Expect the Unexpected: Salmon, Water, and Wind

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Expect the Unexpected: Salmon, Water, and Wind Mark R. Abbott College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University

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Expect the Unexpected: Salmon, Water, and Wind. Mark R. Abbott College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University. Coastal Upwelling. Equatorward Winds. Winds push surface water offshore. Cold, deep water moves to surface, bringing nutrients. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Expect the Unexpected:Salmon, Water, and Wind

Mark R. Abbott College of Oceanic and Atmospheric SciencesOregon State University

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Coastal UpwellingEquatorward Winds

Cold, deep water moves to surface, bringing nutrients

Winds push surface water offshore

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Conditions Leading to Low Oxygen Zones

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Interannualvariability

inwind stress

Cumulativewind stresssince Spring

Transition

Equatorward,Upwellingfavorable

Barth et al. (2007)

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Late, weak upwelling in 2005led to low

nutrients and chlorophyll

long-termaverage

Barth et al. (2007)PISCO

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Interannual variability – Supercharged upwelling of 2006Cumulative wind stress since Spring Transition

Equatorward,Upwellingfavorable

Two extremesin

two years !

2006

2005

Barth/Pierce (OSU)

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“This is a bleak year.” - NOAA

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“Some of the highest numbers we’ve ever seen” - NOAA

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“It’s a mystery. This is nothing like what was predicted.” - NOAA

Sockeye Returns at Bonneville Dam

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Historic Runs of Salmon in the Columbia River

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Native American Gillnetters

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John Day Dam

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Fish Ladder at John Day Dam

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Irrigation in Hermiston

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Wind Farm in the Gorge

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Potential Wind Resources in the Columbia Basin

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Coastal Ocean Observing

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Data Assimilation System, Oregon Shelf, Summer 2001

Data Assimilation: Model + Data = Optimized Solution (3D+Time)

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What types of IT do We Need?Data streams

Management, provenanceKnowledge extractionSeeking patterns and relationships

ComputationScenarios, real-time predictions

CommunicationDiverse users – and two-way communicationsSemantics and ontologiesPresentation and visualizationDistributed and mobile

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Climate Change and Public Policy

Regard people as a “keystone species,” not just extracting ecosystem servicesRequire combination of social and ecological systems

Respond to new information and understandingCombination of adaptation and mitigation

Integrated and inclusive approaches to policy formulation and refinement