Dataset

Puget Sound Zooplankton Monitoring Program (Salish Sea, USA), starting in 2014

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The Puget Sound Zooplankton Monitoring Program (PSZMP) is an ongoing collaborative effort involving tribal, county, state, federal, academic, and non-profit organizations working in and around the Salish Sea. The program began in 2014 and is designed to assist efforts in 1) understanding how changes in the local vs oceanic physical environment translate up the food web in Puget Sound, and 2) measuring how the prey field of salmon and other fishes varies spatio-temporally and correlates with fish survival.
 Samples are collected at 16 sites across Puget Sound on either a bi-weekly or monthly , depending on the sampling group and season. Vertical tows of a ring net are conducted to capture zooplankton throughout the depth of the water column. Oblique tows of a bongo net are used to sample larger, more motile zooplankton inhabiting the upper 30 m of the water column. After collection, zooplankton are quantitatively subsampled and microscopically counted, with zooplankton densities and biomass computed. All individuals are identified to species or larger taxonomic grouping, and by life stages for some species, within each sample.

Citation: Keister J E, Winans A, Herrmann B, Kalata O, Mayorga E (2024). Puget Sound Zooplankton Monitoring Program (Salish Sea, USA), starting in 2014. Version 1.1. United States Geological Survey. Samplingevent dataset. https://doi.org/10.15468/e92gvx

Published: December 13, 2024 at 22:36

URL: https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=pszmp-zoop

Julie E. Keister
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Amanda Winans
University of Washington

BethElLee Herrmann
University of Washington

Olga Kalata
University of Washington

Kit Yu Karen CHAN
University of Washington

Emilio Mayorga
University of Washington

Karen Chan

Adrian Nevarez

Clayton David

Sarah Heerhartz

Devin Flawd

Russel Barsh

Madrona Murphy

Mark Riedesel

Maggie Hayward

Evelyn Brown

Nicholas Jefferson

Donald Kruse

Jordan Pritchard

Jed Moore

Nano Perez

Hans Daubenberger

Emily Bishop

Heather Gordan

Nikki Venneman

Khadijah Homolka

Julianna Sullivan

Franchesca Perez

Max Lundquist

Charles Sportsman

Andrew Skoog

Adam Vela

Lyndsey Swanson

Bob Kruger

Julia Bos

Christopher Barnes

Correigh Greene

Stuart H Munsch

Nate Schwarck

Holly Young

Mya Keyzers

Jay Dimond

Natalie Coleman

Korie Griffith

Mark Millard

Roy Clark

185,729
occurrence records
380,462
measurements and facts
262
taxa
102
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 185,729
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 553
0.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 15,893
8.6%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 9,581
5.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data