HR: 1340h
AN: OS13A-0522    [Abstracts]
TI: Knowing Where You Are: Using coastal observatories to design and interpret plankton surveys in the New York Bight Apex
AU: * Quinlan, J A
EM: quinlan@marine.rutgers.edu
AF: Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8521 United States
AU: Manderson, J P
EM: John.Manderson@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, James J Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory 74 Macgruder Highway, Sandy Hook, NJ 07732 United States
AU: Shaheen, P
EM: shaheen@wagner.edu
AF: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, James J Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory 74 Macgruder Highway, Sandy Hook, NJ 07732 United States
AU: Shaheen, P
EM: shaheen@wagner.edu
AF: Biological Sciences Department, Wagner College One Campus Road, Staten Island, NY 10301 United States
AU: Law, C G
EM: Law@marine.rutgers.edu
AF: Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8521 United States
AB: As part of LaTTE, the New York Bight Apex benefited from considerable integrated ocean observing system infrastructure. To apply this IOOS capability to a fisheries problem, a joint Rutgers-NOAA Fisheries pilot project was launched in June 2004 to conduct periodic hydroacoustic/ichthyoplankton surveys throughout the summer and into the autumn. These surveys were aimed at sampling important features (the Hudson River Plume, the Cold Pool, and shelf water) as they changed through time; identifying important water mass-community associations; and moving toward methods of Essential Fish Habitat determination for pelagic habitats. Here we present preliminary findings from the field effort, and outline our use of IOOS capability in fisheries research.
UR: http://marine.rutgers.edu/~quinlan/ECOS/
DE: 4815 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics
DE: 4830 Higher marine organisms
DE: 4259 Ocean acoustics
DE: 4546 Nearshore processes
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting