AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Strait of Georgia East Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler 150 kHz Deployed 2024-03-13

The RDI Workhorse Quartermaster ADCP 150 kHz (SN 8580) was deployed on 2024-03-13 at Strait of Georgia East. Strait of Georgia East refers to an eastern area of the Strait of Georgia. This device is a Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler 150 kHz. Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) are hydroacoustic instruments, similar to sonars. ADCPs measure current speed and direction at multiple predetermined depths simultaneously. ADCPs use the Doppler effect of sound waves that are scattered by particles in seawater over a depth range. It was deployed on a fixed platform. Data from this deployment were archived and made available through Ocean Networks Canada's Oceans 3.0 digital infrastructure, with quality assurance and derived data products following established practices.

Organization: CIOOS-Pacific
Collection of Down Casts collected by MAMKA from Bay d’Espoir 2024 to present

The Community Fishers Device Set was deployed from 2024 to present at Bay d’Espoir across multiple stations. Bay d'Espoir is an arm of Hermitage Bay, located on the south coast of Newfoundland. The dataset includes aggregated oceanographic data collected at various depths by a suite of instruments across multiple profiling deployments known as 'casts'. A Community Fishers Instrument Set typically includes a CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth), oxygen sensor(s), fluorometer(s), and a tablet used for GPS and data transfer via the ONC-developed Community Fishers app. This collection was collected and owned by MAMKA. Data from this collection were archived and made available through Ocean Networks Canada's Oceans 3.0 digital infrastructure, with quality assurance and derived data products following established practices.

Organization: CIOOS-Pacific
Biogeochemical Data from the Infralittoral Zone of the West Coast of Anticosti Island (2023)

Biogeochemical data were collected from August 16 to August 25, 2023, in the coastal waters of Anticosti Island. This dataset includes biogeochemical parameters analyzed in the laboratory from water samples, including salinity, chlorophyll a, suspended particulate matter, nutrients, cellular abundance, pigment concentrations (*in preparation*), particulate absorption, and colored dissolved organic matter absorption. The water samples were collected using a horizontal Niskin on board a Zodiac.  

It is also possible to consult another dataset related to this project:  
- [**Biological characterization of the mediolittoral and infralittoral areas of the west coast of Anticosti Island (2021-2024)**](https://doi.org/10.26071/e9f1101c-34a6-46ea).  

The optical and biophysical characterization project of the mediolittoral and infralittoral areas of the southwest coast of Anticosti Island is financed by:  
- The *Coastal Environmental Baseline Program* as part of Fisheries and Oceans Canada's Oceans Protection Plan;  
- The “*Satellite-based assessment of coastal ocean productivity*” research grants (RGPIN-2019-06070) and “*Blue carbon and climate change mitigation through macrophytic coastal ecosystems*” (RGPIN-2020-07065, 2020-2026) research grants from the Discovery Grants Program of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC);  
- The research grant “*Detection and valorization of stranded and coastal algae: a promising resource for the Quebec blue economy*” (WRACK project) from the Maritime Sector Partnership Research Program (2023-2024 competition; # 338154) from the *Fonds de Recherche du Québec — Nature and Technologies* and the Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Energy.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Biogeochemical Data from the Algae-WISE Project (June and July 2022) in the Coastal Waters of Anticosti Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Biogeochemical data were collected from June 30, 2022 to July 07, 2022 on board the Coriolis II research vessel in the coastal waters of Anticosti Island. This dataset includes biogeochemical parameters analyzed in the laboratory from water samples, including salinity, chlorophyll a, suspended particulate matter, dissolved organic carbon, nutrients, cellular abundance, pigment concentrations, particulate absorption, and absorption of colored dissolved organic matter. The stations are organized into six transects perpendicular to the coast and one transect parallel to the coast. For each station visited, water samples were collected at several depths along a vertical transect, each time including the surface and the corresponding depth of chlorophyll a maximum.  

It is also possible to consult other data sets related to this project:  
- Data set of the optical properties of water, measured on board of the Coriolis II ship using a Compact-Optical Profiling System (C-OPS) and a Hyperspectral Surface Acquisition System (HyperSAS) (*in preparation*)  
- Optical data measured aboard a watercraft in the waters closer to Anticosti Island are also available: [Optical data](https://doi.org/10.26071/62ec6c52-15e5-4531)  

The Algae-WISE project is funded mainly by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) through the Flight and Field Investigations in Space Technology and Science program (VITES 2019), as well as by Réseau Québec maritime (RQM) for ship-time.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Characterization of the Havre du Quai Marsh in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies (2019)

Characterization report made in 2019 by the *Comité ZIP du Sud-de-l’Estuaire (ZIPSE)*, including: A bird inventory, a floristic inventory, a geomorphological characterization. The associated shapefiles (SHP) represent the colonies of invasive plant species and the 2019 coastal boundary of the study area. In addition, we mapped the occurrences of saline plantain (an endangered plant species).

