Projects

River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems (RISE: NSF-CoOP): Project summary presentation
Satellite Ocean Color Study of the Columbia River Plume

Columbia River Hydrology, Sediment Transport and Climate
  • River transports past Beaver Army Terminal, flood of 1996, El Nino (1998) and La Nina (1999) effects, comparison with Fraser River, River tide propagation
  • Historic Flow and Sediment Transport Data
  • The Columbia River, Coastal Ocean, and Juvenile Salmon
    Satellite Ocean Front Mapping in Support of Salmonid Resource Management
    Suspended Particulate Dynamics in Advection-Dominated Environments
  • Inverse modeling observational methods, Plume sedimentation
  • Columbia River Estuarine Turbidity Maxima (ETM)

  • ETM biophysics, circulation and transport in land-margin ecosystems, 1997-1998 seasonal and interannual variability
  • Suspended particulate dynamics
  • Internal Tides and River Plumes