Technical Committee on Monitoring
  • Acronym: MONITOR
  • Parent Committee: SB
  • Chair: Prof. Sung Yong Kim <syongkim@kaist.ac.kr>
    Vice-Chair: Dr. Lisa B. Eisner <lisa.eisner@noaa.gov>
  • Mailing List
  • Past Chairs:
    Jennifer Boldt (Oct. 2013 - Oct. 2019, Canada)
    Hiroya Sugisaki (Oct. 2007 – Oct. 2013, Japan)
    Jeffrey M. Napp (Apr. 2005 – Oct. 2007, USA)
    Phillip R. Mundy (Oct. 2004 – Apr. 2005, USA)
  • Past Vice-Chairs:
    Sanae Chiba (Japan) (Oct. 2013 - Oct. 2019, Japan)
    Phillip R. Mundy (Oct. 2007 – Oct. 2013, USA)
    Sei-Ichi Saitoh (Oct. 2004 – Oct. 2007, Japan)
  • Action Plan [2012-2015]
Terms of Reference
  1. Identify principal monitoring needs of the PICES region, and develop approaches to meet these needs, including training and capacity building;
  2. Serve as a forum for coordination and development of inter-regional and international components of the North Pacific Ocean Observing Systems, including the GLOBAL Ocean Observing System, GOOS. Facilitate method development and inter-comparison workshops to promote calibration, standardization and harmonization of data sets;
  3. Contribute to the development of the North Pacific Ecosystem Status Report , advising editors and lead authors on monitoring issues, identifying the need for particular time series and their continuities, the period on which they need to be updated for the FUTURE forecast products, and recommend to Science Board that they endorse the need to establish or maintain particular time series;
  4. Recommend interim meetings to address monitoring needs and PICES–GOOS activities;
  5. Review and advise Science Board on outcomes and annual operations of the North Pacific Continuous Plankton Recorder to include providing technical advice on parameters to be measured and possible linkages to other marine monitoring initiatives and programs in the North Pacific and elsewhere;
  6. Provide annual reports to Science Board and the Secretariat on monitoring activities in relation to PICES;
  7. Interact with TCODE on management issues of monitoring data.
News
  • Changes within WG-35 Membership (Japan): Dr. Tsuneo Ono is replacing Dr. Masahito Hirota. Dr. Sanae Chiba and Dr. Shinji Uehara are stepping down from the WG Membership.
    11/8/2019 9:00:58 AM PST
  • Changes within MONITOR Membership (Japan): Dr. Hiroto Abe is replacing Prof. Sei-Ichi Saitoh; Dr. Minoru Kitamura is replacing Dr. Sanae Chiba.
    11/8/2019 8:22:48 AM PST
  • Changes within MONITOR Membership: Dr. Sung Yong Kim (Korea) has been elected as a new MONITOR Committee Chair replacing Dr. Jennifer L. Boldt (Canada); Dr. Lisa B. Eisner (U.S.A.) has been appointed as a new MONITOR Committee Vice-Chair replacing Dr. Sanae Chiba (Japan).
    11/1/2019 11:05:37 AM PST
  • Changes within MONITOR Membership: Dr. Kym Jacobson (USA) is a new member of MONITOR Committee replacaing Dr. Jeff Napp.
    10/7/2019 3:13:39 PM PST
  • Changes within MONITOR Committee Membership: Dr. Honghui Huang (China) is a new member of MONITOR Committee replacing Dr. Prof. Jilong Li.
    3/25/2019 7:53:48 AM PST
Members
Dr. Sonia D. Batten (MONITOR, Secretariat)
Executive Secretary
PICES Secretariat
9860 W. Saanich Rd., P.O. Box 6000
Sidney, BC
Canada V8L 4B2
(1-250) 363-6364
(1-250) 363-6827
Sonia.Batten@pices.int
Dr. Jennifer L. Boldt (MONITOR, WG-36, WG-43)
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Pacific Biological Station
3190 Hammond Bay Rd.
Nanaimo, BC
Canada V9T 6N7
(1-250) 756-7110
Jennifer.Boldt@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Dr. Tetjana Ross (MONITOR, WG-38)
Institute of Ocean Sciences
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
P.O. Box 6000
Sidney, BC
Canada V8L 4B2
250-363-6438
tetjana.ross@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Dr. Hiroto Abe (MONITOR)
Faculty of Fisheries Sciences
Hokkaido University
3-1-1 Minato-cho
Hakodate, Japan 041-8611
+81-138-40-8843
abe@fish.hokudai.ac.jp
Dr. Minoru Kitamura (MONITOR)
Research Center for Global Change
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
2-15 Natsushima
Yokosuka, Kanagawa
Japan 236-0061
+81468679440
kitamura@jamstec.go.jp
Dr. Kazuaki Tadokoro (MONITOR, WG-35, WG-37)
Stock Productivity Section
Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, FRA
3-27-5 Shinhama-cho
Shiogama, Miyagi
Japan 985-0001
(81-22) 365-1191
(81-22) 367-1250
den@affrc.go.jp
Dr. Honghui Huang (MONITOR)
South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, CAFS
231 West Xingang Rd.
Guangzhou, Guangdong
People's Republic of China 510300
(86-20) 89108307
(86-20) 84451442
huanghh@scsfri.ac.cn
Dr. Zhifeng Zhang (MONITOR)
Marine Environmental Chemistry Division
National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center (NMEMC), MEE
42 Linghe St., Shahekou District
Dalian, Liaoning
People's Republic of China 116023
(86-411) 84782732
(86-411) 8478-2732
zfzhang@nmemc.org.cn
Dr. Xianyong Zhao (MONITOR)
Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, CAFS
106 Nanjing Rd.
Qingdao, Shandong
People's Republic of China 266071
(86-532) 8583 5363
(86-532) 8581 1514
zhaoxy@ysfri.ac.cn
Dr. In-Seong Han (MONITOR)
Fishery & Ocean Information Division
National Fisheries R&D Institute (NFRDI), MOF
216 Haean-ro, Gijang-up, Gijang-gun
Busan, Republic of Korea 619-705
(82-51) 720-2231
(82-51) 720-2225
hisjamstec@korea.kr
Dr. Jung Hyun Kim (MONITOR)
Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency (KHOA)
351 Haeyang-ro, Yeongdo-gu
Busan, Republic of Korea 49111
+82-51-400-4220
kahalla@korea.kr
Prof. Sung Yong Kim (AP-NPCOOS, MONITOR, SB, WG-38)
MONITOR Chair, AP-NPCOOS Co-Chair
Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory (EFML)
Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST
291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu
Daejeon, Republic of Korea 34141
(82-42) 350-1523
(82-42) 350-1510
syongkim@kaist.ac.kr
Dr. Vladimir V. Kulik (MONITOR, WG-35, WG-36, WG-40)
Division for Fishing statistics and databases
Pacific branch of VNIRO (“TINRO”)
4 Shevchenko Alley
Vladivostok, Primorsky Kray
Russia 690091
(7-999) 057-99-69
vladimir.kulik@tinro-center.ru
Dr. Vyacheslav B. Lobanov (AP-NPCOOS, CREAMS-AP, FUTURE-SSC, MONITOR, POC, WG-35)
CREAMS-AP Co-Chair
V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute (POI), FEB RAS
43 Baltiyskaya St.
Vladivostok, Primorsky Kray
Russia 690041
(7-4232) 312-377
(7-4232) 312-573
lobanov@poi.dvo.ru
Dr. Jack A. Barth (AP-NPCOOS, MONITOR)
AP-NPCOOS Co-Chair
College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS)
Oregon State University
104 CEOAS Admin. Bldg.
Corvallis, OR
U.S.A. 97331-5503
(1-541) 737-1607
(1-541) 737-2064
jack.barth@oregonstate.edu
Dr. Lisa B. Eisner (MONITOR, WG-44)
MONITOR Vice-Chair
TSMRI/Auke Bay Laboratories
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA
7600 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA
U.S.A. 98115
1-206-526-4060
lisa.eisner@noaa.gov
Dr. Kym Corporon Jacobson (MONITOR)
Fish Ecology
Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA, Hatfield Marine Science Center
2030 SE Marine Science Dr.
Newport, OR
U.S.A. 97365
(1-541) 867-0375
(1-541) 867-0389
kym.jacobson@noaa.gov
Active Groups
AP-CREAMS: Advisory Panel for a CREAMS/PICES Program in East Asian Marginal Seas
(Oct. 2005 - 2024), (also reports to POC)

