1. 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 macklin@pmel.noaa.gov, 206-526-6798. 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 macklin@pmel.noaa.gov, 206-526-6798.

2. Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations

3. Science - and Product-oriented Goals using walleye pollock as a focus 2. Forecast pollock recruitment 1. Increase understanding of the ecosystem

4. 198519912000 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.

5. Physical forcing...

6. Mooring site 2, Bering Sea marginal ice zone, spring 1999

7. ... produces biological effects.

8. Jellyfish boom!

9. NASA SeaWiFS Sept 1997 Massive coccolithophore blooms in summer 1997, 1998, 1999

10. Repercussions up the food chain

11. Focus on early-life stage of pollock development (March-June)

12. NOAA Ship Miller Freeman

13. Moorings

14. Trajectories of satellite-tracked drift buoys 91 drifters deployed from 1986-1999 drogued at ~40-m depth

15. Biological surveys 10-nm grid standard fine-mesh net (bongo) tows ~10 days in late May and early June

16. Biophysical Circulation Model

17. FOCI Recruitment Forecasts Information FlowForecast Summary

18. Outreach Opportunities web sites brochures radio and TV interviews presentations newspaper and magazine articles press releases publications videos