eDrivers, a Knowledge Platform on 22 Environmental Drivers Present in the St. Lawrence System, eDrivers, plateforme de connaissance sur 22 stresseurs environnementaux présents dans le système du Saint-Laurent

Keywords: environmental stressors, Température de surface, St. Lawrence, Oxygène, Matière particulaire, nutrients, other, Saint-Laurent, particulateMatter, Oceans, Autre, oxygen, seaState, dissolvedOrganicCarbon, Carbone organique dissous, Température sous la surface, eDrivers, Nutriments, État de la mer, seaSurfaceTemperature, subSurfaceTemperature, stresseurs environnementaux
Temporal coverage: 2014-09-01/2020-12-31

eDrivers is an open platform focused on sharing knowledge on the distribution and intensity of drivers. It gathers a community of experts committed to structuring, standardizing and sharing knowledge on drivers of environmental change in support of science and management. The platform currently shares data-based indicators for 22 coastal, climate, fisheries, and marine traffic drivers in the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. These drivers can be visualized individually or in combination through an interactive web application called eDrivers.

In launching this initiative, our objective is to uphold the highest existing standards of data management and open science. eDrivers is built on four guiding principles: 1) Unity and Inclusiveness; 2) Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR); 3) Adaptiveness; 4) Recognition. The project was presented in a publication entitled  [**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/)  in the peer-reviewd journal Frontiers in Marine Science.

It is possible to access through the catalog the layers of 16 different types of stressors:

**CLIMATE:**

- [Acidification](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_e0fccb92-cd66-4702-93b0-2fa718576a28)
- [Hypoxia](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_86737fdb-03a5-4047-886a-8ac1ef0bc34b)
- [Sea Bottom Temperature Anomalies](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_ad2b8ba2-23af-492b-aa33-3750bf4e4ee0)
- [Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_8e435445-d7b4-4724-aa71-c98e4d41f9e7)
- [Sea Level Rise](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_05b1aa67-c887-420e-82de-764ca0645b46)

**COASTAL:**

- [Aquaculture](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_86cf4425-8194-4856-8287-4fafa5c2bf2a)
- [Coastal Development](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_cd655f15-1b9b-401e-86c3-61473c429e9f)
- [Direct Human Impact](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_c278d4cb-fc29-4593-9828-1da2cd394de0)
- [Inorganic Pollution](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_68e7b845-43d0-4865-9e77-029ad3e6e1a1)
- [Nutrients Input](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_ad654825-f288-4a00-b46c-43bbf10cdd04)
- [Organic Pollution](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_f476b3af-3fbb-4a1b-98b0-47485c88dc5e)
- [Toxic Algae](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_6da0d785-5b94-4b31-8f5b-20da82dce535)

**FISHERIES:**

- [Commercial Fisheries Intensity](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_5cc0d46f-ee98-48f9-8781-3aaf770d403a)

**MARINE TRAFFIC:**

- [Shipping](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_7d165312-a8a0-448d-8bdb-f595b0064e7e)
- [Invasive Species](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_1dbfad19-3930-4137-97ac-1421037d5760)
- [Marine Pollution](https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/en/dataset/ca-cioos_f56d69c3-eb83-4be6-8cc3-f58f0742363e)