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SAHFOS

Also known as Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey · CPR Survey · Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science

SAHFOS is an internationally funded independent research non-profit organisation responsible for the operation of the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey. As a large-scale global survey, it provides the scientific and policy communities with a basin-wide and long-term measure of the ecological health of marine plankton. Established in 1931, the CPR Survey is the longest running, most geographically extensive marine ecological survey in the world. It has a considerable database of marine plankton and associated metadata that is used by researchers and policy makers to examine strategically important science pillars such as climate change, human health, fisheries, biodiversity, pathogen…

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About this database

Websitehttps://www.cprsurvey.org/about-us/sir-alister-hardy-and-the-continuous-plankton-recorder-cpr-survey/
SubjectsLife Sciences · Natural Sciences · Biology · Geosciences (including Geography) · Zoology · Atmospheric Science and Oceanography · Oceanography
Last updated2026-09-10

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