The Dynamics of the Chesapeake Bay Estuarine Plume: MECCAS Physical Program

在这个项目中，P.I.该项目将分析来自一个名为MECCAS（沿海大西洋系统微生物交换与耦合）的实地项目的数据。实验的目的是确定控制低盐度水排放到大陆架上的运动的动力学，并检查羽流中营养物-浮游生物-微生物联系的可变性及其与物理强迫的关系。测量是在切萨皮克湾流出物附近的大陆架上进行的。除了分析物理海洋学数据外，大量的跨学科工作将把这些数据与所涉及的生物学家获得的结果结合起来。

In this project, P.I.'s will analyze data from a field program called MECCAS (Microbial Exchanges and Coupling in Coastal Atlantic Systems. Objectives of the experiment were to determine the dynamics that control the motion of low-salinity water discharged onto the shelf, and to examine both variability of the nutrient-plankton-microbe connection within the plume and its relationship to physical forcing. Measurements were made over the continental shelf in the vicinity of the outflow from the Chesapeake Bay. In addition to analysis of the physical oceanographic data, substantial interdisciplinary work will integrate these data with the results obtained by the biologists involved.