Ecosystems and Oceanography Division

The Ecosystems and Oceanography Division (EOD) conducts research to advance our understanding of the structure and dynamics of central North Pacific marine ecosystems. In particular, we seek to understand how marine populations change in response to both direct changes in their predators and prey as well as from broader habitat-based changes in the ocean climate including El Niño, La Niña, and other interannual or decadal events. More...

News and Highlights

• September 19, 2011
  

  Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Program Convenes Research Symposium in Kona

  The PIFSC's Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) program convened a research symposium on "Kona's Marine Ecosystem: Past, Present and Future" in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii during September 15–16, 2011. The purpose of the 2-day event was to provide a forum for scientists and managers to present and discuss historical and ongoing research on the Kona marine ecosystem. More ...
• July 14, 2011
  

  Research Cruise off the Kona Coast of the Island of Hawaii Supports the PIFSC Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Program

  During July 1-13, 2011, PIFSC scientists completed a research cruise on the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette (SE) to provide support for the Center's Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) Program in the Kona region of the island of Hawaii (the Kona region is also known as West Hawaii). More ...
• July 14, 2011
  

  Sea Glider Deployed in Oceanographic Study off Hawaii Island's Kona Coast

  During the July 2011 cruise of the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette, a sea glider was deployed to measure physical and biological oceanography off the Kona coast of the island of Hawaii. The expedition was undertaken in support of the Kona Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Program at the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. More ...

Recent Staff Publications

• May 03, 2012

  Declines in phytoplankton cell size in the subtropical oceans estimated from satellite remotely-sensed temperature and chlorophyll, 1998-2007

  Polovina JJ, Woodworth PA
  [2012] Deep-Sea Research II. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.04.006

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• April 25, 2012

  Modeling swordfish daytime vertical habitat in the North Pacific Ocean from pop-up archival tags

  Abecassis M, Dewar H, Hawn D, Polovina J
  [2012] Marine Ecology Progress Series 452: 219-236. DOI: 10.3354/meps09583

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• September 13, 2011

  Climate change impacts on marine ecosystems

  Doney SC, Ruckelshaus M, Duffy JE, Barry JP, Chan F, English CA, Galindo HM, Grebmeier JM, Hollowed AB, Knowlton N, Polovina J, Rabalais NN, Sydeman WJ, Talley LD
  [2012] Annual Review of Marine Science 4:11-37
• July 19, 2011

  Estimating the carrying capacity of French Frigate Shoals for the endangered Hawaiian monk seal using Ecopath and Ecosim

  Parrish FA, Howell EA, Antonelis GA, Iverson SJ, Littnan CL, Parrish JD, Polovina JJ
  [2011] Marine Mammal Science. DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2011.00502.x (In Press)

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• July 19, 2011

  Eddies as offshore foraging grounds for melon-headed whales

  Woodworth PA, Schorr GS, Baird RW, Webster DL, McSweeney DJ, Hanson MB, Andrews RD, Polovina JJ
  [2011] Marine Mammal Science DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2011.00509.x (In Press)

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• June 21, 2011

  Towards operational management of pelagic ecosystems

  Lehodey P, Senina I, Calmettes B, Royer F, Gaspar P, Abecassis M, Polovina J, Parker D, Domokos R, Hernandez O, Dessert M, Kloser R, Young J, Lutcavage M, Handegard NO, Hampton J
  [2010] ICES CM 2010; A:04

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