Appendix 1. Meeting Agenda
U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Program
Scientific Investigators' Workshop
Agenda - October 16, 17, and 18, 1995
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA
Date: October 16, 1995 Location: Quissett Campus - Clark 507
Time:
0800 Coffee/fruit/rolls
0830 Welcome
Introduction to workshop
Organization
Details
Presentations
0845 Overview of the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Study
0910 Session I: Bank-wide Structures (David Mountain/Chair, Ann Bucklin & Dan
Lynch/Rapporteur)
Physics:
0915 John Loder Large-Scale Hydrographic and Circulation
Variability in the Georges Bank Region
0930 Peter Smith Monitoring the inflows to the Gulf Of Maine
0945 David Mountain The bank wide hydrography during the 1995 field
season (Maureen Taylor )
1000 Jim Bisagni Satellite and drifter evidence for Maine coastal
current flow onto Georges Bank
1015 Break
1030 Christopher Naimie Prognostically modeled winter and summer circulation on
Georges Bank
1045 Glen Gawarkiewicz The shelf break front
1100 Bob Beardsley The 1995 ARGOS drifter program (Dick
Limeburner)
1115 Charles Flagg The 1995 ADCP program (Julio Candela)
1130 Rich Fairbanks The application of oxygen isotope analysis for water
source identification
Biology:
1145 Steve Bollens Three-dimensional distribution and abundance of
zooplankton on Georges Bank, 1939-1941, with
comments on the effects of storm events (Mary
Landsteiner, Cabell Davis, Andy Solow)
1200 Lunch - Outside Clark 507
1300 Carol Meise Spatial and seasonal patterns in abundance and age
composition of Calanus finmarchicus and
Pseudocalanus spp. in the Gulf of Maine and on
Georges Bank: 1977-1987
1315 Barbara Sullivan Temporal Trends in abundance of invertebrate
predators MARMAP data 1978-1988 (Carol Meise)
1320 Ted Durbin Bank wide surveys of biomass and species
distribution of zooplankton, and abundance and age
structures of the target species
1335 Jack Green Broad-scale larval fish feeding studies: preliminary
analysis of April and May 'starburst' stations (Tony
Chute, Rebecca Jones)
1350 Ann Bucklin Patterns of dispersal and sources of recruitment of
Georges Bank zooplankton, including Calanus
finmarchicus
1405 David Townsend Hydrography, chlorophyll, nutrients, and larval cod
distributions and age structure on Georges Bank in
April and May of 1993 and 1994
1420 Barbara Sullivan Bank wide distribution, sources and suspension of
planktonic hydroids, 1994 and 1995 (Steve Bollens,
Stephanie Concelman, Erich Horgan, Mari Butler,
Larry Madin, Donna Van Keuren)
1435 William Michaels Spacial changes in the density distributions of larval
cod and haddock, and their potential fish predators
on Georges Bank during the spring of 1994 and
1995 (Michael Fogarty, Gina Reppucci, Mark
Robinson)
1450 Charlie Miller Storage lipids in Calanus on Georges Bank,
seasonal changes and analytical practice
1505 Break
1520 Elizabeth Clarke Seasonal patterns in enzyme activities and condition
of larval fish and copepods on Georges Bank
(presented by Ann Bucklin)
1535 Peter Wiebe Acoustical estimation of the distribution of
zooplankton biomass on Georges Bank (Tim
Stanton, Charles Greene, Mark Benfield)
Modeling:
1550 Wendell Brown Climatological box modeling of the Gulf of Maine
and Georges Bank region (Frank Bub)
1605 Cisco Werner Larval cod and haddock trophodynamics and
transport - further considerations on the effects of
turbulence (Greg Lough, Ian Perry, Christopher
Naimie, Dan Lynch, Brian MacKenzie)
1620 Daniel Lynch Modeling Georges Bank zooplankton dynamics in
realistic flow fields
1635 Benoit Cushman- Southern flank currents (Doug Morgan)
Roisin
1650 James Manning Tracking the advection of cod-haddock larvae
spawned on northeastern Georges Bank in 1995
(Greg Lough, Christopher Naimie)
1830 Reception/Buffet Dinner - Carriage House
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Date: October 17, 1995 Location: Quissett Campus - Clark 507
Time:
0800 Coffee/fruit/rolls
0830 Fred Page Seasonal variation in cod and haddock egg
and larval distributions on Georges Bank in
relation to particle residence times (Mike
Sinclair, Greg Lough, Peter Berrien, John
Loder, Christopher Naimie, Randy Losier,
et. al.)
0845 Greg Lough Case studies of retentive circulation features of
cod-haddock eggs and larvae on Georges Bank in
1978, 1980, 1983, and 1985 (Peter Berrien, Jim
Manning, Cisco Werner, John Loder, Fred Page,
Charles Hannah, Christopher Naimie, Ian Perry,
Mike Sinclair, Dan Lynch)
0900 Changsheng Chen A Coupled Physical-Biological Model of Georges Bank
(Peter Franks)
Panel discussion:
0915 Bank-wide patterns in physics and biology and possible causes for the patterns, e.g.
Scotian Shelf intrusion, ring influences, inter-annual temperature differences, storm
induced transport, differences in biomass or species patterns between months and years,
etc.
