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I. |
Scientific
Issues Posed by OECOS |
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II. |
Participant
Contributions to the OECOS Workshop |
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A. |
ASPECTS
OF PHYTOPLANKTON ECOLOGY IN THE SUBARCTIC PACIFIC |
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Microbial community compositions by Karen
E. Selph |
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Subarctic Pacific lower trophic interactions: Production-based
grazing rates and grazing-corrected production rates by Nicholas
Welschmeyer |
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Phytoplankton bloom dynamics and their physiological
status in the western subarctic
Pacific by Ken
Furuya |
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Temporal and spatial variability of phytoplankton biomass
and productivity in the northwestern Pacific by Sei-ichi
Saitoh, Suguru Okamoto, Hiroki Takemura and Kosei Sasaoka |
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The use of molecular indicators of phytoplankton iron
limitation by Deana
Erdner |
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B. |
IRON
CONCENTRATION AND CHEMICAL SPECIATION |
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Iron measurements during OECOS by Zanna Chase and Jay
Cullen 25 The measurement of iron, nutrients and other chemical components
in the northwestern North Pacific Ocean by Kenshi
Kuma |
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The measurement of iron, nutrients and other chemical
components in the northwestern North Pacific Ocean by Kenshi
Kuma |
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C. |
PHYSICAL
OCEANOGRAPHY, FINE-SCALE DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS AND AUTONOMOUS DRIFTERS
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The use of drifters in Lagrangian experiments: Positives,
negatives and what can really be measured by Peter
Strutton |
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The interaction between plankton distribution patterns
and vertical and horizontal physical processes in the eastern subarctic
North Pacific by Timothy
J. Cowles
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D. |
MICROZOOPLANKTON |
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Microzooplankton processes in oceanic waters of the
eastern subarctic Pacific:
Project OECOS by Suzanne
Strom |
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Functional role of microzooplankton in the pelagic marine
ecosystem during phytoplankton blooms in the western subarctic Pacific
by Takashi
Ota and Akiyoshi Shinada |
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E. |
MESOZOOPLANKTON |
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Vertical zonation of mesozooplankton, and its variability
in response to food availability, density stratification, and turbulence
by David
L. Mackas and Moira Galbraith |
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Marine ecosystem characteristics and seasonal abundance
of dominant calanoid copepods
in the Oyashio region by Atsushi
Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Ikeda and Naonobu Shiga |
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OECOS: Proposed mesozooplankton research in the Oyashio
region, western subarctic
Pacific by Tsutomu
Ikeda |
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Some background on Neocalanus feeding by Michael
Dagg |
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Size and growth of interzonally migrating copepods by
Charles
B. Miller |
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Growth of large interzonal migrating copepods by Toru
Kobari |
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F. |
MODELING |
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Ecosystem and population dynamics modeling by Harold
P. Batchelder |
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III. |
Reports
from Workshop Breakout Groups |
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A. |
PHYSICAL
AND CHEMICAL ASPECTS WITH EMPHASIS ON IRON AND IRON SPECIATION |
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B. |
PHYTOPLANKTON/MICROZOOPLANKTON
STUDIES |
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C. |
MESOZOOPLANKTON
STUDIES |
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IV. |
Issues
arising during the workshop |
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A. |
PHYTOPLANKTON
STOCK VARIATIONS IN HNLC SYSTEMS AND TROPHIC CASCADES IN THE NANO
AND MICRO REGIMES |
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B. |
DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN EAST AND WEST IN SITE SELECTION FOR OECOS TIME SERIES |
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C. |
TIMING
OF OECOS EXPEDITIONS |
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D. |
CHARACTERIZATION
OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY |
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V. |
Concluding
Remarks |
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VI. |
References |