The San Pedro Ocean time-series is a marine time-series started circa 1997. This project aims to study ecological and biogeochemical implications of global marine microbial biodiversity.
Citation
MGnify (2020). The San Pedro Ocean time-series is a marine time-series started circa 1997. This project aims to study ecological and biogeochemical implications of global marine microbial biodiversity.. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/zdqpxj accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-07-08.Description
The USC Microbial Observatory (Jed Fuhrman and David Caron, PIs) focuses on exploratory investigation of prokaryotic and unicellular eukaryotic diversity in the San Pedro Channel , California, with an initial focus on time-dependent changes in community composition in relation to environmental parameters. It also includes focused studies of particular microbial groups. We are currently in 12th year of this project. Our primary sampling site is located midway between Los Angeles and the USC Wrigley Marine Laboratory on Santa Catalina approximately 900 m of water. This site is visited monthly by ship for sampling to 500 m depth. Additional sampling is conducted on an ad hoc basis in coastal water near the lab on Catalina Island.Sampling Description
Sampling
The USC Microbial Observatory (Jed Fuhrman and David Caron, PIs) focuses on exploratory investigation of prokaryotic and unicellular eukaryotic diversity in the San Pedro Channel , California, with an initial focus on time-dependent changes in community composition in relation to environmental parameters. It also includes focused studies of particular microbial groups. We are currently in 12th year of this project. Our primary sampling site is located midway between Los Angeles and the USC Wrigley Marine Laboratory on Santa Catalina approximately 900 m of water. This site is visited monthly by ship for sampling to 500 m depth. Additional sampling is conducted on an ad hoc basis in coastal water near the lab on Catalina Island.Method steps
- Pipeline used: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics/pipelines/5.0
Taxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
Bibliographic Citations
- Gysi DM, Voigt A, Fragoso TM, Almaas E, Nowick K. 2018. wTO: an R package for computing weighted topological overlap and a consensus network with integrated visualization tool. BMC Bioinformatics vol. 19 - DOI:10.1186/s12859-018-2351-7
- Needham DM, Sachdeva R, Fuhrman JA. 2017. Ecological dynamics and co-occurrence among marine phytoplankton, bacteria and myoviruses shows microdiversity matters. ISME J vol. 11 - DOI:10.1038/ismej.2017.29
Contacts
originatorUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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