Short-scale ocean waves are critically linked to many air-sea interaction processes. Within the dynamic environments of near-shore zones and river mouths, the relationship between atmospheric forcing and water surface roughness changes dramatically. Shipboard (R/V Point Sur) water surface slope measurements were obtained in June of 2013 around the mouth of the Columbia River (MCR) via the polarimetric slope sensing (PSS) method of Zappa et al. [2008] (and recently implemented in Laxague et al. [2015]). Following Ortiz-Suslow et al. [2015], five minute-averaged wind stress was computed from the data obtained by our ship bow-mounted 3-D sonic anemometer. Here we present an examination of short wave spectra and surface roughness in these unique environments over a range of wind forcing conditions.