Monterey Bay zooplankton data from the Hopkins Marine Station CalCOFI program (1955-1963)
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
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.
Description
Type of resource | Dataset, text |
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Date created | February 4, 1955 - March 7, 1963 |
Date modified | August 29, 2022; August 30, 2022 |
Publication date | August 29, 2022 |
Creators/Contributors
Creator | Whitmire, Amanda |
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Host institution | Hopkins Marine Station | |
Host institution | Stanford University | |
Host institution | California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations |
Subjects
Subject | Marine plankton |
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Subject | Plankton |
Subject | Zooplankton |
Subject | Zooplankton > Research |
Subject | Zooplankton > Seasonal distribution |
Subject | California > Monterey Bay Region |
Subject | Pacific Ocean > Monterey Bay |
Genre | Data |
Genre | Tabular data |
Genre | Data sets |
Genre | Dataset |
Genre | Tables (data) |
Bibliographic information
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DOI | https://doi.org/10.25740/nt620vn7810 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/nt620vn7810 |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- User agrees that, where applicable, content will not be used to identify or to otherwise infringe the privacy or confidentiality rights of individuals. Content distributed via the Stanford Digital Repository may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor.
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal license (CC0).
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- Whitmire, Amanda L. (2022). Monterey Bay zooplankton data from the Hopkins Marine Station CalCOFI program (1955-1963). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/nt620vn7810
Collection
Hopkins Marine Station Collection
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- thalassa@stanford.edu
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