AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Benthic Macroinvertebrate in Rimouski Bay Intertidal Eelgrass Meadow: Vegetated and Bare Sediment Habitat (2021-2022)

In boreal eelgrass meadows, ice scouring during winter creates a heterogeneous landscape and forms several sub-habitats within the ecosystem. In fragmented meadows, we found densely vegetated areas and bare sediment zones (tidal pools or channels) where all eelgrass has been uprooted by ice movement. These two habitats have different ecological conditions, which can influence the benthic community inhabiting them. This dataset includes taxonomic diversity data (abundance and biomass) collected in June 2021, as well as in June and August 2022 (as part of master’s and post-doctoral research projects) in the eelgrass meadow of Rimouski. Samples of infauna and epifauna were collected using a corer, capturing organisms present both in the water column and in the sediment. Only macrofauna organisms were sorted and identified (sieve mesh size: 500 µm). Samples were taken in bare sediment habitats as well as in densely vegetated areas. In 2022, to understand the edge effect on the species composition of the community, samples were also collected in the "edge" habitat, which is the transition between bare sediment and vegetated areas.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Protection and Enhancement Plan for Mistassini Point and Grande Baie Saint-Nicolas (2005)

This plan results from the involvement of members of a committee of stakeholders formed by the Comité ZIP de la Rive Nord de l’estuaire and the municipality of Franquelin, as well as with volunteer members interested in the development of the area. The ideas conveyed in this document were discussed by the members of the committee and were the subject of a consensus following seven consultation meetings. Stakeholders from different levels of government as well as users of the area shared their expertise, experience and ideas. The primary objective of the plan is to enhance and to protect the resources of Pointe Mistassini through the development of new educational and outreach activities that will increase local retention potential and user ethics. Secondly, it aims to adequately and in the long-term, protect the important biological components of the Grand Baie Saint-Nicolas while maintaining sustainable human activities that are traditionally practiced by the users.

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

The data used to characterize shipping come from the global cumulative impacts assessment on habitats and available on the [NCEAS online data repository](https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/view/doi:10.5063/F1S180FS).

Two data sources were used to characterize shipping. The first set of data is gathered as part of the World Meteorological Organization Voluntary Observing Ships’ (VOS) scheme. Ships participating in the program gather meteorological data along with observation location as part of an open-ocean climate dataset. The data spans 20 years and annually covers 10-20% of ships worldwide. Data used spanned 2003 to 2011.

The second set of data comes from the Automatic Identification System (AIS), an initiative launched in 2002 that sought to improve marine safety by providing mariners with realtime vessel traffic. Through the International Maritime Organization SOLAS agreement, all vessels of over 300 gross tonnage on international voyages and those carrying passengers are now required to be equipped with AIS transceivers. These transceivers use Global Positioning System technology to locate vessels every 10 minutes. The data used were from November 2010 to December 2011.

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).

**REFERENCE:**

- [Halpern, B., Frazier, M., Potapenko, J. et al. Spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world’s ocean. Nat Commun 6, 7615 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8615](https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8615)

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan of Carleton and Saint-Omer (2006)

This document first draws a portrait of the territory with a description of the physical environment, the ecological components, the historical portrait, the socio-economic components and the occupation of the territory. It also contains an action plan on the main issues related to the coastal zone, as well as actions to be implemented for the integrated management of Carleton-sur-mer. It comes from a coastal committee, active from 2001 to 2006, and made up of representatives from various sectors of activity: municipal, environment, economic, etc.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Coastal Zooplankton of the North of St-Lawrence Estuary

These files contain abundance data for zooplankton species collected on the north coast of the St. Lawrence Maritime Estuary between Longue-Rive and Godbout (summer and fall 2019 to be completed with 2020, 2021 and 2022 data). They were collected using 63 µm (vertical line) and 200 µm (vertical-oblique line) nets to identify the diversity of mesozooplankton species and their different stages of development. The main taxon are: Copepods, Acartia, Calanus, Appendicularia, Fritillaria, Cladocera, Evadne. This research project is part of DFO's Oceans and Freshwater Scientific Research Contribution Program (CSOED) on the Characterization of Coastal Zones of the St. Lawrence Estuary.

[Environmental data](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_038df9b4-381f-4a6e-8ca5-32295d604602), such as temperature, salinity, fluorescence and dissolved oxygen, are available by following the link provided to a dedicated archiving platform.

