Abstract
The Northern California Current (NCC) is a complex, dynamic system experiencing distinctly different levels of upwelling and downwelling, ranging from intermittent upwelling in summer to downwelling in winter. In recent years, warm water anomalies along the Oregon coast have had significant effects on coastal plankton assemblages. To resolve some of the fine-scale responses to these conditions, we used a towed, undulating underwater imaging system to investigate fine-scale (1 m vertical) zoo- and ichthyoplankton distributions along a 57-km section parallel to the Newport Hydrographic Line encompassing the shelf, shelf break, and slope off the central coast of Oregon. A sparse Convolutional Neural Network was used to automate the identification of 52 million plankton images of 64 plankton taxa, ranging from protists to copepods, larval fishes, and gelatinous organisms. Taxa distributions were interpolated over the whole transect, providing unprecedented insight into their horizontal and vertical distributions and revealing seven broad patterns of distribution. Additional fine-scale distribution data enable examination of some of the physical and biological processes underlying these fine-scale distribution patterns, building upon the historical time series data that exists for this region and advancing our knowledge of planktonic processes in this productive region of the NCC.
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