AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Characterization of the Moulin River at Baude (2005)

Of all the tributaries of the St. Lawrence River present in the area served by the Comité ZIP RNE, the Moulin à Baude River is certainly one of those whose water quality is the most concern. Indeed, it is probable that this watercourse is largely responsible for the closure, as a result of bacteriological contamination, of a shellfish sector located at its mouth. However, we have little information about the waters of this river and the factors that affect their quality. Consequently, it seems a priority to acquire knowledge on this subject in order to establish, in consultation with the community, courses of action aimed at the rehabilitation of this watercourse and its associated uses.

The characterization of the Moulin à Baude River was carried out with this aim in mind. First of all, a summary description of the geographical characteristics of the watershed made possible the delimitation of the study site and to draw a global portrait of the infrastructures and human activities likely to influence the quality of surface water. Subsequently, a review of the available data was carried out concerning: the water quality of the Moulin à Baude river, the associated bacteriological contamination of the shellfish sector, and the efficiency of the wastewater treatment plant located in the watershed.

Secondly, this preliminary study made it possible to make hypotheses concerning the sources of pollution and the environmental factors likely to influence the quality of the water dispersed through the watershed area. In this way, the information to be acquired could be determined, as well as the methodological aspects associated with the characterization work of the Moulin-à Baude River. In the light of the results obtained, recommendations were issued concerning possible short- and medium-term means of action aimed at the rehabilitation of the Moulin à Baude River and the maintenance of human activities in the watershed.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Tidal and Water Level Stations in Canada

The Fisheries and Oceans Canada tide table service is integrated with the Navigation application on the SLGO website, which brings together data and information relevant to navigation in one web interface. Information can be accessed by selecting an area of interest, from Lake Superior to the Strait of Belle Isle and the southwest coast of Newfoundland. The service provides predictions of high and low tide times and heights as well as hourly water levels for over seven hundred stations across Canada.

View data in the [NAVIGATION app](https://ogsl.ca/en/navigation-application-2/)

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Community Aquatic Monitoring Program (CAMP) Data for the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence

Each summer, environmental groups collect data to determine if groupings of fish, shrimp and crab – what is called a community – can be used as an indicator of the health status of bays and estuaries. Sampling was conducted from May through September for the first years then from June through August. Data for the years 2004 to 2019 are available. In 2018 and 2019, the sampling was conducted just once in each estuary. Community group members and staff sample six stations once a month in their designated estuary. 

Fish, shrimps and crabs are collected with a beach seine net and later released live back to the water once identified and counted. From this, the community groups provide important information to Fisheries and Oceans Canada, including:

- identification and numbers of fish, shrimp and crab species
- water conditions and samples
- information on aquatic plants
- sediment samples

With this information, Fisheries and Oceans Canada scientists working with government agencies and Universities can conduct analyses to determine the suitability of indicators to assess the health of bays and estuaries.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program : Quebec Region

Scientists from Fisheries and Oceans Canada from the four Atlantic regions, including the Maurice Lamontagne Institute (MLI) for the Quebec Region, have developed the Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program (AZMP). This program is designed to detect, track and predict changes in the state and productivity of the marine environment. This information is essential to tackle major issues such as the impact of climate change. It also supports the ecosystem approach to ensure the sound management of the St. Lawrence ecosystem, conserving resources and protecting the marine environment for future generations. The AZMP builds temporal data sets that will be needed to address future problems. 

For more information, please see the [data context](https://ogsl.ca/en/scientist-portal/azmp).

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Summary of the Arctic Expedition Report Aboard the CCGS Amundsen (2020)

The 2020 Expedition Summary is an overview of the science activities that took place onboard the CCGS Amundsen during summer 2020. In the previous years, only the Expedition Report was distributed to our partners, users and to northern communities involved. In the objective of widely sharing our results with the public, we now distribute an Expedition Summary in addition to the Expedition Report. 

It is possible to consult the full report and complementary documents in the dataset: [**Arctic Expedition aboard the CCGS Amundsen (2020)**](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_906649c6-b01d-4916-a3e2-94bcde855daf).