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
Wildlife Habitat Conservation Plan - Saint-Quentin Island (2011)

The Comité Zip Les Deux Rives has drawn up a plan for the conservation of wildlife habitats on Saint-Quentin Island. Located in Trois-Rivières, this area is a major refuge for wildlife since the island is occupied by wetlands composed of different plant sequences, offering a wide variety of habitats. However, the site is under heavy anthropogenic pressure.

With this in mind, the Comité ZIP Les Deux Rives and its partners decided to develop a plan for wildlife habitats conservation on Île Saint-Quentin. The purpose of this conservation plan is to ensure the protection and maintenance of wildlife habitats that are present on the island.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Let's Discover the Coastline to Better Protect It!

This project made it possible to raise awareness among 5th and 6th grade students from the Middle North Shore about bank erosion, the importance of lyme grass in order to counter this phenomenon, the causes of erosion and methods to mitigate it.
In addition to a classroom activity, the students then went out into the field to plant lyme grass. The project was completed in 2007. The deliverables produced as part of this project were a student notebook, a teacher's notebook, various games and a planting protocol for lyme grass.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Arctic Expedition aboard CCGS Amundsen (2018)

This dataset contains the complete expedition report, the expedition map as well as a list of stations and sampling types. The report describes the scientific expedition conducted in the Canadian Arctic between May 25 and September 07, 2018 aboard the CCGS Amundsen. The 2018 Expedition 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 Amundsen Expedition carried out. The 2018 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 2018. 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 programs, CTD-Rosette operations and physical properties, ocean optical properties and freshwater sources as well as a suite of chemical and biological parameters. The contaminants cycling in seawater are also treated. The last sections of the report cover benthos sampling, seabed mapping, sediments sampling and ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) operations.

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; Environment 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
Assessment of the Reproductive Success of Lake Sturgeon at the Drummondville Spawning Ground in Spring 2015

The evaluation of reproductive success is based on the estimation of the number of eggs deposited on the spawning ground in relation to the number of larvae that have drifted.

First, we defined the area and the spawning period and captured eggs using an egg sensor and a drift net. Then, we carried out a sturgeon capture-mark-recapture campaign to estimate the size of the spawning contingent. Finally, we caught drifting larvae.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Chlorophyll-a Satellite Data for the Estuary and the Gulf of St. Lawrence

The colour of seawater, seen from space, is used to estimate the chlorophyll content in the water. This pigment is an index of the biomass of microscopic algae. Compared to the Atlantic Ocean, the waters of the Estuary and the Gulf of St. Lawrence are rather isolated and are strongly mixed with fresh water from many rivers. 

The method for retrieving chlorophyll must be adapted to these specificities. This dataset presents the result of a method developed to find the concentration of chlorophyll-a derived by various satellites (5) in the estuary and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The two satellites (AQUA and VIIRS) are still active and collect daily data.

NOTE OF USE: The gridded data are available for viewing and downloading via the ERDDAP platform, and the original non-gridded files are included in CSV format in the resources.

This dataset is the first version of the model. To access later versions, please refer to [**this link**](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_969715ba-3747-42ec-b8b4-6280403562d4). 

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
Characterization of North and South Shores of St. Lawrence River in Comité Zip Les Deux Rives Territory (2013)

This dataset is a visual characterization of the banks of the Saint-Lawrence River that was based on a sampling protocol of the Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs (MELCCFP).

This characterization is done on the territory of the Comité ZIP Les Deux Rives which extends from the city of Trois-Rivières to Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, on the north shore, and between municipal boundaries of Bécancour and Deschaillons-sur-Saint-Laurent, on the south shore. The characterization of the riparian stripes provided a portrait of land use, development and erosion on the shores of the St. Lawrence River.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Portrait and Floristic Inventory of the Estuary of Betsiamites River (2009)

The floristic inventory of the marshes located in the Betsiamites River Estuary was carried out as part of the draft action plan for the development and conservation of the Betsiamites River estuary (east bank). The purpose of the inventory is to better understand the flora of the Betsiamites River Estuary for better consideration in the development of the Betsiamites River estuary action plan. 

This report therefore provides a summary of the floristic knowledge of this critical habitat. It includes the method used, a synthesis of existing knowledge, a description of the plant groups identified, and recommendations.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Assessment and Classification of the Wetlands Potentials of the Comité Zip Les Deux Rives Intervention Territory (2005)

The Comité ZIP Les Deux Rives has assessed and classified the potential of wetlands along the St. Lawrence River on its entire intervention territory, which extends from Trois-Rivières to Sainte-Anne-De-la-Pérade on the north shore and between the municipalities of Bécancour and Deschaillons-sur-Saint-Laurent on the south shore.

