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CCPO and ICAR
Spring 2025 Virtual Seminar Series
MONDAY, 31 March 2025
3:30 p.m.
ZOOM Link
https://odu.zoom.us/j/99339324595?pwd=B67G9nMQXW4aEWFGbfd8ckE9GO7tx9.1
Meeting ID: 993 3932 4595; Passcode: 003341
The CCPO and Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience (ICAR) seminar next week will be given by Dr. Cisco Werner who is the Director of Scientific Programs and Chief Science Advisor for NOAA Fisheries (flyer attached). Dr. Werner’s research focused on physical forcing of marine ecosystems and impacts on ecologically and commercially important species. He developed and implemented numerical ocean circulation models and ocean forecast systems to quantify physical-biological interactions. In his position at NOAA, he leads efforts to provide the science that is needed for sustainable fisheries and ecosystems. His seminar will provide information about the Climate, Ecosystems and Fisheries Initiative that is intended to provide decision support information to reduce impacts and increase resilience of fisheries and marine ecosystems to rapidly changing ocean conditions.
Information about Dr. Werner is available at: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/contact/cisco-werner-phd
Information about the NOAA Climate, Ecosystems, and Fisheries Initiative is available at:
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/topic/climate-change/climate,-ecosystems,-and-fisheries
Dr. Eileen Hofmann will host Dr. Werner’s seminar. There will be an informal discussion with Dr. Werner prior to the seminar starting at 3pm.
Please join via the seminar Zoom link above to attend the seminar.
Everyone is encouraged to attend the seminar.
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Title: Climate and Fisheries: Evolving Our Science Advice
Abstract
Our oceans are changing at unprecedented rates. In turn, these changes affect our living marine resources and the human communities that depend on their health and sustainability. Conditions are now characterized by “non-stationarity”, i.e., where the means and variances are changing with time (trends, extreme events, and changes in frequency of occurrence). As such, the assumption of “prevailing environmental conditions”, upon which much of our fisheries science advice and decision-making has been based, needs to be revisited. This requires a significant evolution in the way we collect data, generate predictions, and how we translate science information into actionable advice to decision-makers on time-scales of months to years. The Climate, Ecosystems, and Fisheries Initiative (CEFI) is an example within U.S. NOAA that seeks to establish a nation- wide decision support system to provide resource managers, fishing communities, ocean industries and other decision makers with information, tools, and advice to reduce impacts and increase resilience to rapidly changing ocean conditions. A key element of CEFI is its Decision Support Teams that are transdisciplinary nested teams that will help deliver climate informed products and advice, specifically tailored to decision-maker needs.
Biography
Cisco is NOAA Fisheries’ Director of Scientific Programs and Chief Science Advisor. He leads efforts to provide the science needed to support sustainable fisheries and ecosystems, and oversees NOAA's six regional Fisheries Science Centers, including 24 labs and field stations. Prior to joining NOAA Fisheries, Cisco was Professor and Director of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Studies at Rutgers University, and he also held several positions at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Cisco’s research has focused on the oceanic environment through development of numerical models of ocean circulation and marine ecosystems, including the effects of climate and physical forcing on the structure, function, and abundance of commercially and ecologically important species. Cisco earned his BSc in Mathematics, and his MSc and PhD in Oceanography, all from the University of Washington.