California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations

• Report of the CalCOFI Committee
• Review of Selected California Fisheries for 2008: Coastal Pelagic Finfish,Market Squid,Ocean Salmon,Groundfish, California Spiny Lobster, Spot Prawn,White Seabass, Kelp Bass, Thresher Shark,Skates and Rays, Kellet’ s Whelk and Sea Cucumber
• The State of the California Current, Spring 2008-2009: Cold Conditions Drive Regional Differences. Sam McClatchie, Ralf Goericke, Franklin B. Schwing, Steven J . Bograd,William T . Peterson, Robert Emmett, Richard Charter ,William Watson, Nancy Lo, Kevin Hill, Curtis Collins,Mati Kahru, B. Greg Mitchell, J . Anthony Koslow, Jose Gomez-Valdes , Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, Jon Gottschalk, Michelle L’Heureux, Yan Xue,Marlenne Manzano-Sarabia, Eric Bjorkstedt, Stephen Ralston, John Field, Laura Rogers-Bennett, Lisa Munger , Greg Campbell, Karlina Merkens, Dominique Camacho, Andrea Havron, Annie Douglas and John Hildebrand
• Publications

• CalCOFI 1001NM: 12 Jan - 5 Feb 2010 on SIO R/V New Horizon. Departs San Diego, returns to San Diego.  Loading days: 7-11 Jan 2010.
  
• CalCOFI 1004MF Leg 1: 26 Mar - 11 Apr 2010 on NOAA R/V Miller Freeman. Departs San Diego, returns to San Diego
  
• CalCOFI 1004MF Leg 2: 14 Apr - 23 May 2010 on NOAA R/V Miller Freeman. Departs San Diego, offloads San Francisco.
  
• CalCOFI 1008NM: 30 Jul - 17 Aug 2010 on SIO R/V New Horizon. Loading days 27 - 29 Jul 2010.
  
• CalCOFI 1010NM: 21 Oct - 7 Nov 2010 on SIO R/V New Horizon. Loading days 18-20 Oct 2010.

Since 1949, hydrographic and biological data of the California Current System have been collected on CalCOFI cruises.  The 60+ year hydrographic time-series includes temperature, salinity, oxygen and phosphate observations.  In 1961, nutrient analysis expanded to include silicate, nitrate and nitrite; in 1973, chlorophyll was added; in 1984, C14 primary productivity incubations were added.
These data are available on the CalCOFI website as:

• 1949-2009 CalCOFI Hydrographic Data Query Form (http://db.calcofi.net/index.html) - search 60+ years of time-series data by entering specific criteria such as date-time, CalCOFI Line and/or Station, cruise, and depth. Query results display in tabular form in your web browser and may be exported (downloaded) in doc, csv, xls, & xml formats. This online version of cast & bottle data have been combined into a single database table to make queries a single operation. Some data columns are not yet queriable online (primary productivity depth data, for example) but all data presented are published, final data. For a complete version of the hydrographic database, download the MS Access database or Sql versions listed below. For integrated data queries such as ichthyoplankton + hydrographic data, try DataZoo.
• Database - Mar 1949 - Jul 2009 (ver 07Dec09: CalCOFI_Bottle_Data_1949-200907.zip) hydrographic bottle data report (IEH data + published Data Report data); Microsoft Access format
  • Csv - (CalCOFI_Bottle_Data_1949-200907_csvs.zip; updated 07 Dec 2009) bottle and station information csvs (final data only) exported from the research version of the Access database. 
  • Sql - (calcofi_iehdata_194903-200907SQL.zip) a sql dump of the web version of the database (final published data; from phpadmin/mysql).
• CTD data - 1994 - 2009 raw, preliminary-processed and bottle-corrected final 1m bin averaged Seabird 911+ temperature, salinity, oxygen, fluorometer, transmissometer, PAR, and ISUS electronic sensor data.
• CTD Query Form - 2009 Final Bottle-corrected CTD 1m binavg data search form; test page
• Downloadable IEH ascii files (1949-2009). two versions: (YY=year, MM=month)

The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) are a unique partnership of the California Department of Fish and Game, 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 California, the management of its living resources, and monitoring the indicators of El Nino and climate change. CalCOFI conducts quarterly cruises off southern & central California, collecting a suite of hydrographic and biological data on station and underway.  Data collected at depths down to 500 m include: temperature, salinity, oxygen, phosphate, silicate, nitrate and nitrite, chlorophyll, transmissometer, PAR, C14 primary productivity, phytoplankton biodiversity, zooplankton biomass, and zooplankton biodiversity. Ancillary data collected include continuous underway sea surface & meterological measurements (SCIMS); Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data; the Continuous Underway Fish Egg Sampler (CUFES, winter & spring); trace metals; sediments; MOCNESS net sampling;  bio-optics; PCO2 air-sea interface, and atmospheric measurements. Marine mammal and sea bird visual surveys are conducted during transits between stations as well as marine mammal acoustics recording.

The 2009 CalCOFI Conference will be held at the

Conference related communications should be addressed to:

John Heine
CalCOFI Conference Coordinator
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
566 Plaza Rd.
Atlantic Beach, FL 32233 USA
Telephone: (904) 242-7029
Fax: (904) 242-7029
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