submitted to Deep Sea Research II Transport and retention of dormant copepods in the Gulf of Maine Catherine Johnson 1* , James Pringle 1 , Changsheng Chen 2 1 Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, 142 Morse Hall, Durham, New Hampshire, 03824, USA 2 School of Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth, 706 South Rodney French Blvd., New Bedford, Massachusetts, 02744, USA * Corresponding author, email: c.johnson@unh.edu , fax: 603 862-0243 Keywords: Calanus finmarchicus, copepod, dormancy, diapause, Gulf of Maine, interannual variability, zooplankton