2023

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1. Advancing the next generation of ocean solutions observing systems, Invited Talk and Panel, Capital Hill Ocean Week, Washington DC, 06/2023

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2022

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1. Advancing Ocean-based Solutions to Climate under the UN Ocean Decade, Invited Keynote, BLUE-COP27 Workshop on Climate Change, The British University in Egypt, Egypt, 01/2022

2.   The U.N. GEOS Project on Indigenous and Local Community Leadership for Climate Solutions, Invited Talk and Panel, An Ocean of Change – Fisherwomen and the Climatic Events, Ocean KAN Hub Event, Brazil, 02/2022

3. Climate Extremes and Social-Ecological Dynamics, Invited Seminar, Brown University, USA. 04/2022

4. The UN Ocean Decade Center on Ocean-Climate Solutions and Innovation, US Decade National Committee, NAS, USA, 04/2022

5. Developing Ocean Solutions under the UN Ocean Decade, PICES Annual Meeting 2022, Invited Keynote, South Korea, 9/2022

6. Climate Extremes and Social-Ecological Dynamics, Invited Seminar, University of Connecticut, USA. 09/2022

7. Climate Extremes and Social-Ecological Dynamics, Invited Seminar, University of Rhode Island, USA. 10/2022
    

2021
 

1. US National Pilot: A Shared Roadmap for Coastal Solutions, Invited Talk, Ocean Visions Coastal Solutions Workshop, Virtual, Gulf of Mexico, 04/2021

2. The Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions, Invited Talk, Ocean Visions Summit 2021, Virtual, 05/2021

3. Ocean Visions: Catalyzing Solutions for Ocean and Climate Health, Invited Keynote Plenary, The Global Space Exploration Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 06/2021

4. Empirical Dynamical Model for Understanding & Forecasting Marine Ecosystems Health, Invited Talk, ESMWG Ecological Forecasting, Virtual, 07/2021

5. Mechanisms of Pacific Ocean Variability in a Changing Climate, Invited Seminar, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA, 09/2021

6. Advancing Ocean Solutions for the UN Ocean Decade, Invited Talk and Panel, WCRP South America Climate Research Forum, WCRP Virtual, 09/2021

7. A Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions for the UN Ocean Decade, Opening Remarks, Global Climate Action Symposium, Virtual, 10/2021

8. A National Roadmap for Equitable Coastal Solutions to Climate, Keynote Speaker, Envision Resilience Summit, Virtual, 10/2021

9. Ocean Visions, Catalyzing Solutions for Ocean and Climate Health, Keynote Speaker, Alma Mater Symposium, University of Bologna, 10/2021

10. National Pilot for Shared Roadmap to Coastal Ocean Solutions to Climate, Invited Talk, 26th Biennial Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Conference, CERF Virtual, 10/2021

11. Ocean Solutions and Innovations under the UN Ocean Decade, Blue Economy Forum Africa, OceanHub Africa, Keynote, 10/2021
     

2020
 

1. Ocean Visions, transforming science and engineering into ocean solutions, Invited Talk, AAAS Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA, USA. 02/2020

2. Advances and Challenges in Understanding US Coastal Climate, Invited Presentation, US CLIVAR, Washington DC, USA. 03/2020

3. The impacts of ocean extremes on marine ecosystems of North America, Invited Talk, US CLIVAR PPAI Panel Annual Meeting, Virtual. 07/2020

4. Ocean Visions, transforming science and engineering into ocean solutions, Invited Talk, IMMS Annual Meeting, Virtual. 9/2020

5. Ocean Visions, transforming science and engineering into ocean solutions, Invited Keynote, TMA BlueTech Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA. 11/2020

6. Ocean Extremes and Climate in the Pacific, Invited "Horizon" Lecture, CLEX Annual Meeting, Hobart, Australia. 11/2020
    

2019
 

1. Mechanism underlying the rising of Pacific climate variability, Invited Seminar, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA. 01/2019

2. Mechanism underlying the rising of Pacific climate variability, Invited Seminar, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. 02/2019

