In the 1970s, SkIO, in conjunction with the University of British Columbia and the Dept. of Fisheries for Scotland, initiated the Controlled Ecosystem Pollution Experiment (CEPEX), which studied the responses of pelagic marine organisms when exposed to low, chronic levels of various pollutants.
The South Atlantic Bight Synoptic Offshore Observational Network (SABSOON) is an offshore monitoring project begun in 1998, which collects data on a number of parameters about the ocean off the coast of the southeastern U.S., such as temperature, salinity, density, light levels, chlorophyll, dissolved organic matter, and velocity of currents.