2024 PICES Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawai’i

BECI is a multinational interdisciplinary project hosted by PICES that aims to provide forward-looking decision support for fisheries and ecosystem-based management in the North Pacific Ocean in a changing climate. We are building a collaborative network of modellers and practitioners in the North Pacific to advance ensemble modelling goals, including:

1. To contribute to a North Pacific Ocean Marine Ecosystem Model Ensemble (NOMEME) that could be used to inform transboundary fisheries management under climate change, that links to other global and regional model intercomparison initiatives.
2. To develop useful decision-support processes/tools for integrating climate/environmental drivers into fisheries and ecosystem models at regional scales specifically for the North Pacific.

The goals of this workshop include to:

1. Engage with a community of species, fisheries, ecosystem, climate and oceanographic modellers working in the North Pacific;
2. Discuss attributes and considerations of different models and ensemble initiatives in the North Pacific and identify best practices for ensemble development;
3. Identify best practices for ensemble development and start developing a protocol for a North Pacific Ocean Marine Ecosystem Model Ensemble (NOMEME), including key standardisation factors, focal species/fisheries, management targets.