Proceedings 2023/041
Proceedings of the Zonal Peer Review of the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program (AZMP); March 27–29, 2023
Chairperson: Peter S. Galbraith
Editor: Aude Boivin-Rioux
Summary
The Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program (AZMP) was implemented in 1998 with the aim of collecting and analyzing the biological, chemical, and physical field data that are necessary to:
- Characterize and understand the causes of oceanic variability at the seasonal, interannual, and decadal scales;
- Provide multidisciplinary data sets that can be used to establish relationships among the biological, chemical, and physical variables; and
- Provide adequate data to support the sound development of ocean activities.
AZMP scientists have in the past met annually to review the activities of the Program and assess business, operational and logistic issues that need regional/zonal intervention, or that must be brought to the attention of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) Atlantic Science Directors’ Committee, as well as to synthesize the state of the ocean for the entire zone. Because of the COVID outbreak, the March 2020 was reduced in scope to the zonal synthesis and this practice has since been maintained. In March 2023, the AZMP scientists reconvened by teleconference from March 27 to 29th to review oceanographic conditions that prevailed in 2022 within the zone and draft a summary as a Science Advisory Report (SAR).
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