Co-hosted with the Fisheries & Oceans Canada from 12:30 – 1:30 pm PT
The Salish Sea Science Roundtable online speaker series continues on Tuesday, January 7 from 12:30 – 1:30 pm.
How have ocean conditions, lower trophic level dynamics, and species interactions shaped the Strait of Georgia’s marine ecosystem over the past 40 years? What long-term changes can we anticipate in the future? Greig Oldford with Fisheries & Oceans Canada will highlight insights generated via integration of the Ecospace ecosystem model with a custom NEMO-based oceanographic hindcast. This ‘End-to-End’ model is being used to evaluate hypotheses scoped by the Canada-US Salish Sea Marine Survival Project (SSMSP) related to synergistic effects of predation, prey availability, habitat, competition, and other factors on the productivity of Pacific salmon. The potential for decadal-scale ecosystem forecasting will also be highlighted.
Roundtables occur virtually on the first Tuesday of each month as a way to share emerging science that is shaping Salish Sea ecosystem recovery.