National Coastal Environmental Baseline Program projects

Development of web-based data management, storage and visualization systems for biological, geochemical, physical and oceanographic datasets for 6 Pilot Areas across Canada’s as part of the Ocean Protection Plan’s Coastal Environmental Baseline Program

Funding recipient: St. Lawrence Global Observatory (SLGO)

Project summary: The project consists of organizing, standardizing, managing and disseminating data from coastal environmental baseline projects conducted by Canadian organizations. The Observatory will work closely with 39 partners from British Columbia, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nunavut and Newfoundland and Labrador. The data to be collected from these partners will come from projects in 6 coastal environments that are likely to be affected by increasing vessel traffic. This initiative will establish data management standards that will be useful to Canada’s marine science community.