Zooplankton Data

CalCOFI Zooplankton data are available through CalCOFI's Wet Displacement Volume Reports, the Macrozooplankton Access Database, NOAA's ERDDAP Server, NOAA IchthyoDB, and the Cooperative Zooplankton Dataspace.

Wet Displacement Volume Reports

A report of macrozooplankton biomass, as wet displacement volume, after removal of large (>5 ml) organisms from the starboard side of a 71 cm mouth diameter paired net (bongo net) equipped with 0.505mm plankton mesh; towed obliquely from 210 meters to the surface.
 

Zooplankton Database

Contains wet displacement volumes from starboard side of Bongo net in CSVformat form 195101-201607, 1701-1704, 1802-1804 (7Jan2019).
 

NOAA ERDDAP Server

A queriable database of egg and larval counts from CalCOFI net tow samples that have been sorted by personnel at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center. This database spans from 1950 to present.
 

Cooperative Zooplankton Dataspace

Through Mark Ohman's Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Cooperative Zooplankton Dataspace 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.
 

CUFES

In addition to net tows, fish eggs are collected while the research vessel is moving using a Continuous Underway Fish Egg Sampler, or CUFES. CUFES diagram.