FOCI Tour

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A Tour of Fisheries-Oceanography
Coordinated Investigations (FOCI)
The following 17 slides provide an overview of
the FOCI program its focus, goals, history,
scientific approach, and techniques. (If your
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information, contact Allen Macklin, FOCI
Coordinator, at macklin_at_pmel.noaa.gov,
206-526-6798.
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Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated
Investigations
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Science- and Product-oriented Goals
1. Increase understanding of the ecosystem
using walleye pollock as a focus
2. Forecast pollock recruitment
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Growth of FOCI
1985
1991
2000
started in Shelikof Strait, Gulf of Alaska
added Bering Sea in 1991 level-funded program
leveraged with focused research for
Coastal Ocean Program, NSF, GLOBEC, etc.
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Physical forcing . . .
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Mooring site 2, Bering Sea marginal ice zone,
spring 1999
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. . . produces biological effects.
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Jellyfish boom!
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Massive coccolithophore blooms in summer 1997,
1998, 1999
NASA SeaWiFS Sept 1997
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Repercussions up the food chain
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Focus on early-life stage of pollock development
(March-June)
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NOAA Ship Miller Freeman
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Moorings
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Trajectories of satellite-tracked drift buoys
91 drifters deployed from 1986-1999
drogued at 40-m depth
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Biological surveys
10-nm grid standard fine-mesh net (bongo)
tows 10 days in late May and early June
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Biophysical Circulation Model
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FOCI Recruitment Forecasts
Information Flow
Forecast Summary
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