Category: About CalCOFI
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2012 PICES Award
SIO Explorations Press Release: Around the Pier: World’s Premier Ocean Monitoring Program Led by Scripps and NOAA Honored with International Distinction. Southwest Fisheries Science Center Announcement, 11/1/2012 The North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), an intergovernmental scientific organization, recently awarded its prestigious Ocean Monitoring Service Award to the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI).CalCOFI is a…
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Survey Coverage 1937-Present
CalCOFI Station Coverage since 1937 (table in reverse order) Maps depicting Ichthyoplankton cruises (1937 to 1941) and CalCOFI cruises (1949 to present) Cruises from 1937 through 1987 are adapted from Hewitt, R.P. 1988. Historical review of the oceanographic approach to fishery research. CalCOFI Report, Vol XXIX. Cruises from 1988 to present are drawn…
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Timeline 1945-1999
CalCOFI Timeline 1945 – 1999 (from SIO Explorations Magazine; combined timeline image)
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Brief History
The origin of CalCOFI through the decline of the Pacific sardine fishery (excerpt from The CalCOFI Book by Sam McClatchie, Springer Publishing) Created in the 1920s, the sardine fishery hit its peak in the 1930’s and the Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) quickly became the largest fishery on the North American Pacific coast. However, within a…
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Program Overview
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…
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MESOM & SWFSC Labs
Marine Ecosystem Sensing, Observation and Modeling (MESOM) Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. 8880 Biological Grade, La Jolla, California The Marine Ecosystem Sensing, Observation and Modeling (MESOM) Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography opened in August 2013. This three-story, 21,300 square feet building has 12 laboratories, 56 offices and three…