UW Oceanography
contact info · Barbara Hickey, PI · Sue Geier · Nancy Kachel · Tom Connolly

 

U W   C o a s t a l   S t u d i e s   g r o u p

projects Columbia River plume studies Pacific Northwest coast & estuaries Harmful algal blooms

Southern California Bight

  RISE (external link)

Willapa Bay

PNCERS

ECOHAB (external link)

ORHAB

 
Exuma Sound, Bahamas
  Historical CTD Data Hypoxia ECOHAB (mooring data repository) GLOBEC Northeast Pacific

This site is an oceanographic data repository for Dr. Barbara Hickey's research group at the University of Washington. All data listed below are available to the public. These data have been collected with support from a variety of sources including Washington Sea Grant, the NOAA Coastal Ocean Program, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Naval Research, the NOAA National Undersea Research Program, the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, Washington State Parks Service, and the Olympic Coast Marine Sanctuary.


Projects

 

Columbia River plume studies & the RISE project back to top

RISE home page (external link)

model animations: idealized Columbia plume under changing winds

papers:

B.M. Hickey, S.L. Geier, N.B. Kachel, A. MacFadyen (2005) A bi-directional river plume: The Columbia in summer, Cont. Shelf Res., 25, 1631-1656. (download PDF)

I. Garcia Berdeal, B.M. Hickey, and M. Kawase (2002) Influence of wind stress and ambient flow on a high discharge river plume, J. Geophys. Res., 107(C9), 3130, doi:10.1029/2001JC000932. (download PDF)
(Copyright 2002 American Geophysical Union; further reproduction or electronic distribution not permitted)

B.M. Hickey, L.J. Pietrafesa, D.A. Jay, and W.C. Boicourt (1998) The Columbia River Plume Study: subtidal variability in the velocity and salinity fields, J. Geophys. Res., 103(C5), 10,339-10,368 (download PDF)
(Copyright 1998 American Geophysical Union; further reproduction or electronic distribution not permitted)

 

Harmful algal blooms back to top

ECOHAB PNW home page (external link)

our ORHAB work (data + modeling)

ORHAB home page (external link)

papers:

A. MacFadyen, B.M. Hickey and M.G.G. Foreman (2005) "Transport of surface waters from the Juan de Fuca eddy region to the Washington coast". Cont. Shelf Res., 25, 2008-2021 (download PDF)

A. MacFadyen, B.M Hickey and W.P. Cochlan (2008) "Influences of the Juan de Fuca Eddy on circulation, nutrients, and phytoplankton production in the northern California Current System". J. Geophys. Res., accepted (download PDF)

 

Northwest coast estuaries back to top

Willapa Bay home page


data archive:
Willapa Bay / Grays Harbor / Coos Bay


PNCERS:
data archive under construction


 

 

 


 

Hypoxia

 

 

papers:

N.S. Banas and B.M. Hickey (2005) Mapping exchange and residence time in a model of Willapa Bay, Washington, a branching, macrotidal estuary. J. Geophys. Res. 110, C11011, doi:10.1029/2005JC002950. (download PDF)

N.S. Banas, B.M. Hickey, P. MacCready, J.A. Newton (2004) Dynamics of Willapa Bay, Washington: A highly unsteady partially mixed estuary. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 34:2413-2427. (download PDF)

B.M. Hickey and N.S. Banas (2003) Oceanography of the U.S. Pacific Northwest coast and estuaries with application to coastal ecology. Estuaries, 26(4B), 1010-1031. (download PDF)

B.M. Hickey, X. Zhang, and N.S. Banas (2002) Coupling between the California Current System and a coastal plain estuary in low riverflow conditions. J. Geophys. Res., 107, 10.1029/1999JC000160. (download PDF)
(Copyright 2002 American Geophysical Union; further reproduction or electronic distribution not permitted)

 

 

T.P. Connolly, B.M. Hickey, S.L. Geier, and W.P. Cochlan (submitted 2009) Processes influencing seasonal hypoxia in the northern California Current system. (download PDF)
(Submitted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research- Oceans)

 

GLOBEC Northeast Pacific back to top

US GLOBEC Northeast Pacific home page (external link)


data archive


 

 

Southern California Bight back to top
data archive

papers:

B.M. Hickey, E.L. Dobbins, and S.E. Allen (2003) Local and remote forcing of currents and temperature in the central Southern California Bight, J. Geophys. Res., 2003. (download PDF)
(Copyright 2002 American Geophysical Union; further reproduction or electronic distribution not permitted)

Exuma Sound, Bahamas back to top
(data archive under construction)

 

 

 


Personnel & Contact Info

Principal Investigator
Dr. Barbara Hickey
bhickey@u.washington.edu | home page | c.v.
 
 
University of Washington
School of Oceanography
Box 355351
Seattle, WA 98195-5351

 

Staff
Dr. Nancy Kachel
nkachel@ocean.washington.edu
 
 
 
Susan Geier
sgeier@u.washington.edu
 
 
 
Current Graduate Students
Tom Connolly
tompc@u.washington.edu
Recent Graduate Students
Dr. Amy MacFadyen
amoreena@ocean.washington.edu
 
Dr. Ryan McCabe
rmccabe@ocean.washington.edu
 
Dr. Neil Banas
neil@ocean.washington.edu | home page
   

this page updated 5/17/2012 by Sue Geier