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Mitigating the Impacts of Coastal Jamming by Restoring a Dammed Coastal Marsh, Saint-André-de-Kamouraska

In 2019, a group of landowners from the municipality of Saint-André with the support of the MRC de Kamouraska indicated their interest in relocating the dyke on a coastal segment between the *Fouquette* and *des Caps* rivers. The presence of erosion on this dyke and the occasional overflow of the waters of the St. Lawrence Estuary onto parts of the agricultural land justify this action of putting part of the agricultural land back into the sea.
Wildlife management has been proposed to increase the environmental resilience of the surroundings. This development targets land reclaimed north of New Aboiteau as well as degraded coastal habitats. It consists of the reconstruction of a salt marsh, the planting of native plant species on the new aboiteau and on the reclaimed agricultural land, the control of the common reed by various methods, and the restoration of fish habitat connectivity in the salt marsh through the direct transplantation of spartina alterniflora. These actions make it possible to recover 4.3 ha of coastal habitats. This environmental gain will increase the resilience of the entire coastal ecosystem in adapting to climate change.

**Biophysical characterization** includes botanical, ornithological and ichthyological inventories, geomorphological characterization of the coast, historical analysis using aerial photographs as well as low-altitude imaging surveys.

**Mitigating the impacts of coastal jamming**: The work done in 2020  includes (1) The transplantation of 30,000 alterniflora spartina plants on an area of 4.895 m², (2) The control of 22 colonies of common reeds over an area of 9.400 m², (3) The construction of a 545 m section of the new aboiteau, (4) The reconstruction of a marsh with an area of 5.700 m² by the development of wildlife channels and a consolidated opening in the aboiteau existing, (5) The planting of seedlings on bare land and (6) Biological monitoring.
The consolidated opening was made in the old dyke in order to let the water from the high tides pass and create a salt marsh.

**Control of the common reed in a restored marsh**: The work carried out in 2022 includes (1) the installation of 3 new tarpaulins totaling an area of 837 m², (2) the repeated mowing, twice, of 8 colonies totaling an area of 5,861 m², (3) the monitoring of 4,564 m² of tarpaulins, (4) the monitoring and manual control of 27 plant recovery points of the common reed, (5) the monitoring of the spatial variability of 8 colonies of common reed.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Restoration of the Beach at the Gros-Ruisseau Marine Stop, Sainte-Flavie

Reports on the beach nourishment carried out in Saint-Flavie, Quebec, by the ZIPSE Committee in 2012. Includes data on shoreline, grain size, coastline type, coastal vegetation. The beach nourishment was done in order to protect the Gros-Ruisseau rest area.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Oceanographic data collected onboard SV Oceanolog during the Sail for Science - 2023 expedition in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Presented collected with RBRconcertoCTD a set of oceanographic data, including variables: conductivity, temperature, practical salinity, specific density, dissolved oxygen, transmittance, chlorophyll-a, fDOM at sampling rate 8Hz in the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the moorings of SV Oceanolog on the route: Rivière-du-Loup - Gaspe - Magdalen Is. - Cape North. This is a pilot stage's set of high-accuracy and resolution oceanographic data collected during the citizen science project Sail for Science underway to the Caribbean: www.sailforscience.com

Organization: CIOOS-Atlantic
The Salt Marsh of the Grande Baie (Port-Cartier) - Biotic and Abiotic Characterization for Data Acquisition on the Territory of the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence

The purpose of this project is to generate ecological reference data to draw a global portrait of the state of coastal marshes in the *Côte-Nord* sector of Quebec, as part of the Coastal Environmental Reference Data Program, funded by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The program to characterize coastal wetlands in the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence was subsidized for a period of 4 years (2023-2027). 
This dataset covers the marsh area from *Grande Baie* to Port-Cartier. In order to acquire as much knowledge as possible about the North Shore territory, the *Comité ZIP Côte-Nord du Golfe* (ZIP CNG) carried out ichthyological and floristic inventories, and measured the physicochemical parameters as well as the abiotic factors of the marsh during the summer of 2023. Benthic inventories were also carried out during the summer of 2024.

