batch_auto_20260713 202607131256465730 BOEM ESP geoESPIS ESPIS@boem.gov Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Zooplankton Ecology of the Gulf of Maine School of Marine Sciences, Gulf of Maine Research Institute University of Maine BOEM Cooperative Agreement M19AC00022 supported collection and analysis of samples from the Wilkinson Basin Time Series (WBTS) and Coastal Maine Time Series (CMTS) stations as part of the NERACOOS Integrated Sentinel Monitoring Network (ISMN) Gulf of Maine MBON project. The WBTS and CMTS stations are strategically located in the Western Gulf of Maine to monitor planktonic ecosystem characteristics in the Maine Coastal Current, a regional production driver, and in Wilkinson Basin, the primary overwintering habitat for the energy-rich foundation species, the planktonic copepod Calanus finmarchicus, that supports the Gulf of Maine subarctic food web and its ecosystem services. 210000 U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Environmental Studies Program https://doi.org/10.13039/100012475 M19AC00022 10.67297/9A1E36 https://boem.gov/awardpages/100278