Older Presentations

2015

• Krill of the California Current: Relevance to salmon in the Greater Gulf of the Farallones 
  William Sydeman
  Invited presentation for the California Salmon and Climate Variability Symposium. Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute, University of California, Davis.

• Data synthesis: Anchovy and sardine consumption by California Current predators 
  Amber Szoboszlai, Julie Thayer, and William Sydeman
  American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon.

• California Current Predator Diet Database: Seabirds and forage species 
  Amber Szoboszlai, Julie Thayer, and William Sydeman
  Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting. San Jose, California.

• Climate change and coastal upwelling drivers 
  Marisol Garcia-Reyes, William J. Sydeman, David S. Schoeman, Ryan Rykaczewski, Bryan A. Black, Sarah Ann Thompson, Arthur Miller, Andrew Bakun, and Steven J. Bograd
  PICES Third International Symposium: Effects of Climate Change on the World's Oceans. Santos City, Brazil.

• Of fish, seabirds, and trees: The past, present, and future of upwelling ecosystems (Lessons learned from the California Current) 
  William J. Sydeman, on behalf of the Past-Present-Future Upwelling Team
  PICES Third International Symposium: Effects of Climate Change on the World's Oceans. Santos City, Brazil.

• Variable responses of breeding seabirds to fireworks disturbance
  Heather J. Robinson, Julie A. Thayer, Victoria Seher, and William J. Sydeman
  Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting. San Jose, California.

• Under pressure: The past, present, and future of the California Current Upwelling Ecosystem 
  William J. Sydeman
  John and Mary Louise Riley Spring Seminar Series, Bodega Marine Lab, UC Davis. Bodega Bay, California.

• Seabird responses to unusual oceanographic conditions in the Northeast Pacific, 2014-2015: Mass mortality and regional-scale breeding success 
  William J. Sydeman, Marisol Garcia-Reyes, Sarah Ann Thompson, Grant Humphries, Heather Renner, Don Dragoo, Daniel W. Anderson, Frank Gress, Enriqueta Velarde, John F. Piatt, Yutaka Watanuki, Julia K. Parrish
  2014-2015 Pacific Anomalies Science and Technology Workshop ("Blob" Workshop). San Diego, California.

2014

• Tipping points, seabird indicators and mid trophic level fish in the North Pacific 
  William J. Sydeman, Sarah Ann Thompson, Marisol Garcia-Reyes, Yutaka Watanuki, Heather Renner, John F. Piatt, and Stephani Zador
  PICES 2014 Annual Meeting. Yeosu, Korea.

• Modeling temporal variation in krill swarms: size, intensity, persistence and coherence with krill predators 
  Jarrod A. Santora, Jeffrey Dorman, and William J. Sydeman
  PICES 2014 Annual Meeting. Yeosu, Korea.

• Developing Multivariate Ocean-Climate Indicators for the Kona IEA 
  William J. Sydeman, Marisol Garcia-Reyes, and Nate Mantua
  Symposium on Kona's Marine Ecosystem: Trends and Status. Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

• Climate change and wind intensification in coastal upwelling ecosystems 
  Sarah Ann Thompson, William J. Sydeman, Marisol Garcia-Reyes, David S. Schoeman, Ryan R. Rykaczewski, Bryan A. Black, and Steven J. Bograd
  5th Annual Pacific Northwest Climate Science Conference. Seattle, Washington.

• Challenges and opportunities for assessment and attribution of climate change impacts on North Pacific seabirds 
  William J. Sydeman, Sarah Ann Thompson, Julie A. Thayer, Mike Litzow, Marisol Garcia-Reyes, Jarrod A. Santora, Heather Renner, John F. Piatt, and Yutaka Watanuki
  PICES FUTURE Open Science Meeting. Kohala Coast, Big Island, Hawaii.

• Past, present, future of coastal upwelling and ecosystems in California 
  Marisol Garcia-Reyes, William J. Sydeman, Bryan A. Black, Ryan R. Rykaczewski, Steven J. Bograd
  Sonoma State University, Department of Biology seminar. Rohnert Park, California.

