor in chief of the journal Estuaries and Coasts (until Dec 2010).
S8:Trend and impacts of de-oxygenation in oceanic and coastal ecosystems
Dr. Lothar Stramma is a senior scientist at the Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research (GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the University Kiel, Germany in 1984. As post-doc he stayed at the Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) at the University of Rhode Island (URI), USA applying satellite data to oceanographic research questions. In 1986 he returned to Kiel where his major work focus at the Institut fuer Meereskunde was on water masses, parameter distributions and currents in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Stramma participated in oceanographic ship expeditions to all three world oceans. Since 2008 he is strongly involved in the Kiel Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 754) ‘Climate-Biogeochemistry interactions in the tropical ocean’ funded by the German Research Foundation. In the SFB 754 he is leading a subproject that combines hydrographic and tracer measurements in the eastern tropical Pacific in order to investigate the mean distribution, variability and trends of the water mass distributions and current systems. His present research focus is on the oxygen minimum zones, their distribution and dissolved oxygen trends based on observations and in comparison with model results as well as with biological observations.
Felix Janssen Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
Felix Janssen is a trained biological oceanographer with a strong focus on biogeochemical processes in marine sediments. Since 1999 he works at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany. In 2003 Felix finished his PhD thesis on pore water transport and microbial degradation of organic matter in coastal sands. He has strong expertise in in situ studies on processes in the upper sediment layer and fluxes across the sediment water interface. Felix’ work includes not only the application but also the development of autonomous and remotely controlled instrumentation. From 2004 to 2009 he worked in the EU-funded projects COSA and ECODIS dealing with biogeochemistry and contaminant retention of sandy sediments. Since April 2009 Felix is part of the coordination team of the FP7-EU project HYPOX on oxygen depletion in aquatic ecosystems (www.hypox.net). HYPOX involves 16 partners from all around Europe and aims at a better understanding of causes and consequences of hypoxia and at an improved oxygen depletion monitoring taking relevant temporal and spatial scales into account. Within HYPOX Felix is mainly involved in investigations at the Crimean Black Sea shelf focusing on the influence of bottom water oxygen levels on biogeochemical processes.
Steven Bograd Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-Fisheries, USA
Steven Bograd is an oceanographer at NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, in Pacific Grove, California. Steven is also a Research Associate at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and a fellow with the Joint Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Research at the University of Hawaii. He was co-Principal Investigator of the Census of Marine Life Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) program, and is currently an Associate Editor at Fisheries Oceanography and an Academic Editor at PloS ONE. Steven’s research interests are in eastern boundary current systems, climate variability, physical-biological interactions, marine biologging, and fisheries oceanography. Steven received B.S. degrees in physics and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, a M.S. in atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, and a PhD in physical oceanography from the University of British Columbia in 1998. Steven worked for several years at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory on the Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI) program, and held the CalCOFI post-doctoral fellowship at Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1998-2000. He also served as acting CalCOFI Coordinator at SIO in 2000. Steven has been at NOAA since 2001.
Dr. Dambacher's background was originally in the ecology of stream fishes. A desire to understand the relationships of fish communities, rivers and watersheds led him to the method of qualitative mathematics as a tool to analyse the dynamics of complex systems. Here the goal is to understand and predict the general dynamics of a model system (i.e., stability and perturbation response) through a qualitative description of its feedback properties. These research goals have now broadened to seek general solutions to natural resource problems embedded in ecological and socioeconomic systems. His work with the CSIRO Division of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics provides a diverse array of challenges in which to carry out this work, and recent work has involved analysis of climate change impacts on the food security of Pacific island nations, identification of robust ecological indicators for monitoring Australia's marine bioregions, and efficacy of land use planning and water quality management of coastal and estuary systems in Western Australia.
Mike is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania. He has studied various aspects of marine ecology in Alaska for fifteen years, and formerly worked for the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Mike received a B.S. from the University of Alaska and a M.S. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His current research includes empirical tests of model-derived indicators for incipient shifts in populations and ecosystems, and comparison of the statistical effects of anthropogenic climate change, fishing and natural climate variability on basin-scale community structure in the northeast Pacific. Past research interests include changing demersal biogeography in response to sea ice retreat in the Bering Sea, the role of climate-forced changes in prey availability on seabird demographics, and changes in trophic control as a mechanism linking climate change to sudden reorganization in Gulf of Alaska communities. In addition to his PhD work, Mike is a researcher at Blue World Research in Anchorage, Alaska, and the Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research in Petaluma, California.
