Euphausiids (Krill)
CCE-LTER Euphausiid Abundance
cce-lter_euphausiidsCCE-LTERprovider terms ↗doi:10.6073/pasta/4a92a0044bcd1523a4f994ece874a57dv2026.10.14ingested
- years
- 1951–2019
- observations
- 100,505
- sampling events
- 7,477
- stations
- 124
- species
- 37
Overview
Species- and life-stage-resolved euphausiid (krill) abundance from CalCOFI / CCE-LTER net tows (BTEDB export), 1951-present, one row per tow x species x life stage. Supersedes the prior single-Abundance- column ingest, which had no taxonomic scope (Q02, now resolved) — units remain provisional pending provider confirmation (Q01).
Coverage
1 variable
obs_bio profile · one value per taxon at a sampling event · 100,505 values · 1951–2019 · 1 variable
Species and taxa
- Euphausia pacifica Pacific krill 21186
- Hansarsia difficilis 20972
- Thysanoessa gregaria 12299
- Nyctiphanes simplex 10124
- Stylocheiron longicorne 7717
- Euphausia recurva 6338
- Euphausia gibboides 4432
- Stylocheiron affine 4392
- Thysanoessa spinifera 3584
- Stylocheiron maximum 2567
- Euphausia eximia 1311
- Nematobrachion flexipes 1179
- Euphausia hemigibba 934
- Euphausia mutica 658
- Hansarsia tenella 636
- Thysanopoda astylata 516
- Stylocheiron abbreviatum 329
- Hansarsia atlantica 289
- Stylocheiron carinatum 223
- Stylocheiron suhmii 206
- Thysanopoda orientalis 169
- Tessarabrachion oculatum 133
- Thysanopoda egregia 78
- Euphausia brevis 66
- Stylocheiron elongatum 51
- Thysanopoda monacantha 29
- Thysanopoda obtusifrons 24
- Thysanoessa longipes 19
- Hansarsia gracilis 16
- Euphausia distinguenda 7
- Thysanopoda pectinata 5
- Nematobrachion boopis 4
- Euphausia tenera 4
- Hansarsia microps 3
- Thysanopoda cornuta 2
- Euphausia lamelligera 2
- Euphausia diomedeae 1
Life stages
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Access
Every endpoint this dataset can be reached through, grouped by how you would use it. Each name is the link; the copy button beside it copies the address. Everything is in the release record and was answered when the release was cut.
Apps that read this dataset from the release. The icons after a name are the app’s lenses — the spatial grain it shows the data at.
Every way to have the bytes, by source. Nothing here asks you to register first.
Tables from the release (Parquet)
The release’s own tables, as the parquet objects it is frozen from — the same bytes every app and package below reads. A table this dataset shares with others holds every dataset’s rows, so filter on dataset_key; a partition holds only this dataset’s. since is the release whose rows these are: an unchanged table keeps its object.
CF netCDF
One self-describing file, for a tool that reads netCDF.
how far this file is CF
Fully CF: each row is an independent observation with its own time and position, which is a CF point collection. Rows are at the OCCURRENCE grain (event x taxon x life stage x depth), not the event grain, so a sample with many taxa contributes many points. This dataset records no observation depth; CF's point feature does not require one.
ERDDAP (erddap.calcofi.io)
One ERDDAP dataset per grain. Subset in the browser or query it from a script; for netCDF take the CF file above.
- observations
- one row per measurement — value, units and quality flag — joined to the sampling event it was taken on
- sampling events
- one row per cast, tow or transect: when, where and how it was sampled, with the effort that scales it
Legacy ids, still answering until 2026-12-04: calcofi_euphausiids (replaced by cce-lter_euphausiids)
The same release, from a script or a browser SQL shell.
