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Marine Waters Puget Sound 2014 overview puget sound MARINE WATERS 2014 overview puget sound MARINE WATERS Editors: Stephanie Moore, Rachel Wold, Kimberle Stark, Julia Bos, Paul Williams, Ken Dzinbal, Christopher Krembs, and Jan Newton Produced by NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center for the Puget Sound Ecosystem Monitoring Program’s Marine Waters Workgroup Front Cover Photos Credit: Heath Bohlmann, Emily Burke, Stephanie Eckard, Steven Gnam, Gabriela Hannach, Christopher Krembs, Erin Spencer, Kim Stark, Breck Tyler, and Rachel Wold. Citation & Contributors Recommended citation: PSEMP Marine Waters Workgroup. 2015. Puget Sound marine waters: 2014 overview. S. K. Moore, R. Wold, K. Stark, J. Bos, P. Williams, K. Dzinbal, C. Krembs and J. Newton (Eds). URL: http://www.psp. wa.gov/PSEMP/PSmarinewatersoverview.php. Contact email: [email protected]. Photo credit: Susan Streckler. Contributors: Adam Lindquist Ed Connor Ken Warheit Pete Dowty Adrienne Sutton Emily Burke Kimberle Stark Peter Hodum Aileen Jeffries Gabriela Hannach Kurt Stick R. Walt Deppe Al Devol Gregory S. Schorr Laura Hermanson Rachel Wilborn Amanda Winans Heath Bohlmann Laura Wigand Johnson Richard Feely Amelia Kolb Helen Berry Lyndsey Swanson Robin Kodner Barry Berejikian Jan Newton M. Bradley Hanson Sandie O’Neill BethElLee Herrmann Jed Moore Mari A. Smultea Sarah Courbis Breck Tyler Jeff Campbell Martin Chen Scott Pearson Candice K. Emmons Jennifer Runyan Matthew Alford Simone Alin Carol Maloy Jerry Borchert Matthew Baker Skip Albertson Catherine Cougan Jerry Joyce Megan Moore Stephanie Moore Cheryl Greengrove John Calambokidis Meghan Cronin Steve Jeffries Chris Ellings John Mickett Michael Schmidt Susan Blake Christopher Krembs Joseph Evenson Mike Crewson Suzanne Shull Christopher Sabine Jude Apple Mya Keyzers Sylvia Musielewicz Ciara Asamoto Julia Bos Natasha Christman Teri King Clara Hard Julianne Ruffner Nathalie Hamel Thomas Good Damon M. Holzer Julie Keister Neala Kendall Thomas A. Jefferson David Anderson Julie Masura Nicole Burnett Toby Ross David Streckler Kailee Bynum Nick Bond Vera Trainer Dayv Lowry Karin Bumbaco Olivia Graham Wendi Ruef Debby Sargeant Ken Dzinbal Paul Herchberger Wendy Eash-Loucks This project has been funded in part by the United Statess Enviornmental Protection Agency under Assistance Agreement PT-00J32101. The contents of this document do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency, nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. ii iii Map credit: Damon Holzer Table of Contents (cont.) Table of Contents C. Central Basin long-term stations 25 i. Temperature and salinity 25 ii. Dissolved oxygen 26 About PSEMP vi iii. Nutrients and chlorophyll 27 D. North Sound surveys 28 i. Bellingham Bay stratification 28 Introduction vii ii. Padilla Bay temperature and salinity 29 E. Snapshot surveys 30 A Summary of What Happened in 2014 viii i. San Juan Channel/Juan de Fuca fall surveys 30 CALL-OUT BOX: Monitoring of intertidal habitats at Padilla Bay 31 Highlights from 2014 Monitoring x Plankton 33 Large-scale climate variability and wind patterns 1 A. Marine phytoplankton 33 A. El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) 1 B. Zooplankton 34 B. Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) 2 C. Harmful algae 35 C. North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) 2 i. Biotoxins 35 D. Upwelling index 3 ii. SoundToxins 36 iii. Alexandrium species cyst mapping 37 CALL-OUT BOX: Development and evolution of the “Blob” in the NE Pacific 4 Bacteria and pathogens 38 Local climate and weather 6 A. Fecal indicator bacteria 38 i. Puget Sound recreational beaches 38 A. Regional air temperature and precipitation 6 ii. Central Basin stations 39 B. Local air temperature and solar radiation 7 B. Vibrio parahaemolyticus 40 Coastal ocean and Puget Sound boundary conditions 8 Marine birds and mammals 41 A. NW Washington Coast water properties 8 A. Rhinoceros auklet – long-term reproductive success 41 B. Ocean and atmospheric CO 9 2 B. Wintering marine birds 42 C. Harbor porpoise 43 River inputs 11 i. Aerial surveys I 43 A. Fraser River 11 ii. Aerial surveys II 44 B. Puget Sound rivers 11 iii. Movement and distribution 45 CALL-OUT BOX: Floating kelp 13 CALL-OUT BOX: Winter movements of endangered Southern Resident killer whales in the Salish Sea 46 Water quality 14 A. Puget Sound long-term stations 14 Forage fish 47 i. Temperature and salinity 14 A. Pacific herring 47 ii. Dissolved oxygen 16 B. Sand lance 48 iii. Nutrients and chlorophyll 17 iv. Water mass characterization 19 B. Puget Sound profiling buoys 20 CALL-OUT BOX: Puget Sound Steelhead marine survival research 49 i. Temperature and dissolved oxygen 20 ii. Salinity 23 References 50 iii. Ocean and atmospheric CO2 24 Acronyms 52 iv v About PSEMP Introduction