Collaborations

One of these is PISCO, the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans. PISCO is a consortium of four universities on the US west coast, ranging (from north to south) from Oregon State University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station and the University of California at Santa Barbara. The goals of PISCO are similar to those of the ICORUMBA, but specifically targeted on the dynamics of the inner shelf of the California Current system. See the PISCO website for further details.

The second group is NIWA, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, a Crown Research Institute (CRI) based in Wellington, New Zealand. Our link to NIWA is through the activities of Dave Schiel’s MERG (Marine Ecology Research Group) at the University of Canterbury. Collaborative studies on coastal physical oceanography and larval transport are the primary focus of the NIWA-MERG collaboration.

The third group is COAS, the College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. The OSU and the PUC groups of the ICORUMBA have increasingly strong collaborations with colleagues in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Science at Oregon State University. Cooperative research activities are especially strong with Physical Oceanographer Jack Barth (who is also a PISCO PI) and his group. Other COAS collaborators include Ricardo Letelier, Ted Strub, Pat Wheeler, Jane Huyer and Burke Hales. All share an interest in detecting and understanding the coupling between oceanographic and ecological patterns and processes of the inner shelf region.

The fourth group is CASEB, the Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology & Biodiversity. The link to CASEB is with Juan Carlos Castilla and Sergio Navarrete (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) who are PI and co-PI respectivly. "We at CASEB are intent on analyzing Chile's biodiversity with the best ecological knowledge available, in order to understand and predict its behavior from a functional perspective."

The fifith group is ECIM, Estacion Costera de Investgaciones Marinas.