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Coastal Environmental Baseline Program (Maritimes Region), Port of Saint John region conductivity, temperature and depth data

The Coastal Environmental Baseline Program is a multi-year Fisheries and Oceans Canada initiative designed to work with Indigenous and local communities and other key parties to collect coastal environmental data at six pilot sites across Canada (Port of Vancouver, Port of Prince Rupert, Lower St. Lawrence Estuary, Port of Saint John, Placentia Bay, and Iqaluit). The goal of the Program is to gather local information in these areas in effort to build a better understanding of marine ecological conditions. The Maritimes region has developed a physical oceanography program to align with the oceanographic interests and data needs of local communities and stakeholders, with the goal of sharing this information via open data. Starting in 2019, oceanographic parameters including temperature, salinity, depth, turbidity and currents have been continuously monitored at a series of locations covering a broad range of environments in the Port of Saint John and approaches vicinity, including the lower Saint John and Kennebecasis rivers, coastal fringe marshes and embayments, as well as the Musquash estuary Marine Protected Area (MPA). This dataset includes CTD data starting in 2019 and turbidity data from August 2020. Data collection methods range from bottom-mounted instruments in water depths of 10-50 meters, buoyant surface moorings, and hard-mounted instruments in intertidal zones. Intertidal data is interrupted during some low tide events, where the water level drops below the sensor, resulting in loss of functionality for periods up to 1-2 hours. Overall this dataset captures a dynamic balance between salt and fresh water on the highly tidal lower Saint John river, coastal seasonal dynamics in near-shore marine environments in the Musquash MPA, and the constant fluctuations of intertidal creeks and marshes.

Update 2 - April 2025: included 2023-24 data

Update 1 - Nov 2023: included 2022 data; removed daylight savings errors from 2019, 2020 and 2021; updated position for Evandale surface mooring.

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Date ( RI_366 )
2019-07-24
Date ( RI_367 )
2022-03-22
RI_413
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Coastal Ecosystem Science Division (CESD) - O'Laughlin, Casey - Physical Scientist ( Field Operations & Data Management )
125 Marine Science Drive , St. Andrews , New Brunswick , E5B 0E4 , Canada
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords
  • Water Temperature
  • Salinity
  • Saint John river
  • CTD
  • Coastal Environmental Baseline Program
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Coastal waters
  • Inland waters
  • Ecosystems
  • Oceanography
  • Environment
  • Estuaries
  • Wetlands
Classification
unclassified; nonClassifié RI_484
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Oceans
Begin date
2019-07
End date
2024-10
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326 /
Distribution format
  • CSV ( N/A )

  • ESRI REST ( 2.7.0 )

  • FGDB/GDB ( 2.7.0 )

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Coastal Ecosystem Science Division (CESD) - Data Acquisition Assembly and Distribution ( )
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, PO Box 1006 , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
OnLine resource
Coastal Environmental Baseline Program (Maritimes Region), Port of Saint John region conductivity, temperature and depth data ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
Coastal Environmental Baseline Program (Maritimes Region), Port of Saint John region conductivity, temperature and depth data ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource
Coastal Environmental Baseline Program (Maritimes Region), Port of Saint John region conductivity, temperature and depth data ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Coastal Environmental Baseline Program (Maritimes Region) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Data Dictionary ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng,fra

File identifier
abe8a6d2-ef8a-46f3-a28c-3b745ed09863 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Parent identifier
Coastal Environmental Baseline Program 7f4b9eb6-805f-4d0b-a597-2d7a44e045d7
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2025-04-08T14:05:04.154Z
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_409
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Coastal Ecosystem Science Division - CESD Data Manager ( Data Manager )
125 Marine Science Drive , St. Andrews , New Brunswick , E5B 0E4 , Canada
 
 

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