Corvallis, Or. : College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
Abstract
As part of the GLOBEC NEP collaborative research project on the California Current (CC),
this was the second of two cruises in 2002 to study the physical and biological oceanographic
distributions and processes that influence juvenile salmonid habitat along the Oregon and northern
California coast. The 2002 cruises followed similar cruises in 2000 in an effort to assess interannual
variability in the northern CC. The goal is to understand how physical circulation features
(such as upwelling fronts, coastal jets, and circulation around submarine banks) influence
distributions of phytoplankton, zooplankton and larval fish. We made mesoscale surveys at the
beginning and end of our study, along with finescale surveys south of Newport centered on Heceta
Bank, and north of the Oregon-California border up to Cape Blanco (Figure 1)