POGO, our vertical profiler system will return to the water this summer after a trip to Japan for repair and extensive testing. POGO will be placed approximately 10 km north of the Barkley Canyon node to provide information about continental shelf waters off the coast of Vancouver Island. The motivation for this innovative instrument platform is to provide real-time access to the water column. Studies of the water column are traditionally done from ships and, in fact, this area is monitored by two programs led by scientists in Fisheries and Oceans Canada at the Institute of Ocean Sciences: La Perouse Bank...