Dataset: Proportion of taxonomic groups from Japanese, oceanic and eastern Pacific waters along the Hawaii, Washington and Oregon coasts during 2012 (JTMD-BF project)

Preliminary and in progressVersion 2015-02-27 (2015-02-27)Dataset Type:Unknown

Lead Principal Investigator: Dr James T. Carlton (Williams College)

Principal Investigator: Dr Jonathan Geller (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories)

Principal Investigator: Dr Jessica Miller (Oregon State University)

Principal Investigator: Gregory E. Ruiz (Portland State University)

Co-Principal Investigator: John Chapman (Oregon State University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Testing the Invasion Process: Survival, Dispersal, Genetic Characterization and Attenuation of Marine Biota on the 2011 Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris Field. (JTMD-BF)

Biofouling specimens were collected and identified from Japanese tsunami marine debris (JTMD) from 2012-2014 at coastal sites in Hawaii and the western USA from California to Alaska.

Algal diversity identification was courtesy of Gayle Hansen (Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University).


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Carlton, J. T., Chapman, J. W., Geller, J. B., Miller, J. A., Carlton, D. A., McCuller, M. I., ... & Ruiz, G. M. (2017). Tsunami-driven rafting: Transoceanic species dispersal and implications for marine biogeography. Science, 357(6358), 1402-1406.