Zooplankton

CalCOFI tows several net during cruises:

• Bongo Net (NOAA, all cruises, all stations); main source of zooplankton volume data
• Manta Net (NOAA, all cruises, all stations); neuston samples
• Pairovet Net (NOAA, all cruises, stations out to sta 60); fish eggs & larvae data
• PRPOOS Net (LTER, all cruises, cardinal LTER stations, Line 80); LTER zooplankton vertical tow
• Matsuda-Oozeki-Hu Trawl (LTER, all SIO-vessel cruises from
• Nordic rope trawl (NOAA, on winter & spring Sardine survey cruise); midwater trawl fish surveys

CalCOFI Data Reports include zooplankton displacement volumes from the starboard Bongo net, formalin-preserved samples. The port-side net sample is preserved in ETOH for DNA & lipid assays ashore.

Cooperative Zooplankton Dataspace; Mark Ohman Lab, Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides a web portal in which several databases are made available to query and or plot from net tow samples collected by NOAA Fisheries on CalCOFI cruises.

• SIO Pelagic Invertebrates Collection. Searchable datbase of the SIO Pelagic Invertebrates Collection.

• ZooDB – Zooplankton Database – A queriable interface to extensive zooplankton data from the California Current System, 1951 through present.

• Brinton Euphausiid Plot Gallery – Geographical distributions of selected species, illustrated by Dr. Edward Brinton.

• BTEDB – Brinton and Townsend Euphausiid Database – A queriable interface to extensive euphausiid data, 1951 through present.

• MEDB – Marinovic Euphausiid Database – queriable interface to extensive euphausiid data, 2001 through 2007, from the central sector of the California Current System.

• CEQuI – A comprehensive euphausiid data module which provides an interface that queries across the Brinton and Townsend Euphausiid database and the Marinovic Euphausiid Database.