Task Team: Conceptual Theoretical and Modeling Studies Task Team 
  • Acronym: TT-MODEL
  • Parent Committee: CCCC
  • Term: Oct. 1995 - Oct. 2009
  • Co-Chairs:
    Hao Wei (PR China, Oct. 2007 - Oct. 2009 )
    Thomas Wainwright (USA, Oct. 2004 - Oct. 2009)
    Shin-ichi Ito (Japan, Oct. 2002 - Oct. 2006)
    Francisco E. Werner (USA, Oct. 2001 - Oct. 2005)
    Bernard A. Megrey (USA, Oct. 1999 - Oct. 2002)
    Michio Kishi (Japan, Oct. 1998 - Oct. 2001)
    Daniel Ware (Canada, Oct. 1998 - Oct. 1999)
    Yasunori Sakurai (Japan, Oct. 1998 - Oct. 2000)
    Bruce A. Taft (USA, Oct. 1998 - Oct. 2000)
    Sinjae Yoo (Korea, Oct. 1995 - Oct. 1998)
    Ian Perry (Canada, Oct. 1995 - Oct. 1998)
Objective
The objective of the MODEL Task Team of the CCCC is to "advance the development of conceptual, theoretical and modeling studies needed for both regional and basin-scale components of CCCC."
Products
Annual Meetings

Reports

2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997

Session and Workshop Summaries

TBA

Symposia / Workshops

2004, Aug 20-23
MODEL Workshop on Development of a model on coupled responses of lower and higher trophic levels for climate variability in the North Pacific
Seattle, WA, USA
Sponsors/Organizers: PICES

2003, Mar 3-6
MODEL Workshop to Embed NEMURO and NEMURO.FISH into a 3-D circulation model
Yokohama, Japan
Sponsors/Organizers: Nakajima Foundation

2003, Jan 25-29
MODEL/REX Workshop to build an NPZF (nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton-fish) version of the PICES NEMURO model
Nemuro/Yokohama, Japan
Sponsors/Organizers: PICES
PICES Press, Vol.11, No.2, 2003

2002, Apr 21-22
BASS/MODEL Workshop on Using models to test hypothesis on effects of climate change on the North Pacific subarctic gyre system
La Paz, Mexico
Sponsors/Organizers: PICES

2001, March 5-6
BASS/MODEL Lower Trophic Level Modeling Workshop
Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.
Sponsors/Organizers: PICES
PICES Press, Vol.9, No.2, 2001
PICES Sci. Rep. 20

2000, Jan. 30 - Feb. 4
MODEL Lower Trophic Level Modeling Workshop
Nemuro, Japan
Sponsors/Organizers: PICES
PICES Press, Vol.6, No.2, 2000

2000, Oct. PICES Annual Meeting
MODEL Workshop on strategies for coupling higher and lower trophic level marine ecosystem models
Hakodate, Japan
Sponsors/Organizers: PICES
PICES Sci. Rep. 17

PICES Press

PICES Press, Vol.15, No.2, 2008
Mexican fisheries sciences and marine ecosystem modeling in La Paz, Mexico
by Salvador E. Lluch-Cota, Bernard A. Megrey and John E. Stein

PICES Press, Vol.15, No.2, 2008
Two major prizes awarded to PICES/NEMURO family of ecosystem modelers
by Shin-Ichi Ito

PICES Press, Vol.15, No.2, 2008
Strolling through end-to-end bioenergetic ecosystems: On-line comparison of NEMURO.FISH and APECOSM equations
by Ivo Grigorov

PICES Press, Vol.15, No.1, 2007
A seven-year effort of the PICES CCCC MODEL Task Team culminates in a dedicated issue of Ecological Modelling
By Bernard A. Megrey, Francisco E. Werner, Michio J. Kishi and Shin-ichi Ito

PICES Press, Vol.11, No.1, 2003
PICES and GLOBEC modelling
By Brad deYoung

PICES Press, Vol.10, No.2, 2002
PICES and GLOBEC modelling
By Brad deYoung

PICES Scientific Reports
PICES Sci. Rep. 27, 2004
Report of the MODEL Task Team second workshop "To develop a Marine Ecosystem Model of the North Pacific Ocean including pelagic fishes"

PICES Sci. Rep. 25, 2003
BASS/MODEL workshop on "Perturbation analysis” on subarctic Pacific Gyre Ecosystem Models using ECOPATH/ECOSIM

PICES Sci. Rep. 25, 2003
BASS/MODEL workshop on "Higher trophic level modeling"

PICES Sci. Rep. 20, 2002
BASS/MODEL workshop "To review ecosystem models for the Subarctic Pacific Gyres"

PICES Sci. Rep. 20, 2002
MODEL/REX workshop "To develop a marine ecosystem model of the North Pacific Ocean including pelagic fishes"

PICES Sci. Rep. 17, 2001
BASS/MODEL workshop on "Higher trophic level modeling"

PICES Sci. Rep. 17, 2001
MODEL workshop on "Strategies for coupling higher and lower trophic level marine ecosystem models"

PICES Sci. Rep. 15, 2000
"Final MODEL Report of the International Workshop to Develop a Prototype Lower Trophic Level Ecosystem Model for Comparison of Different Marine Ecosystems in the North Pacific"

PICES Sci. Rep. 11, 1999
MODEL Task Team Reports: PICES Sci. Rep. 7, 1997
Workshop on "Conceptual / Theoretical Studies and Model Development including the MODEL Task Team Report
NEMURO and Related Models

Computer source code for the NEMURO model (zip, < 1 Mb)

MODEL Task Team has established a collaboration with the EUR-OCEANS (European Network of Excellence for Ocean Ecosystem Analysis, www.eur-oceans.eu) (see PICES Press 15(1), p. 17 ). EUR-OCEANS Model Shopping Tool provides a searchable online catalogue of pelagic ecosystem model equations, including those of the PICES NEMURO and NEMURO.FISH models.