The core oceanographic data generated by the CTD-Rosette operations, as well as meteorological information (AVOS : Automated Voluntary Observing Ship; Environnement Canada) and data collected using the Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP), the ship-mounted current meter (SM-ADCP) and the thermosalinograph (TSG) are available in the [**Polar Data Catalogue (PDC)**](https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=12713)

It is possible to consult an [**interactive map**](https://data.amundsen.ulaval.ca/) including all the years of expeditions and the different trajectories (LEG) associated with them.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Hypoxia, Driver of Environmental Change: eDrivers Project for the St.Lawrence System

The data used to characterize hypoxia come from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ (DFO) Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program survey in late spring and fall of 2013 to 2017, as well as from DFO’s annual multispecies surveys for the northern Gulf in August and for the Magdalen Shallows in September.

Oxygen concentration were measured at every station using an oxygen probe (Sea-Bird SBE43) mounted on a CTD. The probe is calibrated against seawater samples taken directly from the Niskin bottles at every cast and analyzed by Winkler titration. The data used is the last depth sampled on the CTD profile, which is typically ~10m above the bottom.

It is possible to consult the scientific report of the **eDrivers** project: [Characterizing Exposure to and Sharing Knowledge of Drivers of Environmental Change in the St. Lawrence System in Canada](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00383/full) and the [additional data](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00383/full#supplementary-material). It is possible to consult the application [eDrivers](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/dataset/ca-cioos_7c51ad5f-c2a9-4f4a-a78c-0b652e630825).

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
List of Organizations With a Link to the St. Lawrence River and the Chaleur Bay, Gaspésie (2024)

This dataset aims to indicate the geographic location of a multitude of organizations and businesses that are members of *Tourisme Gaspésie* and are connected with the sea and the coastline of the Gaspésie tourist region. The organizations listed in the various resources were active in 2023 and at the beginning of 2024. These are mainly organizations offering sea excursion activities, but national parks and museums (not exhaustive) are also listed.

This information is made available to the public in the context of Marine Spatial Planning, a collaborative and transparent approach promoted by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and aimed at improving the management of ocean spaces to balance the increased demand for human activities with the need to protect marine ecosystems.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Intervention Guidebooks for Coastal Habitats of Interest in the MRCs of Sept-Rivières, Minganie and St. Lawrence Gulf (2009)

These three guidebooks target coastal areas of interest, document them, highlight their natural peculiarities, qualify their potential and their ecological value, and define guidelines for sustainable development. 

This work is intended as a tool for regional and local stakeholders in the Sept-Rivières, Minganie and Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent RCMs, to encourage action for the conservation, restoration or enhancement of these coastal habitats.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Characterization of Outdoor Sites in the MRC des Sept-Rivières

This 2015 project aimed to verify the condition and the potential for development of certain outdoor sites located in the *MRC des Sept-Rivières* and which appear in the Official Côte-Nord Tourist Guide. For each of the sites entrusted to the *Comité ZIP Côte-Nord du Golfe*, several elements had to be verified, including the state of the infrastructure, accessibility to the site, security risks, site attendance, etc.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
MicroCasi Project 2017: Mapping of Coastal Ecosystems - Biogeochemical Data

This dataset includes biogeochemical parameters analyzed in the laboratory from water samples, including chlorophyll a, suspended particulate matter, cyanobacteria and prokaryote counts and CDOM absorption. Related optical data are available via the following dataset:

- [**MicroCasi Project 2017: Mapping of Coastal Ecosystems - Optical Data**](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_046539af-2949-49ac-9507-62b88c06cfbf)

The microCASI hyperspectral sensor was flown on September 11, 2017, in the Forestville area and on September 14, 2017, in the Bay of Sept-Île area. With the collaboration of Fish and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS), fieldwork was carried out in support of the airborne imagery acquisition. The main objective of these acquisitions was to map the nearshore coastal ecosystems (e.g. eelgrass meadows, macroalgae, saltmarsh) and derived bathymetry of the nearshore zone. Surface water was sampled for basic-optical and biogeochemical parameters analysis presented in this dataset.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Occurrence of Pacific Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena vomerina) Social Communication Click Trains in Northern British Columbia, Canada (2020-2023)

For cetaceans that produce narrow-band high-frequency click trains such as the Pacific harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena vomerinae), social acoustic behavior is poorly understood. While harbour porpoises have a reputation of being generally non-social and often solitary, few studies have aimed to quantify acoustic social communication for this species.  In the waters surrounding the Port of Prince Rupert in British Columbia, Canada, harbour porpoises are often seen in groups where they have been observed attempting mating and surface-active behaviors. To assess the extent of social communication amongst porpoises in this region, we analyzed a long-term passive acoustic monitoring F-POD dataset collected from two sites, coupled with a detailed social acoustic criterion for detecting patterns of non-foraging click trains. 

