from ccelter.edu The California Current System is a coastal upwelling biome, as found along the eastern margins of all major ocean basins. These are among the most productive ecosystems in the world ocean. The California Current Ecosystem LTER (32.9 degrees North, 120.3 degrees West) is investigating nonlinear transitions in the California Current coastal pelagic ecosystem, with particular attention to long-term forcing by a secular warming trend, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and El Nino in altering the structure and dynamics of the pelagic ecosystem. The California Current sustains active fisheries for a variety of finfish and marine invertebrates, modulates weather patterns and the hydrologic cycle of much of the western United States, and plays a vital role in the economy of myriad coastal communities.
LTER Data: The California Current Ecosystem (CCE) LTER data are managed by and available directly from the CCE project data site URL shown above. If there are any datasets listed below, they are data sets that were collected at or near the CCE LTER sampling locations, and funded by NSF OCE as ancillary projects related to the CCE LTER core research themes.
Lead Principal Investigator: Mark D. Ohman
University of California-San Diego (UCSD-SIO)
Co-Principal Investigator: Katherine Barbeau
University of California-San Diego (UCSD-SIO)
Co-Principal Investigator: Ralf Goericke
University of California-San Diego (UCSD-SIO)
Co-Principal Investigator: Michael R. Landry
University of California-San Diego (UCSD-SIO)
Co-Principal Investigator: Arthur J. Miller
University of California-San Diego (UCSD-SIO)
Data Manager: Marina Frants
University of California-San Diego (UCSD-SIO)