Project Information

Title: Surface Nutrients Over the Shelf and Basin in Summer - Bottom up Control of Ecosystem Diversity 040654

Project Year and Number: 2004: 040654

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2003: 030654

Principal Investigator (PI): Phyllis Stabeno (NOAA )

Managing Agency: NOAA

Assisting Personnel: None

Research Location: Yakutat to Kodiak Island/Shelikof of Strait

Restoration Category: Research

Injured Resources Addressed: Not Specified

Abstract: This proposal is for continuation of Project 030654 funded in FY03. Our goal is to better understand the extraordinary variability of nutrients (spatial, interannual and decadal), and factors controlling nearshore communities and zooplankton and juvenile salmon distributions in the northern GOA. We propose monitoring nitrate over the shelf and basin. Underway samples will be collected as part of the NMFS-OCC/GLOBEC salmon survey in July/August of 2004. This survey includes a transit across the central GOA and 10 cross-shelf oceanographic and juvenile salmon transects from Yakutat to Kodiak Island. This will be the broadest nutrient survey of the northern GOA. Nutrient maps will be used to support NPZ models and satellite-derived models of nitrate and new production, to examine mechanisms of nutrient supply such as mixing over banks and transport up submarine canyons, and to assist resource management of salmon and other commercially important species.


Proposal: View (360 KB)

Reports:
Annual Report FY04: View (20 KB)
Final Report: See Project 030654

Publications from this Project: None Available