Dynamics of Willapa Bay, Washington, USA: Links to the coastal ocean, tidal dispersion, and oyster carrying capacity (PhD, Univ of Washington, 2005).
Biophysical modeling of the Columbia River plume (2009)
The model As part of the NSF RISE (River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems) program, my collaborators and I coupled a four-box ecosystem model to a high-resolution hindcast of the Washington-Oregon coast, to examine Columbia River plume effects on coastal biological production. For more information, see Banas NS, Lessard E, Kudela R, MacCready P, Peterson T, … Read more