2013

• Modeling krill "hotspots" in the central California Current: results from variation in diel vertical migration schemes 
  Jeffrey G. Dorman, Ramona L. Zeno, Jarrod A. Santora, and William J. Sydeman
  North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) Annual Meeting. Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. 
  ***Winner of Best Presentation Award in the Biological Oceanography session

• What do global climate models say about increasing variance in the California Current upwelling ecosystem? 
  Marisol Garcia-Reyes, William Sydeman, Ryan Rykaczewski, Allison Wiener, Isaac Schroeder, and Steven Bograd
  North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) Annual Meeting. Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.

• Seabird responses to shifts in prey resources 
  William J. Sydeman
  NSF LTER program review meeting. San Diego, California.

• Deriving multivariate ocean-climate indicators in support of monitoring ecosystem change in California’s MPAs 
  William Sydeman, Sarah Ann Thompson, Marisol Garcia-Reyes, Mati Kahru, and John Largier
  MPA Monitoring meeting hosted by California Ocean Science Trust. Monterey, California.

• On the move: Database considerations for synthesis and meta-analyses of climatic impacts on fish/fisheries distributions 
  William J. Sydeman
  North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) meeting. St. Petersburg, Russia.

• Regionalizing seabirds as indicators of forage fish in Alaska 
  Sarah Ann Thompson, William J. Sydeman, Heather Renner, and John F. Piatt
  North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) Annual Meeting. Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.

• Preliminary steps to statistical downscaling of an ensemble of GCM output for the California upwelling region 
  Allison R. Wiener, Marisol Garcia-Reyes, Ryan Rykaczewski, Steven J. Bograd, and William J. Sydeman
  North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) Annual Meeting. Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.

2012

• Variabilidad del clima y del ecosistema en la Corriente de California
  Marisol Garcia-Reyes
  Merida, Mexico

• Coastal upwelling: fluctuations in wind and how it enriches the ocean
  Marisol Garcia-Reyes
  Bodega Marine Laboratory seminar

• Fantasy or real-life winds 
  Marisol García-Reyes and William J. Sydeman
  Eastern Pacific Ocean Conference. Timberline, Oregon.

• Wavelet decomposition of upwelling: integrating synoptic-scale forcing with ecosystem (krill) response 
  Marisol García-Reyes and William J. Sydeman
  North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) Annual Meeting. Hiroshima, Japan.

• Marine bird hotzones in the California Current 
  Marcel Losekoot, Jarrod A. Santora, William J. Sydeman, Trisha Distler, Anna Z. Weinstein, Melanie A. Smith, Nathan Walker, and Ken H. Morgan  
  Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting. Turtle Bay, Hawaii.

• Climate change impacts on the pelagic ecosystem of Southern California: Trophic level comparisons and connections
  William J. Sydeman, Sarah Ann Thompson, J. Anthony Koslow, Ralf Goericke, Marisol García-Reyes, and Mark D. Ohman  
  2nd Annual Symposium of Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans. Yeosu, Korea.

• Climate change imprints on marine life based on long-term observations
  William J. Sydeman
  Ocean Sciences Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, Utah.

• Meta-analysis of global seabird-climate relationships
  William J. Sydeman, Sarah Ann Thompson, Jarrod A. Santora, and Julie A. Thayer
  Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting, Turtle Bay, Hawaii.

• Forage fish ecology and management in the California Current with an emphasis on predator needs
  Julie A. Thayer
  Friday Harbor Forage Fish Symposium. Friday Harbor, Washington.

2011

• Global Meta-Analysis of Seabird-Climate Relationships
  William J. Sydeman Sarah Ann Thompson Jarrod A. Santora Julie A. Thayer

• Mechanisms of Ecosystem Change: An Ecosystem Case History from the California Current
  William J. Sydeman

2010

• Aggregative, Functional, and Numerical Responses of Seabirds to Variation in Prey Availability
  William J. Sydeman and Stephani Zador

• California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA), Module II: Trends and Variability in Climate-Ecosystem State
  William J. Sydeman, Sarah Ann Thompson, and Franklin B. Schwing

• Comparing pathways of functional response of top predators to seasonality of upwelling in the California Current
  Sarah Ann Thompson, William J. Sydeman, Jarrod A. Santora, Robert M. Suryan, Bryan A. Black, William T. Peterson, and John Clambakidis

