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Physical, chemical and biological data from the NOAA Marine EcoSystems Analysis Program (MESA) Puget Sound project from 1965 through 1986

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: October 04, 2025 | Last Modified: 2023-12-07T00:00:00.000+00:00
This collection consists of physical, chemical, meteorological, and biological data collected in Puget Sound, Washington, between 1965 and 1986. These data were collected from numerous platforms including ships, boats, aircraft, fixed stations and buoys, as well as by direct human observation and collection. These data were collected by numerous organizations in support of the NOAA Marine EcoSystems Analysis Program (MESA) Puget Sound project.

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INDIVIDUAL - DIVE TIMES ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - MARKS OR TAGS ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - RELATIVE POSITION ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - STOMACH CONTENTS BACTERIA - BACTERIAL DENSITY BACTERIA - PLATE COUNTS BAROMETRIC PRESSURE BEACH TAR BEACH TAR - AREA SAMPLED BEACH TAR - BEACH STATUS BEACH TAR - INTERTIDAL DISTANCE BEACH TAR - LENGTH OF SHOREFRONT BEACH TAR - SEASHORE SURFACE BEACH TAR - WATERLINE TO SAMPLE DISTANCE BIRDS BOTTOM TYPE CARBON ASSIMILATION CARBON ASSIMILATION - INTEGRATED CAS (CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE) PARAMETER CODES CATCH STATISTICS CATCH STATISTICS - AVERAGES CATCH STATISTICS - DETAILS CHLOROPHYLL A CHLOROPHYLL A - INTEGRATED CHLOROPHYLL A CONCENTRATION cloud amount/frequency cloud type CONDUCTIVITY CURRENT DIRECTION CURRENT METER - DIRECTION CURRENT METER - EAST-WEST COMPONENT (U) CURRENT METER - NORTH-SOUTH COMPONENT (V) CURRENT METER - SPEED CURRENT SPEED DEBRIS DEPTH - OBSERVATION DEWPOINT DISSOLVED OXYGEN DYNAMIC DEPTH ANOMALY EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE DESCRIPTION EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE DISTANCE TO SHORE EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE IDENTIFIER EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE POINT EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE PRIMARY INDUSTRY EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE QUANTITY EFFLUENT - ZONE OF INITIAL DILUTION FISHERY SURVEY FISHERY SURVEY - FISHING DURATION FLUORESCENCE GLARE GLARE - DIRECTION GLARE - TYPE HABITAT HABITAT - SEDIMENT SIZE HABITAT - SURFACE ORGANICS HABITAT - WAVE ENERGY HUMAN ACTIVITY hydrocarbons HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE ICE ICE - CHARACTERISTICS ICE - COVERAGE ICE - DEFORMATION ICE - TYPE INCUBATION - TEMPERATURE INCUBATION - TIME INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - AGE INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - DISEASES INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - FIN ROT INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - GENERAL HEALTH INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LENGTH INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LESION- LENGTH INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LESION- LOCATION INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LESION- ORGAN AFFECTED INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LESION- WIDTH INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - PARASITE OCCURRENCE INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - PIGMENTATION INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - SEX INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - SEXUAL MATURITY INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - WEIGHT LIFE HISTORY LIGHT ATTENUATION LIGHT INTENSITY - LIGHT LEVEL (ABOARD PLATFORM) LIGHT PENETRATION - ONE PERCENT LIGHT DEPTH NITRATE NITRITE OXYGEN pH PHAEOPIGMENTS phosphate PHOSPHATE - PO4-P REACTIVE TIME PHYTOPLANKTON PHYTOPLANKTON - DRY WEIGHT PHYTOPLANKTON - WET WEIGHT PLANT COVER QUANTA SALINITY SALINITY - BOTTOM WATER SALINITY - SURFACE WATER SEA HEIGHT SEA STATE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE Secchi depth SEDIMENTS - BEACH SEDIMENT TEMPERATURE SEDIMENTS - DRY WEIGHT SEDIMENTS - PARTICLE SIZE FRACTIONS SEDIMENTS - WEIGHT PERCENT SHELL FRAGMENTS SIGMA-T silicate SOUND VELOCITY SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - COUNT SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - DRY WEIGHT SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - LIFE HISTORY SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - LIFE STAGE SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - SEX SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - TOTAL WEIGHT SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - WET WEIGHT STOMACH CONTENTS suspended solids SWELL HEIGHT TAXONOMIC CODE THERMOCLINE DEPTH TIDE HEIGHT TIDE STAGE total alkalinity TOTAL PHOSPHORUS TRANSMISSIVITY turbidity VISIBILITY WATER COLOR WATER DENSITY water depth WATER DEPTH - AVERAGE WATER TEMPERATURE WATER TRANSPARENCY WAVE DIRECTION WAVE ENERGY - SPECTRAL VALUE WAVE HEIGHT WAVE HEIGHT - SIGNIFICANT WAVE PERIOD WEATHER WIND DIRECTION WIND DIRECTION - PREVAILING WIND FORCE WIND SPEED ZOOPLANKTON BIOMASS bathythermograph - XBT buoy - moored buoy chromatograph CTD current meter fluorometer hydrometer laboratory analysis meteorological sensor mooring net net - plankton net net - zooplankton net oxygen sensor pH sensor photograph radiometer refractometer salinometer Secchi disk sediment sampler - corer sediment sampler - grab sediment sieve thermistor thermometer tide gauge transmissometer trap - sediment trawl visual analysis visual estimate visual observation wave sensor benthic biological chemical continuous current measurements laboratory analyses manual sample collection meteorological physical profile site samples surface measurements survey survey - biological time series tows trawl visual observation AIRCRAFT COMMANDO FIXED PLATFORM OF UNITED STATES FIXED STATIONS OF CANADA FIXED STATIONS OF UNITED STATES HAROLD W. STREETER HOH HYDAH MALKA NOAA Ship Discoverer NOAA Ship McArthur NOAA Ship Miller Freeman NOAA Ship Oceanographer ONAR SNOW GOOSE UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF UNITED STATES Friday Harbor NOAA Fisheries Northwest Regional Office NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory University of Alberta University of the Pacific, Pacific Marine Station - Dillon Beach University of Washington US DOC/NOAA/National Ocean Service - Rockville, MD US DOC/NOAA/National Ocean Service - Seattle, WA Western Washington University Friday Harbor NOAA Fisheries Northwest Regional Office NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory University of Alberta University of the Pacific, Pacific Marine Station - Dillon Beach University of Washington US DOC/NOAA/National Ocean Service - Rockville, MD US DOC/NOAA/National Ocean Service - Seattle, WA Western Washington University Deep Ocean Mining and Environmental Study (DOMES) Integrated Global Ocean Services System (IGOSS) INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / North Pacific Experiment / Hawaii-Tahiti Shuttle (IDOE/NORPAX/HITIS) Long-Range Effects Research Program Puget Sound (L-RERP) Marine Ecosystems Analysis Project - Puget Sound (MESA Puget Sound) PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND PROJECT Arctic Ocean Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia Gulf of Alaska North Pacific Ocean Puget Sound South Pacific Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NMFS > National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NOS > National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/OAR/PMEL > Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOMES > Deep Ocean Mining Environmental Study IDOE > International Decade of Ocean Exploration IGOSS > Integrated Global Ocean Services System L-RERP > Puget Sound Long-Range Effects Program MESA > Marine Ecosystems Analysis (Puget Sound) Project EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > AGRICULTURAL AQUATIC SCIENCES > FISHERIES EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > ANIMAL SCIENCE > ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD FREQUENCY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD TYPES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PROTISTS > PLANKTON > PHYTOPLANKTON EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SPECIES LIFE HISTORY EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON > ZOOPLANKTON EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS > SURFACE SALINITY EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN ACOUSTICS > ACOUSTIC VELOCITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > ALKALINITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > AMMONIA EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CARBON EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CHLOROPHYLL EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > HYDROCARBONS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITRATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITRITE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PHOSPHATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PIGMENTS > CHLOROPHYLL EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > SILICATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > SUSPENDED SOLIDS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > ATTENUATION/TRANSMISSION EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > FLUORESCENCE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > OCEAN COLOR EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > SECCHI DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > TURBIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > WATER PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > THERMOCLINE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > SEA STATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > SWELLS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE PERIOD EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE SPEED/DIRECTION EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > DENSITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE DEFORMATION EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE TYPES EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > TIDES EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > TIDES > TIDAL HEIGHT CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth CURRENT METERS FLUOROMETERS > FLUOROMETERS GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS > GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS GRAB SAMPLERS GRANULOMETRIC SIEVES HYDROMETERS > HYDROMETERS NETS > NETS OXYGEN METERS > OXYGEN METERS PH METERS > PH METERS PLANKTON NETS RADIOMETERS SALINOMETERS SECCHI DISKS > SECCHI DISKS SEDIMENT CORERS > SEDIMENT CORERS THERMISTORS > THERMISTORS THERMOMETERS > THERMOMETERS TIDE GAUGES > TIDE GAUGES TRANSMISSOMETERS TRAPS > TRAPS TRAWL VISUAL OBSERVATIONS > VISUAL OBSERVATIONS XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS > FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS Ships COMMANDO (ICES code: 31CU) DISCOVERER (ICES code: 31DS) HAROLD W. STREETER (ICES code: 32YF) HOH (ICES code: 31OH) HYDAH (ICES code: 31H2) MALKA (ICES code: 32KB) MCARTHUR (ICES code: 31M4) MILLER FREEMAN (call sign: WTDM, ICES code: 31FN, 1974-) OCEANOGRAPHER (ICES code: 31OC) ONAR (ICES code: 31OA) SNOW GOOSE (call sign: J8HD9, ICES code: 32GS) OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > GULF OF ALASKA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

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