1000 Break
1015 Session II: Stratification and Its Effects (Bob Beardsley/Chair, Dian Gifford & Ted
Durbin/Rapporteur)
Physical oceanographic setting:
1020 Jeff Van Keuren Optical conditions across Georges Bank including
the influence of stratification
1035 Jim Bisagni Retrospective analyses of SST and stratification
1050 Jim Irish Moored sites bottom surveys
1055 Jim Irish Preliminary look at the long-term moored
array data
1105 Bob Beardsley Preliminary look at the vertical stratification at ST1
(Steve Lentz, Bob Weller)
1120 Jim Manning Preliminary look at moored data at ST2
1135 Russ Burgett Georges Bank microstructure measurements, spring
1995
1150 Jim Churchill The 1995 bottom tripod program (Sandy Williams,
Sandra Werner)
1155 Jim Churchill Water Displacements and Horizontal Dispersion
over the Southern Flank; Results from GPS Drifter
Tracking (Jim Manning)
1205 Lunch - Outside Clark 507
1300 Peter Garrahan Short term drifter tracks by our ARGOS/GPS
drifters made at each station during the process
cruises
1315 Dan Lynch Model generated turbulence patterns on Georges
Bank (Christopher Naimie )
Biological:
1330 Mike Sieracki Vertical distributions of phytoplankton,
nanozooplankton and microzooplankton (Dian
Gifford)
1345 Scott Gallager VPR sampling during the stratification study
(Cabell Davis, Carin Ashjian, Phil Alatalo, Mark
Benfield)
1400 Mark Berman Acoustic determination of fine scale plankton
distribution of zooplankton on Georges Bank (Jack
Green, Van Holliday)
1415 Ted Durbin Age structures of the target species over time at the
drifter sites and inferences of growth and mortality
from these (Jack Green, Van Holliday)
1430 Dian Gifford Copepod feeding on phytoplankton,
nanozooplankton and microzooplankton (Mike
Sieracki)
1445 Jeff Runge Calanus recruitment rates: January-June, 1995
1500 Break
1515 Bob Campbell Growth of Calanus as measured by molting rates
and changes in carbon and nitrogen content
1525 Melissa Wagner Growth and physiological condition of Calanus as
inferred from RNA/DNA ratios
1535 Elaine Caldarone Nutritional condition of cod and haddock larvae
from Georges Bank during May, 1993 and May,
1994 (Kate Lindner, Lawrence Buckley)
1550 Scott Gallager Young cod larvae feed exclusively on
microzooplankton from natural plankton
assemblages
1605 Greg Lough Is there an optimal relationship between turbulence
and larval fish feeding success? (David Mountain,
Elisabeth Broughton, Bruce Burns, Marie Kiladis)
1620 Lew Incze Vertical profiles of theoretical contact rates
between larval cod and their naupliar prey in
light of recent turbulence measurements
1635 Michael Moore Field and laboratory evaluation of cell proliferation
in copepods and larval fish (Bruce Woodin, Michael
Morss, Carolyn Miller, John Stegeman)
1650 Larry Madin Distribution, abundance and feeding biology of
invertebrate predators (Grace Klein-MacPhee,
Barbara Sullivan, Mari Butler, Erich Horgan, Steve
Bollens)
1830 Dinner - Carriage House
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Date: October 18, 1995 Location: Redfield Auditorium
Time:
0800 Coffee/fruit/rolls
0830 Irving Kornfield Genetic affects of intensive fishing on Atlantic
haddock: molecular reconstruction from archived
scale samples
Modeling studies:
0845 Panel discussion:
Does stratification make any difference to the target species (e.g. vertical distributions,
vital rates) and what impact does this have on their population dynamics?
0930 Session III: Population Dynamics of Target Species (Charlie Miller/Chair, Cabell
Davis & Dan Lynch/Rapporteur)
0935 Mike Fogarty Development of Stage-Structured Models of Fish
Community Dynamics
0950 Ann Bucklin Oligonucleotide-probe based identification of
sibling species and their application for population
dynamic studies
1005 Break
1020 Cisco Werner Individual based model of cod and haddock larvae
(Greg Lough, Ian Perry, Christopher Naimie)
1035 Andrew Leising Larval cod and haddock on Georges Bank: a model
with temperature, prey size and turbulence forcing
(Peter Franks)
1050 Glenn Flierl Use of EOF's to characterize population stage
structure in models (Cabell Davis)
Panel discussion:
1105 What additional data are needed to enhance the modeling effort?
1120 Session IV: Hot topics discussion (Steve Bollens/Chair, Greg Lough/Rapporteur)
Possible topics include: Calanus/Pseudocalanus paradigms, Hydroids,
Turbulence, Chaetoceros patch, and Sandstorms. [Add to list during workshop]
1200 Lunch -Outside Redfield Auditorium
1300 Session V: Wrap Up
1305 Peter Wiebe AGU ASLO Plans
1320 Robert Groman Update on Data Management Issues
1335 Peter Wiebe Updates on International Programs and Cooperative
Research
1350 Other items
1400 Workshop ends
Those interested in 1996 cruises stay to discuss:
Planning for 1996 cruises
Logistics
Broad-scale station locations and protocol
Appendix 2 - List of Attendees *
* Those who signed in