Tracking Marine Debris Transport As part of the NOAA Marine Debris Program funded project, “Tracking Marine Debris Transport: An Education and Outreach Project to Enhance Stewardship and Prevention Behaviors in the Gulf of Maine”, we at the GOMLF have deployed surface drifters throughout the Gulf of Maine to better understand …
Atlantic Bluefin Larvae Project In June 2016, Christina Hernandez (shown on the right) and Joel Llopiz began to explore “Atlantic Bluefin Tuna spawning in the Slope Sea: larval growth and retention” while at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with collaborator Glen Gawarkiewicz. The team planned to build and deploy 4 sets …
Better Understanding of Sea Turtle Strandings The sea turtles residing in Cape Cod Bay each fall are often trapped and fail to migrate into warmer waters. As they become “cold stunned”, they are no longer able to swim and often wash ashore stranded. Their fate, whether that be washing ashore …
Drifters May Help Improve Regional Harmful Algal Bloom Forecasts in Gulf of Maine Track coastal currents and help test the leaky gyre hypothesis Article published June 12, 2017 by NOAA NEFSC, Contact: Shelley Dawicki Every few weeks for the next few months, a pair of ocean drifters, one surface and one …
Harmful Algal Bloom Project – ECHOHAB As part of the ECOHAB project, we at the GOMLF have deployed drifters (both surface and drogue) in the Bay of Fundy to help modelers. The goal of this project is to better understand the role of the Bay of Fundy gyre, a large …
