The longest sampling trawl of tiny ocean creatures called plankton is under way across the Pacific, where little is known about these critters that make up the base of the ocean's food web. Scientists ...

Our collection includes the unique CalCOFI zooplankton samples, an unparalleled time series study of a major ocean region (the California Current System) that is in its seventh decade. The CalCOFI ...

Oceanographers and engineers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego collaborated to modify a common physical oceanography instrument to be able to image ...

This section discusses changes in the zooplankton that have occurred over the past four decades and how these changes may influence the population status of delta smelt, listed anadromous fishes, and ...

Census of Marine Life scientists trawled rarely explored tropical ocean depths between the southeast US coast and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to inventory and photograph the variety and abundance of ...