Nutrient-Phytoplankton-Zooplankton-Detritus (NPZD) models are going to be an important tool in predicting the impacts of climate change on Narragansett Bay as well as creating effective management strategies for the Bay. One of the greatest constraints on these models is the lack of data related to zooplankton concentrations for model initialization and validation. Past NPZD models of Narragansett Bay are informing where data are collected to improve the most recent NPZD models of the Bay.
Rhode Island EPSCoR is funded by the National Science Foundation under EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Award #OIA-1655221 (Sept. 2017-Aug. 2022). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.