Preface 



This report is a presentation of the oceanographic data collected by sci- 

 entists from the I'niversity of Washington, McGill University, the Bureau 

 of Commercial Fislieries and the Coast Guard Oceanographic Unit during 

 cruises on the U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers EASTWIND and WESTWIND 

 in Baffin Bay during the summer of 1968. These cruises and this report are 

 part of the U.S. Coast Guard support of the Baffin Bay-Xorth Water project 

 of the Arctic Institute of North America. Tlie area surveyed consisted of 

 Smith Sound, Disko Bay and nortliern and southeastern Baffin Bay. Data 

 discussed in this report includes physical, chemical and biological observations 

 in these areas. 



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