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River Influences On Shelf Ecosystems: Introduction And Synthesis, Barbara M. Hickey, Raphael M. Kudela, Jonathan Nash, Kenneth W. Bruland, William T. Peterson, P. Maccready, Evelyn J. Lessard, David A. Jay, Neil S. Banas, Antonio M. Baptista, Edward P. Dever, P. Michael Kosro, Levi Kilcher, Alexander R. Horner-Devine, Edward D. Zaron, Ryan M. Mccabe, Jay O. Peterson, Philip M. Orton, Jiayi Pan

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems (RISE) is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary study of the rates and dynamics governing the mixing of river and coastal waters in an eastern boundary current system, as well as the effects of the resultant plume on phytoplankton standing stocks, growth and grazing rates, and community structure. The RISE Special Volume presents results deduced from four field studies and two different numerical model applications, including an ecosystem model, on the buoyant plume originating from the Columbia River. This introductory paper provides background information on variability during RISE field efforts as well as a synthesis of results, …