It is also possible to consult the datasets of the other salt marshes linked to this project:

- [**The Salt Marsh of the Rivière Brochu (Gallix)**](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_d33ef8ea-e22e-411e-a1be-972a57729fdd)
- [**The Salt Marsh of the Baie Cachée (Port-Cartier)**](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_e699c0a1-ee1d-4343-9eaa-41ea85333ddf)
- [**The Salt Marsh of Ti-Basse (Port-Cartier)**](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_20449802-8533-4c94-92c4-b29ecd77da1b)

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Surface Seawater and Marine Boundary Layer CO2 Time Series from the Bute Inlet Ocean Observing Station (BIOOS) Buoy, Bute Inlet, BC, Canada (Research)

Bute Inlet, a prominent fjord on the British Columbia coast, has been a site for moored, high-resolution measurements of surface seawater and marine boundary layer CO2 content since February 2025. Measurements of temperature, salinity, seawater and atmospheric CO2 partial pressure were collected from a surface buoy located in the central fjord using a MApCO2 System. This data contribution consists of measurements from February 15, 2025 to November 21, 2025.

Organization: CIOOS-Pacific
Water Level and Weather Station Time Series, Pruth Bay, Kwakshua Channel, Central Coast, BC, Canada (Provisional)

The Hakai Institute maintains a weather and tide station on the main dock of its remote station located on Calvert Island within Pruth Bay. The weather station measures the air temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity, atmospheric pressure, UV radiation, solar radiation, PAR, and precipitation since July 2014. In June 2018, a tide station was installed to measure the water level within the bay. The station is a combination of a primary radar sensor mounted below the dock above the water and a secondary vented pressure sensor mounted within the water 2m below the lowest tides.

Organization: CIOOS-Pacific
Portrait of the Baie-Comeau Coast, Summer 2023

In the summer of 2023, the *Comité ZIP de la rive nord de l'estuaire* (RNE) walked approximately 25 km of coastline in Baie-Comeau, from the east shore of the mouth of the Manicouagan River to Comeau Creek. The team inventoried the different types of habitats, identified potential sources of coastal pollution, natural disturbances (landslides, erosion, etc.) and anthropogenic disturbances (riprap) and carried out fish inventories. The acquisition of knowledge will benefit the municipality of Baie-Comeau, which will thus be informed of the results collected during 2023. 

The data presented here brings together ichthyological information collected in a marsh at the mouth of the Manicouagan River as well as the location of two observed landslide sectors, accompanied by photos taken from the ground and by drone.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Characterization of Near-Shore Marine Vegetative Habitat Throughout Fortune Bay and Bay d'Espoir (2023-2025)

Data collection began in 2023, on targeted components of coastal ecosystems throughout Fortune Bay, Connaigre Bay and Bay d'Espoir to develop a baseline dataset characterizing seagrass, macroalgae and other habitats created by structure-providing species. This effort will continue through 2027. Throughout ten sites of this region, transect data are collected detailing seagrass and macroalgae species frequency, abundance, and distribution. As part of this characterization, marine sediments are documented along each transect, and in-situ water quality measurements. Additionally, pole seines are conducted at each site to collect baseline data on the presence and diversity of fish and invertebrate species present within these habitats.

**Seagrass and Macroalgae**: Distribution, frequency, and abundance of seagrass and macroalgae are monitored at ten sites. Three transects are surveyed at each site semi-annually to record seasonal growth.

**Species Inventory**: Pole seines are conducted annually at each site to collect baseline data on nearshore fish and invertebrate assemblages. If aquatic invasive species are found during a survey, they are recorded and reported.

**Marine Sediment**: Throughout each transect surveys for seagrass and macroalgae frequency and abundance, estimates of the composition of marine sediment found present and its depth along each transect are recorded at 5 meter intervals.

**Water Quality**: In-situ water quality data is collected at the beginning and end of each transect surveyed. Parameters recorded include dissolved oxygen, pH, salinity, conductivity, temperature and turbidity. 72-hour rainfall and wave conditions of the site at the time of each survey are also recorded.

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
Integrated Water Level System (IWLS)- Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River and Gulf

The Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) operates, across the country, a integrated water level system (IWLS) tracking the fluctuation of Canadian waters level. SLGO disseminates the tide gauges data in real time continuously and also prediction and forecast data. For more information, please see the [data context](https://ogsl.ca/en/tide-gauges-dfo-chs/).

Also, using the water level forecast data, the dynamic vertical clearance, the vertical distance between an obstacle and the surface of the water, is calculated for some St. Lawrence obstacle such as the Québec Bridge. For more information, please see the [data contexte](https://ogsl.ca/en/dynamic-vertical-clearance-dfo-chs/).

**Parameters:** water level, water temperature , salinity, air pressure, dynamic vertical clearance.

View data in the [NAUTILO](https://nautilo.ca/map).

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
The Salt Marsh of the Baie Cachée (Port-Cartier) - Characterization of Important Coastal Habitats on the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence

The purpose of this project is to generate ecological reference data to draw a global portrait of the state of coastal marshes in the *Côte-Nord* of Quebec, as part of the Coastal Environmental Reference Data Program, funded by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The program to characterize coastal wetlands in the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence was subsidized for a period of 4 years (2023-2027). This dataset covers the salt marsh sector from *Baie Cachée* to Port-Cartier. In order to acquire as much knowledge as possible about the North Shore territory, the *Comité ZIP Côte-Nord du Golfe* (ZIP CNG) carried out ichthyological, floristic and benthic inventories, and characterized the physicochemical parameters as well as the abiotic factors of the marsh in the summer of 2024.

