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California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Collection

Extent

175 digital objects.

Description

Through a collaboration between NOAA Fisheries Service, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and California Department of Fish & Wildlife, a cooperative was formed in 1949 to study and document the California Current.  This group was named California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI). It was initially charged with studying the collapse of the sardine population off California and has evolved over the years to study many aspects of oceanography and marine life.

Four times each year, research cruises disembark from California to stop at prescribed sampling locations to monitor the ecology of fish populations and oceanographic parameters that can be used as indicators of climate change.  With more than seven decades of data collected, the CalCOFI cruises are a rich source of information. These photographs document the tools, processes and people that make this data collection possible.

Creation Date

• 2018 to 2019

Contributors

• Gardner, Emily
• Klemmedson, Angela
• Wilkinson, James

Laboratory

• California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations

Cruises

• CalCOFI 1810SR
• CalCOFI 1902RL
• CalCOFI 1904RL
• CalCOFI 1907BH
• CalCOFI 2007SR

Geographics

• California -- Pacific Coast
• Pacific Ocean

Corporate Names

• California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigation
• California Department of Fish and Wildlife
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Format

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• image

Language

• No linguistic content; Not applicable