Based on these criteria, porpoises were found to be producing patterns of obvious, discrete, and repetitive click trains that were marked as social. Generalized additive models were used to identify significant temporal trends in the dataset. On average, 5.3% of click trains produced by porpoises were social. Monthly and diurnal fluctuations in social detection positive minutes (DPM) followed a similar trajectory to non-social DPM, with peak activity observed during periods of darkness and from spring to early summer with a smaller increase in the fall. At one site, 11.1% of the DPM in May were classified as social. In general, proportionally more social DPM were found during periods of more overall DPM, suggesting that porpoises were socially communicating while in proximity to one another. Notably, overall DPM significantly decreased by 53.7% over three years. This novel methodology can be replicated in other regions to gain further insight into the social acoustic behavior of harbour porpoises.

This project is part of the Coastal Environmental Baseline Program Initiative under the Oceans Protection Plan of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Proceedings of the Symposium on Coastal Habitats (2002)

The implementation of this symposium was the result of the need identified by stakeholders after a public consultation, itself resulting from a global project aiming to acquire knowledge of priority coastal habitats. 

The objectives of the symposium were to raise awareness among the population and participants of the importance of coastal habitats, identify original and appropriate measures to promote the protection and enhancement of coastal habitats, encourage action and develop networks among stakeholders.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Integrated Resource Management Action Plan for the Laval Bay and River Area (2003)

The purpose of this project is to promote the protection, enhancement and sustainable use of the resources of forest and aquatic wildlife habitats in the bay and Laval river areas. This approach follows the acquisition of knowledge of 13 sites of ecological interest, the results of which can be found in the intervention guide for the protection and enhancement of coastal habitats of interest. Of all the habitats in the lower estuary, the relative ecological importance of the Laval bay area was considered to be very high. In view of the presence of several species of fish of interest in the bay and the Laval River, including salmon, sea trout and smelt, one of the most important clam production areas in Quebec, important colonies of birds on Laval’s island, which has been granted wildlife sanctuary status, and a significant concentration of migratory birds. 

The project also aims to improve the current situation by involving local stakeholders including residents, users and resource persons from different ministries and institutions in an integrated resource management approach.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Arctic Expedition aboard the CCGS Amundsen (2019)

This dataset contains the complete expedition report, the expedition map as well as a list of stations and sampling types. The 2019 Expedition Report describes scientific expedition carried out on the CCGS Amundsen in the Canadian Arctic between May 30 and September 10, 2019. The report is a collection of all the participating research teams’ Cruise reports assembled by the Chief Scientists at the end of LEG 1, LEG 2 and LEG 3 of the CCGS Amundsen Expedition. The 2019 Expedition Report is divided into two parts:

Part I gives an overview of the expedition, shows the cruise track and the stations visited and provides a synopsis of operations conducted during each of the four LEGs.

Part II contains the reports submitted by participating science teams or researchers, with details on the specific objectives of their project, the field operations conducted and methodology used, and in some cases, preliminary results. When results are presented, they show the data as they were submitted at the end of the legs in 2019. The data presented in the report are illustrative only and have not been quality checked, thus parties interested in the results should contact the project leader or the researchers who collected the data. The sections in Part II describing each project are organized with atmospheric, surface ocean and sea ice components first, followed by water column properties, which include the mooring and buoy program, CTD-Rosette operations and physical properties, as well as a suite of chemical and biological parameters. Contaminants cycling in seawater are presented as well. Subsequent sections cover benthos sampling, sediments sampling and seabed mapping. 

The four Appendices provide information about the location, date, time and type of sampling performed at each station visited by the ship, as well as a list of science participants onboard during each LEG.

The core oceanographic data generated by the CTD-Rosette operations, as well as meteorological information (AVOS : Automated Voluntary Observing Ship; Environnement Canada) and data collected using the Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP), the ship-mounted current meter (SM-ADCP) and the thermosalinograph (TSG) are available in the [**Polar Data Catalogue (PDC)**](https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=12713)

It is possible to consult an [**interactive map**](https://data.amundsen.ulaval.ca/) including all the years of expeditions and the different trajectories (LEG) associated with them.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Trajectories and Types of Data Collected During Missions Aboard the CCGS Amundsen, Since 2005

This dataset contains various information on the various scientific missions carried out aboard the Canadian Coast Guard vessel, the CCGS Amundsen. The CSV file contains information on the various LEGs of scientific missions since 2005. It contains information on the different sampling stations, the different types of data collected, and some physico-chemical data collected in-situ on these same sites.

