Anthropogenic climate change is leading to simultaneous warming, deoxygenation, and acidification stress on marine ecosystems (Bopp et al., 2013;Doney et al., 2009;Kwiatkowski et al., 2020). The North Pacific Ocean is particularly vulnerable to the effects of ocean acidification and deoxygenation, owing to the naturally high concentrations of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and naturally low oxygen concentrations that occur here (Keeling et al., 2010;Levin, 2018;Ono et al., 2019). On top of these long-term changes in ocean state are shortterm extreme events defined by rapid disruptions such as marine heatwaves, which also likely have biogeochemical signatures (Bopp et al., 2013;Frölicher & Laufkötter, 2018). The North Pacific is thus especially threatened by these ecosystem multi-stressor or compound extreme events.A strong marine heatwave known as "the Blob" appeared in the open Gulf of Alaska (GOA) in the winter of 2013-2014, driven by an anomalous high pressure ridge (Bif et al., 2019;Bond et al., 2015;
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