Technology pathways could help drive the U.S. West Coast grid’s exposure to hydrometeorological uncertainty

One of the significant challenges to using information and ideas generated through ecosystem models and analyses for ecosystem-based fisheries management is the disconnect between modeling and management needs. Here we present a case study from the U.S. West Coast, the stakeholder review of NOAA’s annual ecosystem status report for the California Current Ecosystem established by the Pacific Fisheries Management Council’s Fisheries Ecosystem Plan, showcasing a process to identify management priorities that require information from ecosystem models and analyses. We then assess potential ecosystem models and analyses that could help address the identified policy concerns. We screened stakeholder comments and found 17 comments highlighting the need for ecosystem-level synthesis. Policy needs for ecosystem science included: (1) assessment of how the environment affects productivity of target species to improve forecasts of biomass and reference points required for setting harvest limits, (2) assessment of shifts in the spatial distribution of target stocks and protected species to anticipate changes in availability and the potential for interactions between target and protected species, (3) identification of trophic interactions to better assess tradeoffs in the management of forage species between the diet needs of dependent predators, the resilience of fishing communities, and maintenance of the forage species themselves, and (4) synthesis of how the environment affects efficiency and profitability in fishing communities, either directly via extreme events (e.g., storms) or indirectly via climate-driven changes in target species availability. We conclude by exemplifying an existing management process established on the U.S. West Coast that could be used to enable the structured, iterative, and interactive communication between managers, stakeholders, and modelers that is key to refining existing ecosystem models and analyses for management use.

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Interannual to multidecadal climate forcings on groundwater resources of the U.S. West Coast

Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies ◽

10.1016/j.ejrh.2015.11.018 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

pp. 250-265 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Elzie M. Velasco ◽

Jason J. Gurdak ◽

Jesse E. Dickinson ◽

T.P.A. Ferré ◽

Claudia R. Corona

Keyword(s):

West Coast ◽

Groundwater Resources ◽

Climate Forcings ◽

The U.S

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“Detained Alien Enemy Mail: Examined”

Life of Paper ◽

10.1525/california/9780520296237.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Sharon Luk

Keyword(s):

West Coast ◽

East Asian ◽

Public Life ◽

Mass Incarceration ◽

Dominant Mode ◽

Nation State ◽

Human Knowledge ◽

History Of ◽

Asian Pacific ◽

The U.S

Chapter Three investigates systematic efforts to dismantle Japanese diasporic communities living on the U.S. West coast alongside the broader emergence of a U.S. wartime security or surveillance state. This chapter explores the expansion of infrastructures to control the limits of human knowledge and information, as it occurred through two interlocked and evolving movements: first, intensified experiments with mass incarceration as dominant mode of organizing public life and culture; and second, the transforming production of racial distinction through conflated languages of geopolitics and nation-state citizenship, culture or ethnicity, and moral affect. In particular, Chapter Three elaborates these movements as they unfolded within a longer history of U.S. warfare in the East Asian Pacific and as they established the physical, administrative, discursive, and subjective forms of censorship conditioning the life of paper for the “Interned.”

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Sea Turtles of the U.S. West Coast:

10.2307/j.ctv21hrddc.8 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 88-110

Author(s):

SCOTT R. BENSON ◽

PETER H. DUTTON

Keyword(s):

West Coast ◽

Sea Turtles ◽

The U.S

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