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GLERL 2002 Milestone Reports
Milestones are organized by fiscal year quarter.
FIRST QUARTER | SECOND QUARTER | THIRD QUARTER | FOURTH QUARTER
FIRST QUARTER (JANUARY 2002)
OBJECTIVE 2: Promote Clean Coastal Waters to Sustain Living Marine Resources and to Ensure Safe Recreation, Healthy Seafood, and Economic Vitality
PM: Number of coastal and Great Lake states provided with improved predictive capabilities and understanding of coastal processes
Milestone-02-1-1: Assess the frequency and variability of coastal resuspension events in Lake Michigan using ADCP acoustic backscatter.
Scientist: G. Miller
SECOND QUARTER (MARCH 2002)
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 2: Promote Clean Coastal Waters to Sustain Living Marine Resources and to Ensure Safe Recreation, Healthy seafood, and Economic vitality
PM: Number of Coastal and Great Lake States Provided with Improved Predictive Capabilities and Understanding of Coastal Processes
Milestone-02-2-1: Report on estimates of the Lagrangian time and space scales associated with coastal circulation in southern Lake Michigan.
Scientist: M. McCormick
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GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 2: Promote Clean Coastal Waters to Sustain Living Marine Resources and to Ensure Safe Recreation, Healthy Seafood, and Economic Vitality.
PM: Develop better tools, predictive models, and understanding related to water quality and coastal ecosystems management.
Milestone-02-2-2: Convene a special session at the Ocean Sciences Meeting to communicate interdisciplinary results of the four active NSF Coastal Ocean Process Programs (EEGLE, KITES, COAST, and WEST). All are focused on different aspects of cross-margin transport.
Scientist: B.J. Eadie
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GOAL: IMPLEMENT SEASONAL TO INTERANNUAL CLIMATE FORECASTS
OBJECTIVE 4: Improve Public Education So That Climate Forecasts Are Understood and Acted Upon.
PM: Number of users of NOAA's Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasts interpreting their decision risks from the forecasts.
Milestone-02-2-3: Complete multimedia computer training tutorial on the use of Derivative Outlook Weights software for using probabilistic climate outlooks to make derivative user outlooks.
Scientist: T. Croley
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GOAL: DOCUMENT, PREDICT, AND ASSESS DECADAL-TO-CENTENIAL CHANGE
OBJECTIVE 1: Characterize the Forcing Agents of Climate Change
PM: Results of 90% of the research activities are to be cited in the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment of Climate Change
Milestone-02-2-4: Complete Coupled Model Simulation of Greenhouse Gas-Enhanced Scenario in the Great Lakes Basin.
Scientist: B. Lofgren
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GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 1: Protect, Conserve, and Restore Coastal Habitats and their Biodiversity
PM: Number of Coastal Regions With Reduced Introductions and Impacts of Nonindigenous Species
Milestone-02-2-5: Complete first year of biological surveys of no-ballast-on-board (NOBOB) vessel ballast tanks in the Great Lakes
Scientist: D. Reid
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GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COSTS
OBJECTIVE 1: Protect, Conserve, and Restore Coastal Habitats and Their Biodiversity
PM: Number of coastal regions with reduced introductions and impacts of non-indigenous species
Milestone-02-2-6: Complete assessment of changes in the benthic macroinvertebrate community in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron relative to trophic state and invasive species.
Scientist: T. Nalepa
THIRD QUARTER (JUNE 2002)
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 1: Protect, Conserve, and Restore Coastal Habitats and their Biodiversity
PM: Number of coastal regions with reduced introductions and impacts of nonindigenous species
Milestone-02-3-1: Complete and report on investigations for using glutaraldehyde as a ballast-water disinfectant
Scientists: P.F. Landrum
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GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
Objective 2: Promote Clean Coastal Waters To Sustain Living Marine Resources And To Ensure Safe Recreation, Healthy Seafood, And Economic Vitality
PM: Develop better tools, predictive models and understanding related to water quality and coastal ecosystems management
Milestone-02-3-2: Develop and test computer model of Lake Michigan hydrodynamics and sediment transport for significant events during the EEGLE experiment.
Scientist: David Schwab
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GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 1: Protect, Conserve, and Restore Coastal Habitats and their Biodiversity PM: Number of coastal regions with reduced introductions and impacts of nonindigenous species
Milestone-02-3-3: Report on study of changes in the structure and function of the Lake Michigan food web in response to invasion by exotic invertebrates (Zebra mussels)
Scientist: Doran M. Mason
FOURTH QUARTER (SEPTEMBER 2002)
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 2: Promote Clean Coastal Waters to Sustain Living Marine Resources and to Ensure Safe Recreation, Healthy Seafood, and Economic Vitality
PM: Number of coastal and Great Lake states provided with improved predictive capabilities and understanding of coastal processes
Milestone-02-04-1: Complete evaluation of RAFOS floats for use in mid-depth tracking of Lagrangian water parcel trajectories in Lake Champlain.
Scientist: J.H. Saylor (GLERL; retired)
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GOAL: IMPLEMENT SEASONAL TO INTERANNUAL CLIMATE FORECASTS
OBJECTIVE 3: Conduct Research for Improved Climate Predictions.
PM: Improve understanding of atmospheric, oceanic, land surface and cryospheric processes that contribute to seasonal-to-interannual climate variability, as measured by peer-reviewed publications from NOAA-supported research.
Milestone-02-04-2: Make results of a statistical analysis of Great Lakes ice cover for a 28 winter base period (1973-2000) available on the Internet.
Scientist: R. A. Assel
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GOAL: BUILD SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES
OBJECTIVE 1: Eliminate and Prevent Overfishing and Overcapitalization
PM: By 2005 reduce by 40% (34) the number of overfished fisheries (Currently 86 of 269 fisheries are overfished)
Milestone-02-04-3: Report on initial studies to evaluate the impact of declining food resources on Great Lakes fishes.
Scientist: S.B. Brandt
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GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 2: Promote Clean Coastal Waters to Sustain Living Marine Resources and to Ensure Safe Recreation, Healthy Seafood and Economic Vitality
PM: Number of coastal and Great Lake states provided with improved predictive capabilities and understanding of coastal processes
Milestone-02-04-4: Complete and report on investigations of classifying and mapping Great Lakes ice cover using satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data.
Scientist: G. Leshkevich
Last updated: 2002-10-02 mbl