PREFACE
Planning for a U.S. GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics (U.S. GLOBEC) - related program in the
North Pacific was initiated with a workshop sponsored by U.S. GLOBEC held in Seattle,
Washington, April 19-21, 1995. That workshop brought together over 75 scientists; a summary of
the workshop was published as U.S. GLOBEC Report 15 (U.S. GLOBEC 1996). The need for the
workshop reported on in this document stemmed from the development, in October 1994, of a Science
Plan for coordinated research on Climate Change and the Carrying Capacity (CCCC) by the North
Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES). Copies of the Science Plan and Implementation Plan
for the PICES-GLOBEC CCCC Program are available from the PICES Secretariat, IOS, Sidney,
B.C., Canada. The U.S. GLOBEC CCCC program will address how climate variability affects
ecosystem structure and the productivity of key biological species at all trophic levels in the open
subarctic and coastal North Pacific. The program is designed to be a U.S. contribution to a larger
international research effort involving the six member nations of PICES (Canada, China, Korea,
Japan, Russia, and United States) and GLOBEC International.