Organization: St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Mesozooplankton abundance, distribution and composition in the northern Baffin Bay: ArcticNet 2005-2018

Two samplers fitted with 200 µm to 500 µm mesh nets were used for zooplankton collection on the 2005 to 2011 and 2013 to 2018 ArcticNet's oceanographic missions onboard the NGCC Amundsen. One was a metallic structure with 4 nets of  1 m2 mouth aperture (2x2 multiple net sampler) for water column integrated sampling. For the years 2013 to 2018, one of the nets was replaced by a LOKI (Lightframe On-sight Keyspecies Investigation) imaging system. The other sampler was a 0.5 m2 mouth aperture multinet Hydrobios for stratified sampling into nine layers (selected stations only). Samplers were hauled vertically from 10 m above the sea bottom to the surface. Filtered volume was estimated by flowmeters mounted at the mouth of each net. The Hydrobios has an integrated flowmeter providing filtered volumes for each of its nine nets. Samples were preserved in a 10% buffered formalin seawater solution. Zooplankton samples were sieved through 1000 µm and 200 µm sieves for analysis. The two size fractions were separately resuspended in water and for each of them, all the organisms in a known aliquot containing approximately 300 copepods were counted and identified to the lowest possible taxonomical level, as well as developmental stages in the case of copepods. The dataset is formatted as a station-by-species matrix with each row corresponding to a specific station and date, each column to a species, and each cell containing the integrated abundance (ind. m⁻²).

Organization: Amundsen Science
Total and methylated mercury data in Canadian Arctic Seawater (2013-2015)

To obtain the data, water samples of vertical profiles were firstly collected from the Rosette onboard the CCGS Amundsen, and then analyzed with instruments both onboard and in the lab in University of Manitoba. The total mercury were measured on a Tekran 2600 Model with the method EPA 1631 in the Portable In-situ Laboratory for Mercury Species onboard, while the methylmercury data were analyzed with the method EPA 1630 in the Ultra-Clean Trace Element Laboratory, which is located at the University of Manitoba. The main data types are the contaminants (along with O18 isotopes and dissolved organic carbon) concentrations in vertical profiles at the study sites.

Organization: Amundsen Science
Mesozooplankton vertical distribution data in Franklin Bay, southern Beaufort Sea, 2003-04

The CASES overwintering station was sampled at weekly intervals from 9 December 2003 to 29 May 2004. Zooplankton were collected with a multi sampler Hydrobios® equipped with nine nets of 200 &#956;m mesh size each that was deployed from the moonpool of the CCG scientific icebreaker Amundsen. The surface first 10 meters of the water column enclosed in the moonpool were not sampled. In addition, samples from integrated Hydrobios tows were collected at the slope stations 703 and 706 in fall 2003, and 709 in summer 2004, respectively. Samples were preserved in a 4% buffered formalin solution in seawater. Zooplankton samples were sieved through 150 µm and 1000 µm sieves. The two size fractions (200-1000 and >1000 µm) were resuspended in water and all the organisms in a known aliquot containing approximately 300 animals were counted and identified to species, and developmental stages for copepods, or to the lowest possible taxonomical level when species identification proved difficult. The data set lists all the taxa identified in the water layers sampled periodically at the overwintering site and at some stations on one shelf-slope transect, their individual counts, volume of water sampled, and station depth, thus permitting the determination of species and developmental stages integrated abundances (ind. m-2) or abundances per unit volume (ind. m-3).

Organization: Amundsen Science
Multibeam sonar mapping in outer Frobisher Bay, 2017-2018

Multibeam sonar data and accompanying acoustic sub-bottom profile data were collected using the multibeam echosounder aboard the scientific icebreaker CCGS Amundsen.  Particular focus in 2017 and 2018 mapping was on deep water troughs with apparent mega-scale glacial lineations (MSGL) in the northwest portion of outer Frobisher bay, and in the deep fault-bounded southwest margin of outer Frobisher bay.

