An unprecedented coastwide toxic algal bloom linked to anomalous ocean conditions

Ryan M McCabe, University of Washington, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Seattle, WA, United States, Barbara M Hickey, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, Raphael Martin Kudela, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences Department, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Kathi A Lefebvre, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, Nicolaus G Adams, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, United States, Brian D Bill, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Marine Biotoxins, Seattle, WA, United States, Frances M D Gulland, The Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito, CA, United States, Richard Thomson, Inst Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC, Canada, William P Cochlan, San Francisco State University - Romberg Tiburon Center, Tiburon, United States and Vera L Trainer, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Marine Biotoxins Program, Seattle, WA, United States