The oceanographic work of the United States Coast Guard in 1937 and plans for 1938

Abstract

For the 1937 season the Coast Guard assigned the cruising cutters Champlain and Mendota to the duties of the International Service of Ice Observation and Ice Patrol. The 125‐foot patrol boat General Greene was again designated as the oceanographic vessel of the Ice Patrol Force. Because of the unusually early date upon which it was necessary to begin the service of Ice‐observation, the cutter Cayuga made one ice‐observation patrol, February 5 to 21. The iceobservation officer, who has charge of the scientific work on the patrol cutters, was Lieutenant G. Van A. Graves, and the oceanographer in charge of the scientific work on the oceanographic vessel was Floyd M. Soule. From several thousand temperature‐reports received by the patrol cutters from passing steamers the ice‐observation officer was enabled to maintain an up‐to‐date surface isothermal chart of the usually ice‐infested area in the vicinity of the Grand Banks and to prepare nine fortnightly sea‐surface isothermal charts which will appear in Coast Guard Bulletin No. 27.