Carter, Melissa L.; Flick, Reinhard E.; Terrill, Eric; Beckhaus, Elena C.; Martin, Kayla; Fey, Connie L.; Walker, Patricia W.; Largier, John L.; McGowan, John A. (2022). Shore Stations Program, SE Farallon Island. In Shore Stations Program Data Archive: Current and Historical Coastal Ocean Temperature and Salinity Measurements from California Stations. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0FX798R

The Farallon Islands, seven rocky islands comprising the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, are the breeding grounds for more than one-quarter of all California seabirds and home to populations of seals and sea lions. The largest seabird colony south of Alaska, this critical habitat provides protection for 12 different species, numbering more than 200,000 individuals. As a small part of their ongoing studies, Point Blue Conservation Science researchers stationed on Southeast Farallon take daily temperature and salinity samples and return the salinity samples to Scripps once a month for analysis. Because of their location 26 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge, where they catch the full force of winter storms and the strong summer northwesters, data collection can be interrupted from time to time. The sampling site at the boat landing on the southeast side of the island is steep and rocky, so measurements are representative of the oceanic waters around the islands.

Daily sea surface temperature and salinity measurements for Farallon Islands.

• 1925 to 1943; 1955 to present

• 2022

• Carter, Melissa L.
• Flick, Reinhard E.

• Point Blue Conservation Science

Contributors:
The many biologists and research assistants from Point Blue Conservation Science that have collected data at the Farallones.
The assistance of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge for managing the islands and allowing access for sampling.

California Department of Parks and Recreation, Natural Resources Division, Award #C1670003 (2017-2022), Award# C22820005 (2023).

• Southeast Farallon Island (San Francisco County, Calif.)

• Conductivity
• Long term coastal ocean observations
• Manual shore stations
• Ocean salinity
• Ocean temperature
• Sea surface salinity
• Sea surface temperature
• Shore stations

Point: 37.696452, -122.999822

• data
• text

• English

Identifier: Melissa L. Carter: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3458-4775

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