PREFACE 



This report is a presentation of the oceanographic data collected from 28 July to 

 4 August 1963 during the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Evergreens special survey per- 

 formed at the conclusion of the regular work that is done for the International Ice 

 Patrol off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in the Labrador Sea every year. 

 The areas surveyed consisted of Kennedy Channel, Kane Basin, Smith Sound, and 

 upper Baffin Bay and the data covered in this report includes physical, chemical, 

 geological oceanography, and bathymetry. 



The author of the section on physical oceanography is Alfred P. Franceschetti, 

 Oceanographer, U.S. Coast Guard Oceanographic Unit; 1 the section on nutrient 

 distribution was written by David A. McGill and Nathaniel Corwin, both of the 

 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and that on the sediments and topography 

 of Kane Basin was by Elazar Uchupi also of the Woods Hole Oceanographic 

 Institution. 



The author of the first section wishes to express his appreciation and gratitude 

 to Mr. J. W. McGary of U.S. Coast Guard Oceanographic Unit and LCDR R, M. 

 Morse, USCG, who reviewed the section of this manuscript on physical oceanography 

 and made many valuable suggestions and to LCDR V. W. Driggers, USCG, for his 

 assistance in data processing and quality control. 



1 Present employment : Oceanographer, National Oceanographic Data Center, Washington, D.C. 



