A Tour of Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI) 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 browser has automatically started PowerPoint, you will not be able to execute the following step. Download the file instead.) To see the narrative accompanying each slide, turn on NOTES PAGE under the VIEW menu in PowerPoint. For additional information, contact Allen Macklin, FOCI Coordinator, at The following 17 slides provide an overview of the FOCI program: its focus, goals, history, scientific approach, and techniques. (If your browser has automatically started PowerPoint, you will not be able to execute the following step. Download the file instead.) To see the narrative accompanying each slide, turn on NOTES PAGE under the VIEW menu in PowerPoint. For additional information, contact Allen Macklin, FOCI Coordinator, at
Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations
Science - and Product-oriented Goals using walleye pollock as a focus 2. Forecast pollock recruitment 1. Increase understanding of the ecosystem
started in Shelikof Strait, Gulf of Alaska added Bering Sea in 1991 level-funded program leveraged with focused research for Growth of FOCI Coastal Ocean Program, NSF, GLOBEC, etc.
Physical forcing...
Mooring site 2, Bering Sea marginal ice zone, spring 1999
... produces biological effects.
Jellyfish boom!
NASA SeaWiFS Sept 1997 Massive coccolithophore blooms in summer 1997, 1998, 1999
Repercussions up the food chain
Focus on early-life stage of pollock development (March-June)
NOAA Ship Miller Freeman
Moorings
Trajectories of satellite-tracked drift buoys 91 drifters deployed from drogued at ~40-m depth
Biological surveys 10-nm grid standard fine-mesh net (bongo) tows ~10 days in late May and early June
Biophysical Circulation Model
FOCI Recruitment Forecasts Information FlowForecast Summary
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