The Annual Oceanographic Cycle at Igloolik in the Canadian Arctic. 1. The Zooplankton and Physical and Chemical Observations

• Published in: Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
• Main Author: Grainger, E. H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1959
• Subjects: General Medicine; Arctic; Igloolik; Foxe Basin; Fury; Calanus finmarchicus; Fury and Hecla Strait; Pseudocalanus minutus; Sea ice; Zooplankton; Copepods
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f59-039; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f59-039

Materials used were collected September 1955 to September 1956 near Igloolik, northwest Foxe Basin, in the Canadian arctic. A single station, about one mile from shore and 52 m deep, was occupied 27 times during the year. It is in a region of net flow of arctic water from Fury and Hecla Strait, whos...