The Puget Sound Ecosystem Monitoring Program (PSEMP) is a collaboration of monitoring professionals, researchers, and data users from federal, tribal, state, and local government agencies, universities, non-governmental organizations, watershed groups, businesses, and private and volunteer groups. This report provides an overview The objective of this report is to collate and distribute the valuable physical, chemical, of 2014 marine water quality and and biological information obtained from various marine monitoring and observing The objective of PSEMP is to create and support a collaborative, inclusive, programs in Puget Sound. Based on mandate, need, opportunity, and expertise, these conditions and associated biota in and transparent approach to regional monitoring and assessment that builds efforts employ different approaches and tools that cover various temporal and spatial upon and facilitates communication among the many monitoring programs Puget Sound from comprehensive scales. For example, surface surveys yield good horizontal spatial coverage, but lack depth information; regular station occupation over time identifies long-term trends, and efforts operating in Puget Sound. PSEMP’s fundamental goal is to assess monitoring and observing programs. progress towards the recovery of the health of Puget Sound. but can miss shorter term variation associated with important environmental events; The report focuses on the marine moorings with high temporal resolution describe shorter term dynamics, but have The Marine Waters Workgroup is one of several technical workgroups operating waters of greater Puget Sound. limitations in their spatial coverage. However, collectively, the information representing various temporal and spatial scales can be used to connect the status, trends, and under the PSEMP umbrella – with a specific focus on the inland marine waters Additional selected conditions are of Puget Sound and the greater Salish Sea, including the oceanic, atmospheric, drivers of ecological variability in Puget Sound marine waters. By identifying and and terrestrial influences and drivers affecting the Sound. For more information also included due to their influence on connecting trends, anomalies and processes from each of the monitoring programs, about PSEMP and the Marine Waters Workgroup, please visit: https://sites. Puget Sound waters, such as selected this report adds significant and timely value to the individual datasets and enhances google.com/a/psemp.org/psemp/. our understanding of this complex ecosystem. We present here that collective view for climate indices and conditions along the year 2014. the outer Washington coast. This is the fourth annual report produced for the The data and interpretations presented here are the proceedings of an annual effort by the PSEMP Marine Waters Work Group to compile and cross-check observations PSEMP Marine Waters Workgroup. collected across the marine waters of greater Puget Sound during the previous year. Data quality assurance and documentation remains the primary responsibility of the individual contributors. All sections of this report were individually authored and contact names and information have been provided. The editors managed the internal cross-review process and focused on organizational structure and overall clarity. This included crafting a synopsis in the Executive Summary that is based on all of the individual contributions and describes the overall trends and drivers of variability and change in Puget Sound’s marine waters during 2014. The larger picture that emerges from this report helps the PSEMP Marine Waters Workgroup to (i) develop an inventory of the current monitoring programs in Puget Sound and determine how well these programs are meeting priority needs; (ii) update and expand the monitoring results reported in the Puget Sound Vital Sign indicators (http://www.psp.wa.gov/vitalsigns/index.php); and (iii) improve transparency, data sharing, and timely communication of relevant monitoring programs across participating entities. The Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing System (NANOOS), the regional arm of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) for the Pacific Northwest, is working to increase regional access to marine data. Much of the marine data presented here and an inventory of monitoring assets can be found through the NANOOS web portal (http://www.nanoos.org). Full content from each contributor can be found after the executive summary, including website links to more detailed information and data. The Canadian ecosystem report “The State of the Ocean for the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area” (http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/coe-cde/soto/ Pacific-North-eng.asp), encompasses approximately
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