Editing Sable Island (section)

==Sable Island Station==
[[File:SableStation.jpg|thumb|Sable Island station]]
{{Infobox airport
 | name                 = [[Sable Island Aerodrome]]
 | IATA                 = YSA
 | ICAO                 =
 | TC                   = CSB2
 | image                =
 | caption              =
 | type                 = Private
 | owner-oper = [[Parks Canada]]
 | city-served          =
 | location             = Sable Island, [[Nova Scotia]]
 | timezone             = [[Atlantic Time Zone|AST]]
 | utc                  = [[UTC−04:00]]
 | summer               = {{abbr|ADT|Atlantic daylight time}}
 | utcs                 = [[UTC−03:00]]
 | elevation-f          = 4
 | website              =
 | pushpin_map          = Canada
 | pushpin_map_caption  = Location in Canada
 | pushpin_label        = CSB2
 | coordinates          = {{coord|43|55|46|N|059|57|35|W|region:CA-NS}}
 | r1-number = 11/29
 | r1-length-f          = 1500
 | r1-surface           = Sand
 | footnotes            = Source: [[Canada Flight Supplement]]<ref name="CFS">{{CFS}}</ref>
}}
The Sable Island Main Station, managed and staffed by [[Parks Canada]], is the only permanently staffed facility on the island. Climatological record-keeping on Sable Island began in 1871 with the establishment of the [[Meteorological Service of Canada]], and ran continuously from 1891 until August 20, 2019.<ref name="AerologicalProgEnds"/>

Sable Island has been the subject of extensive scientific research over the years. The [[Meteorological Service of Canada]] operated a wide range of manual and automated instruments, including the [[Automated airport weather station|Automated Weather Observing System]], an [[Atmospheric science|aerology]] program measuring conditions in the upper atmosphere using a [[radiosonde]] carried aloft by a hydrogen-filled [[weather balloon]] to altitudes beyond {{cvt|40|km}}, and a program collecting data on background levels of [[carbon dioxide]], which began there in 1974. Research was done to monitor the long-range transport of pollution aerosols. Fog chemistry has also been studied, examining the transport and composition of atmospheric toxins it carries. [[Tropospheric]] ozone was measured and analyzed by researchers in Canada and the United States along with 20 other North American sites. The upper-air aerology program ended on August 20, 2019.<ref name="AerologicalProgEnds"/>

[[File:Britten-Norman Islander on Sable Island.jpg|thumb|left|[[Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander|Britten-Norman Islander]] being unloaded on the beach at Sable Island]]
The installation of the BGS Magnetic Observatory on Sable Island was funded as a joint venture between the British Geological Survey, Sperry-Sun Drilling Services, and Sable Offshore Energy. The data it collects aid scientific research into rates of change of the Earth's magnetic field and increase the accuracy of the BGS Global Geomagnetic Model. Data from the geomagnetic observatory is used by the offshore energy industry for precise positioning activities such as [[directional drilling]].

Supplies are delivered to the Sable Island Station approximately twice a month by [[Sable Aviation]] using a [[Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander|Britten-Norman Islander]]. Although the island has a heliport (CST5) with an {{cvt|80|ft}} diameter concrete pad. There is no permanent runway for fixed wing aircraft, which land instead on the south beach in an area designated as the [[Sable Island Aerodrome]] (CSB2).<ref name="CFS"/> Prior permission is required to land, as the area is often unusable due to changing sand conditions.