The Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA) is an ongoing process of assessment and information exchange among scientists, natural and cultural resource managers, government agencies, businesses, and communities in the Pacific Islands region. The 2012 PIRCA report highlights key indicators of climate change in the region, such as increasing air and sea surface temperatures, rising mean sea levels, changing rainfall distributions and climatic extremes, and changing island habitats and species distributions. This discussion of the 2013 National Climate Assessment PIRCA report Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts will provide an overview of the changing climate conditions, discuss the serious challenges posed by these changes for island communities, and outline how listeners can become involved in the process.

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Melissa Finucane, PhD, Senior Fellow, East-West Center; Lead PI, Pacific RISA. Dr. Melissa Finucane is a Senior Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Western Australia. Her empirical research focuses on the interplay of emotion and cognition and the role of socio- cultural factors in judgment and decision processes under conditions of uncertainty. Dr. Finucane's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, NOAA, and other organizations. She has published numerous book chapters and peer- reviewed journal articles and is a member of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making.

Victoria Keener, PhD, Fellow, East-West Center; Program Manager, Pacific RISA. Dr. Victoria Keener is a Research Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i, and the Program Manager of the Pacific RISA. Dr. Keener received her Ph.D. in Agricultural & Biological Engineering from the University of Florida, specializing in ENSO hydro-climatology. She has interdisciplinary research interests in the translation of climate information into knowledge applicable to decision making.

John Marra, PhD, NOAA Pacific Regional Climate Service Director; PaCIS Chair. Dr. John Marra is the NOAA Climate Services Director for the Pacific Region, based in Honolulu, HI. For more than 20 years Dr. Marra has been working to bridge science, policy, and information technology to address issues related to natural hazards risk reduction and climate adaptation planning. His particular area of expertise is the development and dissemination of data and products associated with coastal inundation and erosion.

Deanna Spooner, JD, is the coordinator of the Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative (PICCC), a partnership of federal, state, private, indigenous, academic, and non- governmental conservation agencies and organizations dedicated to developing and funding science and management tools to support climate change adaptation strategies. Over the past two decades, Ms. Spooner has worked in the conservation field, with a focus on native ecosystem protection and climate change.

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The Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center at OSU aims to close key gaps in understanding the technical, ecological, and human dimensions of offshore wave energy development. NNMREC focuses on prioritizing the most pressing interactions of concern and working to address those within the scope of the broad expertise of researchers at Oregon State and the Hatfield Marine Science Center. Many devices proposed for wave or wind energy capture are to be placed on the continental shelf or slope, moored to substantial anchors. Concerns have been raised about the effects on benthic habitat and organisms by the installation of devices and complex mooring systems. The Henkel lab investigates benthic conditions and biological communities in sedimentary and reef habitats on the continental shelf in the Pacific Northwest. This talk will present spatial patterns of benthic invertebrate distributions from Washington to Fort Bragg, CA and temporal patterns of benthic infauna and fish off Newport, Oregon. These surveys provide baseline data on habitats and organisms potentially affected by ocean energy development with the aim of identifying species-habitat relationships and quantifying spatial and temporal trends in abundances and distributions. Characterizing baseline variability is crucial prior to monitoring for post-installation effects of ocean renewable energy development.

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The IWC is the only global, intergovernmental organization dealing with all conservation and management issues related to large whales. With a membership of 88 countries the IWC provides a forum for governments from many different regions of the world to discuss issues relating to the conservation and management of whales. Through its scientific and management expertise, the US has made significant contributions to these efforts, including the understanding and mitigation of ship strikes, acoustic and other harassment, pollutants and disease, and entanglement (bycatch).

This presentation will focus in particular on significant progress in the understanding and mitigation of large whale entanglement made by a US initiative through the IWC. David Mattila, an expert on large whale entanglement response from NOAA-HIHWNMS, will present the projects and initiatives he has forwarded while on detail to the IWC.

Approximately 308,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die from entanglement in manmade materials every year. Based on a series of workshops hosted by the US (2010 & 2011), the member countries of the IWC agreed that:

1. Any species of whale can become entangled anywhere in the world's oceans where it coexists with high risk materials (i.e. rope and net).
2. The frequency of such events are grossly under-reported.
3. his is a severe animal welfare, conservation, human safety and economic concern.

The two highest, consensus recommendations made by the workshops, and subsequently endorsed by the member nations were:

• Building international capacity to understand and respond to entanglements where they occur around the world, and
• Work toward prevention, as it is the only real solution.

To carry out these recommendations, the US detailed David Mattila to the IWC. The first objective of Mr. Mattila's work at the IWC was to gather the directors of all of the world's entanglement response programs in order to reach a consensus on disentanglement 'best practices', and a strategy and curriculum for capacity building. This is now the only marine animal rescue effort which has reached such international consensus on standards and protocols. Arising from that success, seminars, trainings and apprenticeships have been conducted for over 20 countries and more than 500 trainees from around the world, teaching all aspects of the science and management of the entanglement issue.

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Please join us to learn about the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's (BOEM) Environmental Studies Program (ESP) and discuss how our agencies can further work together to answer priority science needs related to offshore energy development. BOEM's ESP develops, conducts and oversees world-class scientific research specifically to inform policy decisions regarding development of Outer Continental Shelf energy and mineral resources. Research covers physical oceanography, atmospheric sciences, biology, protected species, social sciences and economics, submerged cultural resources and environmental fates and effects. BOEM is a leading contributor to the growing body of scientific knowledge about the nation's marine and coastal environment. The NOAA science seminar will discuss how the studies program works and how and when to engage with BOEM in the development of study proposals. Examples of highly successful completed and ongoing inter-agency environmental studies between NOAA and BOEM will be provided. In addition, we will discuss ideas for new partnerships to address priority applied science needs related to offshore energy development in the marine system. For more information on BOEM's Program visit: http://www.boem.gov/Studies/

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Integrated Earth Data Applications (IEDA) is a community-based data facility funded by the US National Science Foundation to support, sustain, and advance the geosciences by providing data services for observational solid earth data from the Ocean, Earth, and Polar Sciences. IEDA systems enable these data to be discovered and reused by a diverse community now and in the future.

