Time series of environmental measurements are essential for detecting, measuring and
understanding changes in the Earth system and its biological communities. Observational …

Poised at the interface of rivers, ocean, atmosphere and dense human settlement, estuaries
are driven by a large array of natural and anthropogenic forces. San Francisco Bay …

Abstract The northern Bering and Chukchi Seas are areas in the Pacific Arctic characterized
by high northward advection of Pacific Ocean water, with seasonal variability in sea ice …

Along the Pacific coast of North America, from Alaska to Mexico, harmful algal blooms
(HABs) have caused losses to natural resources and coastal economies, and have resulted …

This chapter provides an overview of the main drivers of change in estuarine systems, their
expected causes and impacts on estuarine fish and fisheries. An analysis of global, regional …

With continuing influx of large numbers of people into coastal regions, human stresses on
coastal ecosystems and resources are growing at the same time that climate variability and …

Impermanence is an ecological principle but there are times when changes occur
nonlinearly as abrupt community shifts (ACSs) that transform the ecosystem state and the …

Pacific salmon are a dominant component of the northeast Pacific ecosystem. Their status is
of concern because salmon abundance is highly variable—including protected stocks, a …

The goal of the Pacific Ocean Boundary Ecosystem and Climate Study (POBEX) was to
diagnose the large-scale climate controls on regional transport dynamics and lower trophic …

The coastal ocean environment off California is largely determined by wind‐driven coastal
upwelling, with an ecosystem that is tightly coupled to seasonality in this upwelling. Three …