CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 1 



Acknowledgnnents 1 



Field procedure 2 



Vessels and observers 2 



Stations 2 



Routine 2 



Changes from 1958 field work 2 



Cruise plans 2 



Water sample s 3 



Equipment 3 



Plankton 3 



Drift bottle s 3 



Laboratory procedure 3 



Chemistry 3 



Data presentation 3 



Plankton data 4 



Summary of ob servations 4 



MV Pioneer 5 



MV Tordenskjold 7 



Literature cited 9 



Tabulated data MV Pioneer 11 



Station data 11 



Bathythermograph observations 99 



Plankton data 105 



Numbers of copepods 105 



Numbers of organisms 109 



Drift bottle releases 113 



Tabulated data MV Tordenskjold 115 



Station data 115 



Bathythermograph observations 196 



Plankton data 201 



Numbers of copepods 201 



Numbers of organisms 205 



Appendix 209 



Bathythermograph observations made by the vessels of the 

 Fisheries Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, 

 Washington. 



MV Commander 210 



MV Windward 212 



FIGURE 



1. Oceanographic stations, May to September 1959 iv 



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