SCB MBON Data Catalog

This catalog contains data from the Southern California Bight Marine BON (SCB MBON) that are available through public repositories, with DOIs and revision control. Metadata can be browsed and data downloaded with the links below. Most of our datasets are ongoing time-series, and so code should access data through the repository API, so that it can be assured of using most recent revision of any dataset. For information on accessing via repository APIs, contact SCB MBON.

For an overview of SCB MBON's data management and packaging practices see SCB MBON Data Management Overview.

Datasets in public repositories

Shallow Reef / Kelp forest

Southern California Bight Marine BON: Integrated kelp forest/reef: Fish dataset in repository        MBON Portal       DwCA format
Southern California Bight Marine BON: Integrated kelp forest/reef: Quad and swath survey dataset in repository       DwCA format
Southern California Bight Marine BON: Integrated kelp forest/reef: Benthic cover dataset in repository       DwCA format
Southern California Bight Marine BON: species list for the four integrated datasets shown above dataset in repository
Time series of kelp biomass in the canopy from Landsat 5, 7 and 8, 1984 - 2016 (ongoing) dataset in repository
Southern California Bight Coastal and Island fish survey from the Reef Check, 2006-2017 dataset in repository
Benthic percent cover in the Santa Barbara Channel using image analysis and machine learning dataset in repository
Kelp forest fish communities environmental DNA samples from Santa Barbara Channel dataset in repository

Deep reef

Southern California Bight fish surveys at deep reefs: Footprint, Piggy Bank, Anacapa Passage dataset in repository       DwCA format

Offshore

SCCWRP Bight Infauna, chemistry, and grain size, 1994-2013 dataset in repository
NWFSC fish and invertebrate diversity derived from west coast groundfish trawl program, 1977-2018 dataset in repository
Plumes and Blooms: Curated oceanographic and phytoplankton pigment observations, 1996-2018 dataset in repository
Plumes and Blooms: phytoplankton pigment concentration, ongoing since 2005 dataset in repository
California Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring and Alert Program Data, 2005-2021 dataset in repository

Beach & Intertidal zone

Time-series of beach wrack consumers, ongoing since 2011 dataset in repository
Time series of abundance of birds on selected beaches, ongoing since 2008 dataset in repository
Abundance and species composition of benthic heterobranch molluscs from the Santa Barbara Channel mainland, 2002-2020 dataset in repository

Oil/gas platforms

Santa Barbara Channel fish and invertebrate surveys at oil and gas platforms dataset in repository
Santa Barbara Channel fish surveys at shallow regions of oil and gas platforms (SCUBA) dataset in repository       DwCA format
Santa Barbara Channel fish surveys at shallow outcrops nearby the oil/gas platforms dataset in repository
A Comparison of Two ROV Survey Methods Used to Estimate Fish Assemblages and Densities Around a California Oil Platform dataset in repository

Birds & Marine mammals

Sightings of sea otters (Enhydra lutris) near Santa Barbara and Channel Islands, ongoing since 2007 dataset in repository
Southern California Bight Marine BON: Gray Whales Count, ongoing since 2007 dataset in repository
Scripps whale acoustic lab: Various marine mammals data found on sea-map dataset in seamap
Bird and mammal observations aboard CalCOFI (1987-2015, ongoing), NMFS (1996-2015, ongoing) and CPR (2003-2006, completed) cruises. dataset in repository

Ichthyoplankton

CALCOFI fish larvae at 66 standard stations, 1966 - ongoing dataset in repository

Bacteria and archaea

Southern California Bight Marine BON: genomics study on 16S primer comparison dataset in repository
Sea urchin microbiomes in Southern California dataset in repository
Plumes and Blooms: Microbial eukaryote diversity and composition dataset in repository

Drafts

Summary

A list of datasets in progress can be viewed on the drafts page. Metadata for some datasets may be available via links on that page.