NCLIM Phase 1 (2020-2023)

Building multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and modelling capacity is a key to the development and testing of adaptive management responses. The NCLIM team identified research track stock assessments as an initial path to integrate regional climate research with fisheries management processes. One goal of this approach is to identify climate uncertainties and their impacts on regional fisheries management and to develop candidate climate-informed stock assessments to supplement or replace current methods and provide improved advice. Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) is a key tool that can leverage NCLIM’s modeling framework to account for climate uncertainties, test current and candidate climate-informed assessments, and evaluate stakeholder-defined objectives to support fishery decision making.

Objectives of NCLIM Phase 1 Include:

1️⃣ Building a Community of Practice

Meeting Goals:

  1. Advance capacity of the broad regional team to develop products that support fisheries and marine resource management, as well as a general understanding of a changing marine ecosystem
  2. Promote mutual learning across disciplines to enable integration and linkages across individual research and modeling efforts
  3. Transfer of climate knowledge, tools, and products within NOAA to the region

Join the Northeast Climate-Fisheries Seminar Series

This seminar series will focus on sharing climate-fisheries research in the U.S. Northeast region with the goal of building broader awareness of efforts across research groups and facilitating collaboration. We invite presentations on research projects that are either in progress or recently completed. We anticipate talks will cover a variety of themes, including:

  1. Advances in ocean observations, modeling, and prediction
  2. Mechanistic studies of climate/environmental impacts on marine fish and invertebrates
  3. Marine species habitat, distribution, and abundance modeling,
  4. Climate enhanced stock assessments and fisheries management
  5. Climate informed studies on human dimensions and economics.

The series is held on the last Thursday of each month from noon to 1pm. Remote Access through Google Meet:
https://meet.google.com/paw-jhrb-nzr

2️⃣ Building an Integrated Modeling Framework


The NCLIM modeling framework aims to integrate:
  1. Global climate models
  2. Regional oceanographic models
  3. Ecosystem and population models
  4. Human dimensions models

Our development of an integrated modeling framework has progressed during the initial phase of NCLIM and leverages several aspects of ongoing research, including advances in regional ocean modeling (i.e., NOAA-GFDL MOM6 model), a next generation stock assessment (i.e., Woods Hole Assessment Model, WHAM), and an existing management strategy evaluation framework (i.e., Groundfish-MSE). We have also made significant progress on development of a dynamic range model that simulates a spatially explicit age structured population that can emulate temperature dependence of life processes (e.g., recruitment, natural mortality, and dispersal). The framework is built for testing the robustness of fisheries management strategies to climate change impacts, including shifting species distribution and changes in fish productivity.