A poster presentation at the Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco in December 2008 was made describing recent water column measurements in Saanich Inlet, including observations from the VENUS network. Summarized below in some of the poster sections are evidence for deep water renewal, tied to periods of weak neap tides, and Oxygen and Nitrogen cycling. Conclusions highlight that four distinct renewal events were captured in the fall of 2008, biogenic N2 was isotopically heavy, and the upward flux of N2 due to internal mixing requires a denitrification rate of 30 nmol/kg/day.
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