Coordination: Southeast Continental Shelf Studies 



Menzel, D.W. 



$230,000 



Skidaway Institute of Oceanography 



Department of Research 



C: 912-356-2480 



Focus is on coordinating services for DOE-supported oceanographic research on the Southeast Atlantic Continen- 

 tal Shelf. Coordination activities include (1) conducting, reporting, and planning meetings; (2) synthesizing ac- 

 cumulated results; (3) coordinating the design and implementation of short- and long-term research; (4) scheduling 

 and coordinating the use of research vessels; and (5) maintaining and operating oceanographic sensors on the 

 Savannah navigational light tower. 



Biological Processes in the Water Column of the South Atlantic Bight: 

 Zooplankton Responses 



Paffenhofer, G.A. 



$85,000 



Skidaway Institute of Oceanography 



Department of Research 



C: 912-356-2489 



The project objective is to quantify biological processes involving metazoan zooplankton in the nearshore zone of 

 the Southeastern Continental Shelf. These processes are (1) the rates at which living and nonliving particles are in- 

 gested; (2) growth, reproduction, excretion, and excrementation rates of abundant metazoan zooplankton taxa; and 

 (3) zooplankton production rates. To obtain information on the latter, we will also determine metazoan 

 zooplankton abundances in the water column. Data resulting from these studies are necessary to quantify the rates 

 of cycling and fate of dissolved and particulate materials in the nearshore zone, which is the objective of the 

 Biotransformation Program (BIOTRANS), the cooperative multi-investigator program in the nearshore zone. In 

 addition, we have participated with other investigators in the Fall Removal Experiment (FLEX) in the fall of 1987. 

 We will also analyze samples from the Spring Removal Experiment (SPREX), which was completed in April 1985. 



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