Description
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.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 4,006 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 6d40a388-57c4-4e7e-a794-6d6502c225c7. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator and Director Marine Biodiversity Center
- 900 Exposition Boulevard
- +1-213-763-3386
http://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2674-5150
- Originator
- Assistant Collections Manager
- 900 Exposition Boulevard
- Originator
- Collections Manager, Crustacea
- 900 Exposition Boulevard
- Originator
- DISCO Project Manager
- 900 Exposition Boulevard
- Originator
- Collections Manager, Marine Biodiversity Center
- 900 Exposition Boulevard
- +1-213-763-3386
- Originator
- Collections Manager, Polychaetes
- 900 Exposition Boulevard
Geographic Coverage
Coastal waters of greater Los Angeles area (intertidal to 400 m), Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California, United States of America
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [33.564, -118.568], North East [33.983, -118.111] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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 |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2019-08-19 / 2019-09-01 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Diversity Initiative for the Southern California Ocean (DISCO) |
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| Identifier | NHMLA_DISCO | DigInTCN |
| Funding | 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. |
| Study Area Description | Coastal waters of greater Los Angeles area (intertidal to 400 m), Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California, United States of America. |
| Design Description | 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). |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
Van Veen grabs, otter trawl, SCUBA, hand dredge, hand, and some shore collecting.
| Study Extent | Coastal waters of greater Los Angeles area (intertidal to 400 m). |
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| Quality Control | On-site taxonomic expertise performing determinations on live specimens. Determinations were supplemented by off-site identifications of preserved materials by domain experts. |
Method step description:
- Darwin core export from the collection management system.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Marine Biodiversity Center |
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| Collection Identifier | urn:uuid:3f7f32da-cb96-4064-919e-8118eac80047 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not applicable |
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=lacm_lauoe2019 |
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