January 20-21, 2016 University of Washington Campus Seattle, Washington

The second Pacific Anomalies Workshop will be held on the University of Washington campus on 20-21 January. Please register for the workshop, below. If you want to present a poster, please submit your abstract using the format and form below. If you need travel support, please email: Rachel Wold () AND Jan Newton () with your request.

Draft agenda

Please register now for this workshop on 20-21 January 2016 at UW in Seattle.

Financial Assistance: We have some financial assistance for travel and hotel, so let us know your needs A.S.A.P. since we will assign commitments first come, first served. There is space on the registration form for indicating your need. Or send an email to Rachel ().

Hotel: If you have not made your hotel reservation yet, we recommend the Hotel Deca which is close to our meeting location (UW Tower) and has very reasonable rates.

Agenda: The Steering Committee has developed an exciting interactive format for this workshop. Agenda will be posted soon. There will be guided discussions (with both invited and participant contributed slides) around three central topics, each asking, "Do we understand the mechanism(s) involved?"

While still under development by the Steering Committee, our three central topics are focused within:

1. Atmosphere-ocean interactions: e.g., "What is the 'blob' generating mechanism and is it unprecedented?"
2. Open ocean-coastal interactions: e.g., "What large and meso-scale processes, including upwelling, kept the blob offshore on the west coast? How did the offshore ocean interact with the upwelling zone?"
3. Ecosystem responses: e.g., "What are the mechanisms of ecosystem responses from plankton to predators, including effects from physical and chemical states associated with the blob?"

While we are not focusing on El Niño specifically, comparison and contrast with this event and a focus on interactions will be included.

Abstracts: Individual presentations will be in poster format for this workshop and we will have sufficient time dedicated to this. Please submit your abstract via the registration form. If you do not have your abstract prepared, please register now, then add your abstract when you have it by submitting the form again.