It is also possible to consult all the associated reports on the [**Amundsen Science**](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/organization/amundsen-science) organization page.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Dune Restoration and Protection of Coastal Wetlands on the Magdalen Islands (2016-2017)

A large-scale dune restoration project for the entire territory of the Magdalen Islands was launched in the spring of 2016 following an inventory carried out in the spring of 2015 on the breaches in the dune environment and the state of restoration carried out since 2009. The three-year project received funding from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and support for the 1st year from the Fondation de la Faune du Québec. It has made it possible to intervene on various dune ridges and to monitor the previous year’s restorations. 

Priority has been given to some sectors because they carried a risk of dune and wetland degradation (erosion, new breaches, impact on wetlands, etc.) or because they harbored habitats for endangered species, such as the Piping Plover and the Horned Grebe. The West Dune sector was chosen as a starting point for the project’s initial year, with its 14 km dunes and 635 hectares of wetlands to preserve. It included more than 25 sections where the integrity of the wetlands they protected was in danger. In October 2016, the sites were visited, and 13 were selected for restoration. Between October 18 and November 3, 15 structures (11 fascines and four mats of branches) and a 285 m² planting of Ammophila with short ligule were created.

At the same time, to raise awareness in the population and among those using the area, three information panels were installed along the main routes, and a class of 25 high-school students was invited to take part in an operation to plant Marram grass in a popular area for locals. These actions helped preserve an 80-hectare space, including wetlands with a quality index of 3 "High" and 4 "Superior," as well as their adjacent lagoon environment (uncharacterized).

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
GPS locations of Northern Gannets season 2017

Since 2012, the [Laboratoire d'ornithologie marine de Rimouski (LOMR)](https://www.facebook.com/LOMRimouski) has implemented an annual monitoring program of the feeding behaviour of gannets (Morus bassanus) nesting in Bonaventure Island and Percé Rock National Park (more specifically on Bonaventure Island). The LOMR is directed by Magella Guillemette (professor at the Université du Québec à Rimouski) in collaboration with David Pelletier (professor at the Cégep de Rimouski). Several dozen college and university students (undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate) participated in collecting these data.

The data in this dataset is from 2017. On the SLGO catalogue, you will find [datasets starting 2012](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/fr/dataset/?q=fou+de+bassan+pelletier). More recent data can be requested from LOMR by contacting the authors of the data. 

The locations were recorded using GPS data loggers, programmed at a frequency of 10 minutes and attached to the bird's tails with Tesa brand marine grade white tape.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Survey of Endemic Butterflies Species With Special Status From Saltmarshes in the Southern Gaspé Peninsula (2011)

During the 2011 summer season, 16 salt marshes from the southern Gaspé Peninsula were surveyed for the presence of maritime ringlet, maritime copper and short-tailed swallowtail, three species of Lepidoptera possessing a special status. These marshes have been chosen according to whether they contain various plant species essential to the butterflies studied. Two populations of maritime copper have been confirmed in Gaspé, in the estuaries of the Dartmouth and York rivers. 

In addition, two new populations were discovered, the barachois of the Saint-Siméon River and the Petite Rivière Port-Daniel. No new populations of maritime ringlet or short-tailed swallowtail have been observed.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
COR1502 Expedition in the Pointe-des-Monts area of the St. Lawrence Estuary: marine geology data, sediment characterization

COR1502 Expedition took place from June 1st to 7th 2015 on board the research ship (R/V) Coriolis II. The general objective was to perform detailed geophysical surveys and collect different types of sediment samples, in order to assess sediment dynamics and the evolution of the submarine canyon geomorphology at Pointe-des-Monts.

This dataset includes sample locations and high-resolution images of the cores (CT-scan and photo). Different sediment properties were analyzed:

**Physical properties**: spectrophotometry (L a b, RGB, XYZ, Munsell color), gamma density, P-wave velocity and amplitude, fractional porosity, resistivity and impedance.

**Magnetic properties**: magnetic susceptibility.

**Chemical properties**: X-ray fluorescence.

For further information on the methodology, please consult [St-Onge et al. (2007)](https://doi.org/10.1016/S1572-5480(07)01007-X).

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory