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Author : Greengrove, C.; Keil, R.; Chin-Leo, G.; Logsdon, M.; Ingalls, A.; Nuwer, J.; Walsh, E.; Delwiche, L.; and Evans, C.
Date : 2006.
Title : Repeat hydrographic and sediment surveys in Barkley, Clayoquot and Nootka Sounds (British Columbia, Canada) between 2000-2005.
Publication : Eos Transactions. American Geophysical Union 87(36), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract
Issue : 87(36), Ocean Science Meeting Supplement:
Page(s) : OS45O-01.
Abstract
The physical, chemical and biological oceanographic conditions in the fjords of Barkley, Clayoquot and Nootka Sounds, off the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada have been explored by a multidisciplinary team of marine science faculty and students for the past six years. These nested fjords exhibit a broad range of characteristics including permanently anoxic basins (e.g.Muchalot Inlet, Inner Tofino Inlet), seasonally anoxic basins (outer Tofino Inlet), oxic basins (Bedwell Sound) and hydrothermally influenced areas (Sydney Inlet). Water turnover in these inlets directly affects fish and shellfish farms, apparently influences marine mammal distributions, and relates to the preservational efficiency with which organic carbon is preserved in coastal and fjord sediments. Understanding the local and regional physical oceanographic conditions is an important factor in determining the future health and function of these fjords.
Bibliography of Canadian Geomorphology