• Acronym: S-CCME
• Parent Committees: BIO, FIS, POC
• Established: Oct. 2011
• Renewed:
  Oct. 2020 - Oct. 2025 (renewed at PICES-2020)
  Oct. 2017 - Oct. 2020 (renewed at PICES-2019)
  Oct. 2015 - Oct. 2017 (renewed at PICES-2014)
  
• Duration: lifetime of FUTURE (Jan. 2012 – )
• Co-Chair: Dr. Kirstin Kari Holsman <kirstin.holsman@noaa.gov>
  Co-Chair: Dr. Dongwha Sohn <sohndongwha@pusan.ac.kr>
• ICES Co-Chair: Dr. Alan Baudron (ICES/UK, <Alan.Baudron@gov.scot>)
  ICES Co-Chair: Dr. Kathy Mills (ICES/USA, <kmills@gmri.org>)
• Mailing List
• Past Co-Chairs:
  Xiujuan Shan (PICES, Nov. 2019 – Nov. 2024)
  Jackie King (PICES, Oct. 2017 – Oct. 2020)
  Myron Peck (ICES, 2016 – 2019)
  John Pinnegar (ICES, 2016 – 2019)
  Shin-ichi Ito (PICES, Oct. 2017 – Oct. 2019)
  Anne Hollowed (PICES, Jan. 2015 – Oct. 2017)
  Manuel Barange (ICES, Jan. 2012 – Apr. 2015)
  Suam Kim (PICES, Jan. 2012 – Jan. 2015)

1. Define, coordinate and integrate the research activities needed to understand, assess and project climate change impacts on marine ecosystems;
2. Plan strategies for sustaining the delivery of ecosystem goods and services, and when possible predictions should include quantifying estimations of uncertainty;
3. Define and quantify the vulnerability and sustainability of marine ecosystems to climate change, including the cumulative impacts and synergetic effects of climate and marine resource use;
4. Build global ocean prediction frameworks, through international collaborations and research, building on ICES and PICES monitoring programs.

1. Synthesis of existing knowledge;
2. Advancement of new science and methodology;
3. Communication of research findings.

Phase 1: 2012-2014

Synthesis of existing knowledge:

• Complete synthesis papers from the 2010 Sendai Symposium and 2012 Yeosu Symposium;
• Interpret the vulnerabilities of marine ecosystems to changing climate.

Advancement of new science and methodology:

• Identify techniques for predicting climate change impacts in systems impacted by decadal variability;
• Define the vulnerability of commercial species to climate change and identify which species would be most likely to experience shifts in spatial distributions;
• Engage the global earth system modelling community in modelling climate change effects on marine ecosystems and identify opportunities for collaborations;
• Build response scenarios for how the human community will respond to climate change.

Communication and integration of science through international symposiums:

• Publish results in peer reviewed literature;
• Serve as symposium/session co-convenors;
• Assist in preparing and convening the PICES/ICES/IOC Symposium on Effects of climate change on the world’s oceans”“ (May 2012, Yeosu, Korea).

Phase 2: 2015-2017

• Continue to advance new science focused on climate change effects on marine ecosystems through theme/topic sessions and workshops;
• Update and improve forecasts with IPCC AR5 scenarios;
• Convene an international symposium in 2016;
• Develop regional synthesis reports;
• Initiate inter-sessional training for projecting climate change impacts on marine ecosystems;
• Continue collaboration with global climate change research community.

Phase 3: 2018-2020

• Continue to advance new science focused on climate change effects on marine ecosystems through theme/topic Sessions and workshops;
• Update and improve predictions with IPCC AR6 scenarios;
• Develop regional synthesis reports;
• Convene an international symposium in 2018.

Phase 4: 2021-2025

Phase 4 S-CCME activities will continue Phase 1-3 initiatives and will advance on the following activities:

• Synthesize current social-ecological climate change modelling efforts (S-CCME regional nodes) to inform climate-resilient development pathways through analyses that include emergent trends in climate projections, adaptation measures, residual risk and synergies across UN Sustainable Development Goals.
• Help develop and align future scenarios for exploring cultural and social impacts of climate change on fisheries and fishery dependent communities. This would include developing social science metric jointly with the PICES Human Dimension Committee and the ICES Strategic Initiative on Human Dimensions.
• Encourage and integrate S-CCME Science with and between external climate assessment organizations, for example IMBER, and provide knowledge to the scientific communities, national and global advisory bodies such as the IPCC and IPBES on the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems.
• Promote innovation in coupled bio-physical-social modelling through workshops and topic sessions. This activity would address things such as: exploration of methodologies in the role of watersheds to ocean coupling and land-sea margins; uptake of nutrients and chemistry; advancements in regional ocean modelling; bias corrections; ensemble modelling scenarios and uncertainty.
• Engage Early Career Ocean Professionals in PICES and ICES and continue to increase communication with Early Career Ocean Professionals to contribute to a predictable ocean where society has the capacity to understand current and future ocean conditions
• Coordinate or support training programs for scientists involved in providing strategic advice on climate change effects on marine ecosystems. Courses of interest to S-CCME:
  • technical courses for applied research (e.g. geospatial models, size spectral models, EwE, Atlantis).
  • training for communicating climate impacts to the general public, NGOs and decision makers. This training should include a focus on communication of uncertainty.
• Develop and maintain an internal and external S-CCME communication strategy by:
  • working with SICCME to develop a joint forum for members to exchange information and establish a means of communication. Leadership for this forum could come from ICES/PICES Early Career Ocean Professionals.
  • maintaining PICES website: links to data repositories and delivery sites such as ClimeFish, links to other coordinating regional and global programmes, such as ESSAS, CLIOTOP and IMBER;
  • Co-chairs working with members to maintain relevant information on publications and presentations;
  • coordinate with TCODE to identify data management policy for contributions to shared databases;
  • climate change effects. This could include consultation with other similar projects, e.g. FishMIP.