• Ocean Climate Change and Phenology: Effects on Trophic Synchrony and Consequences to Fish and Seabirds in the North-Central California Current 
  William J. Sydeman, Bryan A. Black, Steven J. Bograd, Jeff Dorman, John C. Field, Kyra L. Mills, Stephen Ralston, T. Zack Powell, Jarrod A. Santora, Isaac D. Schroeder, Sarah Ann Thompson, and Franklin B. Schwing

• Ocean Observing, Climate Variability and Ecosystem Change
  William J. Sydeman

• Seabird Community Composition and Environmental Relationships on Line P, 1996-2006
  Sarah Ann Thompson, William J. Sydeman, Ken H. Morgan, Jarrod A. Santora

• Seabird Sentinels of Line P: Progress on Understanding Climatic-Oceanographic Relationships
  Sarah Ann Thompson, William J. Sydeman, Patrick D. O’Hara and Ken H. Morgan

2009

• Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Recent Mismatches in Food Availability to Salmon and Seabirds in California
  William J. Sydeman and Steven J. Bograd

• Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Using Seabirds
  Kyra J. Mills and William J. Sydeman

• Modeling Krill Habitat in the Northern-Central California Current System
  William J. Sydeman, Jarrod A. Santora, John C. Field, Steven Ralston, Steven Bograd, Nandita Sarkar, Robert M. Suryan

• The North Coast Program: Bodega Line and Salmon Management
  William J. Sydeman

• Climate Change and North Pacific Marine Ecosystems: What are the Seabirds Telling Us?
  William Sydeman, Kyra Mills, Vern Byrd, Heather Renner, Yutaka Watanuki, and Shoshiro Minobe

• Acoustic Krill Distribution: Central California 2002-2006
  Jarrod Santora

• Macro-ecology of North Pacific Ecosystems: Seabird-Plankton Associations in Time and Space
  William J. Sydeman, Sarah Ann Thompson, Jarrod A. Santora, Michael F. Henry, Ken H. Morgan, and Sonia D. Batten

• Rockfish, Seabirds, and the Importance of Wintertime Ocean Conditions in the California Current
  Bryan Black, William J. Sydeman, Isaac Schroeder, Steven J. Bograd, and Peter Lawson

• Integrating Indicators: A Progress Report
  William J. Sydeman, Steven J. Bograd, Frank B. Schwing, Steve Ralston, Alec D. MacCall, Chet E. Grosch, Kyra L. Mills, and Julie A. Thayer

• Seabirds as Indicators: Comparative Ecosystem Dynamics in Temperate and Tropical Upwelling Areas
  Kyra L. Mills and William J. Sydeman

• Bodega Line: Predator Mapping Survey Accomplishments
  Jarrod Santora and Bill Sydeman

2008

• The California Current Integrated Ecological Database (CCIED): Linking Ocean Observing with Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEA)
  Sarah Ann Thompson, William J. Sydeman Franklin B. Schwing, John L. Largier, and William T. Peterson

• Climate change, salmon, and marine ecosystem changes in northern California
  William J. Sydeman

• Climate Change, Upwelling, and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Gulf of the Farallones, CA
  William J. Sydeman, Robert M. Suryan, Russell W Bradley, Pete Warzybok, Julie A Thayer, John Largier, Marisol Garcia, Steve Ralston, and Joelle Buffa

• Do seabirds at sea reflect krill abundance and patch structure in the California Current System?
  Jarrod A. Santora, William J. Sydeman, and Steve Ralston

• Marine Birds and Mammals on Line P
  Bill Sydeman and Ken Morgan

2007

• Patterns of variability and change in tropical and temperate oceans
  Nate Mantua

• Macroecological patterns in North Pacific ecosystem dynamics: Spatio-temporal co-variation in lower and upper trophic level diversity and productivity from Canada to Japan
  Mike Henry, Sonia Batten, David Hyrenbach, Ken Morgan, and William Sydeman

• Ocean Climate and Marine Ecosystems: Indicators of Change in Structure and Productivity
  William J. Sydeman

• Wings and Fins: Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Using Seabirds
  Kyra L. Mills and William J. Sydeman