U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank
Phase 2 Projects

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Last updated: September 24, 1996

1. Robert Beardsley, Steve Lentz, Robert Weller, Jim Churchill (WHOI)
   • U.S. GLOBEC: Analysis of the 1995 Georges Bank Stratification Study Physical Oceanographic Data and synthesis with Biological Data
   • Start date: October 1, 1996
   • Duration: 3 years
   • Notes: Ship-board surveys;
     Physical/biological moorings
     Satellite surveys
     Modeling
     Analysis and synthesis of 1995 data, including data from those components marked above
2. James J. Bisagni (NOAA/NMFS) & Peter Cornillon (URI/GSO)
   • U.S. GLOBEC: Spatial and Temporal Variability in the Occurrence, Distribution and Structure of Sea Surface Temperature Fronts in the Georges Bank Region
   • Start date: October 1, 1996
   • Duration: 3 years
   • Notes: Retrospective

3. Kenneth H. Brink, James D. Irish, Robert C. Beardsley and Richard Limeburner (WHOI)
   • U.S. GLOBEC: Long-Term Moored and Lagrangian Measurements in the Georges Bank Study: Phase II
   • Start date: 1 October 1996
   • Duration: 5 years
   • Notes: Physical Oceanography
     Physical/biological moorings <= Long-Term Moorings and Drifters
4. Ann Bucklin (UNH)
   • U.S. GLOBEC: Stage-specific distribution and abundance of the copepods, Pseudocalanus moultoni and P. newmani, on Georges Bank: life history comparisons using molecular identification of sibling species
   • Start date: 1 July 1996
   • Duration: 3 years
   • Notes: Biology
     Broadscale Studies: Shipboard surveys
5. Julio Candela (WHOI), Charles Flagg (BNL), and Dick Payne (WHOI)
   • U.S. GLOBEC: The acquisition, processing and analysis of ship-board acoustic Doppler current profiling and underway sampling data
   • Start date: October 1, 1996
   • Duration: 3 Years
   • Notes: Physical Oceanography
     The topics addressed by the proposal span many of the areas listed including:
     
     • Broad-Scale Studies
     • Ship-board surveys
     • Source/Retention/Loss Process Studies
     • Source and sinks of water
     • Source and sinks of zooplankton
6. Alessandra Conversi (SUNY at Stony Brook), Ken Sherman (NMFS), Sultan Hameed (SUNY at Stony Brook)
   • U.S.GLOBEC: North Atlantic Intercomparisons of interannual patterns in zooplankton and phytoplankton species, in relation to climatic changes
   • Start date: 1 January 1997
   • Duration: 2 years
   • Notes: Retrospective
7. Cabell S. Davis, Scott M. Gallager, and Carin Ashjian (WHOI)
   • U.S. GLOBEC: Measuring transport of the copepods Calanus and Pseudocalanus across the boundaries of Georges Bank
   • Start date: September 1, 1996
   • Duration: 3 Years
   • Notes: Biology
     Process
8. Cabell Davis (WHOI), Daniel Lynch (Dartmouth), Glenn Flierl (MIT), Dennis McGillicuddy (WHOI)
   • U.S. GLOBEC: Modeling biological/physical processes controlling copepod abundance in the Georges Bank / Gulf of Maine region
   • Start date: September 1, 1996
   • Duration: 3 Years
   • Notes: Modeling
9. Edward Durbin (URI)
   • U.S. GLOBEC: Abundance and distribution of zooplankton on Georges Bank
   • Start date: 3 years
   • Duration:
   • Notes: Biology
     broad-scale
10. Edward Durbin (URI), Jeff Runge (DFO), Ropbert Campbell (URI), C. Ashjian (WHOI), M. Ohman (UCSD)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Egg production, growth and mortality of Calanus finmarchicus and Pseudocalanus spp. on Georges Bank
    • Start date:1 September 1996
    • Duration: 2 years
    • Notes: Biology
      broad-scale, process
11. Richard G. Fairbanks (Lamont) and Robert W. Houghton (Lamont)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Circulation modes on Georges Bank: quantifying water sources using O-18
    • Start date:
    • Duration: 2 years
    • Notes: Physical Oceanography

12. Peter J.S. Franks (UCSD/Scripps) and Changsheng Chen (Univ. of Georgia)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Process Studies of Physical-Biological Interactions and Larval Fish on Georges Bank
    • Start date: Oct. 1, 1996
    • Duration: 3 years
    • Notes: Modeling
13. Scott M. Gallager (WHOI) and Hidekatsu Yamazaki (Japan)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: An Experimental Evaluation of Biological and Physical Modulators of Foraging Success in Early Cod Larvae on Georges Bank- Prey Motility, Light, Depth, and Turbulence
    • Start date: July 1, 1996
    • Duration: 3 years
    • Notes: Biology
14. Dian J. Gifford (URI) and Michael E. Sieracki (Bigelow)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Zooplankton Recruitment Variability and Advective Processes on Georges Bank--Diet of Early Stage Copepods
    • Start date: 1 September 1996
    • Duration: 3 years
    • Notes: Biology
      Process cruises
15. Charles H. Greene (Cornell), Mark C. Benfield (LSU), Peter H. Wiebe (WHOI)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Processes controlling the recruitment of Calanus finmarchicus populations from the Gulf of Maine to Georges Bank
    • Start date: Jan. 1, 1997
    • Duration: 4 years
    • Notes: Biology
      Sources and sinks of zooplankton
16. Dale Haidvogel (Rutgers), Daniel Lynch (Dartmouth), Mohamed Iskandarani (Rutgers)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Remote Physical Forcing on Georges Bank: A Coupled Regional/Basin-scale Modeling Study
    • Start date: July 1, 1996
    • Duration: 3 Years
    • Notes: Modeling
17. R. Patrick Hassett (Ohio Univ.) {with subcontract to Pamela Blades-Eckelbarger}
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Dormancy in Calanus finmarchicus: individual variability in morphology, physiology and biochemical composition during overwintering in the Gulf of Maine
    • Start date: November 1, 1996
    • Duration: 2 years
    • Notes: Biology
      
