Name: Global scale surface meso-plankton dataset collected with Deck Net and imaged with Flowcam during the Tara Pacific Expedition
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The Tara Pacific expedition sampled differents ecosystems of the oceans during a two-year expedition (2016-2018), collecting environmental data and surface plankton of Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, from viruses to metazoans, on board the 36-metre Tara Schooner. Surface microplankton were collected using a custom-built water pumping system called the Dolphin, designed for use while sailing at high speed. The pumped water was filtered through a 20 µm mesh net (Deck-Net) installed on the deck of the schooner Tara.

See https://doi.org/10.17882/102697 for more details.

Citation

Mériguet Z, Lombard F, Bourdin G, Jalabert L, Bun O, Caray--Counil L, Elineau A, Gorsky G, The Tara Pacific Consortium (2026). Global scale surface meso-plankton dataset collected with Deck Net and imaged with Flowcam during the Tara Pacific Expedition. Version 1.4. EcoTaxa. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.data-terra.org/resource?r=tara-pac-flowcam-decknet&v=1.4

Published

March 11, 2026 at 13:41

First registration

December 04, 2025 at 13:55

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

URL

https://ipt.data-terra.org/resource?r=tara-pac-flowcam-decknet

Archive

https://ipt.data-terra.org/archive.do?r=tara-pac-flowcam-decknet

Contacts

Zoé Mériguet
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche

Fabien Lombard
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche

Guillaume Bourdin
School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine

Laetitia Jalabert
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche

Olivier Bun
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche

Louis Caray--Counil
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche

Amanda Elineau
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche

Gaby Gorsky
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche

The Tara Pacific Consortium
The Tara Pacific Consortium

10,673

total submitted occurrences

10,673

accepted occurrences

32,433

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	10,673		100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME		75	0.7%
MARINE_UNSURE		13	0.1%

Global scale surface meso-plankton dataset collected with Deck Net and imaged with Flowcam during the Tara Pacific Expedition

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data