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To study the effects of environmental change on the plankton community (e.g., long-term changes in climate, an oil spill, the introduction of exotic species), one must first have a historical record of that community. The problem is that these questions can not even be addressed without the investigator first putting a huge effort into locating and compiling the data for this historical record. While scientists have been sampling the plankton community for almost a century, much of these data are not readily available to the research community. Many data are inaccessible, scattered through numerous libraries and institutions, buried in journals, cruise reports and other non-digital (paper) formats.
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Historical Plankton Data Search & Rescue (COPEPOD-SAR)
"On this day" is based on the current contents of the NMFS-COPEPOD plankton database.
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Do you have non-digital plankton data?
Dig it out, dust it off, and send it in! If you can't send a photocopy, the original document(s) will be carefully handled and safely returned (along with a keyed copy of the data contents). These data will also be made available on COPEPOD, with credit to you as a data contributor in the COPEPOD investigator summary and searching systems. Help us grow!
Send us an email: Todd.OBrien@noaa.gov ( Project Leader ).
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COPEPOD-SAR Funding History
COPEPOD-SAR Online Results
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