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Dr. Kerstin A. Lehnert will present this seminar remotely. SSMC folks are welcome to join us to hear and view the slides at NOAA HQ SSMC-3 Room 4817 (1315 East-West Hwy, Silver Spring, MD 20910)

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Ben Kirtman The Diversity of ENSO in the NMME Prediction Experiment -- The longitudinal position of the center of maximum sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) associated with El Niño has become the subject of considerable scientific interest and debate. Much of the debate centers on whether there are two kinds of El Niño - the canonical El Niño that has its maximum close to the coast of South America and the second kind that has its maximum in the central Pacific – or whether there is simply a continuum of events. This second kind of El Niño has several different names in the literature, e.g. “dateline El Niño”, “El Niño Modoki”, “Central Pacific El Niño” and “Warm Pool El Niño”. The above debate is important because there appears to be largely different teleconnections associated with the two types of El Niño and there is some evidence that the relative frequency of these two types changes with a changing climate. In this work, we are agnostic with respect to whether there are two kinds of El Niño or a continuum. We simply acknowledge that there is considerable variability in the central longitude of the maximum SSTA, and we ask whether the current generation of climate prediction systems can capture this variability. Our approach is to assess whether current models capture the variability in the location of maximum warming within the context of the North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) prediction experiment. The NMME experiment includes nine state-of-the-art coupled ocean-land-atmosphere models in which retrospective forecast have been initialized each month of 1982-2009, and six of the nine models continue to make forecasts in real-time. Our analysis focuses on the retrospective forecasts in the tropical Pacific, and we assess the forecast quality in terms of SSTA and rainfall anomalies. This large ensemble also allows us to assess whether the NMME models detect predictability differences associated with the variability in the longitude of maximum SSTA. Here we propose two simple measures of predictability that can be applied on a forecast-by-forecast case basis. The first predictability metric is a signal-to-noise ratio where we define the signal as the square of the ensemble mean anomaly and we define the noise as the deviation about the signal. The second predictability metric measures how well correlated the individual ensemble members are to the ensemble mean.

Vasu Misra Global Seasonal Climate Predictability in a Two Tiered Forecast System vis-a-vis NMME -- In this talk we examine the seasonal climate predictability for summer and winter starts from the Florida Climate Institute Seasonal Hindcasts at 50km (FISH50) and compare them with the National Multi-Model Ensemble Project (NMME) models. FISH50 is a two-tier forecast which takes the multi-model SST forecast from two of the NMME models (CCSM3 and CFSv2) and applies a bias correction to it, with no implied cheating. In other words, the observed climatology used for the bias correction of the SST does not include the hindcast period of the NMME (viz., 1982-present). We will focus on the seasonal prediction of global precipitation and surface temperature and also show some results specifically focused on the Asian summer monsoon.

Kathy Pegion Forecasting Forecast Skill: Can An ENSO-Conditional Skill Mask Improve Seasonal Predictions? -- The contribution of the CFSv2 forecast to the Climate Prediction Center's official seasonal forecast products is dependent on the month and lead-time dependent skill of the retrospective forecasts. If the skill for a given lead-time and month is less than 0.3 in the retrospective forecasts, the model is considered not skillful at that location and the model forecast is not used in making the official forecast. It would be beneficial to have a skill mask that is conditional on a priori identification of times when the skill is expected to be higher. For seasonal prediction, it is likely that such a skill mask is dependent on the phase of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), although other large-scale modes of climate variability may also play a role. We investigate the potential for improving the skill of seasonal predictions by exploring the relationship between the Nino3.4 index and perfect model skill of the CFSv2 re-forecasts for temperature over the continental United States with the goal of developing a conditional skill mask for U.S. seasonal temperature and precipitation forecasts.

Duane Waliser Intraseasonal Variability Hindcast Experiment (ISVHE) -- Intraseasonal Variability (ISV) serves as a crucial source of predictability, providing a bridge between the predictability of weather and seasonal climate prediction. Notable components of ISV include the well-known eastward propagating Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO), which impacts a wide variety of weather and climate phenomena, and the northward propagating intraseasonal oscillations that strongly dictate the onset and breaks of the Asian summer monsoon. To better quantify the predictability of ISV and exploit it for operational forecasts, the ISV Hindcast Experiment (ISHVE) was launched jointly in 2009 by the CLIVAR Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel (AAMP), the WCRP-WWRP/THORPEX YOTC MJO Task Force, and the Scientific Steering Committee of Asian Monsoon Year (AMY). The ISVHE project is the first attempt to produce a long-term hindcast dataset that specifically targets the needs and themes associated with intraseaonal prediction research. The objectives of the ISVHE are to: 1) better understand the physical basis for intraseasonal prediction and estimate the potential and practical predictability of ISV, including the MJO, in a multi-model framework, and 2) develop optimal strategies for a multi-model ensemble ISV prediction system, including optimal initialization schemes and quantification of prediction skill with forecast metrics under operational conditions. This presentation will briefly summarize the results of the ISVHE to date and use the venue to describe the experiment and encourage additional utilization of this unique and valuable multi-model experiment. ISVHE has been supported by Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Climate Center and the NOAA Climate Test Bed.