3. Rising climate variance and tendency for global synchrony in marine ecological systems, Invited Seminar, Stanford University, Hopkins Station Monterey, CA, USA. 03/2019

4. Modeling and Predicting the impacts of Hurricanes on the Georgia Coast, Invited Seminar, University of Bologna, 06/2019

5. Extra-tropoical ENSO Precursors and Tropical Decadal Variability, Invited Seminar, The Ohio State University, 10/2019

6. Empirical Dynamical Models to Forecast Ecological Indicators in the California Current, Invited Talk, LTER California Current Ecosystem, La Jolla, CA, USA, 10/2019

7. Modeling and Predicting the impacts of Hurricanes on the Georgia Coast, Invited Talk, Savannah Coastal Sea Level Workshop, Savannah, GA, USA, 10/2019

 

2018

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1. North Pacific marine heatwaves under anthropogenic forcing, Invited Talk, AMOS-ICSHMO 2018, Sydney, Australia. 02/2018

2. The impacts of climate on the transitional areas of the Pacific, Invited Keynote Plenary, International Symposium on Pacific Transitional Areas, La Paz, Mexico. 04/2018

3. Pacific climate variability and change: Facts and Theory, Invited Talk, International Symposium on Pacific Transitional Areas, La Paz, Mexico. 04/2018

4. Rising climate variance and tendency for global synchrony in marine ecological systems, Invited Seminar, University of Bologna, Italy, 06/2018

5. Towards Ocean Solutions in Coastal Systems, Invited Keynote, The Future of the Ocean Symposium, Ravenna, Italy, 06/2018

6. Climate Extremes and Social-Ecological Dynamics, Invited Seminar, Georgetown University, USA. 7/2018

7. Upwelling dynamics along eastern boundary current systems, INVEMAR, Santa Marta, Columbia. 9/2018

8. Increasing decadal variability and climate change in the Pacific Ocean, Invited Seminar, Cornuell University, USA. 10/2018

9. Mechanisms of Pacific climate variability and change: observations vs. models, Moore Endowed Lecture, University of Virginia. 11/2018

10. Climate Extremes and Social-Ecological Dynamics, Invited Seminar, University of Virginia. 11/2018

 

2017

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1. A framework to understand and quantify the diversity of ENSO, Invited Lecture, ASLO Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 02/2017

2. Evidence for stronger and more prolonged marine heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific, Invited Seminar, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 02/2017

3. A Rocky Ride to a Warmer Future: The North Pacific Great Anomaly 2013-2016, Invited Keynote, Gordon Research Conference on coastal ocean dynamics, University of New England, USA, 06/2017

4. Recent changes in Pacific climate, Invited Seminar, Center EuroMediterranean on Climate Change, Italy, 06/2017

5. Mechanisms of Pacific climate variability, Invited Talk, US CLIVAR Summit 2017, Maryland, USA. 08/17

6. Uncharted Waters: A Forum on the Ocean and Climate Change, Invited Contribution, COMPASS Forum, Los Altos, CA, USA. 10/2017

7. The role of the South Pacific in decadal climate variability, Invited Speaker, Fifth Congress of Physical Oceanography, Meteorology, and Climate of the Eastern South Pacific, University of Conception, Chile. 11/2017

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2016

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1. Record warming of the North Pacific between 2014-2015, Invited Keynote, Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. 01/2016

2. Climate teleconnections of the 2014/15 warm blob, Invited Talk, Pacific Warm Blob Workshop, Anchorage, Seattle, WA, USA. 01/2016

3. On the nature of Pacific decadal variability and unusual warming in 2014, Laura Randall Schweppe Lecture, University Texas, TX, USA. 02/2016

4. Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics of the Pacific, Frank & Marjorie Meek Endowed Lecture, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. 04/2016

5. The North Pacific marine heat wave of 2014/15, Frank & Marjorie Meek Endowed, University of Alaska, Juneau, Alaska, USA. 04/2016

6. The North Pacific marine heat wave of 2014/15, Invited Lecture, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. 04/2016

