Cross-Frontal Exchange and Scotian Shelf Cross-over Workshops

10-12 October, 2000

Holiday Inn, Falmouth, Massachusetts

• SeaSoar/Drifter Studies (Barth)
• Dye and Drifter Studies (Houghton)
• Biological/Physical Interaction Studies (Wishner)
• Fish Larvae/Zooplankton Studies (Incze)
• Moored Current Meter Array (Schlitz)

• Satellite Observations of the Front (Bisagni)
• Tow-yow Observation of the Front (Houghton)
• Front in Terms of Productivity (Townsend)
• Surface Drogues Crossing the Front (Churchill)
• Near-bottom Dye Transport Across the Front (Houghton)
• Dye Dispersion on the South Flank (Ledwell)
• Model of Cross-front Transport (Hannah)

• Observations of Scotian Shelf Cross-overs During Winter/Spring, 1999 (Smith)
• Modelling Cross-overs (Hannah)
• Northeast Peak ADCP Data and Results from the Cross-over Moorings (Flagg)
• Structure of Winter Variability at EF (Beardsley)
• Seasonal SST Frontal Climatologies on Georges Bank (Bisagni)
• Distribution of Salinity on the Cap of Georges Bank (Houghton)
• Modification of Internal Tide Features by Cross-over Events (Dale)
• Biological Importance of Scotian Shelf Water (Townsend)
• Scotian Shelf Crossovers: Zooplankton Distributions (Wishner)
• Growth of Calanus finmarchicus nauplii in Scotian Shelf Cross-overs (Gifford)
• Evidence of "Cross-Over" Events in the Broad-Scale Hydrography (Taylor)
• Role of Scotian Shelf Cross-over Events in Maintenance of Pseudocalanus spp. on Georges Bank (Bucklin)

• #1. What is the biological definition of a Scotian Shelf Cross-over? (Townsend + Flagg)
• #2. What is the SST signature of a Scotian Shelf Cross-Over? (Bisagni + Flagg)
• #3. What drives interannual variability in Scotian Shelf Cross-overs? (Smith + Hannah)
• #4. What are the impacts of Scotian Shelf Cross-overs on the target species in the Georges Bank ecosystem? (Incze + Smith)

• Timeline
• Synthesis Questions

• Timeline Elements for 1998-99 and 1996-97
• Agenda
• Attendees

Attendees

Barth, Jack	OSU
Beardsley, Bob	WHOI
Bisagni, Jim	SMAST/UMASS
Boyer, Tim	NODC
Bucklin, Ann	UNH
Casas, Maria	URI
Chapman, Dave	WHOI
Churchill, Jim	WHOI
Dale, Andy	OSU
Durbin, Ted	URI
Fisher, Karen	Cornell
Flagg, Charles	BNL
Gifford, Dian	URI
Groman, Bob	WHOI
Hannah, Charles	BIO
Hebert, Dave	URI
Horgan, Erich	WHOI
Houghton, Bob	LDEO
Incze, Lew	BLOS
Katrein, Jody	WHOI
Manning, Jim	NMFS
McGillicuddy, Dennis	WHOI
Mountain, David	NMFS
Outram, Dawn	URI
Ledwell, Jim	WHOI
Limeburner, Dick	WHOI
Sass, Warren	WHOI
Schlitz, Ron	NMFS
Smith, Kestin	NMFS
Smith, Peter	BIO
St. John, Michael	DIFRES
Sullivan, Barbara	URI
Taylor, Maureen	NMFS
Townsend, Dave	U. Maine
Ullman, Dave	URI
Wiebe, Peter	WHOI
Wishner, Karen	URI