Jacob Schewe Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research, Germany
Jacob Schewe is a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and the University of Potsdam, Germany. During his PhD, he has studied the driving mechanisms of large-scale monsoon circulations, and the implications of these mechanisms for the stability of continental monsoon rainfall, as well as the interaction between the Asian monsoon and the tropical circulation. He has also worked on the oceanic overturning circulation, its driving mechanisms, and the relation between the circulation in the different ocean basins. His current research interests include the impacts of global climate change on coastal infrastructure.
S10: Changes in the marine carbon cycle
Ben McNeil University of New South Wales, Australia
Bio: Dr Ben McNeil is senior research fellow at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Ben leads a research team that combines fieldwork and modelling in order to advance our understanding of oceanic biogeochemical cycles in a high-CO2 world. From 2001-2004 he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at Princeton University where he and colleagues developed a new method for detecting decadal anthropogenic CO2 storage in the ocean using CFC measurements, beginning the era of more advanced diagnostic estimates of oceanic anthropogenic carbon uptake using only transient tracers. Ben won an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II research fellowship in 2008 in recognition of his outstanding mid-career research achievements.
During 2009, Ben co-lead the coordination and writing of an important book, The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the world on the Latest Climate Science, which brought together 21 of the worlds top climate scientists to update the community on the latest climate research since the publication of the IPCC AR4 of 2007. For this Ben and colleagues were awarded a Future Justice Prize 2010 at the prestigious Eureka Awards – for leadership and initiative in the advancement of future justice.
Ben also published his first highly acclaimed popular science book in 2009 called ‘The Clean Industrial Revolution’ which presents both the science and economic opportunities emerging from climate change. Ben is a core member of the Scientific Commission for Antarctic Research on Ocean Acidification and has been an expert reviewer for the UN IPCC AR4 (Working Groups I and II) since 2007 and has presented his ocean acidification research to Australia’s Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Masao Ishii Meteorological Research Institute, Japan
Masao Ishii is a senior researcher leading the Ocean Biogeochemistry Group at Meteorological Research Institute (MRI) of Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan. During his Ph.D. in Nagoya University, he has studied physical and analytical chemistry of metal complexes in solution, and started his new career as a seagoing oceanographer at MRI in 1989. His research interests focus on carbon cycle in the North Pacific, equatorial Pacific, and the Southern Ocean and aims to understand the natural and anthropogenic changes in ocean carbon and oxygen based on observations.
Currently, he is a member of PICES CC-S, a SSG member of IOCCP, and a member of Joint SOLAS/IMBER Carbon Research WG-2.
W2: Climate change projections for marine ecosystems: Best practice, limitations and interpretation
William is an Assistant Professor at the Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia since 2011. William obtained a BSc. (Biology) in 1998, and subsequently a M.Phil. in 2001 from the University of Hong Kong. After working in WWF Hong Kong for two years, he moved to Vancouver and completed his PhD in Resource Management and Environmental Studies in the UBC Fisheries Centre in 2007. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Sea Around Us project in UBC for two years. From 2009 to 2011, he was Lecturer in Marine Ecosystem Services in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia in the UK. Currently, his main research area is on understanding the impacts and vulnerabilities of global changes on marine ecosystems, biodiversity and fisheries, and identifies mitigation and adaptation options. Specifically, he applies interdisciplinary approaches and develops empirical and numerical simulation models to examine the impacts of climate change on marine biodiversity and fisheries, globally and in various regional seas. He works on various interdisciplinary research projects, with global collaboration networks in the U.K., China, Australia, Africa, USA and Canada.
Villy Christensen University of British Columbia, Canada
Villy Christensen is professor at the UBC Fisheries Centre, and his research is focused on one key question: will there be seafood and a healthy ocean for our children and grandchildren to enjoy? The work is conducted through the Nippon Foundation – UBC Nereus Predicting the Future Ocean Program, where a suite of global models are coupled to evaluate impact of notably fisheries and climate change on marine populations globally. This work is done in cooperation with Princeton, Duke, Cambridge and Stockholm universitites, and UNEP WCMC, and contributes to global initiatives focused on evaluating future scenarios for the oceans. Further, Villy Christensen is the lead developer of the Ecopath with Ecosim approach and software, which is being used extensively throughout the world for ecosystem-based management of marine areas. There are more than 400 derived models and publications, more than 6000 registered users in 155 countries, and more than seventy degrees using this form for modeling as a central element have been awarded at universities globally. Through this he has worked with numerous colleagues internationally and gained considerable experience with the ecology and management of marine ecosystems.
