PICES-POMA Award for 2010 PICES-POMA Award for 2010
Station Papa / Line-P Station Papa / Line-P
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Station Papa / Line-P Station Papa / Line-P The original weather - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
PICES-POMA Award for 2010 PICES-POMA Award for 2010 ^ Station Papa 50N 145W Station Papa / Line-P Station Papa / Line-P The original weather ships St. Catherines and the Stonetown Replaced by Quadra and Vancouver Later, Endeavour
^ Station Papa 50°N 145°W
The original weather ships
Replaced by Quadra and Vancouver
Later, Endeavour and Parizeau
And now CCGS John P. Tully
. . .and thanks to countless officers and crew of all these ships
The Godfather
John P. Tully
Godfather-II
Sus Tabata
Godfather-III
Frank Whitney
Godmother-I
Marie Robert
Mixed‐Layer Experiment (MILE) 1972 Subarctic Pacific Ecosystem Research (SUPER) 1984 Ocean Storms Fall 1987 Storm Response Experiment (STREX) 1980 P‐Line Program Aug 1981 ‐
PMEL mooring 1997‐1999 PMEL mooring 2007 ‐
WOCE PR-6
<----Argo----> Series
60 years at Station Papa - Collaborators
Subarctic Pacific Ecosystem Research (SUPER) 1984
Plankton and iron limitation..
McAllister, Parsons and Strickland 1960, the N. Pacific is not the same as the Atlantic Martin & Fitzwater 1988: the iron hypothesis
Longitude (degree W)
50.75 50.83 50.92 51.00 51.08Latitude (degree N)
260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 390 400 41010 July, 65 km2 SF6 & pCO2 12 July, ~290 km2 SF6
and fluorescence
20 July
SF6 & nitrate
29 July and SeaWiFS chl. 2 August, ~700 km2
Series – Cooking at Papa
With a long time series we can define a climatology
Argo floats at Papa
Early days - The Guys of Papa
Later days - The Guys (not) of Papa
And some others….
Over 60 years, there have been too many sponsors to mention, here are a few…