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IN MEMORIAM CalCOFI Rep., Vol. 47, 2006 Fisheries Research Division he excelled in three functions: providing clean files of oceanographic data to other researchers; setting the mathematical procedures for establishing Julian day equations still used on CalCOFI cruises for estimation of contemporary physical oceanographic anomalies; and participating with Ron Lynn and Ken Bliss in the analysis of temperature, salinity, oxygen, stability, and geostrophic flow in the complex oceanic habitat of the California Current and adjacent regions. In the latter instance, Larry wrote the analysis software used on the CalCOFI data, as well as the EDMAP contouring programs for producing surface plots—programs that continued to be used by oceanography students and a wide array of his colleagues for decades after their inception. He subsequently joined biologists Geoff Moser and Paul Smith in describing the effect of the great 1957–58 El Niño on the habitat boundaries, biota, and physical properties of the California Current. He also joined Mark Ohman and 6 Paul Smith in the analysis of zooplankton spatial patterns using the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler echo amplitude files. Larry Eber graduated from high school at Avalon, Catalina Island at the onset of World War II and attended Junior College and the UCLA Department of Meteorology where Jacob Bjerknes was his mentor. Eber’s war duty was with the First Cavalry Division in Australia, the Philippines, and Japan where he attained the rank of Staff Sergeant. He joined a team in Hawaii in a fruitless effort to induce more rainfall over pineapple plantations. In 1992, after 39 years of Federal service, he retired from NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla. Larry is survived by his wife of 56 years, Audrey, two children and two grandchildren. Eber’s modesty, creativity and service are sorely missed. Ron Dotson Paul Smith
COMMITTEE REPORT CalCOFI Rep., Vol. 47, 2006 Part I REPORTS, REVIEW, AND PUBLICATIONS In 2005, participants in the CalCOFI Conference were offered the opportunity to register electronically. Those paying fees individually were encouraged to pay via PayPal using either a credit card or established PayPal account. This provides several advantages to the conveners (for instance, we no longer have to decode handwritten registration information, or handle large numbers of personal checks and cash). We have established a listserve for electronic communications. We have encouraged electronic registration for the 2006 conference and expect to continue this in the future. Because this is an evolving process, we welcome your feedback. At this writing, all published CalCOFI Atlases are being scanned and will be made available as searchable .pdf files on the Scripps/CalCOFI web site (www. calcofi.org; follow link to publications, then to atlases), much as the CalCOFI Reports have been. Ultimately, we hope to link the Atlases with the underlying data. PACOOS The California Current flows affect the ecology, weather, climate and economies of the entire West Coast of North America. The Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System (PaCOOS) is an umbrella organization of federal and state agencies and academic partners that is developing ocean-observing products and services that are transboundary in nature and apply to the entire region (three countries and three Regional Associations). The present focus is on data management and modeling activities leading eventually towards ecological forecasts. There is an annual Board of Governors meeting and ad hoc Committees on data management, modeling, and ocean observing. More information about PaCOOS can be found at (www.pacoos.org). Under the auspices of PaCOOS, the following activities relating to CalCOFI occurred in the 2005–06 timeframe: 1. Reoccupation of the CalCOFI survey line off Humbolt, CA conducted by NOAA and Humbolt State University began in May 2006. 2. Monterey Bay Area Research Institute (MBARI), the Naval Post-Graduate School and the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) continue to conduct the quarterly central-California CalCOFI survey line. REPORT OF THE CALCOFI COMMITTEE 3. A quarterly Oregon survey line off of Newport, OR by NOAA began in April 2006. 4. NOAA and PaCOOS partners continue to develop data management capabilities; eventually the following ecological data will be served online: a. West Coast oceanographic data including the NOAA CalCOFI dataset (http://www.pfeg.noaa. gov/products/las.html), b. West Coast benthic habitat data that will be available online in 2006, c. National Marine Sanctuary West Coast data, d. Krill time-series data in southern and central California by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and University of California, Santa Cruz. The PaCOOS governing body also matured with the establishment of an Executive Committee and coordinators at both the NOAA Northwest and Southwest Fisheries Science Centers as well as two academics representing the interests of the Regional Associations. Two workshops occurred in 2006 on biological data management and integration of CalCOFI data with ecological and physical data from Mexican and Canadian counterparts as well as on biological survey sampling methodologies for the California Current. SCCOOS Since July 2004, funding from the Southern California Coastal Observing System (SCCOOS) has allowed CalCOFI surveys to occupy a suite of nine stations near or on the 20 fm depth contour. Preliminary examination of the physical, chemical, and bulk biological parameters indicates that the nearshore high-production zone is well covered by SCCOOS stations and by some CalCOFI inshore stations. Ongoing work focuses on differences in community structure and differences in the abundance of fish larvae in the nearshore and the CalCOFI coastal stations. CCE/LTER In 2004, the CalCOFI region was recognized by the National Science Foundation as a Long-Term Ecological Research area: the California Current Ecosystem (CCE). In May, the program initiated its first experimental process 7
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