CalCOFI Southern California region - SC southern California Current Latitude:   33.4000     Longitude:  -119.5000 Associated Investigators: Sam McClatchie , Todd O'Brien (time series creation) ,   Mark Ohman (species data) ,   Mark Ohman (WG125 contact)   Related Web Sites: [www.calcofi.org]   Related Time Series: [ CalCOFI: California Current (CC) sub-area ]   [ CalCOFI: Southern California (SC) sub-area ]   [ NMFS-EcoMon (Northeast US) ]   [ NMFS-SEAMAP (Gulf of Mexico) ]   [ NMFS-CalCOFI (California Current) ]   [ NMFS-NH5 (Oregon) ]   [ NMFS-EcoFOCI (Gulf of Alaska) ]   The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) are a unique partnership of the California Department of Fish and Game, the NOAA Fisheries Service and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The organization was formed in 1949 to study the ecological aspects of the collapse of the sardine populations off California. Today its focus has shifted to the study of the marine environment off the coast of California and the management of its living resources (Figure 1). The main "Total Displacement Volume" (zooplankton) time series presented here was created by Todd O'Brien for the COPEPOD project( https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/copepod) using the publicly available CalCOFI data set. This time series represents the CalCOFI standard survey area (CalCOFI lines 76.7 to 93.3). The line-stations were limited to only include those that fell within the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem boundary area (e.g., the dense near shore data were used but not the "far into open ocean" line pieces). This time series is a continuation of the time series first presented by Mark Ohman for the SCOR WG125 study. (That study only used data through 2005.) Species data provided by Mark Ohman are still included with this site. Sam McClatchie is the NMFS zooplankton contact for the CalCOFI program in general.