Packages
The whole release, pinned to a version, with the citation one call away.
con <- calcofi4r::cc_get_db()
calcofi4r::cc_cite("cce-lter_euphausiids")
con = calcofi4py.cc_get_db()
calcofi4py.cc_cite("cce-lter_euphausiids")
DuckDB, anywhere
No CalCOFI package needed: each table above is a plain parquet object, readable by any DuckDB (or Arrow, pandas, Spark) from its URL. The path carries a content hash — a table whose rows did not change between releases keeps the same object, so nothing unchanged is stored or downloaded twice. Swap in any table above; one shared with other datasets needs WHERE dataset_key = 'cce-lter_euphausiids'. Every object of every release is listed in db-schema.
SELECT *
FROM read_parquet('https://storage.googleapis.com/calcofi-db/ducklake/tables/obs/dataset_key=cce-lter_euphausiids/942630b0e66a68dad7ce6038/data_0.parquet')
LIMIT 100;
db-query, in the browser
__TBL:obs__ is db-query’s name for the pinned release’s obs object — the hashed path above, resolved for you — so the same SQL keeps working when a release changes the object.
-- cce-lter_euphausiids in the CalCOFI release v2026.10.14
SELECT *
FROM __TBL:obs__
WHERE dataset_key = 'cce-lter_euphausiids'
LIMIT 100;
Records about the data, in the standards each portal harvests.
Where this dataset is registered outside calcofi.io: each portal’s role, what it is for, the dataset’s status there and the identifier it is known by. The policy — which portal is the archive of record and why — is in Portals.
Policy Archive of record: CCE-LTER's EDI package knb-lter-cce.313, the ingest's source — CalCOFI never republishes a provider's package. OBIS: planned (a Darwin Core Archive is built and staged each release; the upload is the provider's call, issue #42 tracks the EDI side for zooplankton).
Everything here is open — nothing on calcofi.io asks you to register first. If this dataset ends up in something you build or publish, register your use so it can be credited and linked back; to hear when a release changes it, stay informed. Questions: data@calcofi.io.
Cite
This dataset's own citation. What to cite, and how, is a chapter of the docs book.
Ohman, M.D. 2022. California Current Ecosystem Euphausiid data, Brinton and Townsend Euphausiid Database (BTEDB) ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/4a92a0044bcd1523a4f994ece874a57d
License: custom (https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/metadataviewer?packageid=knb-lter-cce.313.1)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/4a92a0044bcd1523a4f994ece874a57d
Acknowledgement: Data originate from the Brinton and Townsend Euphausiid Database of the Pelagic Invertebrate Collection, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Supported in recent years by NSF grants to M.D. Ohman and the CCE-LTER site.
BibTeX
@misc{cce-lter_euphausiids,
title = {CCE-LTER Euphausiid Abundance},
howpublished = {Ohman, M.D. 2022. California Current Ecosystem Euphausiid data, Brinton and Townsend Euphausiid Database (BTEDB) ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/4a92a0044bcd1523a4f994ece874a57d},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.6073/pasta/4a92a0044bcd1523a4f994ece874a57d},
url = {https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/4a92a0044bcd1523a4f994ece874a57d},
note = {License: custom (https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/metadataviewer?packageid=knb-lter-cce.313.1); Acknowledgement: Data originate from the Brinton and Townsend Euphausiid Database of the Pelagic Invertebrate Collection, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Supported in recent years by NSF grants to M.D. Ohman and the CCE-LTER site.}
}
Acknowledgement. Data originate from the Brinton and Townsend Euphausiid Database of the Pelagic Invertebrate Collection, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Supported in recent years by NSF grants to M.D. Ohman and the CCE-LTER site.
…and the release it came from
CalCOFI (2026). CalCOFI Integrated Database, release v2026.10.14 [Data set]. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NOAA Fisheries, and California Department of Fish and Wildlife. https://calcofi.io/db-schema/?v=v2026.10.14
BibTeX
@misc{calcofi_release_v2026_10_14,
title = {CalCOFI Integrated Database, release v2026.10.14},
author = {CalCOFI},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NOAA Fisheries, and California Department of Fish and Wildlife},
url = {https://calcofi.io/db-schema/?v=v2026.10.14}
}
Source files
The original inputs the ingest notebook read, archived by the ingest to the public files bucket — 1 file, 4.5 MB.
- data.csv4.5 MB2026-07-29