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Want one place where you can see all of the ways a data set is available through the Digital Coast? Would you like to access, download, and view data sets? Then you're in luck! The newly released Digital Coast Data Registry is your new one-stop shop for all the data you can handle from the Digital Coast. This new resource brings together data collected by many different entities and hosted from many different places into one centralized access point. Users can filter by data theme, geography, or type of map service and then quickly access available formats for download, find and preview maps services, and link to supporting information. Join us for this webinar, and we will give you the VIP tour of the registry.

In this webinar participants will

• Learn how to use the data registry to find data
• Learn about multiple formats for data access and download
• View a live demonstration of the data registry
• Learn about all the contributors to the registry, such as Office of Coast Survey, National Geodetic Survey, and National Geophysical Data Center

Webinar registration http://noaacsc.adobeconnect.com/may2013/event/registration.html. For questions about this seminar contact krista.mccraken@noaa.gov, Steph.Robinson@noaa.gov.

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All data assimilation systems that use ensemble forecasts to estimate background-error covariances require some method for representing missing sources of uncertainty, such as model error. The current NCEP operational hybrid 3d-ensemble Var system uses inflation (both multiplicative and additive). In this talk I will discuss the possibility of replacing the additive component with a stochastic representation of model uncertainty included in the GFS model itself. Several different schemes, including vorticity confinement, stochastic kinetic energy backscatter, perturbed boundary-layer humidity and stochastically-perturbed physics tendencies have been tested, both in the context of the 3d-ensemble Var data assimilation at reduced resolution, and in medium-range ensemble forecasting at the current operational (T254L64) resolution.

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Planning a network of MPAs off of Canada's East Coast of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick is no small task. Fisheries and Oceans Canada is the lead agency of this effort, working in partnership with Environment Canada, Parks Canada and the provinces to design a marine protected areas network that represents the region's diverse habitats and ecosystems to meet the goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as national and regional goals and mandates. Maxine will describe the work completed to date for this unique area of Canadian waters, successes, challenges, and next steps in the planning process.

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Marine science and conservation face the same challenges that many other areas of science face at the local government level. Marine Resources Committees (MRCs) offer a pathway through the established silos of government to bridge the gap between scientists and local elected officials and the community members that they serve. This presentation will briefly explain the role of MRCs and the Northwest Straits Initiative in the volunteer and scientific community and specifically how the Snohomish Marine Resources Committee works to leverage partnerships to increase the effectiveness of local restoration and stewardship projects.

As the Marine Resource Steward for Snohomish County, Ms. Herrmann leads the efforts of the Snohomish County Marine Resource Advisory Committee and capitalizes on the Committee's efforts by leveraging regional partnerships in marine conservation. Kathleen earned a Masters of Marine Affairs Degree from the University of Washington, School of Marine Affairs and a Bachelor of Science from Michigan State University. Her work as a Graduate Research Assistant with the University of Washington provided her with experience and familiarity in working with Washington Sea Grant, the Northwest Straits Initiative, and Marine Resources Committees. In her previous position as a NOAA Coral Reef Management Fellow with the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Kathleen facilitated the development of Conservation Action Plans in partnership with the Nature Conservancy and organized and prioritized community based watershed restoration efforts in the Laolao Bay and Talakhaya watersheds. Working in the Mariana Islands also provided Kathleen the opportunity to work with indigenous island populations of Chamorro and Carolinian Pacific Islanders. Kathleen also has more than twelve years of professional work experience in facilitating watershed planning efforts, conducting education and outreach activities, and in working with local agencies and native people in implementing marine conservation projects. At Snohomish County, Kathleen has been leading the creation of a Marine Stewardship Area in Port Susan along with a large-scale nearshore restoration project between Mukilteo and Everett.

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The 4th WGNE Workshop on Systematic Errors in Weather and Climate Models was held at the Meteorological Office in Exeter, England April 15-19. Glenn White and Fanglin Yang attended and will review the workshop. The workshop reviewed the efforts of most of the top climate and weather modeling groups in the world to improve climate and weather models and to reduce or eliminate common biases in the models.

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Much attention has been given in recent years to the "invigoration" of deep convection due to increased aerosol number concentration. Fundamentally, aerosol number concentration and cloud droplet number concentration are directly linked but post cloud droplet activation, a multitude of complex microphysical processes presents a particularly challenging problem to address, especially in deep convective clouds. A physical basis for the interactions between the aerosol-induced changes in cloud microphysical process rates is prudent to understanding how these systems may be intensified in regard to strength and precipitation. Particular attention will be given to simulations of squall lines over a wide range of both aerosol number concentration and low-level environmental shear. The dynamical effects of aerosol perturbations on these systems will be discussed in the context of RKW theory to both demonstrate and quantify these effects. RKW theory describes how the strength and structure of squall lines is directly tied to the balance between cold pool-induced and wind shear-induced circulations. Moreover, the applicability of the results to other forms of deep convection will be presented. Lastly, previous works have speculated that the "invigoration" of deep convection is a direct result of low-level aerosols acting to mitigate warm-rain processes and thus loft more droplets into the mixed-phase region of the cloud. Sensitivity simulations demonstrate that an increase in low-level aerosol number concentration alone has little effect on the storm dynamics, especially in comparison to increased aerosol loading in the free troposphere.

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In the recent three decades from 1980 to at least 2010, temperatures, enhanced by a shift of the North Atlantic Oscillation to the positive mode, rose faster than they had during the previous three decades. Winter temperatures became warmer than the other seasons. In the previous three decades from 1950 to 1980, temperatures rose only slightly and any effects on commercial species in the coastal waters of eastern United States and Canada were not noticeable. Since then, the overall rise in temperature has forced large changes in abundances and diversities of animals and plants. Depending on location, most commercial bivalve mollusks and demersal fish, small non-commercial fish, and eelgrass abundances have declined. Documented landings of the following have declined: eastern oyster by 93%, northern quahog by 62 %, softshell clam by 66%, northern bay scallop by 93% and southern bay scallop by 91%. From Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, to northern New Jersey, the landings of northern lobster have declined substantially. In contrast, abundances of crustaceans, some pelagic fishes, cormorants and geese, and a common red seaweed have increased; and the landings of the lobster in Maine and the northern quahog in Connecticut have increased several-fold. In the Canadian Maritimes, the landings of demersal fish have declined by nearly 90%, while crustaceans (shrimp, crabs and lobsters) have increased by 270 %. Increased abundances of Copepods and shrimps had large roles that affected the productivity of bivalves and perhaps finfish in the warmer waters of recent decades.

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The Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS), a regional U.S. IOOS member, Visualization System (NVS - http://nvs.nanoos.org/) provides users with a rich interface to access observations, forecasts, and satellite overlays from a wide range of ocean and coastal assets in a user-friendly format available via the web, on tablets and smartphones, and other devices. NVS (v3), released on March 4, 2013, provides an improved interface for access to ocean and coastal data and models, and importantly simplifies the process for developing new and more targeted web apps, saving time and money to program and design apps in the future, and importantly enables NANOOS to develop applications tailored to meet specific user needs.

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Jonathan Allan is a Coastal Geomorphologist with the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, with interests in coastal hazards, climate change, and applied research. Jon is a PI with NANOOS having established the Oregon Beach and Shoreline Mapping program and serves as the chair of the NANOOS User Products committee. Jon works closely with NANOOS members with skills in DMAC, Education and Outreach, and web design.

Jan Newton is a biological oceanographer based in the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington. Jan is the Executive Director for NANOOS, and is also a NANOOS PI with interests in physical, chemical, and biological dynamics of Puget Sound and coastal Washington, including understanding effects from climate and humans on water properties.

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Migration is a spectacular example of biocomplexity and differs widely among populations. Migratory systems, a conceptual framework for understanding the multi-scale and hierarchal factors affecting migratory species. An important component of each migratory system is the migration syndromethe set of phenotypic and behavioral traits that are expressed by individual organisms during migration events. Here, I present a conceptual framework of migration syndromes in diadromous fishes and use three species from the Columbia River to illustrate how differences in migration syndromes may dramatically affect interpretations of success during upstream adult migrations. The study of fish migration has been strongly influenced by salmonid studies, and a key feature of anadromous salmonid migration is strong natal homing. Their high site fidelity is associated with local adaptation and genetic structuring at fine scales (as small as 100s of m). American shad appear to home at the scale of river basin, suggesting a lower degree of site fidelity and population structure at moderate scales (10-100s of km). In contrast, current evidence suggests little or no site fidelity to natal drainage during upstream migration by Pacific lamprey. Lamprey population genetic structure is relatively weak and only evident at scales of 103 km. These among-species differences in site fidelity result from differences in breeding site selection behaviors and these differences presumably also influence behavioral decisions during passage of local-scale obstacles (waterfalls and fishways). For example, a failed passage attempt in a taxon with strong homing accurately represents an unsuccessful passage event, whereas the same outcome in a taxon with low natal site fidelity may actually reflect adaptive behavior in a species with a flexible breeding site selection strategy. Consequently, evaluations of migration success and development of passage metrics and standards should explicitly consider the underlying migration syndrome of the target species.

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The Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) provides a comprehensive national framework for organizing information about coasts and oceans and their living systems. This framework accommodates the physical, biological, and chemical data that collectively define coastal and marine ecosystems. The recent endorsement of CMECS by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is an important step in facilitating development of regionally consistent spatial data and integrating data derived using various technologies. While some users will employ CMECS at the outset of their projects, many others will use CMECS as the unifying framework for incorporating existing spatial data classified under other systems. To facilitate this process, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center has developed a tool that imports benthic cover data classified using the System for Classification of Habitats in Estuarine and Marine Environments (SCHEME) and produces a CMECS geodatabase as an output product. This tool functions in an ESRI environment and can be adapted to work with other classification systems. This presentation will highlight the CMECS data model and demonstrate the import tool's functionality, describe the cross-walking process, and show how to adapt the tool to other commonly used data. Read more about CMECS

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As person of color and informal marine educator working with both mainstream and Tribal students, I have been challenged with how to integrate traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and multicultural perspectives into marine education programs. The need for a paradigm shift in teaching and learning science, and how to incorporate western science in indigenous marine education while preserving traditional worldviews will be discussed. Two short films will be shown, which illustrate TEK in action; one produced by Tribal youth. A Citizen Science and Ocean Literacy model using the marine environment as a context for integrating TEK and cultural values into field science will also be discussed.

Karen Matsumoto is Marine Science Education Coordinator for Seattle Aquarium. Karen is project manager for the Citizen Science High School Nearshore Monitoring program where each year, over 300 high school students conduct nearshore monitoring of marine reserve beaches in the Seattle area. Karen has worked in the field of conservation biology and environmental education for over 25 years, with varied experiences from Ranger Naturalist at Denali National Park in Alaska, classroom teacher and instructor from K12 to college, Cooperative Extension volunteer coordinator, and natural resource consultant. She loves sharing nature with children, and teaches workshops on natural journaling and using art as a tool for learning science.

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The analog of a forecast for a given location and time is defined as the observation that verified when a past prediction matching selected features of the current forecast was valid. The best analogs form the analog ensemble (AnEn). First AnEn skill is analyzed for predictions of 10-m wind speed and 2-m temperature. The analogs are generated from a Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model and observations from hundreds of surface stations over the continental U.S. and a 15-month period. Attributes of the probabilistic prediction generated with AnEn are estimated, including reliability, sharpness, resolution, and spread-error consistency. We show that AnEn produces accurate predictions and a reliable quantification of their uncertainty with similar or superior skill compared to well-established cutting-edge methods, while requiring considerably less computational resources.

