The Importance of Shelf Break Upwelling to Upper Trophic Level Ecology in the Western Beaufort Sea

Carin J Ashjian1, Robert G. Campbell2, Josef Michael Jech3, Kathy Kuletz4, Joel Llopiz1, Michael Lowe5, Stephen R Okkonen6, Kathleen Stafford7 and Jinlun Zhang8, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (3)NOAA Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)US Fish and Wildlife Service, Migratory Bird Management, Anchorage, AK, United States, (5)Louisiana State University, LA, United States, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (7)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (8)University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States