Thursday
27 January 2005
4:30-5:30 pm
102 Fishery Sciences
(auditorium)
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Francisco ChavezSenior Scientist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research InstituteOcean Variability, Climate Change, and Sustainable Marine Resources
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Strong episodes of interannual and multidecadal ocean variability permeate the Pacific Ocean . This natural variability can be exploited to study the relationship between oceanographic processes and living marine resources. This presentation reviews the biological consequences of El Niño/La Niña and El Viejo/La Vieja throughout the entire Pacific basin. Particular emphasis is given to the dramatic ecosystem changes that have been observed after the 1997-98 El Niño. The relation of these natural changes to human impact is also discussed.
Francisco Chavez was born and raised in Peru. He returned there in 1982 to collect data for his dissertation (Ph.D. 1987, Duke University). The strong 1982-83 El Niño changed the focus of his research efforts and the rest of his scientific career. He became a research scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in 1987. At MBARI he started an ocean time-series effort that continues to date. His current research interests include the biology and chemistry of the ocean in relation to natural climate variability and global change, the global carbon cycle, instrumentation and systems for long-term ocean observing and satellite remote sensing. He is currently on the NSF Alan Waterman award committee, the NSF Advisory Committee for the Geoscience Directorate, the Board of Directors for the Center for Integrated Marine Technologies, the Board of Govenors for the Pacific Coastal Ocean Observing System and the international Science Team for Global Eulerian Observations. He has over 100 peer reviewed publications.