Second, results for power predictions are presented, for a wind farm over Sicily, Italy, and an 18-month verification period. Preliminary results confirm AnEn performance obtained for meteorological variables: AnEn power predictions are more accurate and provide a better uncertainty quantification than power predictions based on wind predictions from leading operational centers as the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Ensemble Prediction System (EPS).

Third, AnEn is implemented for wind resource assessment. We downscale the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) reanalysis at several locations over the U.S. We show that by using one year of overlapping MERRA data and on-site tall tower measurements to find analogs, AnEn significantly reduces the systematic and random errors in the downscaled estimates, and simultaneously improves correlation between the downscaled time series and the measurements, over what is provided by MERRA alone. AnEn also provides a reliable quantification of uncertainties in the estimate, thereby permitting decision makers to objectively define confidence intervals to the estimated long-term energy yield. We conclude with a discussion of the implementation of AnEn in data-sparse regions, where in that case AnEn can be used as a technique to drastically reduce the computational cost of NWP-based dynamical downscaling.

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The Sustainable Energy and Atmospheric Sciences seminar series is designed to enhance communication and collaboration among scientists at NREL, NOAA, and others in the community working on issues related to renewable energy. Scientists at the University of Colorado, School of Mines, Colorado State University, National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the private sector are encouraged to participate. If you plan to attend and do not work at NOAA, please contact Rhonda Lange (Rhonda.K.Lange@noaa.gov) at least one day in advance, so that she can give your name to the security office to facilitate your entrance to the campus. Visitors must have photo identification. International attendees are required to present a passport. We will have additional staff to hand out badges to visitors who call ahead. If security personnel asks for a point of contact, please use Rhonda Lange (x6045) or Holly Palm (x6000). If you are a foreign national without permanent residency, please call or email so security can be notified in advance.

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This presentation will provide an overview of the newly launched Sustainable Working Waterfronts Toolkit - a web-based information portal that contains a wealth of information about the historical and current use of waterfront space, the economic value of working waterfronts, and legal, policy, and financing tools that can be used to preserve, enhance, and protect these valuable areas. The Toolkit was developed by a subcommittee of the National Working Waterfront Network (NWWN) with the generous financial support of the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Please join us to learn more about the Toolkit, the NWWN, and working waterfront initiatives around the country.

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The United States is an Arctic nation, one of only eight such nations worldwide that are responsible for the stewardship of a region undergoing dramatic environmental, social, and economic changes. The implications of these changes demand a fresh look at how the Federal Government and its partners address management challenges in the region. In consultation with the National Ocean Council, the National Security Staff, and the Arctic Research Commission, the Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Domestic Energy Development and Permitting in Alaska (Alaska Interagency Working Group) initiated this report to describe these challenges as they relate to the management of natural resources in the U.S. Arctic. Join us for a presentation and discussion of the report, which presents recommendations for advancing a common management approach that provides coordinated, forward-thinking solutions.

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As the climate continues to change, it is predicted that the Great Lakes region will see an increase in severe rain events which is likely to cause increased flooding in local communities. Understanding the cost of these flooding events, and how to help lessen and even prevent them, is a critical need for Great Lakes communities.

This webinar will provide information about how economic information can be used to help communities understand and make more informed decisions about reducing the impacts of flooding; how green infrastructure can be an important tool to help reduce flooding; and case studies from three pilot areas in the Great Lakes: Green Bay, WI, Duluth, MN, and Toledo, OH

Jeff Adkins is an economist with the NOAA Coastal Services Center who promotes the use of economics by state and local governments and other coastal resources managers. Areas of interest include ocean economics, market and non-market values, and return on investment. Mr. Adkins has a MS degree in Water Resources Administration from Southern Illinois University and a BBA in Economics from Marshall University.

Lori Cary-Kothera is a physical scientist at the NOAA Coastal Services Center. She works on a variety of projects helping local coastal resource agencies better utilize technologies including GIS and social media. Ms. Cary-Kothera has a BS in Biology and Environmental Science from Bowling Green State University and a MS degree in Biological Oceanography from Florida Institute of Technology.

Nancy Cofer-Shabica is a physical scientist at NOAA's Coastal Services Center focusing on coastal conservation and resilience planning applications and training. She leads projects to help diverse partners apply science and geospatial information for management and decision making. Ms. Cofer-Shabica holds an MS degree in Marine Geology and an MMA in Marine Affairs.

Tashya Allen is a Coastal Hazards Specialist working for The Baldwin Group at the NOAA Coastal Services Center. Her background is in community-based risk and vulnerability assessments. She also specializes in the development of decision support tools for hazards management and community resilience planning. Ms. Allen holds a BS in Geology from the College of Charleston.

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In the last few years there has been a revolution in space-based Earth observation systems and, led by space-based Automatic Identification Systems (AIS), their utility in supporting maritime situation awareness has increased dramatically. (AIS is an automatic tracking system used on ships for identifying and locating vessels by electronically exchanging data with other nearby ships, shore-based stations and satellites).

These capabilities not only support safety and security at sea needs but can also significantly assist in environmental stewardship and natural resource protection. The potential contributions of space-based Earth observation systems to global maritime awareness is of growing interest to government transport, maritime and environmental protection agencies as well as the maritime industry and other stakeholders with interests in the marine environment.

No single country or international organization has the ability or resources to fully protect and support safe, secure and efficient maritime commerce as well as conserve, protect and responsibly manage the marine environment. Substantial international collaboration is essential to achieving these objectives in a balanced manner. Among the best capabilities as well as the greatest opportunities for international collaboration are presented by the technology for detecting, identifying, and tracking vessels. These systems are especially suited in areas with shared international interests, such as the Arctic.

Prof. Thomas's presentation will discuss spaced-based systems and their capabilities, in particular how they are used for maritime awareness.

