Baseline oceanographic records for the Eastern Shore Islands Area of Interest

The Eastern Shore Islands was announced as an "Area of Interest" (AOI) in 2018 by the DFO Maritimes region to potentially be considered for a Marine Protected Area under the federal Oceans Act. As part of its mandate for monitoring established and potential conservation areas, DFO Science regularly deploys instruments including conductivity/temperature/depth (CTD) loggers, and other instruments for measuring dissolved oxygen, nutrients, and other chemical ocean properties. This data collection includes temperature and other oceanographic records for the ESI AOI from June 2024 onward. The data are derived from temperature loggers (Hobo Tidbit loggers or similar) and Sea-Bird MicroCATs, but may in future years include current profiles or additional oceanographic data. These data will be used to monitor temperatures in this coastal region to detect any biological shifts associated with temperature and climate fluctuations, and be used to groundtruth oceanographic models.

Cite this data as: Jeffery, N., Stanley, R., Pettitt- Wade, H. (2025): Data of: Baseline oceanographic records for the Eastern Shore Islands Area of Interest.

Published: September 2025. Coastal Ecosystems Science Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, N.S. https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/f0020cec-5671-4908-8fdd-11fc097de99d

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Date ( RI_367 )
2025-09-15
Date ( RI_366 )
2025-07-30
RI_415
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Nick Jeffery ( )
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, PO Box 1006 , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
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  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Ryan Stanley ( )
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, PO Box 1006 , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • Eastern Shore Islands
  • Temperature
  • Monitoring
  • Area of Interest
  • Maritimes Region
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Oceans
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
Classification
unclassified; nonClassifié RI_484
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Oceans
Begin date
2025-06-01
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https://epsg.io / EPSG:4326 / 8.2.6
Distribution format
  • ESRI REST ( 2.9.8 )

  • CSV ( N/A )

  • FGDB/GDB ( 2.9.8 )

  • other ( MicroCAT )

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Data Acquisition Assembly and Distribution / Acquisition, assemblage et distribution de donnée ( )
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, PO Box 1006 , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
OnLine resource
Baseline oceanographic records for the Eastern Shore Islands Area of Interest ( HTTPS )

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Data Dictionary ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;CSV;eng,fra

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Baseline oceanographic records for the Eastern Shore Islands Area of Interest ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

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OnLine resource
Baseline oceanographic records for the Eastern Shore Islands Area of Interest ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource
Baseline oceanographic records for the Eastern Shore Islands Area of Interest ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Baseline oceanographic records for the Eastern Shore Islands Area of Interest ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Baseline oceanographic records for the Eastern Shore Islands Area of Interest ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PNG;eng

File identifier
f0020cec-5671-4908-8fdd-11fc097de99d XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2025-09-15T17:37:43.115Z
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - CESD Data Manager / DSEC Gestionnaire de données ( )
125 Marine Science Drive , St. Andrews , New Brunswick , E5B0E4 , Canada
 
 

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