7. 25 Years of Variability in Ocean Conditions on the Ecosystems of the North Pacific, Invited Talk, PICES 25th Anniversary Symposium, San Diego, CA, USA. 10/2016

8. Stronger marine heatwaves under greenhouse forcing, Invited Keynote, The next 70 years of CalCOFI Symposium, San Diego, CA, USA. 12/2016

 

2015

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1. On the nature of Pacific decadal variability and unusual warming in 2014, Invited Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA. 02/2015

2. Advances and Challenges in Forecasting Pacific climate, Invited Lecture, University of Bologna, Italy. 04/2015

3. The discovery of the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation, Invited Seminar, University of Ravenna, Italy. 04/2015

4. Pacific climate and salmon production, Invited Keynote, NPAFC International Symposium on Pacific Salmon and Steelhead Production in a Changing Climate: Past, Present, and Future, Kobe, Japan. 05/2015

5. Changing character of North Pacific decadal variability and impacts on salmon, Invited Keynote,  California Salmon and Climate Variability Symposium at University of California Davis, USA. 09/2015

6. Forecasting Pacific Climate and Ecosystems: Advances and Challenges, Invited Keynote,  The 3rd CLIOTOP Symposium, San Sebastian, Spain. 09/2015

7. Persistent Record Warming of the North Pacific between 2014-2015, Invited Talk, PICES Annual Meeting, Qingdao, China. 10/2015

8. Towards a social-ecological-environmental system approach to coastal ocean sciences, Invited Talk, FUTURE-PICES Mini-Symposium, Qingdao, China. 10/2015

 

2014

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1. Ocean Ecosystems Forecasting Responses to Climate Forcing, Invited Speaker, 2014 LTER Mini-symposium, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, USA. 02/2014

2. Towards a social-ecological-environmental system approach to coastal ocean sciences, Invited Seminar, Stanford University, CA, USA. 03/2014

3. How does Pacific climate impact marine ecosystems? Towards a social-ecological-environmental approach, Invited Seminar, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA. 03/2014

4. A Filtering-Hypothesis to explain Climate Synchrony in Fish Populations, Invited Talk, PICES Open Science Symposium, Kohala Coast, Kona, HI, USA. 04/2014

5. Pacific Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics, Invited Seminar, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, Honolulu, HI, USA. 07/2014

 

2013

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1. Mechanisms of Pacific climate variability and change, Invited Keynote, International Symposium on climate Variability and Change on Marine Resources and Fisheries in the South Pacific, Conception, Chile. 01/2013

2. Zonal and Meridional Modes interactions amplify Pacific decadal climate, Invited Talk, ICCL 2013 Expert Assessment Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability and Cross-Scale Interactions, Beijing, China. 04/2013

3. Pacific climate impacts on marine ecosystems, Invited Seminar, National Key Laboratory for Atmospheric and Geophysical Studies LASG, Beijing, China. 04/2013

4. Global assessment of the implications of climate change on the spatial distribution of fish and fisheries, Invited Participant, ICES/PICES Strategic Initiative on Climate Change Effects on Marine Ecosystems Workshop, St. Petersburg, Russia, 05/2013

5. Changes in North Pacific climate variance and impact on ocean ecosystems, Invited Talk, PICES Annual Meeting, Nanaimo, Canada, 10/2013

6. How does Pacific climate impact marine ecosystems? Towards a social-ecological-environmental approach, Invited Seminar, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA. 11/2013

7. Predicting coastal hypoxia in the California Current, Invited Talk, Coastal Hypoxia Workshop, Center for Ocean Solutions, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 12/2013

 

2012

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1. ENSO and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation: towards an integrated view of Pacific Climate, Invited Seminar, Old Dominion University. 03/2012.

2. Pacific climate variability, transport dynamics and ecosystem response, Invited Keynote, Oceans of Change P/ICES International Meeting, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. 04/2012

3. Advancing U.S. - DPRK Relations through Science Engagement Meeting, Invited, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy. 04/2012

4. ENSO and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation: towards an integrated view of Pacific Climate, Invited Seminar, University of Miami. 05/2012.

5. Understanding changes in Pacific Climate, Invited Seminar, University of Naples Pathenope, Italy. 06/2012

 

2011

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1. Mechanisms for coherent variations between the North Pacific boundary current systems, Invited Talk,IUGG International Meeting, Melbounre, Australia. 06/2011

2. Pacific Decadal Variability in a Changing Climate, Invited Keynote, DOE PI Meeting, Washington DC. 10/2011

3. A null hypothesis to explain marine ecosystem response to climate change, Invited Speaker,Mechanisms of the Marine Ecosystem Reorganization in the North Pacific Ocean PICES Meeting, Khabarovsk, Russia. 10/11

4. Central Pacific El Nino and decadal climate change in the North Pacific Ocean, Invited Seminar,University of Delaware. 11/11

 

2010

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1. ENSO and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation: towards an integrated view of Pacific Climate, Invited Seminar, GFDL, Princeton, NJ. 01/2010.

2. ENSO and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation: towards an integrated view of Pacific Climate, Invited Talk,Ocean Sciences, Portland, OR. 02/2010.

3. Regime shifts or continuum in ecosystems of the Northeast Pacific, Invited Talk, Ocean Sciences, Portland, OR. 02/2010.

4. Central Pacific El Nino and decadal climate change in the North Pacific, Invited Talk, International AGU Western Pacific Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan. 06/2010.

 

2009

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1. ENSO and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation: a paradigm for Pacific Climate Variability, Invited Talk,Oregon State University, 03/2009

2. Applying IPCC-class Models of Global Warming to Fisheries Prediction, Invited Talk, Princeton University, 06/2009

3. ENSO and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation: towards an integrated view of Pacific Climate, Invited Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 10/2009.

4. Workshop and conference on Biogeochemical Impacts of Climate and Land-Use Changes on Marine Ecosystems, Invited Lecturer and Speaker, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. 11/2009.

 

2008

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1. North Pacific Gyre Oscillation links ocean climate to ecosystem change Invited Seminar, University of Georgia, Athens. 02/2008.

2. Linking Pacific decadal variations in the tropics and extratropics, Invited Seminar, University of California Santa Cruz. 02/2008.

3. North Pacific Gyre Oscillation links ocean climate to ecosystem change, Invited Talk, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL. 03/2008.

4. North Pacific Gyre Oscillation links ocean climate to ecosystem change Invited Seminar, University of California Santa Barbara. 03/2008.

5. North Pacific Gyre Oscillation: linking decadal variations in the extra-tropics and tropics, Invited Seminar, MIT. 03/2008.

6. North Pacific Gyre Oscillation: impacts of large-scale forcing on boundary circulations, upwelling and ecosystems, Invited Speaker, Eastern Boundary Current System International Symposium, Gran Canarie, Spain. 06/2008

7. ENSO and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation, Invited Talk, OFES Workshop Japan, 08/2008

8. North Pacific Decadal Variability in the FUTURE, talk and invited participant, PICES Annual Meeting, Dalian, China. 10/2008

9. Theory and Applications of Variational, Sequential and Bayesian Hierarchical Methods in Data Assimilation, Invited Talk, AGU Fall 2008 Session, San Francisco. 12/2008

 

2007

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1. Advanced Data Assimilation Methods: Theory and Implementation of the Inverse Ocean Modeling System, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. 4/2007 (invited talk).

2. The Regional Ocean Modeling System, NOAA training workshop, Washington DC. 4/2007

3. Weak and strong constraint 4D-variational data assimilation: theories and applications, Gordon Conference, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH. 6/2007 (invited talk).

4. Basin-scale climate feedback and biological implications of North Pacific eastern boundary dynamics,ICES/PICES Early Career Scientist Conference, Baltimore, Maryland. 6/2007 (keynote speaker).

5. North Pacific Gyre Oscillation links ocean climate to ecosystem change PICES Workshop on Climate Projections, Victoria, British Columbia. 10/2007 (invited talk).

