The full provenance (sampling metadata) and environmental measurements corresponding to each samples and each collection events, completed with satellite derived data and model reanalysis, is fully provided within a collection of open access databases

All together those datasets pave the way to further works to track the effect of the very diverse environmental constraints that both the coral and the plankton are experiencing at the scale of the Pacific ocean, but see other papers from the same collection.

together with coral, an enormous amount of samples were also taken in open sea, using a protocol allowing to sample water, plankton, aerosols and trace metals (among others) while cruising at full speed!

it describes how the different samples were obtained, processed and preserved for various analysis.

To allow to everyone to find his way to such a jungle of data and samples, the full protocol description is also published nature.com/articles/s41597-0…

But such an expedition is also a "beast" by itself: 100 000 km of distance, 2.5 years of manipulation, 32 islands, 108 sites, 249 oceanographic stations, 58 000 samples following 44 different protocols, 10 automatic instruments giving rise to 3.8 million measurements.

Today get out the results of a 7 years marathon around the Tara Pacific expedition. In a collection of 8 papers (nature.com/collections/adgai…) and more to come.