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Oops! What Happened to the Water?

August 5, 2012fisheries, herring, herring spawn, kelp, lighthouse, litehouse, McInnes Island, reporting, roe, spawnAdult Memories, British Columbia, Coast Guard, Communication, Environment, Fisheries and Oceans, Fishing, Lighthouses, On The Job, Radio, WildliferetlkprLeave a Comment

A few days ago I posted an article on the lightkeepers being the eyes and ears of the BC coast. While writing it an incident was brought to my mind of my early days in 1977 on McInnes Island. We arrived on McInnes in August 1977 so this had to have happened in Spring 1978. Every […]

COOLTAP

December 9, 2011COOLTAP, EC, Environment Canada, lighthouse, litehouse, reporting, weather, WXAnti-Automation, Canada, Information, Lighthouses, On The Job, WeatherretlkprLeave a Comment

Environment Canada (EC) has a cooperative/volunteer climate network weather collection project called COOLTAP.(Cooperative Online Temperature and Precipitation Entry System). It is a web-based Data entry system website where daily weather data is entered and used. All that is required is an internet-connected computer to input the data. NOAA (USA) uses a similar data collection program called […]