Each of AOML's performance measures and the associated milestones are organized below under their Strategic Plan Element and by the quarter in which a status report is due. At the end of each quarter, completed progress reports will be posted in html form under the associated milestone.
Performance Measures - PM
Milestones - M
M: Conduct final annual spawning distribution survey of Atlantic menhaden in the south Atlantic Bight. (AOML, P. Ortner)
4th Quarter FY 1996
M: Complete analysis of biological distributions in baroclinically unstable vortices adjacent to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. (AOML, P. Ortner)
M: Dilution curves will be completed for dredged material discharge, similar to those already generated for waste disposal techniques. (AOML, J. Proni)
M: Generate first order estimates of the relative importance of zooplankton in Florida Bay as components in the carbon and energy budgets and as food for larval fish. (AOML, P. Ortner)
4th Quarter FY 1996
PM: Improve emergency preparedness.
M: Produce more accurate real-time descriptions and forecasts of winds in landfalling hurricanes. (AOML, H. Willoughby)
PM: Improve representation of the ocean in coupled climate prediction models.
M: Document decadal variability in aspects of North Atlantic circulation. (AOML, H. Bezdek)
M: Document predictability of modeled thermohaline circulation. (AOML; OGP)