Craig Risien
Ocean Observing Center
126 SW McKenzie Avenue
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States
Current Research
Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)(Link is external)
Education
2003-2006, Master of Science in Marine Resource Management, Oregon State University
2001-2002, Master of Science in Oceanography, University of Cape Town
Data Products
NH-10 Mooring Data(Link is external)
Gridded Newport Hydrographic Line Transects(Link is external)
Hybrid Precipitation Index(Link is external)
Scatterometer Climatology of Ocean Winds (SCOW)(Link is external)
Climatology of Global Ocean Winds (COGOW)(Link is external)
Blended sea level anomaly fields with enhanced coastal coverage along the U.S. West Coast(Link is external)
Publications
See Google Scholar Citations(Link is external).
Cervantes, B.T., M.R. Fewings, and C.M. Risien (2024). Subsurface Temperature Anomalies off Central Oregon during 2014-2021(Link is external). Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029/2023JC020565.
Risien, C.M., K.R. Hough, J. Waddell, M.R. Fewings, and B.T. Cervantes (2024). Hydrographic shipboard profile data collected within Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, 2005–2023(Link is external). Data in Brief, DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110171.
Lane, M.K., J.S. Fehrenbacher, J.L. Fisher, M.R. Fewings, B.C. Crump, C.M. Risien, G.M.L. Meyer, and F. Schell (2023). Planktonic foraminiferal assemblages reflect warming during two recent mid-latitude marine heat waves(Link is external). Frontiers in Marine Science, DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1155761.
Risien, C.M., B.T. Cervantes, M.R. Fewings, J.A. Barth, and P.M Kosro (2023). A Stitch in Time: Combining More than Two Decades of Mooring Data from the Central Oregon Shelf(Link is external). Data in Brief, DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109041.
Kurapov, A.L., D.L. Rudnick, B.T. Cervantes, and C.M.Risien (2022). Slope and shelf flow anomalies off Oregon influenced by the El Niño remote oceanic mechanism in 2014-2016(Link is external). Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029/2022JC018604.
Risien, C.M., M.R. Fewings, J.L. Fisher, J.O. Peterson, and C.A. Morgan (2022). Spatially gridded cross-shelf hydrographic sections and monthly climatologies from shipboard survey data collected along the Newport Hydrographic Line, 1997–2021(Link is external). Data in Brief, DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.107922.
Barceló, C., R.D. Brodeur, L. Ciannelli, E.A. Daly, C.M. Risien, G.S. Saldías, and J.F. Samhouri (2021). Predicting Ecological Community Seascapes in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean(Link is external). Frontiers in Marine Science, DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.586677.
Chelton, D.B., and C.M. Risien (2020). A Hybrid Precipitation Index Inspired by the SPI, PDSI and MCDI. Part 1: Development of the Index(Link is external). Journal of Hydrometeorology, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-19-0230.1.
Chelton, D.B., and C.M. Risien (2020). A Hybrid Precipitation Index Inspired by the SPI, PDSI and MCDI. Part 2: Application to Investigate Precipitation Variability Along the West Coast of North America(Link is external). Journal of Hydrometeorology, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-19-0231.1.
Barth, J.A., S.E. Allen, E.P. Dever, R.K. Dewey, W. Evans, R.A. Feely, J.L. Fisher, J.P Fram, B.R. Hales, D. Ianson, J. Jackson, S.K. Juniper, O. Kawka, D. Kelley, J.M. Klymak, J. Konovsky, P.M. Kosro, A. Kurapov, E. Mayorga, P. MacCready, J.A. Newton, R.I. Perry, C.M. Risien, M. Robert, T. Ross, R.K. Shearman, J. Schumacker, S. Siedlecki, V.L. Trainer, S. Waterman, and C.E. Wingard (2019). Better Regional Ocean Observing through Cross-National Cooperation: A Case Study from the Northeast Pacific(Link is external), Frontiers in Marine Science, DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00093.
Barth, J.A., J.P. Fram, E.P. Dever, C.M. Risien, C.E. Wingard, R.W. Collier, and T.D. Kearney (2018). Warm blobs, low-oxygen events and an eclipse: The Ocean Observatories Initiative Endurance Array captures them all(Link downloads document), Oceanography, DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2018.114.
Peterson, W.T., J. Fisher, P.T. Strub, X. Du, C. Risien, J. Peterson, and C. Shaw (2017). The pelagic ecosystem in the northern California Current off Oregon during the 2014-2016 warm anomalies within the context of the past 20 years(Link is external), Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1002/2017JC012952.
Sherman, K., A. Lanier, J.A. Barth, F. Conway, C. Risien, and P.M. Kosro (2016). The Oregon Nearshore Research Inventory project: The importance of science and the scientific community as stakeholders in marine spatial planning(Link downloads document), Ocean & Coastal Management, DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.04.003.
