Pilot Census of Marine Life in the Gulf of Maine
Lewis S. Incze and Nicholas H. Wolff

Research Interests:

1) Physical forcing (wind stress, currents, eddies, tidal mixing, disturbance) on plankton ecology and population dynamics.

2) Fisheries Recruitment.

3) Patterns of ecosystem diversity and productivity.
Lew Incze
 
  I am interested in the biology and physics of the oceans as they affect interactions between organisms, such as in feeding relationships; the distribution and transport of organisms; and the spatial and temporal patterns of upper trophic level production and recruitment. Past work has dealt primarily with larval fish and larval decapod crustaceans. Spatial scales of interest range from turbulence scale through fronts, eddies and coastal current systems. My current research focuses on two organisms and areas, though multiple themes. The first is on the production dynamics and transport mechanisms for the last planktonic stage (called the postlarval stage) of lobsters in the Gulf of Maine and the quantitative relationships between postlarval supply and benthic recruitment. This involves field work and modeling. The second area of research is the ecology (primarily feeding, growth and retention) of larval cod relative to transport and vertical mixing on Georges Bank. This work is being conducted as part of the Northwest Atlantic GLOBEC program.