Jason Holt is associate head of the Marine Systems Modelling group at the National Oceanography Centre, based in Liverpool. He specialises in the synthesis of model and observations to develop our understanding of shelf-sea physical and coupled physical-biological systems. He was one of the principle architects of the POLCOMS-ERSEM coupled hydrodynamic ecosystem modelling system. Particular areas of interest include the impact of climate change/variability on shelf-seas, shelf sea fluxes and budgets of carbon and nutrients, and ocean-shelf exchange. He has worked in close collaboration with the UK Met office for over 10 years on developing and assessing shelf sea models for operational oceanography and climate downscaling (e.g. UKCP09). He leads the ‘re-analysis, prediction and evaluation’ sub-theme in the UK National Centre for Earth Observation Carbon theme and the modelling component in a new UK ocean-shelf exchange programme (FASTnet). Previous projects included the Global Coastal Ocean Modelling System, to develop a system to deploy multiple coastal-ocean models in seas around the world and the QuestFish project to use this to explore the effects of climate change on contrasting shelf sea regions. He sits on the ICES/PICES working group on Forecasting Climate Change Impacts on Fish and Shellfish.
Charles Stock Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, USA
Charles Stock is a Research Oceanographer at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program in 2005, where he studied the dynamics of harmful algal blooms. Since joining the Climate and Ecosystems Group at GFDL in 2007, Dr. Stock has worked to develop comprehensive and mechanistic marine ecosystem models for global Earth System simulations. He has also worked to apply IPCC-class climate and earth system models to assess the impact of climate on a range of living marine resources. These efforts included leading a recent synthesis of present capabilities and priority developments for the reliable climate-ecosystem projections. In 2009, Dr. Stock received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers for his efforts to enhance understanding of climate-ecosystem interactions.
W3: Coastal Blue Carbon: Mitigation opportunities and
vulnerability to change
Carlos Duarte Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, CSIC, Spain
Born in 1960 in Lisbon, Portugal, and Spanish citizen, Carlos M. Duarte received his B.Sc. on Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1982, and his Ph.D. in 1987 from McGill University (Canada). Duarte is Director of the UWA Oceans Institute , University of Western Australia, and Research Professor with the Spanish Council for Scientific Research, in Majorca, Spain.
Carlos’ research is directed to the conservation and sustainability of marine ecosystems through the identification of their role in the functioning of the biosphere, their status and threats, and their responses to the various global pressures, natural or anthropogenic, acting upon them. Carlos’ projects currently focus on polar ecosystems, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean as vulnerable ecosystems to global change and is currently leading a large circumnavigation expedition, the Malaspina 2010 Expedition, where over 400 scientist from 40 institutions and 22 countries participate. Carlos has published over 440 papers in international journals and book chapters, including a book entitled Seagrass Ecology (Cambridge Univ. Press) and several books for the public. This research has received over 12,000 cites, for which Prof. Duarte was named Highly Cited Scientist by the Institute of Scientific Information (Philadelphia, USA), in 2005. Carlos received, in 2001, ASLO’s Evelyn G. Hutchinson Award to scientific excellence, in 2007 received the Spanish National Science Award and in 2009 received the Rey Jaime I Award. In September 2011 was presented with the Prix d’Excellence by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. In 2005 Carlos was appointed member of the Academia Europaea, and in 2009 was appointed, by the Council of Europe, member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, the highest-level scientific committee at the European Union. Carlos was presented with a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Université de Quebec a Montreal in 2010 and with a Doctorate Honoris Causa by Utrecht University, The Netherlands, in 2011, and with the “Prix d’Excellence” of ICES in the same year. Duarte served as President of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (until July 1st 2010) and as co-editor in chief of the journal Estuaries and Coasts (until Dec 2010).
W5: Public perception of climate change
Paul Buckley Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), UK
Paul is the programme manager of the UK Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP). MCCIP brings together over 30 organisations from across science, UK government, NGOs and industry to provide a co-ordinating framework to transfer marine climate change impacts evidence and adaptation advice from the scientific community to policy makers. Our key deliverable is the MCCIP annual report card. Almost 100 scientists contributed to peer-reviewed submissions spanning 30 different topics for our latest report card, which was shortlisted for the UK civil service science award. A second, expanded 5 year programme recently got underway including new work on adaptation, MCCIP marine ‘climate smart’ working.
Paul also recently led on the delivery of a 10 country pan-European opinion poll looking at public perception of climate change risk. The aim of the poll was to see what the European public know and care about in relation to marine climate impacts and is the first public poll of its kind to specifically focus on marine aspects of climate change.
Mitsutaku Makino, M.Phil. (Cambridge), M.A., Ph.D.(Kyoto), is the Head of Fisheries Management Group of the Fisheries Research Agency, Japan. He is specializing in the fisheries and ecosystem-based management policy analysis. He is the Chair of PICES Section on Human Dimensions (SG-HD) and the Vice Chair of PICES Marine Environmental Quality Committee (MEQ). He is also involved in international programs such as IMBER Study Group on Human Dimensions (IMBER-HD), IUCN Fisheries Expert Group (IUCN FEG), etc.
