| Contributors | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Groman, Robert C. | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI BCO-DMO) | BCO-DMO Data Manager |
Inventory of U.S. GLOBEC Northeast Pacific Data
This inventory uses the JGOFS data management system and the same hierachical data structure used in many other data sets to store data about the data (metadata).
For further information contact the Data Management Office
| Parameter | Description | Units |
| project | Name of project or cruiseid | n/a |
| platform | Platform name, e.g. ship name | n/a |
| year_p_start | Year the project started | localtime |
| month_p_start | Month the project started | localtime |
| day_p_start | Day the project started | localtime |
| year_p_end | Year the project ended | localtime |
| month_p_end | Month the project ended | localtime |
| day_p_end | Day the project ended | localtime |
| name_prin | Principal invenstigator's name | n/a |
| brief_desc | Brief description of the project | n/a |
| data_type | Type of data collected | n/a |
| siname | Name of scientific investigator | n/a |
| status | Status of the data, e.g. collected, on-line, etc. | n/a |
| year | Year that the status entry information | localtime |
| month | Month that the status entry information | localtime |
| day | Day that the status entry information | localtime |
| description | Descriptive text tied to this status | n/a |
Program in a Nutshell
Goal: To understand the effects of climate variability and climate change on the distribution, abundance and production of marine animals (including commercially important living marine resources) in the eastern North Pacific. To embody this understanding in diagnostic and prognostic ecosystem models, capable of capturing the ecosystem response to major climatic fluctuations.
Approach: To study the effects of past and present climate variability on the population ecology and population dynamics of marine biota and living marine resources, and to use this information as a proxy for how the ecosystems of the eastern North Pacific may respond to future global climate change. The strong temporal variability in the physical and biological signals of the NEP will be used to examine the biophysical mechanisms through which zooplankton and salmon populations respond to physical forcing and biological interactions in the coastal regions of the two gyres. Annual and interannual variability will be studied directly through long-term observations and detailed process studies; variability at longer time scales will be examined through retrospective analysis of directly measured and proxy data. Coupled biophysical models of the ecosystems of these regions will be developed and tested using the process studies and data collected from the long-term observation programs, then further tested and improved by hindcasting selected retrospective data series.
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).
| Funding Source | Award |
|---|---|
| National Science Foundation (NSF) |