Scientific Data and Products

A series of oceanographic stations extending from the mouth of the Juan de Fuca Strait, south of Vancouver Island, to Ocean Station Papa at 50°N 145°W, in the Pacific Ocean.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Environment Canada jointly maintain a network of weather buoys in the coastal and offshore waters of British Columbia. Values of wind speed and direction, air pressure and temperature, and wave height at the buoy locations, reported hourly via the GEOS satellite, are routinely used to improve marine weather forecasting.

A powerful tool for the creation and cataloguing of geospatial metadata following many standards and many languages. Metadata include specific pieces of information that characterize data; these can be used to catalogue data in many different ways. Essentially the MetaData answers the questions to who, what, when, where, why and how on all of our data holdings

The charts in this Atlas show the intensity and direction of the surface currents in the Mingan Archipelago, between Île aux Perroquets and La Grande Pointe, where the tides and the freshwater outflow dominate the circulation of the surface waters.

Search the Institute of Ocean Sciences / Ocean Sciences Data Inventory for data from moored instrumentation. This application will return inventory information about the data records that meet the search criteria but will not return the actual data.

The NCIS is a computerized warehouse of information on toxic chemicals in fish, other aquatic life and their habitats. It was begun as part of the Department's Green Plan. The data and information reside on servers in each DFO region and at MEDS. Access is protected by password to people involved in its development.

CHS produces and publishes almost 1,000 nautical charts covering Canadian waters. Nautical charts show hazards, aids to navigation, features along the shoreline and the seafloor, as well as man-made and natural features of the area.

The BIO archive of current meter data searched to identify instruments that were located within 10 meters of the bottom. The current statistics provided include monthly maximum observed current speed (without regard to direction), magnitude and direction of the mean current and the variability as defined by the principal axis components.