CINAR

The mission of CINAR

is to provide a better understanding of physical and biological processes in the Northeast U.S. Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem, thereby advancing sustainable and beneficial management of its ecosystems and resources.

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CINAR's vision

is to serve as a regional consortium of scientists and educators with the skills, facilities and programs needed to fully support NOAA research and management priorities in the region.

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CINAR's philosophy of operations

focuses on research and its applications specific to NOAA’s mission and goals, and a range of education and outreach activities to train new scientists, enhance expertise of existing scientists, and communicate research results.

About our facilities and expertise

Research

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The CINAR Consortium

Learn about our regional consortium.

Research Infrastructure

CINAR's facilities and expertise.

The Cooperative Institute of the North Atlantic Region is a regional consortium of eight partner institutions spanning the Northeast U.S. Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem (NES LME), offering a broad range of world-class capabilities to meet NOAA's mission goals in effective and sustainable management of region’s habitats and resources.

Learn about the Marine Research Education Program (Research Theme V)

The Marine Resource Education Program (MREP), PI Jeanne Brown, GMRI The Marine Resource Education Program (MREP) delivers multi-day fisheries science and management workshops for people involved with and affected by federal fisheries management. The Gulf of Maine Research Institution (GMRI) has established six regional MREP programs to cover all eight Regional Fishery Management Councils, all…

Learn about satellite tagging of cetaceans (Research Theme IV)

Assessment of Movement Patterns and Critical Habitat for Coastal and Continental Shelf Small Cetaceans in the Gulf of Mexico using Newly Developed Remote Satellite Tagging Techniques, PI Michael Moore, WHOI The objectives of this project are (1) to develop a new and innovative tool to remotely attach telemetry devices to monitor the movement, behavior, and…

Learn more about research in ocean acidification (Theme III)

Data Synthesis and Reporting: Improving the Understanding of Ocean Acidification in a Multi-stressor Environment, PI Saba, Rutgers The interaction of ocean acidification (OA) and warming seawater temperature may act to exacerbate organism stress responses. This highlights the need to synthesize available multi-stressor data to better understand their interactive dynamics in the NES, particularly in habitat…

Learn about the CHANOS II (Research Theme II)

Co-Development of a Profiling Dual-Parameter Carbonate Chemistry Sensor to Enhance Monitoring of Ocean Acidification, PI Zhaohui Aleck Wang, WHOI The Channelized Optical System II (CHANOS II), designed by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is deployed on towed vehicles and CTD packages among on-going research surveys to make high-resolution in situ measurements of multiple CO2 system parameters in a…

Learn about Ocean Reference Stations (Research Theme I)

Distributed Biological Observatory – Northern Chukchi Integrated Study, PI Robert Pickart, WHOI The Ocean Reference Station (ORS) project provides sustained observations at three stations in a key region of the ocean – the trade wind region – using surface moorings to collect accurate observations at the sea surface and in the water column. The project…

Learn more about our CINAR Fellows in Quantitative Fisheries and Ecosystems Science

The Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) appointed of four CINAR Fellows in Quantitative Fisheries and Ecosystems Science in 2023: Robert Griffin (UMass Dartmouth School of Marine Science and Technology), Kathy Mills (Gulf of Maine Research Instituted), Lisa Kerr (University of Maine), and Mei Sato (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution). The goal of the…