Award: OCE-1458239

The project provides opportunities to train two Ph.D. students at the University of Maine. Dr. Conlon graduated in 2018, and she is currently an employee at the Los Alamos National Laboratory working on Ocean Models. Mr. Denghui Li has passed his qualifying exam in 2020 and is expected to graduate in summer 2022.

For the project, we have developed two circulation models, the eastern Gulf of Maine (EGoM) model for the coastal region from Penobscot Bay to Passamaquoddy Bay, and a regional-scale, NorthEast Shelf Seas (NESS) circulation model from Long Island Sound to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. We have coded related biological traits for mussel and barnacle larvae into the particle tracking model FISCM. The EGoM has produced circulation and larval simulations for 2014, while NESS has produced circulation simulations of 2014-2017. We have uploaded the validated circulation model output and predicted larval trajectories to BCO-DMO at https://www.bco-dmo.org/award/542407. We continue to use both models in studies of lobster and scallop larvae in the Gulf of Maine.

The project has produced, up to date, one Ph.D. dissertation (Conlon, 2018) and two peer-reviewed journal papers (Conlon et al., JGR Oceans, 2018; Weinstock et al., Limn. and Oceanogr., 2018). We are working on two other manuscripts based on NESS simulations (Wang et al., in prep; Li et al., in prep) as well as contributing to another manuscript (Xuereb et al., in revision).

Last Modified: 06/15/2021
Modified by: Huijie Xue