Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Oceanography Branch

Gulf of Maine
Drifter Project Updates


The table below provides an inventory of drifter studies conducted by different institutions in the Gulf of Maine region.

Research
Funding
Institutions
Region
Date
(w/link to webpage results)
PI
#deployments
Lobster Larvae
Northeast Consortium Lobstermen/eMOLT
Gulf of Maine
Summer 2004
Manning
16+

Northeast Consortium
Univ. of S. Maine
Mid-Coast Maine
Jul/Aug 2005
Incze
14

Univ. of NH
Univ. of NH
NH coast
Summer 2008
Goldstein/Watson
10+
HABs
MERHAB
multi-institution
Mid-coast Maine
May 2003
May 2004
McGillicuddy
7
20

NOAA Rapid Response

S New England
Mass Bay
Gulf of Maine/BoF
Spring 2005
May 2006
June 2006
Keafer/Mickelson
Keafer
McGillicuddy
5
6
18

Center for Oceans and Human Health
Gulf of Maine/BoF
May 2005
Mcgillicuddy
18

GOMTOX


Summer 2007
Summer 2008
Mcgillicuddy
36
23
Right Whales
NOAA Marine Mammal
NOAA/NEFSC
GS Channel



Jordan Basin
Apr/May 2005
Apr/May2006
May 2007
May 2008
Feb 2008
Wenzel/Baumgartner
Wenzel/Merrick


Cole/Hare
6
5
6
2
6
Power Plant outfall
SMAST
SMAST
Narragansett Bay
Aug 2005
Chen/Churchill
5
Invasive Crabs
Sea Grant
MIT/McGill
Mass Bay
Summer 2006
Delaney
2
Hypoxia
Bowdoin
Bowdoin
Casco Bay
Fall 2006
Fall 2007
Fall 2008
Laine/Field
12+
12+
??+
Instrument Development
Southern Maine Community College
SMCC
Casco Bay
Fall 2006
Fall 2007
Fall 2008
Tarbox/Long/Gregory
3
2
?
Educational Experiment
Endicott College
EC
Mass Bay
Fall 2008
Butler/Sauvageau
1


To interactively map and access archive of drifter tracks click here.
For further information contact: James.Manning@noaa.gov

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