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