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The ship's log · 77 entries

What's new

Releases of the integrated database, datasets entering it, apps and features as they land. Most entries are generated from data the site already carries — the release history, each dataset's first release, the products as they were added — with a hand-written line for a feature or a change to the site. Program news — cruises, people, papers — stays on calcofi.org ↗. Atom feed

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  1. site

    The front door shows the ship, the water and the years

    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.
  2. app

    Explorer: the calm layout is live

    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.
  3. release

    v2026.09.06 — The dataset catalog record says what a page needs to say (schema 1.1)

    23 tables · 349 M rows · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22514953
  4. site

    Brand v2 — the SIO look, fleet-wide

    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.
  5. release

    v2026.09.04 — dataset_taxon says what the source claimed; the bird rule reads the classification; common names have one written order

    23 tables · 349 M rows · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22310858
  6. data

    One climatology for every anomaly

    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.
  7. app

    New: CalCOFI Explorer

    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.
  8. data

    Quality flags reach the plots

    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.
  9. release

    v2026.08.25 — sample is unique on its key — the 4,855-duplicate bug is fixed, and a gate now guards it

    18 tables · 320 M rows
  10. app

    New: calcofi4py

    Python package mirroring calcofi4r — query the versioned database releases with DuckDB and the CTD team's PostgreSQL working database, credentials-free via .pgpass.
  11. dataset

    Dungeness Crab Megalopae enters the release

    CDFW · 1984-05 to 2014-05 · Zooplankton
  12. release

    v2026.08.14 — CDFW Dungeness crab megalopae enter the release

    18 tables · 308 M rows
  13. release

    v2026.08.10 — Ten CTD cruises are back

    18 tables · 324 M rows
  14. release

    v2026.08.11 — Ungridded observations are released

    18 tables · 324 M rows
  15. release

    v2026.08.08 — Declared bounds are enforced, and 31k impossible values leave

    18 tables · 309 M rows
  16. app

    New: CTD Transects

    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.
  17. release

    v2026.08.07 — The Wilkinson CTD archive and three data stages

    18 tables · 324 M rows
  18. release

    v2026.08.06 — Contents (generated)

    18 tables · 255 M rows
  19. release

    v2026.08.05 — Contents (generated)

    18 tables · 255 M rows
  20. release

    v2026.08.04 — Contents (generated)

    18 tables · 255 M rows
  21. release

    v2026.08.03 — All released geometry is tagged EPSG:4326

    18 tables · 255 M rows
  22. dataset

    Zooplankton Net Tows enters the release

    SIO · 1939-05 to 2024-04 · Zooplankton
  23. dataset

    Mesopelagic Fish enters the release

    SIO · 2010-01 to 2012-02 · Mesopelagic Fish
  24. dataset

    Seabirds & Marine Mammals enters the release

    Farallon Institute · 1987-05 to 2022-10 · Seabirds & Marine Mammals
  25. release

    v2026.08.02 — A full rebuild on the core-only model

    18 tables · 255 M rows
  26. dataset

    Picoplankton & Bacteria enters the release

    CCE-LTER · 2004-11 to 2023-07 · Picoplankton & Bacteria
  27. dataset

    Underway Meteorological (METS) enters the release

    CalCOFI · 2004-01 to 2022-11 · Meteorology & Sea State
  28. release

    v2026.07.30 — Four new datasets, the CTD QA/QC engine, and generic publishing

    17 tables · 234 M rows
  29. app

    New: storage

    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.
  30. release

    v2026.07.17 — Contents (generated)

    17 tables · 237 M rows
  31. app

    New: Station Explorer

    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.
  32. release

    v2026.07.16 — One taxonomy

    17 tables · 237 M rows
  33. release

    v2026.07.15 — The consolidated core model

    22 tables · 236 M rows
  34. app

    New: Offshore Wind Monitoring

    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.
  35. app

    New: 75th Anniversary Timeline

    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.
  36. dataset

    ZooScan (Imaged Zooplankton) enters the release

    CCE-LTER · 2005-07 to 2026-04 · Zooplankton
  37. dataset

    ZooDB (Holoplankton Community) enters the release

    CCE-LTER · 1951-03 to 2015-04 · Zooplankton
  38. release

    v2026.06.26 — Contents (generated)

    50 tables · 134 M rows
  39. app

    New: Larvae Dashboard

    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.
  40. app

    New: Capstone App

    Spatial and temporal visualization of the CalCOFI bottle dataset — the first student capstone built on the database.
  41. app

    New: SaferSeafood App

    Personalized fish-consumption advisories for Southern California anglers — DDT levels predicted by species and catch location.
  42. app

    New: Hypoxia Story

    A scrollable story of hypoxia in the California Current Ecosystem and its changing oxygen levels over the past 71 years.
  43. app

