Broad-scale station numbers and locations from the US-GLOBEC Georges Bank project

Table of Contents

• Coverage
• Dataset Description
• Data Files
• Parameters
• Project Information
• Program Information
• Funding

The locations for the broad-scale stations are defined for all the broad-scale cruises. Each station has a priority (priority 1 is a higher priority than 2, etc.) For more detailed information about the station protocol, see http://globec.whoi.edu/globec-dir/corestations.html.

 

  Parameter		Description                    Units
  
  description		description of stations		n/a
  			   (maintain record of how
  			   stations have changed over
  			   time)
  station		pre-assigned station number	n/a
  lat_deg		latitude degrees		degrees
  lat_min		latitude minutes		minutes
  lat_ddmm_tt		latitude deg. & minutes		dd=degrees
  							mm=minutes
  							tt=fractions of minutes
  lon_deg		longitude degrees		degrees
  lon_min		longitude minutes		minutes
  lon_ddmm_tt		longitude deg. & minutes	dd=degrees
  							mm=minutes
  							tt=fractions of minutes
  lat			decimal latitude		decimal degrees
  lon			decimal longitude		decimal degrees
  depth_w		water depth			meters
  distance		distance between stations	nautical miles
  priority		station priority		n/a

The total track line is 710.9 nm

Note that standard station #40 is

 

• to take place in deep water (183m), and
• to include a MOCNESS 10 tow, even though it is a priorty 3 station.

Note also that the track line to station #41 should be followed, if possible, even if the station itself will be skipped. The ADCP record along the segments is of high priority for the modeling efforts.

Website: http://globec.whoi.edu/globec_program.html

Coverage: Georges Bank, Gulf of Maine, Northwest Atlantic Ocean

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, and two species of zooplankton (Calanus finmarchicus and Pseudocalanus) - in terms of their coupling to the physical environment and in terms of their predators and prey. The ultimate goal is to be able to predict changes in the distribution and abundance of these species as a result of changes in their physical and biotic environment as well as to anticipate how their populations might respond to climate change.

The effort is substantial, requiring broad-scale surveys of the entire Bank, and process studies which focus both on the links between the target species and their physical environment, and the determination of fundamental aspects of these species' life history (birth rates, growth rates, death rates, etc).

Equally important are the modelling efforts that are ongoing which seek to provide realistic predictions of the flow field and which utilize the life history information to produce an integrated view of the dynamics of the populations.

The U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Executive Committee (EXCO) provides program leadership and effective communication with the funding agencies.

Website: http://www.usglobec.org/

Coverage: Global

U.S. GLOBEC (GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics) is a research program organized by oceanographers and fisheries scientists to address the question of how global climate change may affect the abundance and production of animals in the sea.

The U.S. GLOBEC Program currently had major research efforts underway in the Georges Bank / Northwest Atlantic Region, and the Northeast Pacific (with components in the California Current and in the Coastal Gulf of Alaska). U.S. GLOBEC was a major contributor to International GLOBEC efforts in the Southern Ocean and Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP).