Motivation:
To develop essential understandings of the mechanisms of North Pacific climate variability & change that can better guide the formulation of process-based hypotheses underlying the links between ecosystem dynamics and physical climate.

Members
Canada: Patrick Cummins, Mike Foreman (Co-Chair)
China: Xiaopei Lin, Guimei Liu, Lixin Wu
Japan: Shoshiro Minobe (Co-Chair) Shin-ichi Ito, Takashi Mochizuki, Bunmei Taguchi
Korea: Soon Il An, Sang-Wook Yeh, Chang Joo Jang
Russia: Yury Zuenko, Elena Ustinova, Tatyana Pavlova
U.S.A.: Emanuele Di Lorenzo (Co-Chair), Enrique Curchitser, Taka Ito, Steven Bograd