Description
These specimens come from the Minerals Management Service (MMS) “Phase I” study of benthic communities in the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel in 1983–1986. A total of 102 soft-substrate stations and 23 hard bottom stations were surveyed. Further information below is quoted from: Blake, J.A. (1993) 1. Introduction to the Taxonomic Atlas. In: Blake, J.A. & A. Lissner, Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel, Volume 1. Introduction, Benthic Ecology, Oceanography, Platyhelminthes, and Nemertea. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California.
The U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service (MMS) is endowed with authority pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lands Act, the Submerged Lands Act, and the OCS Lands Act Amendments to develop oil and gas resources on the outer continental shelf while providing for the protection of the marine and coastal environment. As part of this responsibility, MMS has sponsored numerous studies through the Environmental Studies Program to develop sufficient baseline information for the evaluation of potential environmental impacts resulting from OCS development. Among the major MMS-sponsored investigations of the benthic communities in the Southern California OCS Planning Area are the 1975-1978 Southern California Bight Baseline Program, the 1983-1986 Assessment of Long-Term Changes in Biological Communities in the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel (Phase I), the 1987-1989 Biological Reconnaissance of Selected Benthic Habitats within Three California OCS Planning Areas (a.k.a. CARP, California Area Reconnaissance Program), and the 1968-1991 California Phase II Monitoring Program (CAMP). The hard-bottom monitoring phase of CAMP has been continued as part of Phase III (1991-1995).
Note: Sample labels from the Soft-substrate stations have several identification codes which include a station number, sample type, replicate number, and analysis type. These are as follow: 001 to 200 the range of station numbers; BSS - Benthic Sediment Single (i.e., a non-replicated station); BSR Benthic Sediment Replicate (three replicates taken at this station); BSV Benthic Sediment Variance (subsamples); 01-09 replicate numbers: TX a taxonomy sample. Sample labels having the designation BRA, represents a sample from rocks taken as part of the hard bottom survey.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event 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 195 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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.
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 81871b47-61e8-4e2f-9e56-6c240f2c9d17. 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
Samplingevent; Specimen
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
This material was collected off California, Western Santa Barbara Channel and Santa Maria Basin, from a grid of 98 stations between Point Estero and Gaviota from 1986 to 1988. Depths ranged from 50 to 930 m. One to 4 box cores were taken in soft sediments at each station. Latitude and longitude data are available for each station. See attached map.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [34.07, -121.376], North East [35.847, -120.016] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Arthropoda, Annelida |
| Class | Ostracoda, Clitellata, Polychaeta, Thecostraca, Copepoda, Malacostraca |
| Order | Amphipoda, Decapoda, Spionida, Harpacticoida, Amphinomida, Myodocopida, Scalpellomorpha, Podocopida, Sabellida, Cumacea, Phyllodocida, Balanomorpha, Tanaidacea, Eunicida, Myzostomida, Terebellida, Cyclopoida, Isopoda |
| Family | Philomedidae, Trichobranchidae, Inachidae, Pinnotheridae, Lampropidae, Serpulidae, Janiridae, Hesionidae, Synopiidae, Travisiidae, Sternaspidae, Leuconidae, Cossuridae, Eunicidae, Sabellidae, Oweniidae, Urothoidae, Spirorbidae, Cryptoniscidae, Fabriciidae, Amphinomidae, Desmosomatidae, Stenothoidae, Onuphidae, Chaetopteridae, Phoxocephalidae, Opisidae, Sphaerodoridae, Spionidae, Apistobranchidae, Liljeborgiidae, Gnathiidae, Aphroditidae, Eusiridae, Scalpellidae, Cirratulidae, Orbiniidae, Rutidermatidae, Maeridae, Corophiidae, Glyceridae, Macrocyprididae, Photidae, Cirolanidae, Paraonidae, Majidae, Nephtyidae, Nannastacidae, Lysianassidae, Goniadidae, Typhloscolecidae, Magelonidae, Pilargidae, Stegocephalidae, Tryphosidae, Pectinariidae, Capitellidae, Cryptocopidae, Maldanidae, Ampeliscidae, Leptognathiidae, Hyalidae, Sigalionidae, Sabellariidae, Scalibregmatidae, Munnidae, Melinnidae, Ampharetidae, Balanidae, Euphrosinidae, Joeropsididae, Arabellidae, Aegidae, Munnopsidae, Oedicerotidae, Poecilochaetidae, Oenonidae, Polynoidae, Opheliidae, Pardaliscidae, Acrocirridae, Cylindroleberididae, Nereidae, Phyllodocidae, Caprellidae, Lumbrineridae, Syllidae, Myzostomatidae, Terebellidae, Paramunnidae, Dorvilleidae, Leptocheliidae, Nereididae, Flabelligeridae, Diastylidae |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1983-11-01 / 1984-07-30 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | DigInTCN |
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| Identifier | DigInTCN |
The personnel involved in the project:
Collection Data
| Collection Name | LACM Crustacea |
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| Collection Identifier | urn:uuid:59be3c3f-6877-4656-966f-4641562a455b |
| Collection Name | LACM Polychaetous Annelids |
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| Collection Identifier | urn:uuid:4f11237a-d944-400e-b3eb-e8970be52f45 |
| Collection Name | LACM Marine Biodiversity Center |
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| Collection Identifier | urn:uuid:3f7f32da-cb96-4064-919e-8118eac80047 |
| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol |
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Additional Metadata
| Acknowledgements | Digitizes who worked on this dataset: Gabriel Alcoset, Lili Alvarado, Torriana Avery, Stella Baldwin, Addison Berg, Raaif Bokhari, Ailani Bonilla, Emma Chickman, Diana Cuevas-Diaz, Saeed Dardas, Chloe DerGarabedian, Kaila Espiritu, WenTing Fei, Mackenzie Franks, Joanne Gahan, Christine Garcia, Blaire Goldberg, Miguel Herrera, Halle Hunt, Raney Kennedy, Hanbin Kim, Haley Ku, Colton Liu, Riki Lopez, Griffin MacRae, Chloé-Eloïse Mallet, Maude Malone, Wila Mannella, Amara Marrero, Linden Olmstead, Emma Perez, Stephanie Pozuelos, Laura Quirke, Welela Solomon, Calder Swiderski, Jose Vasquez-Medina, Michael Veres, Justin Wang, Elisa Xia, Brandon Yanuskevich |
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| Purpose | This project is more commonly referred to by the acronym MMS-CAMP (MMS Contract No. 14-12-0001-30262). This program was designed to monitor potential environmental changes at a series of regional stations and at two arrays of site-specific stations near oil production platforms in the Western Santa Barbara Channel and Santa Maria Basin region of the California OCS. Platform Hidalgo (Lease P-0450) off Point Arguello was selected for hard-bottom, site-specific monitoring, and the site of the proposed (but never built) Platform Julius (Lease P-0409) off Point Sal was selected for soft-bottom, site-specific monitoring. Specific objectives of the program were: (1) to detect and measure potential long-term (or short-term) changes in the marine environment adjacent to oil and gas platforms, and (2) to determine whether changes observed in the marine environment during the monitoring period are caused by drilling-related activities or are a product of natural processes. As a federally-funded project, the organisms resulting from these studies were destined to go to the National Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Leslie Harris (Polychaete Collections Manager) was involved in all three phases of the project prior to her coming to the Museum. While employed by the Allan Hancock Foundation (AHF-USC) she persuaded Dr. Meredith Jones, head of the MMS collection unit at the Smithsonian, that the bulk-collection specimens should be left on the west coast for the benefit of local taxonomists and more specifically, donated to the AHF-USC (polychaetes) and NHMLAC (all non-polychaetes). In 1988 the polychaetes were given to the NHMLAC as part of the larger AHF-USC Polychaete Collection donation. |
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=lacm_mms1 |