@article {RN34,
	title = {Warm Blobs, Low-Oxygen Events, and an Eclipse THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE ENDURANCE ARRAY CAPTURES THEM ALL},
	journal = {Oceanography},
	volume = {31},
	number = {1},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {90-97},
	type = {Journal Article},
	abstract = {The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Endurance Array in the Northeast Pacific off the coasts of Oregon and Washington is designed to measure changes in the ocean on timescales from hours to decades. The Endurance Array is located halfway between the pole and the equator in one of the major coastal upwelling systems on our planet, the California Current System. This area is forced locally by winds, waves, tides, and freshwater inputs from rivers and, more broadly, by large-scale ocean-atmosphere phenomena from both the south, for example, the El Ni{\~n}o-Southern Oscillation, and the north, for example, changes originating in the subarctic Gulf of Alaska. The Endurance Array spans the continental shelf and slope and hosts a variety of platforms and sensors for measuring physical-biogeochemical oceanographic processes. After briefly introducing the unique OOI platforms and range of sensors that make up the Endurance Array, we describe three phenomena with durations spanning hours to years. These include an ocean response to the total eclipse of the Sun on August 21, 2017, the devastating effects of a low-oxygen event off central Oregon, and the appearance of an anomalously warm upper-ocean feature off the Pacific Northwest in recent years.},
	issn = {1042-8275},
	doi = {10.5670/oceanog.2018.114},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://WOS:000427367300014},
	author = {Barth, J. A. and Fram, J. P. and Dever, E. P. and Risien, C. M. and Wingard, C. E. and Collier, R. W. and Kearney, T. D.}
}
@article {RN52,
	title = {Anomalous Near-Surface Low-Salinity Pulses off the Central Oregon Coast},
	journal = {Sci Rep},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {17145},
	type = {Journal Article},
	abstract = {From mid-May to August 2011, extreme runoff in the Columbia River ranged from 14,000 to over 17,000 m(3)/s, more than two standard deviations above the mean for this period. The extreme runoff was the direct result of both melting of anomalously high snowpack and rainfall associated with the 2010-2011 La Ni{\~n}a. The effects of this increased freshwater discharge were observed off Newport, Oregon, 180 km south of the Columbia River mouth. Salinity values as low as 22, nine standard deviations below the climatological value for this period, were registered at the mid-shelf. Using a network of ocean observing sensors and platforms, it was possible to capture the onshore advection of the Columbia River plume from the mid-shelf, 20 km offshore, to the coast and eventually into Yaquina Bay (Newport) during a sustained wind reversal event. Increased freshwater delivery can influence coastal ocean ecosystems and delivery of offshore, river-influenced water may influence estuarine biogeochemistry.},
	issn = {2045-2322 (Electronic) 2045-2322 (Linking)},
	doi = {10.1038/srep17145},
	url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26607750},
	author = {Mazzini, P. L. and Risien, C. M. and Barth, J. A. and Pierce, S. D. and Erofeev, A. and Dever, E. P. and Kosro, P. M. and Levine, M. D. and Shearman, R. K. and Vardaro, M. F.}
}
