Presentations from the March 2012 Ross Sea Workshop

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Ainley - How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

Watters - Next Steps in the MPA Debate

Dinniman - Review of Ocean Circulation and Water Masses in the Ross Sea and Vicinity

Russell - The Ocean's Role in Climate: The Ross Sea

Stammerjohn - Ice-Climate Variability in the Ross Sea on Seasonal to Interannual Timescales

Stammerjohn - Sea Ice Movie

Ainley - Response of Ross Sea Organisms to Interannual and Decadal Climate Variation

Arrigo - Variation in Size and Phenology of the Ross Sea Polynya and Relationship to Primary Production

Smith - Factors That Affect Spatial and Temporal Variations in Phytoplankton Biomass, Flux and Production

Murray -Southern Ocean Bacterioplankton: Modulators and Indicators of Ecosystem Function

Barry - Ocean Acidification and Polar Ecosystems

Dayton and Kim - Vulnerability of Ross Sea Benthos to Fishing Disturbance

Barry - Benthic Video Transects

Reiss - Zooplankton in the Ross Sea: A Monitoring Program in a Proposed Marine Protected Area

Eastman - Species Composition and Nature of the Fish Fauna of the High Antarctic Shelf and Ross Sea

Brooks - Antarctic Toothfish Life History & Spatial Distribution of the Top Piscine Predator in the Southern Ocean

Ainley - Decadal Trends in Abundance, Size, and Condition of Antarctic Toothfish in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, 1972 - 2011

Watters - Toothfish Stock Assessment 2011 Reports of WG-FSA, 2009 Report of WG-EMM

Ballard - Modeling of Top Predators to Inform Conservation Spatial Planning in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

Pitman - The Hunger Games: Killer Whales in the Ross Sea

LaRue - Monitoring the Ross Sea From Space: Applications of high-resolution imagery

Ackley - The Southern Ocean Observing System

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