Scientists from 6 institutions are involved in RISE. Here are
their affiliations, contact information, and a brief idea of their role on the
project.
 Barbara Hickey,
University of Washington, is a physical oceanographer whose expertise is the coastal
current systems off the U.S. West coast. She has a particular interest in
processes associated with river plumes, submarine canyons, deep basins and
estuary-ocean exchange, as well as the effects of coastal processes on the
marine ecosystem. Dr. Hickey is the lead PI in RISE--her primary role will be to
coordinate activities and to synthesize results from the various elements of the
program. She will be responsible for the RISE drifter program and will
participate in the modeling program. Dr. Hickey is also the scientific director
and co-lead PI of a major new study on the northern WA/BC coast--ECOHAB PNW.
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Evelyn Lessard, University of Washington. Dr. Lessard is a
Biological Oceanographer who is interested in the many functions that
protists play in food webs, including as grazers of phytoplankton biomass
and as trophic intermediaries, and their responses to and structuring of
phytoplankton communities. Lessard's group will be measuring community and
species-specific phytoplankton grazing by microzooplankton, microzooplankton
and phytoplankton community structure and the relative importance of each in
the diets of copepods and euphausids.
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Parker MacCready, University of Washington. MacCready is a Physical
Oceanographer specializing in the dynamics of flow over rough topography in
coastal and estuarine waters. He will be doing the numerical modeling of the
Columbia River Plume for this study, and supervising the ecosystem modeling.
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Michael Kosro, Oregon State University. Kosro is a physical
oceanographer with interests in coastal circulation and exchange processes.
For RISE, his Ocean Currents Mapping Lab will use long-range HF radio wave
backscatter to obtain time-series maps of the coastal surface flow.
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Jim Moum, Oregon State University, is a physical oceanographer who
specializes in observational studies of small scale ocean physics and
turbulence. He will be studying the mechanisms by which the Columbia River
plume mixes with the coastal ocean.
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Jonathan Nash, Oregon State University. Nash studies small-scale ocean
physics, turbulence and mixing using a variety of microstructure
instrumentation. He will be measuring turbulent entrainment into the plume and
mixing at the plume front and within the bottom boundary layer.
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Bill Peterson,
has a joint appointment with the National Marine
Fisheries Service (Newport) and Oregon State University (Corvallis), and is a
Biological Oceanographer who studies the zooplankton ecology. With GLOBEC
funding he runs a bi-weekly hydrographic and zooplankton sampling program off
Newport with a focus on relationships between climate variability and
interannual variations in distribution and abundance of copepods and
euphausiids in the Oregon upwelling zone. Scientists within Bill's group at
Newport work chiefly on euphausiid distribution and abundance using MOCNESS
nets and acoustics, as well as euphausiids production rates through direct
measurement of molting and egg production. Bill is also associated with a
Bonneville Power Administration project that is looking at use of the Columbia
River plume and adjacent coastal waters by juvenile coho and chinook salmon.
He is keenly interested in the productivity of the plume, and how regional
variations in productivity might control growth and mortality of juvenile
salmon. Bill's role in the RISE project is to measure grazing and production
rates of copepods and euphausiids, in collaboration with Evelyn Lessard.
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Antonio Baptista, Oregon
Health and Science University, is a Physical
Oceanographer. He specializes in ocean observation systems, linking 3-D
numerical simulations of the Columbia River with an array of moored instruments
and an extensive system of web-based analysis and communication tools.
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David A. Jay is physical oceanographer who has studied a broad
range of coastal ecosystem problems. He will carry out the towed vessel
surveys, examine the role of fronts and internal tides in the plume, and take
part in ecosystem analyses and syntheses. He is involved in several
other projects related to the Columbia River, estuary and plume as a habitat
for juvenile salmonids. EMAIL
Ed Dever, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Dever is a physical
oceanographer whose interests include shelf dynamics and air-sea interaction.
For the RISE program, he will be responsible for deploying 3 moorings near the
Columbia River. He will use the time series data acquired to better understand
the impact of the Columbia River plume on shelf properties.
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Ken Bruland, University of California at Santa Cruz. Bruland
is a Chemical Oceanographer specializing in the interactive influence of trace
metals and phytoplankton dynamics. He is interested in trace metals such
as iron, zinc and manganese as limiting micronutrients and in metals such as
copper as potentially toxic elements. Bruland will be studying the role
of the Columbia River plume in providing iron, manganese and excess silicic
acid to the coastal upwelling systems off Oregon and Washington. A key
to this effort will be mapping the distributions of these elements with
shipboard measurements. EMAIL
Raphael Kudela, Ocean Sciences Department, University of California
Santa Cruz. Kudela is a Biological Oceanographer specializing in
phytoplankton bio-optics and ecophysiology. He will be providing remote
sensing (ocean color, temperature) and in situ bio-optical measurements, and
will coordinate the phytoplankton rate measurements using stable and
radio-tracers. Together with Bruland, he will supervise core measurements of
macro-nutrients and plankton biomass (pigments, elemental composition).
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