Advisory Panel: Marine Birds and Mammals
Terms of Reference
  1. Provide information and scientific expertise to the Biological Oceanography Committee and the FUTURE Program, and, when necessary, to other scientific and technical committees, with regard to the biology and ecological roles of marine mammals and seabirds in the PICES region;
  2. Identify important problems, scientific questions, and knowledge gaps for understanding the impacts of climate change and anthropogenic factors on marine mammals and seabirds and ecosystems in the PICES region through Workshops, Theme Sessions and Scientific Reports;
  3. Assemble information on the status and key demographic parameters of marine mammals and seabirds and contribute to the Status Reports and Outlooks;
  4. Improve collaborative, interdisciplinary research with marine mammal and seabird experts and the PICES scientific community.
Products
Annual Meetings

Reports

2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999

Session and Workshop Summaries

PICES-2014:
S2, Strengths and limitations of habitat modeling: Techniques, data sources, and predictive capabilities

PICES-2013:
S2, Are marine ecosystems of the North Pacific becoming more variable?
W3, Marine bird and mammal spatial ecology

PICES-2012:
S6, Environmental contaminants in marine ecosystems: Seabirds and marine mammals as sentinels of ecosystem health
W3, The feasibility of updating prey consumption by marine birds, marine mammals, and large predatory fish in PICES regions

PICES-2011:
S2, Mechanisms of physical-biological coupling forcing biological “hotspots”

PICES-2009:
W3, Integrating marine mammal populations and rates of prey consumption in models and forecasts of climate change-ecosystem change in the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans

2007 Annual Meeting:
S11, Phenology and climate change in the North Pacific: Implications of variability in the timing of zooplankton production to fish, seabirds, marine mammals and fisheries (humans)

2005 Annual Meeting:
S3, Factors affecting distribution, foraging ecology, and life histories of top predators in the northwestern Pacific Ocean and its marginal seas

2004 Annual Meeting:
S4, Hot spots and their use by migratory species and top predators in the North Pacific
W6, Combining data sets on diets of marine birds and mammals: Phase II

2003 Annual Meeting:
W2, Combining data sets on distributions and diets of marine birds and mammals

PICES-2015:
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Symposia / Inter-sessional Workshops

W1, Top predators as indicators of climate change: Statistical techniques, challenges and opportunities, FUTURE Open Science Meeting, 2014

PICES Press

Winter 2015, Vol. 23, No. 1
Seabirds as early warning indicators of climate events in the Pacific

Summer 2014, Vol. 22, No. 2
OSM Workshop on “Top predators as indicators of climate change: Statistical techniques, challenges and opportunities

PICES Scientific Reports

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 50, 2016
Spatial Ecology of Marine Top Predators in the North Pacific: Tools for Integrating across Datasets and Identifying High Use Area

Primary Journals

Theme section Biophysical coupling of marine hotspots from PICES-2011 Topic Session S2, Marine Ecological Progress Series, 2013, Vol. 487, pp. 176-304

Selected papers from Topic Session S4 on “Hot spots and their use by migratory species and top predators in the North Pacific” in Special issue of Deep-Sea Research II, 2006, 53(3-4): 247-449

Selected papers from Topic Session S11 on “Phenology and climate change in the North Pacific: Implications of variability in the timing of zooplankton production to fish, seabirds, marine mammals and fisheries (humans)” in Special issue of Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2009, 393:185-301

Related Materials
PICES Sci. Rep. No. 14, 2000
Predation by Marine Birds and Mammals in the Subarctic North Pacific Ocean

Working Group (WG 11) on Consumption of Marine Resources by Marine Birds and Mammals (1995-1999)

Other Publications
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Members as of October 2015
Douglas F. Bertram
Environment Canada
P.O. Box 6000
Sidney, BC
Canada V8L 4B2
Phone: (1-250) 363-6735
Fax: (1-250) 363-6390
E-mail: douglas.bertram(at)dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Patrick D. O'Hara
Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
c/o Institute of Ocean Sciences 9860 W. Saanich Rd.
Sidney, BC
Canada V8L 4B2
Phone: (1-250) 363-6545
E-mail: paddio(at)uvic.ca
Andrew W. Trites
Marine Mammal Research Unit
University of British Columbia
Fisheries Centre, Room 247, AERL, 2202 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
E-mail: a.trites(at)fisheries.ubc.ca
Ken Morgan
Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
9860 West Saanich Rd.
Sidney, BC
Canada V8L 4B2
E-mail: ken.morgan(at)dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Enyuan Fan
Environmental Protection and Research Division, CAFS
150 Qingtacun, Yongding Rd.
Beijing , Beijing
China, PR 100039
E-mail: ecofan(at)foxmail.com
Kaoru Hattori
Hokkaido National Fisheries Research Institute
Fisheries Research Agency
116 Katsurakoi
Kushiro, Hokkaido
Japan 085-0802
E-mail: khattori(at)fra.affrc.go.jp
Tsutomu Tamura
The Institute of Cetacean Research
4-5 Toyomi, Chuo-ku
Tokyo
Japan 104-0055
E-mail: tamura(at)cetacean.jp
Yutaka Watanuki
Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences
Hokkaido University
3-1-1 Minato-cho
Hakodate, Hokkaido
Japan 040-8611
E-mail: ywata(at)fish.hokudai.ac.jp
Doo-Hae An
Cetacean Research Institute (CRI)
National Fisheries R&D Institute (NFRDI), MOF
250, Jangsaengpo Gorae-ro, Namgu
Ulsan
R Korea, 680-050
E-mail: dhan119(at)korea.kr
Alexander I. Boltnev
Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (SakhNIRO)
196 Komsomolskaya St.
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Russia 693023
E-mail: aboltnev(at)mail.ru
Vladimir G. Myasnikov
Marine Mammal Lab.
Pacific Scientific Research Fisheries Center (TINRO-Center)
4 Shevchenko Alley
Vladivostok, Primorsky Kray
Russia 690950
E-mail: myasnikov(at)tinro.ru
Vjatcheslav P. Shuntov
Pacific Scientific Research Fisheries Center (TINRO-Center)
4 Shevchenko Alley
Vladivostok, Primorsky Kray
Russia 690950
E-mail: interdept(at)tinro-center.ru
Andrey Vinnikov
Pacific Scientific Research Fisheries Center (TINRO-Center)
Shevchenko Alley, 4
Vladivostok
Russia 690091
E-mail: kamchatka62(at)mail.ru
Elliott Lee Hazen
Environmental Research Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC), NMFS, NOAA
99 Pacific St., Suite 255A
Pacific Grove, CA
U.S.A. 93950
E-mail: elliott.hazen(at)noaa.gov
Rolf R. Ream
National Marine Mammal Laboratory
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA
7600 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA
U.S.A. 98115
E-mail: rolf.ream(at)noaa.gov
William J. Sydeman
Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research
Suite Q, 101 H St.
Petaluma, CA
U.S.A. 94952
E-mail: wsydeman(at)comcast.net