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Bear Facts was the newsletter published by the Oceanids, a service and social organization promoting friendship and services to the UC San Diego community. Oceanids began as a women’s organization in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and remains active today. The newsletter is currently known as Oceanids News and is available through the organization’s website.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Special Collections and Archives

This collection shows bee behaviors and methods used to study bee behaviors.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Research Data Curation Program

The Ben Yellen Papers document grassroots social and political activism on the subjects of farm labor, commercial agriculture, and western water policy in Southern California. In 1942, Ben Yellen (1907-1994) settled in the town of Brawley in Imperial County, California, the center of one of the richest and most productive agricultural regions in the United States. In the late 1950s, Yellen initiated a protracted battle against the large-scale growers who dominated the region's economy and their representative institutions, including the Desert Growers Association and, especially, the Imperial Irrigation District (IID). The digitized portion of the collection focuses on Yellen's self-published ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Special Collections and Archives

The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) are a unique partnership of the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, NOAA Fisheries Service and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The organization was formed in 1949 to study the ecological aspects of the sardine population collapse off California. Today the focus has shifted to the study of the marine environment off the coast of California, the management of its living resources, and monitoring the effects of climate variability and climate change. CalCOFI conducts quarterly cruises off southern & central California, collecting a suite of hydrographic and biological data on station and underway. Data ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Research Data Curation Program

The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) organization is a unique partnership of the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, NOAA Fisheries Service and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The organization was formed in 1949 to study the ecological aspects of the sardine population collapse off California. Today the focus has shifted to the study of the marine environment off the coast of California, the management of its living resources, and monitoring the indicators of El Nino and climate change. CalCOFI conducts quarterly cruises off southern & central California, collecting a suite of hydrographic and biological data on station and underway. ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Research Data Curation Program

California Revealed is a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and provide online access to archival materials - books, newspapers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more - that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State. We also provide free access and preservation services for existing digital collections for partner organizations with in-house digitization programs. The California Revealed Project is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Special Collections and Archives

California local tax measure archive, 1986 to 2012.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Research Data Curation Program

The California Loyalty Oath Digital Collection brings together a selection of documents from the Special Collections & Archives at the UC San Diego Library.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Special Collections and Archives

The California Smokers' Cohort (CSC) is a continuation of a series of triennial surveys, called the California Tobacco Survey (CTS), conducted from 1990 to 2008. The previous CTS is a series of cross-sectional studies to collect information about tobacco use and behaviors among Californians. In 2011, the survey design was modified to survey only smokers, and moreover to perform longitudinal surveys to investigate factors associated with quitting behavior.

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The California Department of Public Health (Previously known as the California Department of Health Services until 2007) is required to conduct surveys of attitudes, behaviors, and media exposure regarding smoking and tobacco use as components of the smoking cessation evaluation effort required by California Assembly Bills AB75, AB99 and AB816. The objective of these surveys is to collect representative statewide data on cigarette smoking behavior, attitudes towards smoking, media exposure to smoking, and use of tobacco products other than cigarettes, from populations living in California. These surveys have been conducted approximately every three years through contracts with the University of ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Research Data Curation Program