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Southeast Bering Sea Carrying Capacity
Senior Investigators Council (SINCO)
NOAA/PMEL Seattle, Washington
Friday, May 23, 1997
Anne Hollowed (NOAA/AFSC), Jim Overland (NOAA/PMEL), and Allen Macklin (NOAA/PMEL) represented SEBSCC management.
At this first meeting of SEBSCC's Senior Investigators Council (SINCO), Jim Schumacher was selected chairman for a one-year term, and Ric Brodeur was selected to succeed him. Primary duties of the chairman were established:
a. be spokesperson for PIs and SINCO,
b. foster enthusiasm, belonging, and currentness among program PIs,
c. call SINCO meetings and provide agenda,
d. attend Project Management meetings as requested.
SINCO meetings will occur two to four times a year, and half of tho will be face-to-face encounters. Topics for meetings include: field- season planning and debriefing, progress of ongoing research, and adjustments to projects to enhance integration. The first topic will help dictate the scheduling of meetings. The next meeting will be held on November 25 (since changed to December 16) following the SEBSCC PI Meeting.
The council reviewed the status of research in the five science approach areas: modeling (Hermann), monitoring (Schumacher), lower-trophic processes (Henrichs), upper-trophic processes (Brodeur, Hunt), and retrospective studies (Megrey, Hunt). A written report summarizing current status will be issued by the council during June and distributed to program scientists and managers.
A meeting of SEBSCC PIs will take place on Monday and Tuesday, November 24-25, 1997, (since changed to December 15-16) at the Battelle Conference Center in Seattle. The council discussed the format of the meeting. The emphasis of the meeting is to integrate SEBSCC science and scientists, so there will be no breakout or submeetings. After a brief introduction, the meeting will feature five sequential sessions, one for each of the science approaches. A session may contain separate, short (~15-minute) presentations by PIs, each followed by a ~5-minute question period; or a spokesperson may present material for all research components in that session. Regardless of method, information packets containing text summaries, tables, and figures will be distributed beforehand. At the end of each session there will be an ample (~30-minute) period for discussion, planning, synthesizing, brainstorming, etc. Given that there are 15 research components among the five approach areas, these five sessions would use up most of the meeting time. Any remaining time could be used to address cruise plans and ideas for the next research cycle. There will be several social opportunities at the meeting for informal exchange of information in smaller groups.
Next year's (1998) will be very similar to this year's, with the exception that the NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN will not be available in the fall. We are presently negotiating the use of Fish and Wildlife's R/V TIGLAX, homeported in Homer, Alaska. A charter vessel S/V Redeemer out of Dutch Harbor will probably work fall mooring recoveries and deployments. A 1998 SEBSCC cruise schedule will be available at the November (now December) PI meeting.
A similar number of sea days has been requested for 1999. It was noted that MILLER FREEMAN may not be available during the early spring, and that it may be desirable to provide a second ship in early June to enable assessment of birds and mammals near the Pribilofs at the beginning of their summer season.
Because of similarities in these two scientific programs, Coastal Ocean Program will support two SEBSCC scientists' attendance at the GLOBEC Georges Bank PI Meeting on July 21-23 in Woods Hole. Fertile areas for information exchange between programs are modeling and juvenile fish sampling. The candidates are Phyllis Stabeno and Ric Brodeur.
The next scheduled SINCO meeting will be on Tuesday, November 25, (now December 16) 1997, at theBattelle Conference Center, Seattle, Washington.
SINCO minutes will be archived at the SEBSCC WWW site (http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/sebscc/).
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