    New: Marine Mammal App

    Marine mammal eDNA detections and visual sightings visualized against oceanographic conditions on the CalCOFI grid.
  44. app

    New: Station Data Portal

    Map-based discovery of what is measured at each of 115 CalCOFI stations, with live variable search and auto-generated ERDDAP, Euphausiid and ZooDB queries.
  45. app

    New: CA Ocean & Coastal Monitoring Map

    Statewide inventory of California ocean and coastal monitoring programs within 12 nmi of the coast — hex-grid coverage at 1/3/5 km, survey transects, discharger stations, bathymetry, monitoring gaps, wind energy areas, and marine protected areas.
  46. app

    New: docs

    The book on the CalCOFI.io data system — how to explore, access and cite the data; the database, its keys and its releases; how to contribute a dataset; the team's tools; and the data management plan.
  47. app

    New: workflows

    Reproducible Quarto notebooks that ingest each dataset into the versioned database — the pipeline behind every release.
  48. app

    New: db-schema

    Browse tables, columns, datasets and entity-relationship diagrams of each versioned database release.
  49. app

    New: db-query

    Run SQL on the CalCOFI database right in your browser — DuckDB-WASM reads the released Parquet files directly; no server, no credentials.
  50. app

    New: calcofi4db

    R package of database tools for ingest workflows — cloud storage, Parquet conversion, DuckDB management and frozen releases.
  51. app

    New: calcofi4r

    R package of helper functions to read, analyze and visualize CalCOFI data — connects directly to versioned database releases.
  52. app

    New: erddap

    CalCOFI datasets served through NOAA's ERDDAP — subset and download in CSV, NetCDF, JSON and more, or connect from analysis tools.
  53. app

    New: Pollutants Explorer

    Map pollutants in the Southern California Bight from the Regional Monitoring Program via SCCWRP.
  54. app

    New: CTD Explorer

    Visualize CTD casts — temperature, salinity, oxygen and more — by cruise, station and depth, from individual profiles to whole-grid maps.
  55. app

    New: Contour Explorer

    Visualize and download CalCOFI oceanographic data in map, time-series and depth-profile views.
  56. app

    New: Cruise Explorer

    Cross-dataset observation explorer — compare coverage across cruises, datasets and depths, with shareable deep-link URLs.
  57. app

    New: Hexagon Explorer

    Explore decades of fish larvae and oceanographic bottle data together — filter by taxa, depth and season over dynamic hexagon maps, time series and depth profiles.
  58. dataset

    CUFES Fish Eggs enters the release

    NOAA SWFSC · 1996-03 to 2022-04 · Fish Eggs & Larvae
  59. dataset

    Euphausiids (Krill) enters the release

    CCE-LTER · 1951-01 to 2019-04 · Euphausiids (Krill)
  60. dataset

    Phytoplankton enters the release

    CalCOFI · 1996 to 2022 · Phytoplankton
  61. dataset

    Phyllosoma (Lobster Larvae) enters the release

    CalCOFI · 1951-07 to 2009-07 · Zooplankton
  62. release

    v2026.06.08 — Contents (generated)

    44 tables · 134 M rows
  63. release

    v2026.06.07 — Contents (generated)

    28 tables · 133 M rows
  64. release

    v2026.05.20 — Contents (generated)

    28 tables · 133 M rows
  65. dataset

    Ichthyoplankton enters the release

    NOAA SWFSC · 1951-01 to 2023-01 · Fish Eggs & Larvae
  66. dataset

    Carbonate Chemistry / DIC enters the release

    CalCOFI · 1983-03 to 2021-07 · Carbonate System
  67. dataset

    CTD Cast Files enters the release

    CalCOFI · 1993-08 to 2026-07 · Physical Oceanography
  68. dataset

    Hydrographic Bottle enters the release

    CalCOFI · 1949-02 to 2021-05 · Physical Oceanography
  69. release

    v2026.05.19 — Contents (generated)

    28 tables · 133 M rows
  70. release

    v2026.05.15 — Contents (generated)

    28 tables · 133 M rows
  71. release

    v2026.05.14 — Contents (generated)

    28 tables · 133 M rows
  72. release

    v2026.04.08 — Contents (generated)

    28 tables · 357 M rows
  73. release

    v2026.04.06 — Contents (generated)

    29 tables · 361 M rows
  74. release

    v2026.04.03 — Contents (generated)

    29 tables · 361 M rows
  75. release

    v2026.04.02 — Contents (generated)

    43 tables · 361 M rows
  76. release

    v2026.03.25 — Contents (generated)

    18 tables · 355 M rows
  77. release

    v2026.03.14 — Contents (generated)

    20 tables · 357 M rows
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