This submission contains the master data set assembled in a study called "Contaminant Body Burdens, Variability and Monitoring Implications for the New York Bight". The data were submitted by Dr. James Matta of Applied Marine Research Laboratory, Old Dominion University. Many of the data entries do not contain dates.

Following in a long tradition of hydrographic studies of the California Current system, the data in this report were collected during the 27-30 March 2012 cruise of the Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System (PaCOOS) program aboard the R/V Point Sur. The PaCOOS program was organized in 2003/2004 as the NOAA west coast contribution to the national Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), and is charged with "providing ocean information for the sustained use of the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem under a changing climate. PaCOOS cruises generally subsample the standard California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) grid of hydrographic stations. This PaCOOS cruise did exactly that, sampling along CalCOFI line 67 from Moss Landing, California, to station 90 (CTD casts 1-19). To increase the resolution of the hydrographic data and to maintain the convention of similar recent PaCOOS cruises, eight CTD casts were also inserted between the standard CalCOFI sites along line 67. Participants on the cruise came from the Naval Postgraduate School (Physical Oceanography, Nutrient Analysis), the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (Nutrient Analysis, Primary Productivity), University of California at Santa Cruz (Zooplankton Analysis), and Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (Nutrient Analysis).

Temperature, salinity, physical, chemical, and other data were collected using moored bottle casts in the Coastal Waters of California from the SAMPSON from August 1, 1999 to October 1, 1999. These data were submitted by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, LA JOLLA, CA.

This dataset includes discrete, profile dissolved inorganic carbon, total alkalinity, water temperature and salinity measurements collected and assembled from a number of cruises on many different ships for the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations program (CalCOFI) in the North East Pacific Ocean Coastal area from 1983-03-19 to 2021-07-20 by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). The data were assembled from four distinct datasets on SIO campus and were quality controlled based on observed trends, using World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) flagging routines.

These data are part of the Southern California OCS Baseline Study funded by BLM and submitted by Science Applications, Inc. Coastal areas along southern California were sampled. Following is a list of purpose for which the study was conducted, the period when the data was collected and the type of data collected. Sampling was done from July 1, 1975 to November 6, 1977 to obtain depth, temperature and salinity profiles. During the same time period data was collected to measure the amounts of particulate organic carbon (POC), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and ATP. Analysis was done for intertidal hydrocarbon (HC) concentrations from July 1, 1975 to June 30, 1978. Fractions analyzed include aliphatic and aromatics, pristane and phytane, iso-n and branched hydrocarbons, odd/even preference, and the hexane, benzene and methane fractions. Analysis was done for benthic hydrocarbon (HC) concentrations from July 1, 1975 to November 6, 1977. Fractions analyzed include aliphatic and aromatics, pristane and phytane, iso-n and branched hydrocarbons, odd/even preference, and the hexane, benzene and methane fractions. Sampling was done to assess the trace metal concentrations from July 1, 1975 to November 6, 1978. Benthic fauna, sediments and the water column were analyzed for Ba, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb, V, Zn and Al concentrations. Sampling was done to assess the trace metal concentrations from July 1, 1975 to November 6, 1978. Intertidal rocky and sandy fauna, and sediments were analyzed for Ba, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb, V, Zn and Al concentrations. Benthic coastal sediments along southern California were sampled from July 1, 1975 to November 6, 1977. The analysis includes sediment age, grain size, total organic carbon (TOC), total inorganic carbon (TIC), total carbon (TC), calcium carbonate content and mineral composition, as well as a description of the field conditions during sampling. Identical analysis was conducted on samples collected during July 1, 1975 to June 30, 1978. Intertidal coastal sediments along southern California were sampled from July 1, 1975 to June 30, 1978. The analysis includes sediment age, grain size, total organic carbon (TOC), total inorganic carbon (TIC), total carbon (TC), calcium carbonate content and mineral composition, as well as a description of the field conditions during sampling. Coastal areas along southern California were sampled from July 1, 1976 to June 30, 1978 and the composition of the benthic microfauna and benthic macrofauna was analyzed. Coastal areas along southern California were sampled from July 1, 1975 to June 30, 1978. Data includes files describing the biotic/abiotic mussel community and a species dictionary as well as a description of the field conditions. Rocky coastal beaches along southern California were sampled from July 1, 1975 to June 30, 1978 and the composition of the intertidal rocky fauna was analyzed. Included in these data is a file on rocky intertidal fauna succession and a description of the field conditions. Sandy coastal beaches along southern California were sampled from July 1, 1975 to June 30, 1978 and the composition of the sandy intertidal fauna was analyzed.

This data collection is a publication available from the NOAA Central Library. There is currently no digital representation of these data or this publication available from NODC. An Oceanographic Survey of the Humboldt Bay System: Physical and Chemical Data, Special Report No.1, Humboldt State College, Division of Natural Resources, Department of Oceanography, Arcata, California, December 1962, 73 p. Catalog No.: GC856.03 1962

Sediment properties and other data from FIXED PLATFORM From Coastal Waters of California from April 11 to December 3, 1978. This data set consists of the results of the Nearshore Sediment Transport Study at Torrey Pines Beach, California. These data were submitted on 8 tapes in unformatted binary format. A description of the project can be found under: "Report on data from the Nearshore Sediment Transport | IMR Reference Number 79-8, Scripps Institute of Oceanography. The data are divided into 8 physical tapes with several logical tape numbers (LT) within the tapes. TP1-TP8 (LT 2) describes the results of the Scripps Shelf and Shore data (SAS); (L00911) The Field measurements of Surf; L00912 - represents the University of Washington data; L00913 - represents the Beach and Offshore Survey data. These data have been archived to the following 18-track cartridges: Nearshore Sediment Transport Study, Torrey Pines Beach, CA.