Listing of monthly cruises to San Pedro Channel sampling station from 2010-2014 (Bacterial, Archaeal, and Protistan Biodiversity project, Marine Viral Dynamics project)

<p>This dataset is a listing of the cruises to stations off the coast of California near Los Angeles&nbsp;for the ARISA data.</p>

<p>The purpose of these cruises was to collect microbial specimens in water samples for&nbsp;genetic, taxonomic, and functional diversity. Cruise and/or CTD&nbsp;logs are available at:&nbsp;<a href=\"http://dornsife.usc.edu/spot/document-access/\" target=\"_blank\">http://dornsife.usc.edu/spot/document-access/</a></p>

<p><strong>Monthly station:</strong><br />
Deployments with MO_SPOT and Wrigley_SPOT in the cruise_id went to a single monthly station, a coastal temperate system, oligotrophic to mesotrophic, in San Pedro Basin (sill depth ~740 m, maximum depth ~890 m) off of Los Angeles, California. lat/lon: +33°33.00’N, -118°24.00’W</p>

<p><strong>Quarterly stations:</strong><br />
2012-2014:&nbsp;Deployments with DOBD_POLA_SPOT_CAT in the cruise_id visited three quarterly stations. Coastal temperate system, three sites off of Los Angeles, California:<br />
1) the Port of Los Angeles (POLA), lat/lon: 33°42.76’N, 118°15.57’W,<br />
2) San Pedro Time Series station (SPOT), lat/lon: 33°33.00’N, 118°24.00’W, and<br />
3) off of Santa Catalina Island (CAT), lat/lon: 33°27.18’N, 118°28.51’W</p>

<p><strong>Related Dataset:</strong><br />
<a href=\"http://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/537137\" target=\"_blank\">SPOT environmental data</a><br />
<a href=\"http://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/535915\" target=\"_blank\">ARISA Relative Abundances</a><br />
<a href=\"http://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/535507\" target=\"_blank\">ARISA Bin Taxonomy</a></p>