Northwest Atlantic Implementation Plan
Report No. 6
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Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Background
- The Georges Bank Ecosystem
- General Description
- Criteria Used in Selecting Georges Bank
- Space-Time Boundaries of Georges Bank Study
- Rates of Birth, Growth, Mortality and Exchange: Processes Controlling Population Abundance
- Physical Oceanography of Georges Bank
- Target Species
- Overview of Cod and Haddock on Georges Bank
- Overview of Georges Bank Plankton
- Larval Fish/Plankton Interactions on Georges Bank
- Physical/Biological Interactions on Georges Bank
- Main Hypotheses of Georges Bank Study
- Program Implementation
- Major Components of the Georges Bank Study
- Experimental Program
- Broad-scale Studies
- Shipboard Surveys (1994 - 1998)
- Physical/Biological Moorings (1994-1998)
- Satellite Surveys (1994-1998)
- Fine-scale Process Studies
- Vertical Mixing and Stratification (1994)
- Study of Source/Retention/Exchange of Plankton (1996)
- Cross-Frontal Exchange (1998)
- Population/Cohort Studies of Target Species (1994-1998
- Modeling and Historical data analysis
- Theory and Modeling
- Historical Data Sets
- Methodology and Instrumentation Needs and Development
- Schedule
- Data Management and Synthesis
- Relation to Other Programs
- Connections between the Georges Bank Study and Other U.S. GLOBEC Programs
- Relation to other National and International Programs
- References