CalCOFI.io — the ship's log Releases of the integrated database, datasets entering it, apps and features as they land. https://calcofi.io/news/ 2026-10-08T00:00:00Z v2026.10.08 — The three marine mammal datasets are withdrawn until the lab that collected them has reviewed them https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-10-08-v2026.10.08 2026-10-08T00:00:00Z 25 tables · 373 M rows · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23241748 v2026.10.06 — The climatology is filed by the cruise's month, so a cruise that began in June has a July baseline https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-10-06-v2026.10.06 2026-10-06T00:00:00Z 25 tables · 373 M rows · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23190178 Dissolved iron enters the release https://calcofi.io/news/#dataset-2026-10-05-cce-lter_iron 2026-10-05T00:00:00Z CCE-LTER · 2002-11 to 2004-07 · Nutrients & Chemistry 2022 Vertebrate eDNA enters the release https://calcofi.io/news/#dataset-2026-10-05-calcofi_2022-edna 2026-10-05T00:00:00Z CalCOFI · 2022-10 to 2022-10 · Genomics & eDNA v2026.10.05 — The grid is one cell per official station, and a key no longer names the same water https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-10-05-v2026.10.05 2026-10-05T00:00:00Z 25 tables · 373 M rows · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23170248 CTD Derived Products enters the release https://calcofi.io/news/#dataset-2026-10-01-calcofi_ctd-derived 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z CalCOFI · 1993-08 to 2026-07 · Physical Oceanography v2026.10.01 — CTD: the corrected 2607 file, provider flags on every series, cruise-corrected oxygen https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-10-01-v2026.10.01 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z 23 tables · 376 M rows · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23085119 v2026.09.10 — The obs objects ship for the last time https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-09-11-v2026.09.10 2026-09-11T00:00:00Z 23 tables · 357 M rows · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22698724 v2026.09.11 — CTD averages rebuilt from their sensors by the provider's flags https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-09-11-v2026.09.11 2026-09-11T00:00:00Z 23 tables · 362 M rows · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22714951 The front door shows the ship, the water and the years https://calcofi.io/news/#site-2026-09-07- 2026-09-07T00:00:00Z Line 90 drawn as a section — the ship, its gear to depth, one pin per data category — with the station grid and every dataset's measured years under it. Every colour is a brand token; every number is read from the release. Explorer: the calm layout is live https://calcofi.io/news/#app-2026-09-06-explore-calm 2026-09-06T00:00:00Z Floating panels you can move, collapse and resize; the title sentence is the query; every view is a URL you can share; feedback arrives with an annotated screenshot. v2026.09.06 — The dataset catalog record says what a page needs to say (schema 1.1) https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-09-06-v2026.09.06 2026-09-06T00:00:00Z 23 tables · 349 M rows · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22514953 Brand v2 — the SIO look, fleet-wide https://calcofi.io/news/#site-2026-09-04- 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z Light by default, the UC San Diego palette, Source Sans 3 and Teko, the horizontal lockup; ?theme=dark everywhere, remembered across calcofi.io; checked weekly. v2026.09.04 — dataset_taxon says what the source claimed; the bird rule reads the classification; common names have one written order https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-09-04-v2026.09.04 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z 23 tables · 349 M rows · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22310858 One climatology for every anomaly https://calcofi.io/news/#data-2026-08-31- 2026-08-31T00:00:00Z A 1993–2013, month-matched, 10 m-binned baseline ships in the release; ctd-transects, the Explorer's Sections lens and calcofi4r::cc_climatology() now subtract the same table. New: CalCOFI Explorer https://calcofi.io/news/#app-2026-08-29-explore 2026-08-29T00:00:00Z One app, six lenses — stations, hexagons, contours, cruises, regions and sections — for one organism or one ocean variable at a time over the frozen release. Quality flags reach the plots https://calcofi.io/news/#data-2026-08-25- 2026-08-25T00:00:00Z A 1955 oxygen spike flagged suspect since 1955 had been drawn for years; every consumer now applies each dataset's own quality flags. Cruise keys resolve by date span, so casts stop drifting onto the neighbouring month's cruise. v2026.08.25 — sample is unique on its key — the 4,855-duplicate bug is fixed, and a gate now guards it https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-08-25-v2026.08.25 2026-08-25T00:00:00Z 18 tables · 320 M rows New: calcofi4py https://calcofi.io/news/#app-2026-08-20-calcofi4py 2026-08-20T00:00:00Z Python package mirroring calcofi4r — query the versioned database releases with DuckDB and the CTD team's PostgreSQL working database, credentials-free via .pgpass. Dungeness Crab Megalopae enters the release https://calcofi.io/news/#dataset-2026-08-14-cdfw_dungeness-crab 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z CDFW · 1984-05 to 2014-05 · Zooplankton v2026.08.14 — CDFW Dungeness crab megalopae enter the release https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-08-14-v2026.08.14 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z 18 tables · 308 M rows v2026.08.10 — Ten CTD cruises are back https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-08-11-v2026.08.10 2026-08-11T00:00:00Z 18 tables · 324 M rows v2026.08.11 — Ungridded