It is also possible to consult the datasets of the other salt marshes linked to this project:

- [**The Salt Marsh of the Rivière Brochu (Gallix)**](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_d33ef8ea-e22e-411e-a1be-972a57729fdd)
- [**The Salt Marsh of Ti-Basse (Port-Cartier)**](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_20449802-8533-4c94-92c4-b29ecd77da1b)
- [**The Salt Marsh of the Grande Baie (Port-Cartier)**](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_3ff0420f-2915-4287-9edf-7b659d69bd2c)

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
DNA metabarcoding data from Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) deployed around Calvert Island British Columbia

Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) provide a standardized framework to monitor marine biodiversity. Currently, over 1,600 ARMS have been deployed globally across a number of organisations and geographical regions. Most of these deployments are related to coral reef systems, and relatively few deployments have been associated with temperate reefs or kelp forests. This data package contains links to genomic resources obtained from our use of ARMS to test whether the presence of canopy-forming kelps would influence rates of recruitment of invertebrates and seaweeds on temperate near-shore rocky reefs. 

Data collection was carried out at 12 locations in Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia. Of these sites, four were kelp beds dominated by Nereocystis luetkeana, four were kelp beds dominated by Macrocystis pyrifera, and four were considered to be urchin barrens. One ARMS unit was deployed at each site. The first deployment lasted from autumn 2016 to summer 2017 (10-11 months), the second deployment lasted from autumn 2017 to autumn 2020 (36 months). 

For each deployment, all methods used for assembly, collection, photography, and biological sampling were carried out following the protocol described by the Global ARMS Program (Smithsonian Institution: https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/global-arms-program).

Organization: CIOOS-Pacific
Bulk and Size-Fractionated Chlorophyll and Phaeopigment Concentrations Collected by Niskin Bottle, BC, Canada (Provisional)

This dataset is comprised of Hakai Institute chlorophyll and phaeopigment concentrations collected from 2014 to present at stations within the Calvert Island, Johnstone Strait, and the Quadra Island study regions. Samples for these data were collected in the field using Niskin bottles. Sample water (250 ml) was filtered through: 1) a single glass fiber filter (GF/F, nominal pore size 0.7 um) to comprise a bulk measure of phytoplankton chlorophyll and phaeopigment concentrations and 2) a stack of filters (GF/F, 3 um, and 20 um polycarbonate filters) to estimate chlorophyll and phaeopigment concentrations from pico, nano, and micro-phytoplankton, respectively. Filters were extracted for 24 hours in 10 ml of 90% acetone and analyzed on Turner Designs Trilogy laboratory fluorometers using the acidification module and following the method of Holm Hansen et al. (1965). 

Data have been quality controlled by manual inspection which included a comparison of bulk concentrations against the sum of the size-fractionated filter concentrations. Where available, further comparisons were done with other measures of chlorophyll concentrations including in situ CTD chlorophyll fluorescence and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) data.

Data were collected by the Hakai Institute Oceanography and Nearshore programs.

Organization: CIOOS-Pacific
Suspended and sinking particle composition in the Labrador Sea in Spring 2022

This dataset comprises of measurements of Particulate Organic Carbon (POC), Particulate Nitrogen (PN), Transparent Exopolymer Particles (TEP), Coomassie Stainable Particles (CSP), Particulate Hydrolysable Amino Acids (PHAA), Biogenic Silicate (BSi), and Particulate Inorganic Carbon (PIC) in suspended and sinking particles at multiple depths during a Phaeocystis bloom in the Labrador Sea from 1st to 31st May 2022.

Organization: CIOOS-Atlantic
Measuring Carbon Capture and Restoring Northern Coastal Aquatic Habitats to Contribute to Climate Change Mitigation

The objective of this project is to generate ecological data in order to restore aquatic ecosystems and mitigate human impacts on Canadian coastal and marine environments.
The Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Fund (AERF) is part of the renewal of the Oceans Protection Plan. The program provides $75 million over a period of 5 years (2022—2027) to support aquatic restoration that will help address the main causes of coastal and marine degradation.
This dataset covers several eelgrass beds on the North Shore, extending from Baie-des-Homards, west of Port-Cartier, to Kegaska. In order to restore aquatic habitats on the North Shore, the Gulf North Shore ZIP Committee carried out ichthyological and floristic inventories, and evaluated physicochemical parameters and abiotic factors, making it possible to characterize eelgrass beds in summer 2023.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory