Oceania is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous states, mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. It generally includes Australia and New Zealand, and is often taken to include New Guinea and Pacific Islands. Though there have been a number of published studies evaluating vitamin D status in Australia and New Zealand, data from the rest of Oceania are lacking.

Pacific salmon return to spawn in thousands of streams across the Pacific Rim, from large rivers to tiny headwater streams. Once on the spawning grounds, salmon undergo dramatic biochemical changes as they metabolize stored lipid and protein reserves; at stream entrance, they will contain up to 85% more lipid and 40% more protein than at their senescent death a week or two later. Foraging brown...

The spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) is a temperate, coastal squaloid shark with an antitropical distribution in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The global population structure of this species is poorly understood, although individuals are known to undergo extensive migrations within coastal waters and across ocean basins. In this study, an analysis of the global population structure of the s...

This study examines the tropical linkages to interdecadal climate fluctuations over the North Pacific during boreal winter through a comprehensive and physically based analysis of a wide variety of observational datasets spanning the twentieth century. Simple difference maps between epochs of high sea level pressure over the North Pacific (1900–24 and 1947–76) and epochs of low pressure (1925–4...

AGENDA 1. Welcome, introductions, consideration of agenda 2. Review of stock assessments: a. Methods b. Species composition sampling progress c. Results i. Yellowfin ii. Skipjack iii. Bigeye iv. Bluefin (paper only) v. Blue marlin vi. Albacore (paper only) vii. Others 3. Ecosystem modeling 4. Summary and recommendations 5. Other business 6. Adjournment DOCUMENTS A1 The surface fishery for tunas...

The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO) has been shown to be capable of exerting significant influences on the Pacific climate. In this study, the authors analyze reanalysis datasets and conduct forced and coupled experiments with an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) to explain why the winter North Pacific subtropical high strengthens and expands northwestward during the positive...

A new and distinctly interdecadal signal in the climate of the Pacific Ocean has been uncovered by examining the coupled behavior of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation. This interdecadal Pacific signal (IPS) of ocean–atmosphere interaction exhibits a highly statistically significant interdecadal component yet contains little to no interannual (El Niñ...

BACKGROUND There is a shortage of health professionals in Pacific Island states and territories, and a need in New Zealand for Pacific health professionals to serve Pacific communities. METHODS A cross-sectional postal survey was conducted to investigate retention of Pacific graduates. All graduates of Pacific ethnicity or nationality from the University of Otago in the years 1994 to 2004 in ...

The seasonal prediction skill for the Northern Hemisphere winter is assessed using retrospective predictions (1982–2010) from the ECMWF System 4 (Sys4) and National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) CFS version 2 (CFSv2) coupled atmosphere–ocean seasonal climate prediction systems. Sys4 shows a cold bias in the equatorial Pacific but a warm bias is found in the North Pacific and part o...