observations are released https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-08-11-v2026.08.11 2026-08-11T00:00:00Z 18 tables · 324 M rows v2026.08.08 — Declared bounds are enforced, and 31k impossible values leave https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-08-08-v2026.08.08 2026-08-08T00:00:00Z 18 tables · 309 M rows New: CTD Transects https://calcofi.io/news/#app-2026-08-07-ctd-transects 2026-08-07T00:00:00Z Cross-shelf temperature, salinity, oxygen, density and fluorescence sections along every CalCOFI line, for every cruise since 1993 — drawn nearshore to offshore with no station picking, and mapped so you can see where each transect is. v2026.08.07 — The Wilkinson CTD archive and three data stages https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-08-07-v2026.08.07 2026-08-07T00:00:00Z 18 tables · 324 M rows v2026.08.06 — Contents (generated) https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-08-06-v2026.08.06 2026-08-06T00:00:00Z 18 tables · 255 M rows v2026.08.05 — Contents (generated) https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-08-05-v2026.08.05 2026-08-05T00:00:00Z 18 tables · 255 M rows v2026.08.04 — Contents (generated) https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-08-04-v2026.08.04 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z 18 tables · 255 M rows v2026.08.03 — All released geometry is tagged EPSG:4326 https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-08-03-v2026.08.03 2026-08-03T00:00:00Z 18 tables · 255 M rows Zooplankton Net Tows enters the release https://calcofi.io/news/#dataset-2026-08-02-sio_pic-zooplankton 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z SIO · 1939-05 to 2024-04 · Zooplankton Mesopelagic Fish enters the release https://calcofi.io/news/#dataset-2026-08-02-sio_mesopelagic-fish 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z SIO · 2010-01 to 2012-02 · Mesopelagic Fish Seabirds & Marine Mammals enters the release https://calcofi.io/news/#dataset-2026-08-02-farallon_bird-mammal 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z Farallon Institute · 1987-05 to 2022-10 · Seabirds & Marine Mammals v2026.08.02 — A full rebuild on the core-only model https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-08-02-v2026.08.02 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z 18 tables · 255 M rows Picoplankton & Bacteria enters the release https://calcofi.io/news/#dataset-2026-07-30-cce-lter_picoplankton-bacteria 2026-07-30T00:00:00Z CCE-LTER · 2004-11 to 2023-07 · Picoplankton & Bacteria Underway Meteorological (METS) enters the release https://calcofi.io/news/#dataset-2026-07-30-calcofi_mets 2026-07-30T00:00:00Z CalCOFI · 2004-01 to 2022-11 · Meteorology & Sea State v2026.07.30 — Four new datasets, the CTD QA/QC engine, and generic publishing https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-07-30-v2026.07.30 2026-07-30T00:00:00Z 17 tables · 234 M rows New: storage https://calcofi.io/news/#app-2026-07-28-storage 2026-07-28T00:00:00Z Browse the public CalCOFI cloud buckets over HTTPS — versioned database releases, source files and project outputs, with folder listings that the raw storage host does not provide. v2026.07.17 — Contents (generated) https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-07-17-v2026.07.17 2026-07-17T00:00:00Z 17 tables · 237 M rows New: Station Explorer https://calcofi.io/news/#app-2026-07-16-db-viz-station 2026-07-16T00:00:00Z Discover what's measured at each CalCOFI station — station × dataset coverage (time, depth, observations, surveys) built from the integrated release database, with variable search and dataset crosswalk. v2026.07.16 — One taxonomy https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-07-16-v2026.07.16 2026-07-16T00:00:00Z 17 tables · 237 M rows v2026.07.15 — The consolidated core model https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-07-15-v2026.07.15 2026-07-15T00:00:00Z 22 tables · 236 M rows New: Offshore Wind Monitoring https://calcofi.io/news/#app-2026-07-14-offshore-wind-monitoring 2026-07-14T00:00:00Z An interactive map for planning ocean monitoring around California's floating offshore wind areas — toggle Essential Ocean Variables and long-term monitoring programs to reveal gaps in baseline datasets. New: 75th Anniversary Timeline https://calcofi.io/news/#app-2026-07-14-calcofi-75th-timeline 2026-07-14T00:00:00Z An interactive TimelineJS journey through 75 years of CalCOFI milestones — from the 1949 founding after the sardine collapse to the NORPAC expedition, the 1957–58 El Niño, CTD sampling, and the first all-female research cruise. ZooScan (Imaged Zooplankton) enters the release https://calcofi.io/news/#dataset-2026-06-26-cce-lter_zooscan 2026-06-26T00:00:00Z CCE-LTER · 2005-07 to 2026-04 · Zooplankton ZooDB (Holoplankton Community) enters the release https://calcofi.io/news/#dataset-2026-06-26-cce-lter_zoodb 2026-06-26T00:00:00Z CCE-LTER · 1951-03 to 2015-04 · Zooplankton v2026.06.26 — Contents (generated) https://calcofi.io/news/#release-2026-06-26-v2026.06.26 2026-06-26T00:00:00Z 50 tables · 134 M rows New: Larvae Dashboard https://calcofi.io/news/#app-2026-06-18-ucsb-larvae-dashboard 2026-06-18T00:00:00Z Explore CalCOFI fish-larvae (ichthyoplankton) abundance over time and space — filter by species or habitat across seasons and decades, with trend, correlation, stability and spatial views plus CSV/PDF export. New: Capstone App https://calcofi.io/news/#app-2026-06-10-capstone 2026-06-10T00:00:00Z Spatial and temporal visualization of the CalCOFI bottle dataset — the first student capstone built on the database. New: SaferSeafood App https://calcofi.io/news/#app-2026-06-10-saferseafood 2026-06-10T00:00:00Z Personalized fish-consumption advisories for Southern California anglers — DDT levels predicted by species and catch location.