Further information on the development of NEMURO and related models may be found in the Workshop Archives below.

Other Publications

Brief report on a MODEL Workshop to build up a multi-species model especially including anchovy and sardine, extending NEMURO.FISH held in Tokyo, Japan, from November 14-17, 2005 (PICES Press, Vol. 14, No. 1, Jan. 2006)

Special issue on "NEMURO (North Pacific Ecosystem Model for Understanding Regional Oceanography) and NEMURO.FISH (NEMURO for Including Saury and Herring): Modeling of North Pacific Marine Ecosystems” Ecological Modelling , 2006. Vol. 202, Nos. 1-2, pp. 1-224

Members (last update on addresses - November 2009)
Jake Schweigert
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Pacific Biological Station
3190 Hammond Bay Rd.
Nanaimo, BC
Canada V9T 6N7
Phone: (1-250) 756-7203
Fax: (1-250) 756-7138
E-mail: Jake.Schweigert@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Daji Huang

Second Institute of Oceanography, SOA
36 Baochubei Road
Hangzhou, Zhejiang
China, People's Republic 310012
Phone: (86-571) 8807-6924 x2249
Fax: (86-571) 8807-1539
E-mail: djhuang@sio.zj.edu.cn
Hao Wei
College of Marine Science and Engineering
Tianjin University of Science and Technology
29 the 13th Avenue, TEDA, Tianjin, 300457
China, People's Republic 300222
Phone: +86-22-60602926
Fax: +86-22-60602926
E-mail: weihao@ouc.edu.cn
Zhifeng Zhang
Marine Environmental Chemistry Division
National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, SOA
42 Linghe St., Shahekou District
Dalian, Liaoning
China, People's Republic 116023
Phone: (86-411) 8478-2732
Fax: (86-411) 8478-3277
E-mail: zfzhang@nmemc.gov.cn
Shin-ichi Ito
Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, FRA
3-27-5 Shinhama-cho
Shiogama, Miyagi
Japan 985-0001
Phone: (81-22) 365-9928
Fax: (81-22) 367-1250
E-mail: goito@affrc.go.jp
Michio J. Kishi
Graduate School of Environmental Science
Hokkaido University
N10W5 Kita-ku
Sapporo, Hokkaido
Japan 060-0810
Phone: (81-11) 706-2323
Fax: (81-11) 706-2323
E-mail: mjkishi@nifty.com
Goh Onitsuka
Dept. of Fishery Science and Technology
National Fisheries University
2-7-1 Nagata-Hon-machi
Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi
Japan 759-6595
Phone: (81-83) 286-5111
Fax: (81-83) 286-7432
E-mail: onizuka@fish-u.ac.jp
Dong-Myung Kim
Division of Environmental System Engineering
Pukyong National University
599-1, Daeyon3-Dong, Nam-Gu
Busan
Korea, Republic 608-737
Phone: (82-51) 620-6445
Fax: (82-51) 625-7329
E-mail: dmkim@pknu.ac.kr
Won-Chan Lee
Marine Environment Research Team
National Fisheries R&D Institute, MIFAFF
408-1 Shirang-ri, Gijang-eup, Gijang-gun
Busan
Korea, Republic 619-705
Phone: (82-51) 720-2250
Fax: (82-51) 720-2515
E-mail: wclee@mltm.go.kr
Hyun-Taik Oh
Marine Environmental Management Department
National Fisheries R&D Institute, MIFAFF
408-1 Shirang-ri, Gijang-eup, Gijang-gun
Busan
Korea, Republic 619-902
Phone: (82-51) 720-2253
Fax: (82-51) 720-2515
E-mail: ohtek@nfrdi.go.kr
Gennady A. Kantakov
Far-Eastern Ecological Center Ltd.
426 Mira Ave., Office 404
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin
Russia 693004
Phone: (7-4242) 733221
Fax: (7-4242) 552-394
E-mail: deco@sakhalin.ru
Yury I. Zuenko
Japan Sea and North-West Pacific Oceanography
Pacific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (TINRO-Center)
4 Shevchenko Alley
Vladivostok, Primorsky Kray
Russia 690950
Phone: (7-4232) 400-367
Fax: (7-4232) 300-752
E-mail: zuenko_yury@hotmail.com
Bernard A. Megrey
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA
7600 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA
U.S.A. 98115-6349
Phone: (1-206) 526-4147
Fax: (1-206) 526-6723
E-mail: Bern.Megrey@noaa.gov
Thomas C. Wainwright
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
NOAA Fisheries
2032 SE OSU Dr.
Newport, OR
U.S.A. 97365-5296
Phone: (1-541) 867-0435
Fax: (1-541) 867-0389
E-mail: thomas.wainwright@noaa.gov
Francisco E. Werner
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University
71 Dudley Road
New Brunswick, NJ
U.S.A. 08901
Phone: (1-732) 932-6555, Ext. 509
Fax: (1-732) 932-8578
E-mail: cisco@marine.rutgers.edu