Organization: Amundsen Science
Multibeam Sonar Data collected from the CCGS Amundsen (2003-2018)

Accoustic data was generated using an EM300 (2003-2008) and EM302 (2008-2017) multibeam sonar system onboard the CCGS Amundsen during ArcticNet Cruises. This bathymetric dataset covers the Canadian Arctic and includes all bathymetric data collected from CCGS Amundsen. The dataset consists of high-resolution bathymetry and acoustic backscatter imagery collected 24 hours a day, whenever the ship was in transit or during dedicated survey time. Standard collection settings used dual-ping, FM pulse, auto depth mode, angular coverage of +/- 60 degrees and high density equidistant beam forming. The SIS software was used to collect the data. From 2003-2013, near realtime cleaning of data outliers was done using the Ocean Mapping Group's Swathed toolkit after conversion to OMG binary format. After 2014, the data cleaning was done using CARIS HIPS&SIPS software. Data was exported in Generic Sensor Format (.gsf). IMU data was parsed by SIS from a POSMv 320 v.4. RTG GPS data from the CNAV 3050 GNSS receiver was used to correct and improve the position output from the POSMV via a RTCM correction protocol. Soundspeed information was either from CTD Rosette casts, MVP300 data or simulated from the World Ocean Atlas 2009 database. Data are gridded at a resolution of 10 metres. Grid files available are in binary floating point file (.flt). The grids will be available shortly on the Université Laval library's geospatial center website (www.geoindex-plus.bibl.ulaval.ca/). 

Note: 2003-2013 data was collected and processed by the OMG of University of New Brunswick (www.omg.unb.ca/Projects). 2014-2017 data was collected and processed by the Marine Geoscience Laboratory at Université Laval (www.lgm.ggr.ulaval.ca/index.php/projets/amundsen/). The 2018 data was collected and processed by Amundsen Science (http://www.amundsen.ulaval.ca). In 2018, Amundsen Science included the multibeam bathymetry data into the Amundsen Science Data Collection.

Organization: Amundsen Science
Sinking export of organic material in the High Arctic in fall 2007

Sinking export of organic material was investigated during the fall of 2007, using free-drifting, short-term particle interceptor traps . The particle interceptor traps were deployed at 6 stations along a transect spanning between the North Water polynya (Baffin Bay) and the Beaufort Sea. The traps were deployed from the CCGS Amundsen at three depths below the euphotic zone (50, 100 and 150 m) for a period between 8 and 22 hours. The analyses on the sinking material included total chlorophyll a and phaopigments (fluorometric determination), particulate organic carbon and nitrogen, biogenic silica, cell composition and abundance and fecal pellet abundance.

Organization: Amundsen Science
Ship-Based Meteorological Data, 2016

During the ArcticNet annual cruises of the research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen, characteristics of the near-surface atmosphere (basic meteorological elements, incident radiation) are monitored.  Central to this integrated dataset, the following meteorological variables were recorded at 1 minute intervals (instrument used to collect each variable is in parentheses, and approximate instrument height above surface is indicated): wind speed (RM Young Wind Monitor 05106-10) - 16m height; wind direction (RM Young Wind Monitor 05106-10) -16m height; air temperature (Vaisala HMP45C) - 15m height; relative humidity (Vaisala HMP45C) -15m height; and, surface temperature (Apogee IR Transducer SI-111) - 8m height, atmospheric pressure.

All instruments were mounted on a meteorological tower on the bow of the research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen, except for the IR transducer SI-111, which was mounted on top of the gunwale at the ship's bow, overlooking the water surface.

Organization: Amundsen Science
Annual dynamics of bacterial biomass and production in Franklin Bay, western Canadian Arctic

Microbial and environmental variables were collected from 8 depths at a 200-m deep site in Franklin Bay on 33 occasions, from 4 November 2003 to 6 August 2004, aboard the CCGS Amundsen. The following variables were measured: depth, temperature and salinity (Seabird 911+ CTD); CDOM (coloured dissolved organic matter) absorption coefficient at 320 nm (Varian Cary Bio 300 scanning spectrophotometer); chlorophyll a (ethanol pigment extraction); bacteria abundance (epifluorescence microscopy); tritiated leucine and thymidine incorporation rates (centrifugation method). Bacterial carbon production (BP) was estimated from leucine incorporation using the carbon conversion factor of 1.5 kgC/mol of leucine incorporation. BP was also estimated from thymidine incorporation using (1) the empirical carbon conversion factor of 2.0 x10^18 cells/mol of thymidine incorporated and (2) the bacterial cellular biomass of 10 fgC/cell.

Organization: Amundsen Science