Oceanography in the Vicinity of Amchitka Island, Alaska

• Published in: BioScience
• Main Author: McAlister, W. Bruce
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1971
• Subjects: Symposium on Amchitka Island Bioenvironmental Studies; Amchitka; Amchitka Island; Amchitka Pass; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/21/12/646; https://doi.org/10.2307/1295740

Five oceanographic sections along the Aleutian Islands near Amchitka were occupied during the winter of 1968 by the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries' R/V George B. Kelez to determine the winter characteristics of water properties, circulation, and biota. Observations included trace metals, n...