AP-NPCOOS: Advisory Panel on North Pacific Coastal Ocean Observing Systems
(Oct. 2015 - ), (also reports to TCODE)

WG 35: Working Group on Third North Pacific Ecosystem Status Report (WG-NPESR3)
(May 2016 – Nov. 2019), (also reports to FUTURE-SSC)
Disbanded Groups
AP-CPR: Advisory Panel on Continuous Plankton Recorder Program
(Oct. 1998 - Oct. 2014)

SG-GOOS: Study Group to develop a strategy for GOOS
(Oct. 2005 - Oct. 2007)
Products
Annual Meetings

Reports

2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005

Session and Workshop Summaries

TBA

Related Materials
See products of the MONITOR Task Team
PICES Press

Winter 2020, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 18-21
Two decades of the North Pacific CPR program

Other Publications
The GOOS Biology and Ecosystems Panel - Highlights Report "GOOS Biology and Ecosystems - The Evolution 2017 - From draft to craft" (report)
http://www.goosocean.org/components/com_oe/oe.php?task=download&id=37152&version=1.0&lang=1&format=1

The GOOS Biology and Ecosystems Panel - Highlights Report "GOOS Biology and Ecosystems - The Evolution 2017 - From draft to craft" (graphical representation)
http://www.goosocean.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewDocumentRecord&docID=21005