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The principal
objective of this project is to utilize the very comprehensive
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U.S GLOBEC
broad-scale data sets that now exist to address two
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overarching questions:
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What
controls inter-annual variability in the abundance of the target species
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(cod and
haddock larvae, Calanus finmarchicus, and Pseudocalanus
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spp) on
Georges Bank (e.g., bottom up or top down biological
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processes, or
physical advective processes)?
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How
are these processes likely to be influenced by climate variability?
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