SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SAMPLING SCALES 



Spatial sampling scale: mesoscale 



Temporal sampling scale: occasional daily burst sampling nested within the seasonal and annual 

 cycles. 



METHODS AND PLATFORMS 



Methods: moored acoustic Doppler current profilers (5), ship-board acoustic Doppler current 

 profilers to map biomass, MOCNESS tows to "calibrate" the acoustic Doppler current profiler, 

 live tows for organisms for measuring rates in on-deck incubation experiments. 



Platform: moorings and research vessels. 



STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS OF PROPOSED RESEARCH 



Strength: proven and sensible approach to doing biological oceanography. 

 Weakness: requires money. 



STATUS OF RESEARCH 



Ongoing; the work envisioned for the Ocean Margin Program is an extension of prior work in 

 the Gulf Stream, California Current and Middle Atlantic Bight. 



Keywords: metazooplankton, biomass, grazing, ADCP 



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