A faculty member at Taskha University, Prof. Thomas is a former Science & Technology Advisor to the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. National Office for Global Maritime Awareness. He has been involved in surveillance for over 40 years, as operator, systems engineer, inventor and developer (Satellite AIS). He is retired from the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, and Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab.

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Over the last decade, with support from the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, the GOES-R program, and the NESDIS Product System Development and Implementation program, the NESDIS and the NWS partnered to develop an infrastructure required for the use of satellite data in verifying and improving air quality forecasting. This involved the development of new air quality related satellite products, aerosol and ozone predictions using regional and global models and assimilation methodologies. This seminar will highlight three research areas: (1) assimilation of GOES and MODIS aerosol optical depths to improve surface PM2.5 (particulate mass for particles smaller than 2.5 µm in diameter) predictions, (2) improved aerosol forecasts with the inclusion of satellite-derived biomass burning emissions, and (3) development of dust and smoke products for operational air quality forecast verification. A commentary on ongoing research at NASA GMAO and NRL will also be provided within the context of the development of global aerosol assimilation capabilities at NWS/NCEP and the understanding of linkages between aerosols and weather.

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Data collected in the ocean sciences, whether generated from research or operational observations, are not always deposited in national or international repositories or data centers in a format that makes them retrievable and reusable. Often, there are insufficient incentives for data submission, resulting in low submission rates and even when submitted, a bare minimum of metadata. The problem is, in part, cultural. Publications of data do not carry the same weight in deciding promotion and tenure as papers that include analyses of the data. Promotion criteria do not take into account the innovation and complexity of data acquisition in challenging environments.

The advent of publisher and funding agency mandates to make data accessible is now the "stick" being used to force data accessibility. The "carrot" is the ability to cite the data accurately and to make re-use easier, making the openness advantageous to researchers. Scientists are now becoming aware that Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) offer the means to easily cite their datasets and gain citation metrics.

The Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MBLWHOI) Library, the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission have developed and executed pilot projects related to two use cases: (1) data held by data centers are packaged and served in formats that can be cited and (2) data related to traditional journal articles are assigned persistent identifiers and stored in institutional repositories. IODE has a history of fostering the establishment of standards and this collaboration is building a "community" of librarians, data managers and scientists to address the data publication paradigm.

The goal of the use cases has been to identify best practices for tracking data provenance and clearly attributing credit to data creators/providers so that researchers will make their data accessible. The assignment of persistent identifiers, specifically DOIs, enables accurate data citation.

The MBLWHOI Library has developed a workflow and metadata guidelines to deposit datasets in the Institutional Repository (IR), the Woods Hole Open Access Server (WHOAS). DOIs are assigned and registered with CrossRef. Libraries have been assigning DOIs to text documents for years and DOIs are now the de facto standard for datasets.

Elsevier Publishing sought a collaboration with the MBLWHOI WHOI Library in 2011. The Library's capability to assign DOIs allowed a system to be set up that enables article records in ScienceDirect to display a banner that links to datasets deposited in WHOAS that are associated with Elsevier articles. The system works for DOIs assigned to datasets before and after publication.

The Library is also collaborating with Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Tools and procedures have been developed to automate the ingestion of metadata from BCO-DMO for deposit, with a copy of each dataset into the Institutional Repository (IR) (WHOAS). The system also incorporates functionality for BCO-DMO to request a DOI from the Library. This partnership allows the Library to work with a trusted data repository to ensure high-quality data, while the data repository utilizes library services and is assured that a permanent archived copy of the data is associated with the persistent DOI.

The Published Data Library (PDL) was recently implemented by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC). It provides snapshots of specially chosen datasets that are archived using rigorous version management. The publication process exposes a fixed copy of an object and then manages that copy in such a way that it may be located and referred to over an indefinite period of time. Using metadata standards adopted across NERC's Environmental Data Centres, the repository assigns DOIs obtained from the British Library/DataCite to appropriate datasets.

The project team has compiled a Cookbook to enable other data centers and libraries to institute these services. The current version will be updated as more experience is gained. There will be a workshop with attendees who wish to start a data repository. Feedback from this class, and others who use the document, will help determine the weaknesses and strengths of the Cookbook. Further versions will be produced as appropriate. The intention is to share the Cookbook with the oceanographic community. It has already been distributed at an international meeting and to students at an e-Repository class at IODE. Response so far has been positive.

This type of repository is providing services not yet provided by most large national or subject data repositories however, these repositories are not meant to replace traditional data centers. Some grants require deposit with a specific data center. This project demonstrates that data publication that enables accurate citation of static data sets is manageable for organizations of any size.

Authors: Lisa Raymond, WHOI, lraymond@whoi.edu (USA); Cyndy Chandler, WHOI, cchandler@whoi.edu; Adam Leadbetter, BODC, alead@bodc.ac.uk; Ed Urban, SCOR, ed.urban@scor-int.org; Peter Pissierssens, IOC Project Office for IODE, p.pissierssens@unesco.org; Linda Pikula, NOAA, linda.pikula@noaa.gov

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Lisa Raymond is the Co-Director of the MBLWHOI Library. Responsible with MBL co‐Director for the planning, development, and administration of the MBLWHOI Library and for the coordination of the programs of the science libraries of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Lisa also manages staff and daily operations of the WHOI Data Library and Archives. The DLA houses an extensive collection of material ranging from early paper collections to current digital formats from WHOI research vessels and underwater vehicles. Lisa's research activities focus on data publication and citation. She also works on data curation, accessibility, and long term preservation of legacy data. Lisa is an active member of the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU). She has been associated with the Library for over 20 years.

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NOAA is responsible for stewarding a variety of non-market ecosystem goods and services, and has conducted or funded dozens of valuation studies to estimate the public's willingness to pay for clean water, beach recreation, fishing, storm surge protection, etc. An inventory of these studies was created to better understand what goods and services NOAA has valued and what valuation gaps are the most critical to fill. An analysis of the inventory highlights the wide variety of drivers that have motivated valuation projects to date, begging the question, “How might a NOAA-wide valuation strategy be devised and implemented?

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Micah is the Strategic Analyst for NOAA's International, Education, and Regional Collaboration communities as well as a member of PPI's Social Science Team, which serves to spearhead and coordinate social science initiatives across the agency. After receiving his Masters of Environmental Science and Management from the Bren School at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Micah started at PPI as a 2012 Knauss Fellow. He has worked on a handful of conservation projects across Africa, most recently as a consultant to The Nature Conservancy in Kenya for a project exploring market-based approaches to artisanal fisheries management.

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Policy initiatives to restore Puget Sound, whether through marine protected areas, fisheries management, or complex programs such as the Puget Sound Partnership, need to consider human behavior. Historically, such research has been lacking, and this is linked to how management frameworks such as ecosystem-based management are defined and guided with scientific information. Considering the human dimensions of Puget Sound has the potential to improve policy effectiveness by considering societal perceptions of the environment, willingness to change behaviors, and governance feasibility. Two examples of human dimensions research will be presented. Social survey research on Puget Sound MPAs demonstrates that public awareness of MPAs is low in many places and varies by social group. Survey and interviews identifies incentives and barriers to collaborative Puget Sound science and the general patterns of collaboration.

In an era of declining ocean resources, my teaching and research explores why marine resource management succeeds or fails. My current research projects focus on: 1) diffusion of conservation fishing technologies within Ecuadorian and Costa Rican fishing communities, 2) communication patterns among Puget Sound scientists, 3) the social and institutional impacts and feasibility of marine ecosystem-based management, marine protected area networks and marine spatial planning in developing country contexts and Puget Sound; and 4) the social and ecological impacts of international environmental policies such as CITES. Most of my research has been conducted in the Philippines, Indonesia, Latin America, and Puget Sound. Prior to my academic work, I was involved in the implementation of a community-based marine protected area in the Philippines as a Peace Corps Volunteer. My Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation focused on conducting social ecological research on Philippine MPAs and translating this research into practical solutions for pressing environmental and natural resource management problems. I am Editor-in-Chief of the journal Coastal Management.

Relevant Publications

• Christie, P., L. Campbell, N. Armada. In press. Community stewardship and sustainable small-scale fisheries within the broader context. S.M. Garcia, J. Rice, and A.T. Charles (Co-editors). In: Governance for Fisheries and Marine Conservation: Interactions and co-evolution. Blackwell Press.
• Hard, C.H., K.R. Hoelting, P. Christie, and R.P. Pollnac. 2012. Collaboration, legitimacy and public awareness: A case study of Puget Sound MPAs. Coastal Management 40:312-326.
• Aswani S., P. Christie, N.A. Muthiga, R, Mahon, J.H. Primavera, L.A. Cramer, E.B. Barbier, E.F. Granek, C.J. Kennedy, E. Wolanski, S. Hacker. 2012. The way forward with ecosystem-based management in tropical contexts: Reconciling with existing management systems. Marine Policy 26:1-10.
• Christie, P. 2011. Creating space for interdisciplinary marine and coastal research: Five dilemmas and suggested resolutions. Environmental Conservation 38 (2): 172–186.
• Christie, P. 2004. MPAs as biological successes and social failures in Southeast Asia. In Aquatic Protected Areas as Fisheries Management Tools: Design, Use, and Evaluation of These Fully Protected Areas. J. B. Shipley (editor), pp 155-164. Bethesda, Maryland: American Fisheries Society.

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Part 1: High-Resolution Flash Flood Forecasting for the City of Fort Worth: Flash flooding is a serious problem in urban areas; the large percentage of precipitation running off due to greater impervious areas puts lives and properties at greater risks. DFW is the largest inland population center and one of the fastest growing urban areas in the U.S. To aid timely life-saving decision making in such an area, it is necessary to produce water-level information at a very high resolution both in space and time. For this, accurate quantitative precipitation information (QPI) at high spatiotemporal resolution is a requisite. In this presentation, we describe a prototype flash flood forecasting system under development for the City of Fort Worth that utilizes very high-resolution radar data from a network of the CASA (Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere) radars. To take full advantage of the high-resolution QPI, it is necessary to operate hydrologic and hydraulic models at a commensurate scale. In this work, the radar rainfall data from the CASA radars are ingested into the National Weather Service (NWS) Hydrology Laboratory's Distributed Hydrologic Model (HL-RDHM) to provide a city-wide view of flooding threat at a very high resolution. In this application, HL-RDHM is implemented at a spatio-temporal resolution of ~500 meters and less than 5 minutes. Since the impervious area plays an important role in rainfall-runoff modeling in urban areas, fractional impervious area maps are produced on grids of ~250 m, ~500 m and other resolutions for sensitivity analysis. In this talk, we present the progress and plans. To take full advantage of the high-resolution QPI, it is necessary to operate hydrologic and hydraulic models at a commensurate scale. In this work, the radar rainfall data from the CASA radars are ingested into the National Weather Service (NWS) Hydrology Laboratory's Distributed Hydrologic Model (HL-RDHM) to provide a city-wide view of flooding threat at a very high resolution. In this application, HL-RDHM is implemented at a spatiotemporal resolution of ~500 meters and less than 5 minutes. Since the impervious area plays an important role in rainfall-runoff modeling in urban areas, fractional impervious area maps are produced on grids of ~250 m, ~500 m and other resolutions for sensitivity analysis. In this talk, we present the progress and plans.

Part 2: Improving Analysis of Heavy-to-Extreme Precipitation with Conditional Bias-Penalized Optimal Estimation: Techniques commonly used for precipitation analysis are based on minimizing mean squared error of the predictand. Because the distribution of positive precipitation is extremely median-heavy, such techniques tend to work poorly over the tail ends of the distribution. In this talk, we present an extension of conditional bias-penalized kriging (CBPK) that specifically improves analysis of heavy to extreme precipitation. CBPK adds penalty for Type-II conditional bias to the usual kriging formulation to improve performance over tails. The extension, referred to as extended CBPK (ECBPK), addresses the issue with the original formulation of CBPK that it can produce significantly negative estimates for nonnegative predictands such as precipitation. For comparative evaluation of ECBPK, we carry out synthetic and real-world experiments of rain gauge-only precipitation analysis. The real-world experiments include multi-year reanalysis of hourly precipitation over the service areas of the National Weather Service (NWS) Arkansas Red-Basin River Forecast Center in Oklahoma, and the Lower Colorado River Authority in Texas. The cross validation results are compared with those of the Single Optimal Estimator used in the NWS's Multisensor Precipitation Estimator. The synthetic experiments use synthetic random fields as the truth, and include analysis and validation of point and mean areal precipitation as a function of the rain gauge network density and the spatial correlation scale.

Dr. D-J Seo is Associate Professor at Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at University of Texas at Arlington. Prior to his present appointment, Dr. Seo was a project scientist at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research serving as the leader of the Hydrologic Ensemble Prediction Group at the Hydrology Laboratory (HL) of the Office of Hydrologic Development in the National Weather Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. At HL, he also led the Hydrometeorology Group, co-led the Distributed Model Intercomparison Project I, and was a co-principal investigator for the NWS Core Project for the Climate Prediction Program for the Americas.

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Australians regard heatwaves to be a normal part of their summer, so are fairly ambivalent about the danger they can pose. It is poorly understood that more deaths occur from heatwaves than all other natural hazards combined. Part of this problem has been the absence of a heatwave definition that describes the intensity of each event. An objective heatwave definition has been constructed using only records and forecasts of maximum and minimum temperature. Each location has its own heatwave threshold according to its local climate. The simplicity of this definition has allowed heatwaves to be identified throughout the length of long site records, and across the entire continent of Australia within climate, forecast and projection data. An additional statistical technique has been applied to each locality's climatology of heatwave intensity to derive thresholds for severe and extreme heatwaves. In graphical/chart form, this product has strong potential as a public heatwave warning product.

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Atlantic sturgeon has recently been listed as five Distinct Population Segments (DPS) under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Despite the imposition of a 40-year coastwide moratorium on their harvest in 1998, many populations have failed to rebound to expected levels. Subadult and adult Atlantic sturgeon are known to exhibit extensive coastal migrations where they are vulnerable to anthropogenic impacts. Many have attributed their failure to rebound to extensive bycatch of Atlantic sturgeon in coastal fisheries. Because the status of individual sturgeon populations varies widely, effective management requires that the sources of fishes that are bycaught in individual fisheries, locales, gears, and seasons be identified. We used mitochondrial DNA sequence and microsatellite DNA analyses to determine the population or DPS of origin of Atlantic sturgeon to coastal aggregations in the Bay of Fundy, Long Island Sound, coastal Delaware, Cape Hatteras, and from the Gulf of Maine to Cape Hatteras in NOAA's Observer Program. We have successfully determined the sources of sturgeons to fisheries at these locales and have found; 1) that the Hudson River is the largest source of sturgeon coastwide, 2) that specimens usually, but not always, are observed in the geographic province of their natal estuary, and 3) that populations recently thought to be at or near extirpation still are important sources of coastal migrants.

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Modern fisheries stock assessments utilize a wide variety of data sources in an integrated statistical approach capable of including data sets of variable quality and length. Despite the considerable effort involved, much can be learned through the mining of historical data and inclusion into current analyses. Several Eastern Pacific groundfish examples are used to illustrate how both methods and inference can be improved with even a rough historical perspective. Some common criticisms of historical data usage and potential solutions to these concerns will be discussed.

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A blowout of the riser pipeline on the Transoceanic DeepWater Horizon (DWH) oil rig at the British Petroleum (BP) Macondo-1 site in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) resulted in the largest oil spill in U.S.A history. The purpose of this project was to investigate the impact of the 2010 DWH oil spill by monitoring the pelagic, filtering feeding fish, menhaden, both in the GOM and along the Atlantic coast. More specifically, juvenile and adult menhaden were collected from the estuaries of Barataria Bay (BB) and Vermillion Bay (VB), LA as well as Delaware Bay (DB), NJ in fall 2010 and summer 2011. Barataria Bay was one of the most heavily oil areas during the DWH spill. Vermillion Bay received less oil. Fish in Delaware Bay, NJ have been exposed chronic urbanization but not a recent large oil spill. Endpoints included polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) concentrations in digestive tissue as detected by fluorescence aromatic compound spectroscopy (FACs), in whole body tissue as detected by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS) as well as levels of tissue damage determined by histopathology. Whole body analysis by GCMS found limited types of PAHs; however, concentrations were unusually high for teleost fish. FACs found that concentrations of naphthol-like PAHs in GI track tissue were similar between LA and NJ locations in 2010 samples, while hydroxpyrene-like PAHs were actually lower in LA compared to NJ fish. Histopathology showed severe gill and digestive tissue damage in LA but not NJ fish. This damage was also found in 2011 fish from both BBLA and VBLA but not DBNJ fish. Of special note, was the accumulation of micro “tar balls” in vascular tissue including the heart. Overall, it appeared that the oil spill caused significant tissue damage in fish; however, the levels of PAHs in tissues did not always correlate.

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