| Survey Activities |
| The ship survey working group provides synoptic data sets of the Monterey Bay region by making simultaneous measurement of the following parameters during monthly oceanographic cruises: |
- Sea surface temperature
- Water temperature with depth
- Macronutrient distribution and abundance
- Micronutrient distribution and abundance
- Sea surface chlorophyll
- Sea surface and profiled optical properties
- Phytoplankton community structure
- Zooplankton abundance and distribution
- Zooplankton community structure
- Schooling fish distribution and relative abundance
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| Survey Schedules and Location |
 CIMT shipboard surveys are conducted nine months of the year, utilizing existing grids of transects (5 – 12 nautical miles in length) spaced 3 nautical miles apart.
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