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Hecate in Full bloom	Again --
	What is happening? – another hypothesis

Presumably the strong sunshine triggered another bloom—or did it?

Below I put forth hypothesis that ‘bloom’ injected with warmer water from South

Last week I was wondering why Puget Sound etc in full bloom and Hecate was ‘waning’

	Inoculated from South??
	To test hypothesis would need to know if change of species in bloom – I would guess Dinophycean taxa – more adapted to >SST Hypothesis: warmer water from south injected blooming plankton (arrow above and below left) --

Arrow points to higher SST ‘coming up from south’	Haida Eddy formation and tracking
	Note differences – areas 1 & 2 (note color coding changes – but see relative sizes inside eddies, etc)

	SST Anomalies
	While ‘storminess’ cooled off N and W of QCIs – becoming anomalously warmer to south of QCIs-- arrow

Puget Sound Eddy??

This area of warmer water off Vancouver Island (arrow) presumably came form Puget Sound – as much warmer than any other surrounding waters Note the Upwelling found off CA (1 & 2 )—where water is ‘much’ cooler Areas of cooler water off WA and OR could either be upwelling or Columbia River waters – ditto similar off SW side Vancouver Island Unclear on July 8^th Seen as over on July 1^st Waning on June 25^th Full bloom on June14^th Building on June9^th Compare w last May 23^rd And before that w May 9^th

Created by LG on 15/7/2007

Last updated on Sunday, July 15, 2007