Integration and synthesis of the nutrients and
chlorophyll data.
Effort involves re-plotting
and re-contouring the data sets on phytoplankton chlorophyll and nutrient distributions on
Georges Bank. Budgets are now being constructed, which include some of
the organic nitrogen and carbon measures.
The 10-m2 MOCNESS data on the distribution and
abundances of the major macrozooplankton and micronekton predators is being used:
1)To examine the relationships between these biota and various environmental conditions, especially hydrography and Slope
Water intrusions.
2)
2)To study the overall community structure within the Georges Bank macrozooplankton and micronekton
using multivariate analyses.
3)
3)To integrate the distribution and abundance data with
various rate process
data derived from GLOBEC process cruises and the literature to generate broad-scale
distributions of specific predation mortality rates for each target (prey) taxon.