This database contains ichthyoplankton data collected as part of the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) program and other cruises that were designed to assess the status coastal pelagic species and the California Current ecosystem from 1951 to present. The primary data are eggs and larvae captured in ring or bongo nets (oblique tows), Calvet or pairovet nets (vertical tows), and manta nets (surface tows).

Context

The CalCOFI data set represents the longest (1949-present) and most complete (more than 50,000 sampling stations) time series of oceanographic and larval fish data in the world. It includes abundance data on the larvae of over 250 species of fish; larval length frequency data and egg abundance data on key commercial species; and oceanographic and plankton data. The physical, chemical, and biological data collected at regular time and space intervals quickly became valuable for documenting climatic cycles in the California Current and a range of biological responses to them. CalCOFI research drew world attention to the biological response to the dramatic Pacific-warming event in 1957-58 and introduced the term “El Niño” into the scientific literature.

The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) are a unique partnership of the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, NOAA Fisheries Service and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The organization was formed in 1949 to study the ecological aspects of the sardine population collapse off California. Today our focus has shifted to the study of the marine environment off the coast of California, the management of its living resources, and monitoring the indicators of El Nino and climate change. CalCOFI conducts quarterly cruises off southern & central California, collecting a suite of hydrographic and biological data on station and underway. Data collected at depths down to 500 m include: temperature, salinity, oxygen, phosphate, silicate, nitrate and nitrite, chlorophyll, transmissometer, PAR, C14 primary productivity, phytoplankton biodiversity, zooplankton biomass, and zooplankton biodiversity.

Content

Each table has several dozen columns. Please see this page for the table details.

The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI)

Bottle data collected during CalCOFI cruises 1601, 1604, 1607, and 16011, January 2016 - November 2016. The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) are a unique partnership of the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, NOAA Fisheries Service, and Scripps Institution of Oceanograhpy. The organization was formed in 1949 to study the ecological aspects of the sardine population collapse off California. Today our focus has shifted to the study of the marine environment off the coast of California, the management of its living resources, and monitoring the indicators of El Nino and climate change. CalCOFI conducts quarterly cruises off southern & central California, collecting a suite of hydrographic and biological data on station and underway.

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This collection includes data collected from multiple platforms in the coastal waters of California over many years, as part of the California Cooperative Fisheries Investigation (CalCOFI) project. CalCOFI has been observing the California Current since 1949 to understand and predict the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems.

This collection includes physical measurements and observations of temperature, conductivity, pressure, salinity, density, sound velocity, sigma-t, depth, humidity, photosynthetic active radiation (PAR), light transmission, turbidity, solids, water color, tide, current, sea, swell, wave, weather, wind, cloud, chemical measurements and observations of alkalinity, ammonia (NH3), ammonium (NH4), nitrate, nitrite, nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, pH, phosphate, phosphorus, polychlorinated biphenyls, silicate, urea, biological measurements and observations of chlorophyll, productivity, fluorescence, phaeophytin, phaeopigment, phytoplankton, zooplankton, as well as fishery surveys and other data.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Gmastersixtyfo

Released under MIT

Contents

SIO Hydrographic data. See https://wp.calcofi.org/wp/sampling-info/methods/bottle-sampling-methods/

In 1951, the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University became involved in the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) program to collect oceanographic data in and near Monterey Bay. Hopkins staff conducted weekly sampling (more or less) continuously from March 1951 through June 1974. Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) took over the Monterey Bay sampling program in July 1974, and it appears to have ended in 1979. The aim of the initial program was to conduct joint fisheries-oceanographic cruises that would help researchers understand what contributed to the crash of the California sardine fishery. The Hopkins Marine Station CalCOFI dataset is an extremely important contribution to early oceanographic research in the Northeast Pacific Ocean, and extends our observations in this area decades into the past. The raw and aggregated data for most of these cruises currently resides in the library at the Hopkins Marine Station. This portion of the dataset is a transcription of the zooplankton data that was collected from 1955 to 1963 (a subset of the full HMS CalCOFI program). These spreadsheets are the output of a crowdsourcing campaign on the 'From the Page' platform. We thank 58 contributors for transcribing over 1500 pages! See the dataset README file for detailed information about the data.

This project establishes the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI), hosted at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), as a PACE validation program. Project Objectives are to: 1) collect a broad suite of biogeochemical and biological measurements on CalCOFI cruises for future use in developing, refining, and assessing advanced NASA data products; 2) co-locate in situ hyper- and multi-spectral measurements with the required validation measurement suite from CalCOFI stations; 3) Validate performance of in situ radiometry from the PACE observatory.

Location, performance, and summary information about individual net tows.

This site contains hydrographic data from 1949-2002. It also has ongoing oceanographic, weather, abiotic and invertebrate (e.g. zooplankton) data and research projects details. Database can be downloaded and PUBLICATIONS link also has a search option to find results and data. Of the multiple ocean transects surveyed only one pertains to the central coast.

Jellyfish data from the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CALCOFI) were downloaded from http://data.calcofi.net/zooplankton.html. Data were formatted for the 'Jellyfish Database Initiative' (JEDI), a database of jellyfish data developed by the NCEAS Global Jellies Working Group. Data extend from 1951-1999 and cover the central and southern Califiornian shelf waters.

The (CalCOFI) are a unique partnership of the California Department of Fish and Game, NOAA Fisheries Service and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The organization was formed in 1949 to study the ecological aspects of the sardine population collapse off California. Today our focus has shifted to the study of the marine environment off the coast of California, the management of its living resources, and monitoring the indicators of El Nino and climate change. CalCOFI conducts quarterly cruises off southern & central California, collecting a suite of hydrographic and biological data on station and underway.

Fish larvae counts and standardized counts for larvae captured in CalCOFI icthyoplankton nets (primarily vertical [Calvet or Pairovet], oblique [bongo or ring nets], and surface tows [Manta nets]). Surface tows are normally standardized to count per 1,000 m3 strained. Oblique tows are normally standardized to count per 10 m2 of surface sampled. This table includes all tows by species, even if zero larvae were captured for the species, i.e., negative tows. The "Larvae Counts Positive Tows" table includes only tows where one or more larvae were captured for the species selected by the user.

Size data for selected larval fish captured in CalCOFI icthyoplankton nets.

This dataset includes data from the CalCOFI ichthyoplankton database and data from publicly available ERDDAP servers hosted at Southwest Fisheries Science Center. The data include fish species occurrence and distribution, identification and developmental staging of fish and egg stages as well as information about cruises, instruments and platforms used in the CalCOFI program from 1951-10-01 to 2017-04-22. The ERDDAP data is available in CSV format. The raw files were extracted from the SWFSC CalCOFI database and includes documentation that explains each table and how to reconstruct the database schema.

Original provider: PRBO Conservation Science

Dataset credits: The projects were conducted under the grants awarded to the following organizations and their scientists.

The principle investigators of the CalCOFI part of this dataset are (in the chronological order from 1987 to 2006): Richard Veit and John McGowan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1987-1994) David Hyrenbach, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1994-2000) Bill Sydeman, PRBO Conservation Science (2000-2006)

The principle investigators of the Rockfish part of this dataset is Bill Sydeman, PRBO Conservation Science (1996-2006)

the affiliations are the ones they belonged to at the time of the surveys.

The data were contributed by PRBO Conservation Science. These two projects are on going. See [Supplemental information] for the information on the PIs and organizations in recent years.

Abstract: This dataset contains observation data of marine birds and mammals from California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) from 1987-2006 and Rockfish cruises along the California coast from 1996-2006 by National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).

Data were collected aboard research vessels using standardized marine bird and mammal survey techniques (Tasker et al. 1984, Buckland et al. 1993). Marine birds and mammals were observed in a 90-degree arc from the bow to one side of the ship out to 300m. Counts are summarized by species and behavior along the transects in 3 km bins. Data span years 1987 - 2006.

Hydrographic data collected by bucket, CTD, or 10-m Niskin bottle as part of CalCOFI and related cruises. Note that most oxygen and salinity values in this table have not been calibrated with water samples. Most users will want to use the Scripps hydrographic data instead.

Main Titile

Bird and mammal observations aboard CalCOFI (1987-2021, ongoing), NMFS (1996-2021, ongoing) and CPR (2003-2006, completed) cruises.

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Data

The data included in this dataset are bird and mammal observations from aboard research cruises. There are six tables of data: a transect log and observation log pairing for each of the three types of cruises. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) cruises are conducted quarterly off the coast of southern and central California. National Marine Fisheries (NMFS) cruises are a part of the Rockfish Recruitment Survey off the coast of southern and central California. Data were also collected aboard North Pacific Continuous Plankton Recorder (NPCPR) cruises from June 2002 through May 2006. Observations of birds and mammals include both number and behavior in addition to temporal and spatial information recorded along the cruise transect. Data are collected in order to research the interdependent aspects of the marine environment, including the effects of natural and human based climate change, and the broad implications and influences of ocean currents, weather patterns, fishing practices and coastal development on marine food webs and ecosystem processes.

Acknowledgements

Farallon Institute Advanced Ecosystem Research CalCOFI - Scripps Institution of Oceanography California Current Ecosystem LTER

Sydeman, Bill ( wsydeman@faralloninstitute.org) CCE LTER Information Manager (ccelter.im@gmail.com)

Additional information on NMFS_cruise_observations.csv

***Species** Column*

Codeset: Farallon Species Description: Farallon Institute species code set.

Code     : Definition

BRPE    : Brown Pelican; bird BRCO    : Brandt; bird PALO     : Pacific Loon; bird BFAL     : Black-footed Albatross; bird NOFU     : Northern Fulmar; bird STSH     : Short-tailed Shearwater; bird BVSH     : Black-vented Shearwater; bird LHSP     : Leach; bird FTSP     : Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel; bird PECO     : Pelagic Cormorant; bird RTLO     : Red-throated Loon; bird REPH     : Red Phalarope; bird RNPL     : Red-necked Phalarope; bird EAGR     : Eared Grebe; bird WEGR     : Western Grebe; bird CLGR     : Clarks Grebe; bird POJA      : Pomarine Jaeger; bird LTJA     : Long-tailed Jaeger; bird HEEG     : Heermann's Gull; bird HEGU     : Herring Gull; bird GWGU     : Glaucus-winged Gull; bird WEGU     : Western Gull; bird CAGU     : California Gull; bird BOGU     : Bonaparte; bird ROTE      : Royal Tern; bird BLKI      : Black-legged Kittiwake; bird COMU     : Common Murre; bird RHAU     : Rhinoceros Auklet; bird CAAU     : Cassins Auklet; bird HYGU     : Hybrid Gull; bird WE/CLGR    : Western or Clarks Grebe; bird GW/WEGU   : Glaucus-winged or Western Gull; bird UnID Alcids   : Unidentified Alcids; bird Tern Spp    : Tern species; bird Jaegar Spp    : Jaegar species; bird Phal Spp    : Phalarope species; bird UNCE      : unknown dolphin; mammal CBWH      : Cuviers beaked whale; mammal BBWH      : Bairds beaked whale or Blainville's beaked whale; mammal BLWH      : Blue whale; mammal FIWH       : Fin whale; mammal SEWH      : Sei whale; mammal HUWH      : Humpback whale; mammal SPWH      : Sperm whale; mammal MIWH      : Minke whale; mammal GRWH      : Gray whale; mammal PSWH      : Pygmy sperm whale; mammal DSWH      : dwarf sperm whale; mammal UNWH      : Unknown whale; mammal KIWH      : Killer whale; mammal PIWH/SFP    : Short finned pilot whale; mammal FKWH      : False killer whale; mammal CODO      : Common dolphin; mammal LBCD      : Long-beaked common dolphin; mammal SBCD      : Short-beaked common dolphin; mammal PWSD      : Pacific white-sided dolphin; mammal RIDO       : Risso NRWD      : Northern right whale dolphin; mammal BODO      : Bottlenose dolphin; mammal STDO      : Striped dolphin; mammal UNDO      : Unknown dophin; mammal CAPO      : Dalls porpoise; mammal HAPO      : Harbor porpoise; mammal HASE      : Harbor seal; mammal CASL      : California sea lion; mammal GFSE      : Guadalupe fur seal; mammal NESE      : Northern elephant seal; mammal NFSE      : Northern fur seal; mammal; mammal UNPI      : Unknown pinniped; mammal ANMU     : Ancient Murrelet; bird ARTE      : Arctic Tern; bird ASSP      : Ashy Storm-Petrel; bird
***Behavior** Columns*

Codeset: Farallon Animal Behavior Description: Farallon Institute bird and mammal survey animal behavior code

Code : Definition

1  : In flight 2  : On/in the water 3  : Feeding; also "on/in the water" but hard to see 4  : Ship following 5  : Ship attracted 6  : Bow-riding

LTER Data System Record

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Fish larvae counts and standardized counts for larvae captured in CalCOFI icthyoplankton nets (primarily vertical [Calvet or Pairovet], oblique [bongo or ring nets], and surface tows [Manta nets]). Surface tows are normally standardized to count per 1,000 m3 strained. Oblique tows are normally standardized to count per 10 m2 of surface sampled. This table includes all tows by species, even if zero larvae were captured for the species, i.e., negative tows. The "Larvae Counts Positive Tows" table includes only tows where one or more larvae were captured for the species selected by the user.