NOAA scientists that carry out the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) participated in the 2021 California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Conference in preparation for the California Current Ecosystem Status report. The cooperative is a collaboration between NOAA Fisheries Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. This cooperative conducts quarterly cruises off southern and central California to collect a suite of environmental and marine ecosystem data. These data are used to study the California Current, manage its living resources, and monitor the indicators of El Nino and climate change. Scientists use these data to put together the annual California Current Ecosystem Status report. This report compiles the status and trends of key indicators of climate, oceanography, ecology, fisheries and other human activities, and human wellbeing in the California Current Ecosystem.