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River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems: Introduction and Synthesis Hickey1, B.M. and R.M. Kudela2, J.D. Nash3, K.W. Bruland2, W.T. Peterson4, P. MacCready1, E.J. Lessard1, D.A. Jay5, N.S. Banas6, A.M. Baptista7, E.P. Dever3, P.M. Kosro3, L.K. Kilcher3, A.R. Horner-Devine8, E.D. Zaron5, R.M. McCabe9, J.O. Peterson3, P.M. Orton10, J. Pan5 and M.C. Lohan11 1School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; bhickey@ 2Ocean Sciences and Institute for Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA 3College of Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA 4 Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, Newport, Oregon, USA 5Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA 6 Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 7 Science and Technology Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, USA 8 Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 9 University of New South Wales, Department of Aviation, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 10 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA 11 SEOS, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, PL48AA, England Abstract River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems (RISE) is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary study of the rates and dynamics governing the mixing of river and coastal waters in an eastern boundary current system, as well as the effects of the resultant plume on phytoplankton standing stocks, growth and grazing rates, and community structure. The RISE Special Volume presents initial RISE results deduced from four field studies and two different numerical model applications including an ecosystem model, on the buoyant plume originating from the Columbia River. This introductory paper provides background information on variability during