Maritime Region Cetacean Monitoring Program MicroCAT conductivity, temperature and pressure time series

The Government of Canada is commitment to protect marine mammal populations across Canada and has invested in scientific research. Part of this research is to increase our knowledge about the impacts on, locations, movement, and abundance of whales in Canada using passive acoustic monitoring. The Maritime Region Cetacean Monitoring Program uses year-round passive acoustic monitoring with moored bottom-mounted hydrophones which include MicroCAT instruments measuring conductivity, temperature and pressure. These moorings are placed across different areas of the Scotian Shelf, Bay of Fundy and Cabot Strait.

This data set only includes the physical oceanographic time series observations from the moored CTD (MicroCAT) including conductivity, temperature and pressure. Data collection started 2015 and continues to present.

Several projects have provided funding for this work including; Ocean Protection Plan (OPP) Whale Detection and Collision Avoidance (OPP-WDCA) project, the National Conservation Plan (NCP) Species at Risk Act (SARA) project and the Ocean Protection Plan (OPP) Marine Environmental Quality (OPP-MEQ).

links include: https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-especes/mammals-mammiferes/whales-baleines/research-recherche-eng.html , https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-especes/sara-lep/index-eng.html

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Licence: Open Government Licence 2.0 (Canada)

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Metadata Reference Date(s) August 01, 2023 (Publication)
August 01, 2023 (Revision)
Data Reference Date(s) January 01, 2015 (Creation)
Frequency of Update As Needed

Responsible Party 1
Name
Environmental Data Section (MEDS), Marine
Affiliation
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Role
Owner
Responsible Party 2
Name
Jinshan, Xu
Affiliation
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Email
Jinshan.Xu@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Role
  • Custodian
  • Point of Contact
Responsible Party 3
Name
Data Services, BIO
Affiliation
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Email
BIO.Datashop@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Role
Distributor

Field Value
Ocean Variables
  • Sea Surface Salinity
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Subsurface Salinity
  • Subsurface Temperature
  • Other
Scope Dataset
Status On Going
Maintenance Note Generated from https://cioos-siooc.github.io/metadata-entry-form
Spatial Extent [[[-68.7, 42.0], [-57.0, 42.0], [-57.0, 48.0], [-68.7, 48.0], [-68.7, 42.0]]]
North Bounding Latitude 48.0
South Bounding Latitude 42.0
East Bounding Longitude -57.0
West Bounding Longitude -68.7
Temporal Extent
Begin
2015-01-01
Vertical Extent
Min
1.0
Max
1500.0
Default Locale English
Included in Data Catalogue
Included in Data Catalogue 1
Name
CKAN
Description
 
URL
https://catalogue.dev.cioosatlantic.ca