NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) samples and studies the ecosystem of the lower food web of the Laurentian Great Lakes. This collection contains zooplankton biomass and density data at three stations during the open water season in Lake Michigan and one station in Muskegon Lake in 2021. Note, no samples were collected in Lake Michigan in 2020 due to COVID-19. Zooplankton density is given in the number of organisms per cubic meter and biomass is given in milligrams per cubic meter. File formats included in this data package are .csv and jpg.

NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) samples and studies the ecosystem of the lower food web of the Laurentian Great Lakes. This collection contains zooplankton biomass and density data at 21 stations and 4 transects during the open water season in Lake Erie in 2005 and 2007. Zooplankton density is given in the number of organisms per cubic meter and biomass is given in milligrams per cubic meter. The file format included in this data package is .csv.

NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) samples and studies the ecosystem of the lower food web of the Laurentian Great Lakes. This collection contains zooplankton biomass and density data at 5 stations during the open water season in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron from 2009-2010. Zooplankton density is given in the number of organisms per cubic meter and biomass is given in milligrams per cubic meter. File formats included in this data package are .csv and jpg.

NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) samples and studies the ecosystem of the lower food web of the Laurentian Great Lakes. This collection contains zooplankton biomass and density data at 21 stations during the open water seasons of 2007, 2012, and 2017 in Lake Huron. This collection of monitoring data was in coordination with the Great Lakes Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI). Zooplankton density is given in the number of organisms per cubic meter and biomass is given in milligrams per cubic meter. File formats included in this data package are .csv and .jpg.

NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) samples and studies the ecosystem of the lower food web of the Laurentian Great Lakes. This collection contains zooplankton biomass and density data at select 32 stations during the open water season in Lake Michigan from 1994-2004. Zooplankton density is given in the number of organisms per cubic meter and biomass is given in milligrams per cubic meter. This data accession also includes samples collected in support of the NOAA/GLERL Episodic Events - Great Lakes Experiment (EEGLE) from 1998-2001. File formats included in this data package are .csv, shapefiles, and jpg.

This data release includes zooplankton data collected from a collaborative effort for Environmental Protection Agency’s Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI). Zooplankton surveys were conducted during the growing season, from late April to early November, in two Lake Michigan transects in 2010, two Lake Huron transects in 2012, eight Lake Michigan transects in 2015, and nine Lake Huron transects in 2017. Zooplankton samples were collected by whole water-column tows at two or three stations in different bottom-depth categories (i.e., shallow, middle, and deep) in each of the transects. Due to the difference in bathymetry, some transects did not have a deep station. The shallow and middle stations have bottom depths of 11-27 m and 40-51 m, respectively, in both Lakes Michigan and Huron. As Lake Michigan is generally deeper than Lake Huron, the deep stations have bottom depths of 85-112 m in Lake Michigan and 64-90 m in Lake Huron. The dataset includes tables for sampling operation, zooplankton count, and zooplankton individual size, which may be used to derive zooplankton count or biomass per volume.

Zooplankton, chemical, and other data were collected using net, sediment sampler, and other instruments in the Great Lakes. Data were collected from 01 July 1970 to 01 March 1972 by University of Michigan with support from the Great Lakes Project and Seagrant project.

Zooplankton biomass data from the Hokkaido University Long-term Fisheries and Oceanographic Database

This data release includes zooplankton data collected with a 64-micron mesh net from 9 transects in Lake Huron between April and August 2017. At each transect, data were collected at up to three sites, ranging in bottom depths from 18 to 82 m. The volume sampled at each site was estimated with a flowmeter. Micro- and macro- crustaceans were identified, enumerated, and measured using a dissecting or compound microscope. The data are in raw form.