U.s. Globec News9

1 Climate Change and Carrying Capacity 4 Integrated Assessment—Pacific Northwest 6 Southern Ocean Work Begins 8 U.S. GLOBEC Calendar 9 GLOBEC Activities in ICES 10 GLOBEC—International Whaling Commission 13 International Benguela Symposium 19 Scenes from U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Meeting U.S. GLOBEC recently convened a workshop to discuss a future research program on Climate Change and the Carrying Capacity (CCCC) of the North Pacific. The workshop was held at the Battelle Conference Center in Seattle, Washington, April, 19-20, 1995, and over 75 scientists attended. The need for the workshop stemmed from the development, in October 1994, of a Science Plan for coordinated research on Climate Change and the Carrying Capacity by the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES). In response to the PICES Science Plan, the U.S. GLOBEC Scientific Steering Committee agreed to support a community-wide workshop to explore U.S. GLOBEC-relevant issues of the oceanic and coastal domains of the subarctic Pacific Ocean, and the Bering Sea. PICES is an intergovernmental organization established in 1992 to promote and coordinate marine scientific research in the temperate and subarctic region of the North Pacific and its adjacent seas. PICES’ member countries are Canada, China, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United States. The PICES Second Annual Meeting (1993) authorized the preparation of a draft Science Plan for what was called the PICES GLOBEC-International Program on Climate Change and Carrying Capacity (CCCC). The Plan was then discussed at a workshop and approved at the PICES Third Annual Meeting (1994) where it was agreed to establish a Scientific Steering Committee (now called Implementation Panel) to initiate development of an implementation plan. An Executive Committee met in May 1995 to prepare a draft for review and revision during the summer. A preliminary draft of this implementation plan was available to the participants of the Seattle workshop.