This study is scheduled to include three field years and two years of subsequent interpretation and product development. Major efforts now will be focused on interpretation and the development of products, including data bases, models, papers, and reports. A major PI working meeting is scheduled for late September to discuss interdisciplinary interpretations of our results. At this meeting joint products will be discussed.
All individual PIs have manuscript writing responsibilities for the next two years.
The field program for 2000 will be similar to the 1999 efforts, although an extra nearshore-offshore sampling transect south of the St. Joseph River has been added to the survey cruises. There was clear evidence that some of the 1999 St. Joseph transect samples contained a substantial fraction of river water. One additional ADCP current meter and four additional sequencing traps have been added to the measuring grid in southeastern Lake Michigan. The March-April periods for both 1998 and 1999 will be simulated with measured winds and the sediment dynamics model should be ready for comprehensive testing by summer 2000. The ROV sediment-interface sampling program will pursue less spatial coverage than 1999, but with much higher temporal frequency.