This atlas is devoted to the publication of original and derived data from scientific research projects relating to coastal California; broadly interpreted. Projects are hosted by the California Coastal Atlas (CCA) during their period-of-performance through research collaboration between the Editor of the CCA and the project Principal Investigator and colleagues.  The goal is to provide cyberinfrastructure support to the project and the project participants agree to develop their data products in a manner consistent with the CCA approach to citable scientific data publication.  A presentation on this approach, Citable Scientific Data Publication, is provided here.  Investigators are encouraged to contact the Editor (editor_at_californiacoastalatlas.net) regarding their projects and the type of support available through collaboration with the CCA.  Investigators retain all rights in their intellectual property while gaining from the application of the CCA approach to scholarly publication of scientific data in a manner similar to that of journal manuscripts

Figure CCA_AAA_001. Green algal (Tetraselmis sp.) bloom along the San Diego coastline August 2010. Color bar is chlorophyll-a concentration as measured by NASA MODIS-A sensor. Image produced by J. Helly using the NASA SeaDAS system. Source data: Feldman, G. C., C. R. McClain, Ocean Color Web, MODIS-A Reprocessing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Eds. Kuring, N., Bailey, S. W. 2010-08-18. http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/