6. North Pacific Gyre Oscillation links ocean climate to ecosystem change Invited Seminar, University of California Santa Cruz. 10/2007.

7. North Pacific Gyre Oscillation links ocean climate to ecosystem change Invited Seminar, University of Hawaii. 11/2007.

8. Linking the tropic to extra-tropical variability: North Pacific Gyre Oscillation Invited Talk, AGU Fall 2007 Session, San Francisco. 12/2007.

 

2006

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1. The Inverse Regional Ocean Modeling System (IROMS): development and application to data assimilation of coastal mesoscale eddies, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. 2/2006 (invited seminar).

2. The Inverse Regional Ocean Modeling System (IROMS): development and application to data assimilation of coastal mesoscale eddies, Woodshole Institution of Oceanography, Woodshole, MA. 3/2006 (invited seminar).

3. The Inverse Regional Ocean Modeling System (IROMS): development and application to data assimilation of coastal mesoscale eddies, Bologna University, Bologna, Italy. 4/2006 (invited seminar).

4. Intrinsic oceanic decadal variability in the North Pacific generated in the Eastern Boundary Current System, PICES Yokohama 15th Annual Meeting Boundary current ecosystems, Yokohama, Japan. 10/2006 (contributed/invited).

5. Climate Impacts on the California Current Ecosystems Workshop, University of San Diego California, San Diego, CA. 11/2006 (invited attendee).

6. Modeling and Analysis Steering Team (MAST) for the US integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Planning Workshop, Ocean.US Washington DC. 11/2006 (invited attendee).

 

2005

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1. The Inverse Regional Ocean Modeling System (IROMS): development and application to data assimilation of coastal mesoscale eddies, TOMS Data Assimilation Meeting, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA. 10/2005 (keynote speaker).

2. Large Scale Eddies in the Gulf of Alaska, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 11/2005 (invited seminar).

 

2004

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1. The warming of the California Current: Dynamics, thermodynamics and ecosystem implications. DecVar Workshop, Waikoloa, HI. 2/2004 (invited).

2. Bouyancy Driven Eddies in the Gulf of Alaska, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, CA, 5/2004 (invited seminar).

 

2003

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1. Adjoint modeling with ROMS. North-East Pacific Ocean modeling meeting. University of Washington, Seattle,WA. 01/2003 (invited talk).

2. Low Frequency changes in Temperature and Salinity in the California Current System: Observations and Models. University of Rutgers, NJ. 01/2003 (invited seminar).

3. The warming of the California Current: Dynamics, thermodynamics and ecosystem implications.Georgia Institute of Technology. HI. 03/2003 (invited seminar)

4. The warming of the California Current: Dynamics, thermodynamics and ecosystem implications. PODS II, Waikoloa, HI. 11/2003 (invited).

 

1999-2002

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1. Recent developments on the ROMS coupled physical-biological PE model and its application to the California Current. Italian National Research Council, Bologna, Italy. 12/1998 (invited).

2. Use of satellite Chl-a data for data assimilation in a coupled physical-biological PE model. SeaWiFS Group Meeting, Monterey, CA 05/1999(invited talk).

3. Assimilation with an ocean primitive equation using the Greens Function method. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA. 06/1999(invited seminar).

4. Fitting the CalCOFI hydrographic dataset with an ocean primitive equation model in the California Current. Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA. 11/1999 (invited seminar).

5. Fitting the CalCOFI hydrographic dataset with an ocean primitive equation model in the California Current. Italian National Research Council, Bologna, Italy. 12/1999 (invited seminar).

6. Eddy dynamics and ecosystem response in the Southern California Current System. 2001 An Ocean Odyssey, Mar del Plata, Argentina. 10/2001 (invited talk).

7. Seasonal Dynamics of the Southern California Current System. Institute for Ocean Sciences, Sidney, Canada. 10/2002 (invited seminar).

8. On the dynamics of the California Current System. University of Victoria, Canada. 10/2002 (invited seminar).

9. The warming of the California Current: Dynamics, thermodynamics and ecosystem implications.University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI. 11/2002 (invited seminar).