The California Current Ecosystem LTER is part of the network of Long-Term Ecological Research sites funded by the National Science Foundation.
The California Current System is a coastal upwelling biome, as found along the eastern margins of all major ocean basins. These are among the most productive ecosystems in the world ocean. The California Current Ecosystem LTER (32.9°, -120.3°) is investigating nonlinear transitions in the California Current coastal pelagic ecosystem, with particular attention to long-term forcing by a secular warming trend, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and El Niño in altering the structure and dynamics of the pelagic ecosystem. The California Current sustains active fisheries for a variety of finfish and marine invertebrates, modulates weather patterns and the hydrologic cycle of much of the western United States, and plays a vital role in the economy of myriad coastal communities.
Mike Stukel disembarked Roger Revelle Monday night to return to Tallahassee in time for today's birth of Meagan's and his son, Lucas Revelle Stukel
CCE REU Program Seven students are participating in CCE's Research Experience for Undergraduates program, working in diverse labs across the CCE site.
CCE Process Cruise 2107 A science team of 36, led by Chief Scientists Mike Stukel and Kathy Barbeau, together with the ship's crew, embarked on R/V Roger Revelle to track coastal upwelling filaments off the central California coast.
CCE Forum on: Insights from P1908, and Planning for Phase IV Renewal Proposal Click here for agenda
EBUS webinar.. Pierre Chabert from Sorbonne Université and CCE will present "Cross-shore flow and implications for Carbon Export in the California Current Ecosystem: A Lagrangian Analysis" at 0800 Pacific Time. ( EBUS webinar)
New IM. CCE is very pleased to welcome Marina Frants as our new Information Manager.
CCE Journal Club. A new monthly journal club led by grad student/postdoc reps Ralph Torres and Jamee Adams was launched. Meetings will occur regularly on the first Tuesday of each month at 11 am.
CCE Forum on: New Results in the CCE Region.
Follow along with the CCE LTER researchers aboard the July 2021 Process Cruise
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