Risien, C.M., and P.T. Strub (2016). Blended sea level anomaly fields with enhanced coastal coverage along the U.S. West Coast(Link is external), Scientific Data, DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.13.
Mazzini, P.L.F., C.M. Risien, J.A. Barth, S.D. Pierce, A. Erofeev, E.P. Dever, P.M. Kosro, M.D. Levine, R.K. Shearman, and M.F. Vardaro (2015). Anomalous Near-Surface Low-Salinity Pulses off the Central Oregon Coast(Link is external), Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/srep17145.
Vardaro, M.F., P.M. Bagley, D.M. Bailey, B.J. Bett, D.O.B. Jones, R.J. Milligan, I.G. Priede, C.M. Risien, G.T. Rowe, H.A. Ruhl, B.B. Sangolay, K.L. Smith, Jr., A. Walls, and J. Clarke (2013). A Southeast Atlantic deep-ocean observatory: first experiences and results(Link downloads document), Limnology & Oceanography: Methods, DOI: 10.4319/lom.2013.11.304.
Wanninkhof, R., G.-H. Park, D.B. Chelton, and C.M. Risien (2011). Impact of small-scale variability on air-sea CO2 fluxes(Link downloads document), in Gas transfer at water surfaces 2010, edited by S. Komori, W. McGillis and R. Kurose, pp. 431-444, Kyoto University Press, Kyoto.
Risien, C.M., and D.B. Chelton (2008). A global climatology of surface wind and wind stress fields from 8 years of QuikSCAT scatterometer data(Link downloads document), Journal of Physical Oceanography, DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3881.1.
Risien, C.M., and D.B. Chelton (2006). A satellite-derived climatology of global ocean winds(Link downloads document), Remote Sensing of Environment, DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.06.017.
Risien, C.M., C.J.C. Reason, F.A. Shillington, and D.B. Chelton (2004). Variability in satellite winds over the Benguela upwelling system during 1999–2000(Link downloads document), Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029/2003JC001880.
Richardson, A.J., C. Risien, and F.A. Shillington (2003). Using self-organizing maps to identify patterns in satellite imagery(Link downloads document), Progress in Oceanography, DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2003.07.006.
Froneman, P.W., I.J. Ansorge, L. Vumazonke, A. Gulekana, K.S. Bernard, A.M. Webb, W. Leukes, C.M. Risien, S. Thomalla, J. Hermes, M. Knott, D. Anderson, N. Hargey, M.E. Jennings, J. Veitch, J.R.E. Lutjeharms, and C.D. McQuaid (2002). Physical and biological variability in the Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone: report on research cruise 103 of the MV SA Agulhas(Link downloads document). South African Journal of Science, 98 (11&12), 534-536.
Other Publications:
Berriman, G.B., B. Dobbins, J. Fischer, B. Flynn, J. Glatstein, R. Mayani, L. Pottier, L., C. Risien, B. Riedel, M. Rynge, E. Scott, T. Swetnam, A. Tan, C. Trabant, K. Vahi, D. Brower, and C. Vardeman, 2024. NSF Major Facilities Cloud Use Cases and Considerations (1.0)(Link is external). Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10481410
Risien, C.M., T. Tanner, E. Mayorga, J.C. Allan, J.A. Newton, P.M. Kosro, R. Wold, and C. Seaton. The NANOOS Visualization System (NVS): A Decade of Development and Progress Addressing Stakeholder Needs(Link downloads document), OCEANS 2019, MTS/IEEE Seattle - Blue sea. Blue sky. Blue tech., October 2019.
Chelton, D.B., and C.M. Risien. Zonal and Meridional Discontinuities and Other Issues with the HadISST1.1 Dataset(Link is external). ScholarsArchive@OSU, 29 February 2016.
Barth, J.A., and C.M. Risien. PICES 2013 Summer School on “Ocean Observing Systems and Ecosystem Monitoring”(Link downloads document). PICES Press Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter 2014.
Vanhoff, B.A., C.M. Risien, and D.F. Moroni. QuikSCAT Level 3 Near-Coast Wind and Stress Fields with Enhanced Coastal Coverage: US West Coast Region(Link downloads document). 6 June 2013, Version 1.2, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
Mayorga, E., T. Tanner, R. Blair, A.V. Jaramillo, N. Lederer, C.M. Risien, and C. Seaton. The NANOOS Visualization System (NVS): Lessons Learned in Data Aggregation, Management and Reuse, for a User Application(Link downloads document). OCEANS 2010, MTS/IEEE Seattle - Innerspace: A Global Responsibility, September 2010.
Risien, C.M., J.C. Allan, R. Blair, A.V. Jaramillo, D. Jones, P.M. Kosro, D. Martin, E. Mayorga, J.A. Newton, T. Tanner, and S.A. Uczekaj. The NANOOS Visualization System: Aggregating, displaying and serving data(Link downloads document). OCEANS 2009, MTS/IEEE Biloxi - Marine Technology for Our Future: Global and Local Challenges, October 2009.