      Source/Retention/Loss Process Studies:
      Sources and sinks of zooplankton
      --(overwintering in the Gulf of Maine)
18. Dave Hebert (URI) and Neil Oakey (BIO/DFO)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Turbulent Mixing on Georges Bank
    • Start date: 1 October 1996
    • Duration: 4 years
    • Notes: Physical Oceanography
      
      Analysis of turbulence data collected in 1995
19. R. Gregory Lough (NMFS), James Manning (NMFS), Larry Buckley (NMFS), E. Caldarone (NMFS), L. Incze (Bigelow)
    • Dispersive and Advective Influences on the Survival of Cod and Haddock Larvae on Georges Bank
    • Start date: October 1, 1996
    • Duration: 3 years
    • Notes: Biology
      
      Process
20. Dan Lynch (Dartmouth), Francisco Werner (Univ. of North Carolina), James Loder (BIO), Michael Sinclair (DFO), Greg Lough (NMFS), Ian Perry (DFO), Fred Page (BIO/DFO), David Greenberg (BIO), PPeter Smith (BIO), Christopher Naimie (Dartmouth), Charles Hannah (BIO), Carol Meise (NMFS)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Importance of Physical and Biological Processes to Population Regulation of Cod and Haddock on Georges Bank: a Model-Based Study
    • Start date: July 1, 1996
    • Duration: 3 years
    • Notes: Modeling
      
      Long-term mooring and Retrospective data analysis
21. Laurence P. Madin (WHOI) and Stephen M. Bollens (WHOI)
    • U.S.GLOBEC: Field Studies on Predation Mortality of Copepods and Fish Larvae on Georges Bank
    • Start date: October 1, 1996
    • Duration: 3 years
    • Notes: Biology
      
      Broad Scale - Shipboard Surveys, and partly under S/R/L Process Studies - Sources and Losses of Zooplankton.
      We also have a subcontract within the proposal from Sullivan and Klein-McPhee (URI) which (the subcontract) is titled: U.S.GLOBEC: Culturing and Experimental Studies with Suspended Hydroids.
22. David Mountain (NMFS), Wallace Morse (NMFS), John Green (NMFS), Peter Berrien (NMFS) and David Townsend (University of Maine)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Broad-Scale Ichthyoplankton, Hydrography and Nutrient Studies on Georges Bank
    • Start date: 1 October 1996
    • Duration: 3 years
    • Notes: Physical Oceanography and Biology
      
      • This is to be a component of Mountain's Broad Scale proposal, but will have a separate title and budget for David Townsend at U. Maine, etc.
23. Ron Schlitz, Mark Berman (NMFS), Kenneth H. Brink (WHOI), Craig M. Lee (WHOI)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Retention Processes - Moorings and Highly-Resolved Hydrography
    • Start date: 1 August 1996
    • Duration: three years
    • Notes: Physical Oceanography
      process moorings
24. Ron Schlitz (NMFS), James Manning (NMFS)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Retrospective Analysis of Data Previously Collected from a Moored Array along the Southern Side of Georges Bank
    • Start date: 1 October 1996
    • Duration: 1.5 years
    • Notes: Retrospective
25. Andrew R. Solow (WHOI) and Stephen M. Bollens (WHOI)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: A Retrospective Analysis of Variability in Zooplankton Composition on Georges Bank and the Northwest Atlantic
    • Start date: 1 September 1996
    • Duration: 3 years
    • Notes: Retrospective
26. Barbara K. Sullivan (URI) and Grace Klein-MacPhee (URI)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Laboratory and Field Studies of the Impact of Invertebrate Predators on Fish Eggs and Larvae on Georges Bank
    • Start date: January 1, 1997
    • Duration: 2 years
    • Notes:Biology
      Descriptive terms: Sources and Sinks of Zooplankton and Retrospective Analyses
      Close links to proposals being submitted by
      • G. Lough (title not known);
      • J. Churchill and J. Manning, A Study of Dispersion and Shelf Water Export Over the Southern Flank of Georges Bank;
      • L. Madin and S. Bollens, Field Studies on Predation Mortality of Copepods and Fish Larvae on Georges Bank.
      No additional cruise time required
27. Peter Wiebe (WHOI), Timothy Stanton (WHOI), Ray Schmitt (WHOI) and Charles Greene (Cornell)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Broad-Scale Patterns of the Distirubtion of Zooplankton and Nekton in Relation to Micro- to Course-Scale Physical Structure in the Georges Bank Region. (It is uncertain whether there will be sufficient funds to support this research.)
    • Start date: January 1, 1997
    • Duration: 4 years
    • Notes: Biology
      
      Broad-scale

28. Peter Wiebe (WHOI) and Robert Groman (WHOI)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Program Services and Data Management for the Northwest Atlantic Georges Bank Program
    • Start date: September 1, 1996
    • Duration: 3 years
    • Notes: Management

29. Karen Wishner (URI) and Percy Donaghay (URI)
    • U.S. GLOBEC: Interaction of zooplankton vertical migration with episodic mesoscale advective features: impacts on population retention and loss
    • Start date: 1 September 1996
    • Duration: 3 years
    • Notes: Biology
      Source/retention/loss process studies: zooplankton