fisheries-and-oceans-canada
type: Organization
contact point: ContactPoint
  contact type: Publisher
legal name: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
name: Pêches et Océans Canada

Maritime Region Cetacean Monitoring Program MicroCAT conductivity, temperature and pressure time series
type: Dataset
creator: Fisheries and Oceans Canada Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS)
  type: Person
  additional name: and,Oceans,Canada,Marine,Environmental,Data,Section
  affiliation: Department of Fisheries and Oceans
  family name: (MEDS)
  given name: Fisheries
date modified: 2026-07-27T18:45:09.990922
date published: 2025-04-14T15:46:57.367679
contact point: Individual
  fn: Data Services, BIO
  org: Department of Fisheries and Oceans
  role: distributor
contact point: Individual
  fn: Jinshan, Xu
  org: Department of Fisheries and Oceans
  role: ['custodian', 'pointOfContact']
description: 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
description: Le gouvernement du Canada s'est engagé à protéger les populations de mammifères marins à travers le Canada et a investi dans la recherche scientifique. Une partie de cette recherche vise à accroître nos connaissances sur les impacts sur les baleines au Canada, leur localisation, leurs déplacements et leur abondance grâce à la surveillance acoustique passive. Le programme de surveillance des cétacés de la région maritime utilise une surveillance acoustique passive tout au long de l'année au moyen d'hydrophones amarrés montés au fond, qui incluent des instruments MicroCat mesurant la conductivité, la température et la pression. Ces mouillages sont situés dans différentes zones du plateau néo-écossais, de la baie de Fundy et du détroit de Cabot. Cet ensemble de données inclut uniquement les observations de séries chronologiques océanographiques physiques provenant du CTD amarré (MicroCAT), y compris la conductivité, la température et la pression. La collecte de données a débuté en 2015 et se poursuit. Plusieurs projets ont financé ces travaux, notamment le projet de détection des baleines et d'évitement des collisions (OPP-WDCA) dans le cadre du Plan de protection des océans (OPP), le projet de Loi sur les espèces en péril (SARA) du Plan national de conservation (NCP) et le Plan de protection des océans (OPP) sur la qualité du milieu marin (OPP-MEQ). les liens incluent : 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 @fr
included in data catalog: SIOOC Atlantique
keywords: densite-potentielle @fr
keywords: subsurfacetemperature
keywords: climate-change
keywords: salinite @fr
keywords: teledetection @fr
keywords: seasurfacesalinity
keywords: pressure
keywords: temperature-potentielle @fr
keywords: oceans
keywords: subsurfacesalinity
keywords: changement-climatique @fr
keywords: potential-temperature
keywords: other
keywords: temperature-de-surface @fr
keywords: potential-density
keywords: seasurfacetemperature
keywords: temperature-de-leau @fr
keywords: autre @fr
keywords: pression @fr
keywords: temperature-sous-la-surface @fr
keywords: salinity
keywords: water-density
keywords: water-temperature
keywords: salinite-de-surface @fr
keywords: densite-deau-de-mer @fr
keywords: ctd
keywords: salinite-sous-la-surface @fr
keywords: echantillonnage @fr
keywords: oceanographic-missions
keywords: seawater-density
keywords: densite-eau @fr
keywords: missions-oceanographique @fr
license: government-open-license-canada
name: Programme de surveillance des cétacés de la région maritime, séries chronologiques MicroCAT sur la conductivité, la température et la pression @fr
provider: fisheries-and-oceans-canada
publisher: fisheries-and-oceans-canada
spatial coverage: Place
  geo: GeoShape
    box: 42.0 -68.7 48.0 -57.0
temporal coverage: 2015-01-01/..
variable measured: Température sous la surface
variable measured: Température de surface
variable measured: Autre
variable measured: Salinité de surface
variable measured: Salinité sous la surface
version: 2026-07-22

Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (CSAS) Publications
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description: Website containing publications produced under the Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat
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SIOOC Atlantique
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Website Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO); protection of whales in Canadian waters research
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description: Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) website describing Research to support the protection of whales in Canadian waters
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CIOOS Atlantic ERDDAP dataset
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description: CIOOS Atlantic ERDDAP dataset link for moored CTD data
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