Biomolecular surveys of marine biodiversity in the Northern Salish Sea, British Columbia
As part of the Hakai Institute (https://hakai.org/) Ocean Observing Program, biomolecular samples have been collected weekly, from 0 to near bottom (260 m), to genetically characterize plankton communities in the Northern Salish Sea since 2015, developing a climatology from which we can begin uncover the physical, chemical and biological drivers of community and functional change in the dynamic coastal waters of coastal British Columbia. We work across all domains of life, from virus to prokaryotes to eukaryotes, employing both amplicon sequencing and shotgun sequencing.