CCCC Paper Session Co-Convenors: Harold P. Batchelder (U.S.A.) and Suam Kim (Korea) Papers describing patterns and processes of North Pacific ecosystem responses to physical forcing and climate change are invited. Tuesday, October 17, 2006 14:00-18:00 14:00-14:20 John A. Holmes and Kenneth D. Cooke Changes in the distribution of Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) in response to climate and ocean variability in the California Current (CCCC_Paper-2899) 14:20-14:40 Hyoung-Chul Shin, Kang Hyun Lee, Kyung Ho Chung and Sung-Ho Kang Zooplankton distribution off Sakhalin Island during summer and comparison with other subarctic waters (CCCC_Paper-2810) 14:40-15:00 Anne B. Hollowed, Elizabeth Logerwell, Rebecca Isquith and Chris Wilson The impact of regime shifts on the oceanography of the northern Gulf of Alaska and its influence on the species interactions between walleye pollock, capelin, and Steller sea lions (CCCC_Paper-3067) 15:00-15:20 Jeffrey M. Napp, Lawrence E. Schaufler, George L. Hunt Jr. and Kathy L. Mier Summer food web structure in the eastern Bering Sea: Fatty acid composition of plankton, fish, and seabirds around the Pribilof Islands (CCCC_Paper-3049) 15:20-15:40 Elena Dulepova and Svetlana Glebova An East-West comparison of plankton communities of the northern Okhotsk Sea (CCCC_Paper-2793) 15:40-16:00 Tea/Coffee Break 16:00-16:20 Muzzneena Ahmad Mustapha and Sei-Ichi Saitoh Interannual variations of sea ice and spring bloom occurrences at the Japanese scallop farming area in the Okhotsk Sea (CCCC_Paper-2869) 16:20-16:40 Vadim Navrotsky, T. Zadonskaya, V. Darnitsky, V. Chuchukalo, L. Bokhan and V. Napazakov Hydrophysical and biological characteristics in the Kuril-Kamchatka Current and Oyashio region of the Northwestern Pacific (CCCC_Paper-3042) 16:40-17:00 Hyejin Song and Young-shil Kang Variations in zooplankton and oceanographic condition in the southwestern East/Japan Sea after the late 1990s (CCCC_Paper-2996) 17:00-17:20 Takashige Sugimoto, H-Y. Kim, K. Tadokoro, K. Kuroda and N. Nagai Stepwise increase of water temperature and zooplankton biomass after the mid-1980s in the East China Sea and their possible effect on the recovery of jack mackerel (CCCC_Paper-3084) 17:20-17:40 Kyum Joon Park, Chang Ik Zhang, Zang Geun Kim, Seok Gwan Choi and Yong Rock An Abundance of finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) and their role in the eastern Yellow Sea ecosystem (CCCC_Paper-2834) 121 17:40-18:00 Andrei Krovnin and G. Moury The state of the climate system of the North Pacific and North Atlantic in 2000-2005 in comparison with the 2nd half of the XX century (CCCC_Paper-3166) Posters Young Seop Kim, Hyung Kee Cha, Sung Il Lee, Seon Jae Hwang, Sang Cheol Yoon, Kyunk Chan Know and Jae Houng Yang Application of the ecosystem structure model (Ecopath) to the East/Japan Sea in Korea (CCCC_Paper-2968) Kosei Komatsu and Akihide Kasai Modeling annual variation of transport of eggs and larvae of jack mackerel in the East China Sea (CCCC_Paper-3139) Kosei Komatsu, Kaoru Nakata and Takahiko Kameda 3D modeling of size-dependent variation of phyto- and zooplankton biomass caused by advective processes around the Kuroshio and the Kuroshio Extension (CCCC_Paper-3138) Carol Ladd Interannual variability of the Gulf of Alaska eddy field (CCCC_Paper-3040) Jong Hee Lee and Chang Ik Zhang Analysis of the lower trophic level of the northern East China Sea ecosystem based on the NEMURO model (CCCC_Paper-2830) Ken-Ichi Sato, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Naonobu Shiga and Tsutomu Ikeda Fine-scale vertical habitat separation among four grazing copepods (Neocalanus cristatus, N. flemingeri, Eucalanus bungii and Metridia pacifica) in the Oyashio region, western subarctic Pacific Ocean (CCCC_Paper-3075) Yulia N. Tananaeva and Marat A. Bogdanov Interannual variability in development of the seasonal processes and their influence on fishery resources of the North Pacific (CCCC_Paper-3152) 122