Fishery Fluctuations and the Environment: An Historical Perspective on the Application of Environmental Data in Fisheries Science: James Johnson
Overview of Satellite Remote Sensing Applications In Fisheries Research: Michael Laurs
The use of environmental data in biological and assessment surveys: Ken Frank
Time, space and fish scales: Applications of retrospective environmental data to fisheries research: Richard H. Parrish
Applications of environmental data in stock assessment modelling: Richard Methot

Environmental Data Sources and Accessibility

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NESDIS Ocean Remote Sensing Data Resources and Delivery Systems: William Pichel
The U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center: A Source for NOAA Environmental Data Resources, Ocean Models, and Delivery Systems: Robert Gelfeld and Ron Fauquet
Operational Marine Forecast Products National Centers For Environmental Prediction Environmental Modeling Center Ocean Modeling Branch: Larry Breaker

US Navy

An Overview of Meteorological and Oceanographic Modeling at Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center: Michael Clancy
Navy environmental data resources: Janice Boyd

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Remote sensing applications of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth: Nancy Maynard
The NASA's Satellite Oceanographic Data Archives: Ben Holt and Susan A. Digby

Geological applications

Multibeam sonar: Potential applications for fisheries research: Larry Mayer, J.H. Clarke, and S. Dijkstra

Working Groups: Introduction

Applications of Environmental Data in Fisheries Science: Examples from Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI): Jim Schumacher

Working Group Reports

Real-time or near real-time environmental data needs;
Retrospective environmental data needs
Oceanographic and atmospheric model applications
Data delivery systems, data accessibility criteria, and formats
Ad hoc Working Group on Partnerships in Fisheries Oceanography

Environmental Data and Fisheries in the context of the NOAA Strategic Plan

Consolidated Recommendations

Appendices

Data access and application: demonstrations and visualization (abstracts)

COADS on a Microcomputer: An example of the differing needs of fisheries science in the organization and format of environmental data: Roy Mendelssohn
US Navy: The Master Environmental Library: Chuck Stein
Availability Of High-Resolution Model Output For Fisheries Applications: Bert Semtner and Robin Tokmakian
NOAAServer: A WWW-based NOAA Information Discovery and Retrieval System: Ernest Daddio and Wayne Brazille
U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Data Management System : A Demonstration: Robert Groman
Ocean Surface Current Simulations (OSCURS) Model Shows Five Decades of Surface Current Variability in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea - It's Time for a Lagrangian Index of Surface Currents: James Ingraham

Posters and Contributed Abstracts

The Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS): Project Status and Data Availability: Scott Woodruff
Environmental Data from Fishing Fleets; the Potential of Vessel Monitoring Systems: George Boehlert and Ken Baltz
Environmental Data In Marine Mammal Studies: Tim Gerrodette, S. B. Reilly, and P. C. Fiedler
Remotely Sensed Ocean Surface Currents: Agreement with Satellite Observations of Coastal Upwelling and Ecological Implications: Eric Bjorkstedt and Jonathan Roughgarden
The Use of Near Real Time AVHRR Satellite Imagery to Direct Fisheries Research Vessel Sampling Operations: Kenneth Baltz
Environmental Indices For Predicting Fraser River Sockeye Salmon Return Times: Keith A. Thomson and David J. Blackbourn
Ocean Surface Currents Mapped with Two Over-the-Horizon HF Radars: T. M. Georges and J. A. Harlan
Use of AVHRR (SST) Imagery to Benefit U.S. Summer Flounder Fishery Management and Conservation of Sea Turtles: John V. Merriner, J. Braun, A.J. Chester, F.A. Cross, S.P. Epperly and P.A. Tester
NOAA's NOS Biogeography Program: Coupling Species Distributions and Habitat: Mark Monaco and John Christensen
Estimation of Pacific Whiting Larval Abundance Using Adaptive Sampling: Nancy C. H. Lo and David Griffith
Interannual Variability of Mesoscale Eddies and Patchiness of Young Walleye Pollock as Inferred from a Spatially Explicit, Individual-Based Model: A. J. Hermann, S. Hinckley, B. A. Megrey and P.J. Stabeno
Applications of Side-Scan Sonar and In Situ Submersible Survey Techniques to Marine Fisheries Habitat Research: Mary M. Yoklavich
Ocean Currents and the Distribution of Pacific Whiting (Merluccius productus) Along the Pacific Coast During Summer, 1995: Chris Wilson, Stephen Pierce, P. Michael Kosro, Martin Dorn and Robert Smith
The Distributed Oceanographic Data System (DODS): Peter Cornillon

Instructions to working groups
Real-time or near real-time environmental data needs;
Retrospective environmental data needs
Oceanographic and atmospheric model applications
Data delivery systems, data accessibility criteria, and formats
Ad hoc Working Group on Interagency Cooperation

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WORKSHOP: ENVIRONMENTAL DATA FOR FISHERIES SCIENCE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary

Applications of Environmental Data to Fisheries