The U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Program is a large multi-disciplinary multi-year oceanographic effort. The proximate goal is to understand the population dynamics of key species on the Bank: cod, haddock, ...
A central tenet of fisheries oceanography is that the growth rate of
the planktonic larvae determines cumulative predation mortality during the
first year of life and ultimately, year class strength. ...
The interaction of local and meso-scale physical and biological
seasonality and the timing of critical events were shown to be important in the
persistence of zooplankton and larval fish on Western ...
