AColored Ocean) started on November 1995 (CAR-001) and ended on January 2017 (CAR-232).Monthly cruises were conducted to the CARIACO station (10.50°N, 64.67° W) onboard the R/V Hermano Ginés of the Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales de Venezuela.The program studied the relationship between surface primary production, physical forcing variables like the wind, and the settling flux of particulate carbon in the Cariaco Basin.This depression, located on the continental shelf of Venezuela, shows marked seasonal and interannual variation in hydrographic properties and primary production (carbon fixation rates by photosynthesis of planktonic algae).One of the monthly measurements taken by the program was water sampling at different depths for phytoplankton taxonomy (occurrence and