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Los Angeles Urban Ocean Expedition 2019
Regina
Wetzer
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Curator and Director Marine Biodiversity Center
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles
California
90007
US
+1-213-763-3386
rwetzer@nhm.org
https://nhm.org/person/wetzer-regina
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2674-5150
Jenessa
Wall
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Assistant Collections Manager
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles
California
90007
US
https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6136-6734
Adam
Wall
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Collections Manager, Crustacea
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles
California
90007
US
awall@nhm.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2223-6757
N. Dean
Pentcheff
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
DISCO Project Manager
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles
California
90007
US
dpentche@nhm.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4049-3941
Kathy
Omura
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Collections Manager, Marine Biodiversity Center
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles
California
90007
US
+1-213-763-3386
komura@nhm.org
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6975-7647
Leslie
Harris
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Collections Manager, Polychaetes
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles
California
90007
US
lharris@nhm.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5792-543X
Regina
Wetzer
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Curator and Director Marine Biodiversity Center
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles
California
90007
US
+1-213-763-3386
rwetzer@nhm.org
https://nhm.org/person/wetzer-regina
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2674-5150
2026-03-04
eng
In 2019 (late August to early September), the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County led a two-week expedition to the urban ocean waters of the Los Angeles region to improve our knowledge of Southern California marine biodiversity. This program brought together the best taxonomists and local collectors in an internationally recognized, intensive methodology to collect, live-identify, curate, and DNA barcode as many species as possible.
The pop-up marine science lab at AltaSea processed fresh samples from research ships and live specimens from SCUBA divers. A team of leading taxonomists assembled for the event sorted, identified, and sampled specimens for genetic analysis, all day, every day.
This also was a wonderful opportunity for the public to take a peek into a major marine research program being carried out at the coast of a major urban center.
The Los Angeles Urban Ocean Expedition was a program of the Marine Biodiversity Center at the Natural History Museum.
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml
Specimen
GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml
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https://nhm.org/los-angeles-urban-ocean-expedition
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Coastal waters of greater Los Angeles area (intertidal to 400 m), Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California, United States of America
-118.568
-118.111
33.983
33.564
2019-08-19
2019-09-01
Marine macro-invertebrates: 15 phyla; about half identified to species, an additional quarter to genus, the remainder identified to family or higher order ranks.
kingdom
Animalia
asNeeded
Regina
Wetzer
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Curator and Director Marine Biodiversity Center
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles
California
90007
US
+1-213-763-3386
rwetzer@nhm.org
https://nhm.org/person/wetzer-regina
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2674-5150
Darwin core export from the collection management system.
Coastal waters of greater Los Angeles area (intertidal to 400 m).
Van Veen grabs, otter trawl, SCUBA, hand dredge, hand, and some shore collecting.
On-site taxonomic expertise performing determinations on live specimens. Determinations were supplemented by off-site identifications of preserved materials by domain experts.
Diversity Initiative for the Southern California Ocean (DISCO)
Regina
Wetzer
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2674-5150
principalInvestigator
N. Dean
Pentcheff
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4049-3941
principalInvestigator
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and in-kind support for marine sampling provided by the City of Los Angeles Sanitation, the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, California Science Center, and AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles.
Coastal waters of greater Los Angeles area (intertidal to 400 m), Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California, United States of America.
Multiple sampling modalities were used with the intent of maximizing the diversity of marine invertebrate macrofauna collected. Divers sampled shallow coastal waters and offshore oil-rig substrates from boats and shore and research vessels of the City of Los Angeles Sanitation and the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts sampled using Van Veen grabs. Samples were brought back fresh to the sorting lab set up at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles (in San Pedro). There, taxonomists and volunteers live-sorted and photographed the specimens, and taxonomists did immediate identification.
The following individuals participated as taxonomists/biologists: Ralph Appy (Cabrillo Marine Aquarium), Amanda Bemis (Florida Museum of Natural History), Christine Boren (Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County), Don Cadien (Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County), Curtis Cash (City of L.A. Sanitation), T Chase (Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County), Brittany Cummings (Florida Museum of Natural History), Doug Eernisse (California State University Fullerton), Bill Furlong (Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County), Zack Gold (University of California, Los Angeles), Brent Haggin (Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County), Leslie Harris (NHMLA — DISCO), Austin Hendy (NHMLA — Invertebrate Paleontology), Greg Jensen (University of Washington associate), Gretchen Lambert (Friday Harbor Labs associate), Kimo Morris (Santa Ana College), Norbert Lee (Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County), Jovairia Loan (Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County), Greg Lyon (City of L.A. Sanitation), Eve Moore (Florida Museum of Natural History), Marie Nydam (Soka University), Erin Oderlin (City of L.A. Sanitation), Kathy Omura (NHMLA — DISCO), Julie Passarelli (Cabrillo Marine Aquarium), Gustav Paulay (Florida Museum of Natural History), Dean Pentcheff (NHMLA — DISCO), Bill Power (Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County), Jennifer Smolenski (City of L.A. Sanitation), Kevin Stolzenbach (Wood Consulting), Tom Lee Turner (University of California, Santa Barbara — EEMB), Rebecca Varney (University of Alabama), Adam Wall (NHMLA — DISCO), Jenessa Wall (NHMLA — DISCO), Regina Wetzer (NHMLA — DISCO), Matt Whalen (Hakai Institute / University of British Columbia), Jessica Whelpley (Florida Museum of Natural History), Shawn Wiedrick (NHMLA — Invertebrate Paleontology).
2023-09-20T22:16:04.948+00:00
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Marine Biodiversity Center
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