This report presents biological baseline
information gathered during the research project,
"Physical, Chemical and Biological Studies on Youngs Bay." Youngs Bay is a shallow embayment
located on the south shore of the Columbia River,
near Astoria, Oregon. Nearby portions of the
Youngs River, Lewis and Clark River, Columbia
River, and...
This report comprises one part of a final report to the Alumax Pacific Aluminwn Corporation on the "Physical, Chemical and Biological Studies of Youngs Bay". The data reported herein are the product of the geochemical baseline section of the project.
The primary objectives of the geochemical study were:
1) to...
The mesopelagic animals which are most often detected acoustically are those which contain gas bubbles within their bodies. In the waters off the Oregon coast, the most abundant animals which contain gas bubbles are myctophids. Both the size and the shape of the bubble are important to acoustic measurements. This...
Observations of wind speed and direction, air and sea temperature, and solar radiation were obtained from an array of buoys in JASIN. The observations were analyzed to show spatial and temporal variability. Spectra of wind speed and air and sea temperature were computed to illustrate the distribution of variance over...
This report documents the various subroutines in general use by the Oregon
State University Geophysics group. Included are subroutines for plotting
and date and time conversion and arithmetic functions and control
functions.
The anchor-last mooring procedure is investigated in order to determine the transient forces in the mooring line and the velocities of the anchor. Transient forces were determined and the results showed that no severe snap loads occurred for the cases investigated. In addition, it was found that the vertical velocity...
This report presents hydrographic and chemical data from the eastern
tropical North Pacific Ocean collected in January 1977 aboard Oregon State
University's (OSU) R/V WECOMA during Leg I of Cruise WELOC 77. The purpose of
the cruise, WELOC-77-I, was to investigate the distributions of dissolved nitrous
oxide and molecular hydrogen'...
In this report we describe a preliminary version of a temperature/conductivity profiler that combines the calibration accuracy of a CTD with the vertical resolution of a microstructure instrument and the ease of deployment of an XBT. We also describe the results of a test of this version on a month-long...
A multi-disciplinary oceanographic cruise - YALOC '69 - was
carried out by staff of the Department of Oceanography, Oregon State
University aboard the R/V YAQUINA. This report describes the observational
programs undertaken.
YALOC '69 was motivated by a desire to study the geology, geophysics
and physical oceanography of the Panama...