by Tetjana Ross, Ana C. Franco, John A. Barth, Akash Sastri, Marie Robert, Debby Ianson, Charles Hannah, Francis Chan, Richard Feely, Richard Dewey, and Angelica Peña
Reprinted with permission: PICES North Pacific Marine Science Organization Newsletter Vol. 30, No.1 / Winter 2022 p.38
While hypoxic or low oxygen events are known to occur seasonally in coastal bottom waters along the west coast of North America, 2021 was more severely hypoxic. The onset of low oxygen water was the earliest in 35 years (NOAA, 2021), lasted longer (Lundeberg, 2021), was anomalously low (Figures 1 and 4), and covered a larger extent, reaching north into Canadian waters (Figure 5) where...
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