Alistair Hobday is a Principal Research Scientist and leads the Marine Climate Impacts and Adaptation research area within the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship. His research includes spatial management and migration of large pelagic species, environmental influences on marine species, and the impacts of climate change on marine biodiversity and resources. He contributed to the development of Australia’ Marine National Adaptation Research Plan, co-leads the Biodiversity and Resources theme in the NCCARF Marine Network and is co-chair of the international CLIOTOP (Climate Impacts on Top Ocean Predators) program. He is a contributor to the Working Group II Australasian chapters in the 4th and 5th IPCC assessments. He has published over 80 articles and was co-editor of the recently published book "Vulnerability of Tropical Pacific Fisheries and Aquaculture to Climate Change".
Professor Sauer is the current Head of the Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, Rhodes University. His interests and expertise lie in fisheries development, fisheries management, fisheries sector planning, strategies for implementing fisheries policy, institution building, the economic development of coastal communities through fishing, the development of community/public/ private sector partnerships, and ecological research. Prior to his present position, he was a Research Officer, and Principal Oceanographic Researcher at the Dept of Marine and Coastal Management. He is a member of various international management bodies, including Executive Secretary for the Cephalopod International Advisory Council, and Regional Coordinator for capacity building and training for the Agulhas Somali Large Marine Ecosystem project. He is a leading researcher on the biology of commercially important squid species, with projects throughout the world.
Thomas Wernberg
University of Western Australia, Australia
Thomas Wernberg received his PhD in Marine Botany in 2003. He is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Western Australia, where his research centres on the ecology of shallow sub-tidal habitats. Thomas’ work integrates physiology, ecology and biogeography to try and understand how marine organisms and habitats respond to stressors such as eutrophication, invasive species and climate change. He has published more than 60 papers, including recent reviews on ecological impacts of climate change in temperate Australia and experimental approaches in marine climate change ecology. He has participated in several working groups on detecting impacts of climate change in marine ecosystems, and he currently leads the National Marine Climate Change Report Card section for temperate reefs and seaweeds in Australia.
W7: Beyond dispersion: integrating individual-based
models for bioenergetics and behavior with biophysical transport
models to predict influences of climate change on recruitment
processes in marine species
Shin-ichi Ito Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan
Shin-ichi Ito is Chief Scientist of the Physical Oceanography Group in Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute of the Fisheries Research Agency in Japan . Dr. Ito completed his graduate work in Physical Oceanography at Hokkaido University. His main research interest the relation between ocean properties and circulation and marine ecosystems, particularly in the subarctic Oyashio Current and mixed water region where it collides with the warm Kuroshio Current east of Japan. He deployed more than 40 moorings and a water glider, and his research work includes the development of a fish growth model coupled to the lower-trophic-level ecosystem model NEMURO.FISH (North Pacific Ecosystem Model for Understanding Regional Oceanography For including Saury and Herring).
Dr. Ito is Co-Chairman of the GLOBEC Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas Working Group on Modeling Ecosystem Response. Within the PICES North Pacific Marine Science Organization he has served as Co-Chairman of the MODEL Task Team and as a member of the Physical Oceanography and Climate Committee (POC), FUTURE SOFE Advisory Panel and joint PICES/ICES Working Group on Forecasting Climate Change Impacts on Fish and Shellfish.
Myron Peck Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science, Hamburg, Germany
Myron Peck received his PhD in Biological Oceanography in 2002 from the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. Since 2007, he has been a professor at the Institute of Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science, part of the Center for Earth Systems Research and Sustainability at the University of Hamburg. His research utilizes field, laboratory, and modelling studies to identify and understand key processes affecting the vital rates of marine species with emphasis on early life history stages of marine fishes and their prey. He is currently a PI on several EU research projects (ECODRIVE, FACTS, VECTORS) and German national funding projects examining and projecting the impacts of climate change, fishing, and other pressures on marine systems. He is co-chair of the newly formed ICES working group on Integrative, Physical-biological and Ecosystem Modelling (WGIPEM) and member of the ICES-PICES Strategic Initiative on Climate Change impacts on Marine Ecosystems (SSICCME). He has published >50 peer-reviewed studies, edited books on larval fish ecology and climate effects on fish and fisheries, and is an associate editor of Marine Biology and an academic editor for PLoS ONE. One of his current research interests is to integrate ecophysiological measurements and biophysical modelling to help gain a cause-and-effect understanding of the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems.
