Citizen Science Oceanography Program
Now in its ninth year, the Citizen Science Oceanography Program (CSOP) engages trained volunteers with boats who collect oceanographic data in defined areas of the Strait of Georgia.
Usually ocean monitoring is conducted by large, expensive research boats which provide snapshots in time. By using a fleet of community operated small boats, we can cost-effectively provide a consistent stream of precise, almost real-time data on the entire Strait. The information provides a better understanding of ocean conditions that drive food availability for Pacific salmon stocks. The program is a partnership between PSF, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Ocean Networks Canada.
The method is straightforward: citizen scientists use a “CTD” to collect and store information on water conductivity, temperature and depth. Two auxiliary sensors are also used to measure fluorescence and oxygen content. The data collected are transmitted via a custom smart phone app and uploaded to an oceanographic database at Ocean Networks Canada where it is validated and archived. Four other elements of the work are done by hand to assess water quality (collecting nutrients, chlorophyll, harmful algae, zooplankton). Currently we are also collecting water samples to assess biotoxins). Collecting oceanographic measurements this way allows us to be “everywhere at once” and make accurate, consistent data comparisons like never before.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2015-10-17
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Pacific Salmon Foundation
Isobel Pearsall
Principal investigator
- Presentation form
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To link the oceanographic, phytoplankton, zooplankton and fish data to tell a story. To compare with data arcives from IOS for 1990s and periods of coho/chinook decline.
- Status
- ongoing
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Pacific Salmon Foundation
Isobel Pearsall
Point of contact
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords v15.9
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Earth Science > Oceans > Tides
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Earth Science > Oceans > Water Quality
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Earth Science > Oceans > Salinity/Density
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Earth Science > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography
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Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature
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Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry
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Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Acoustics
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Earth Science > Oceans > Marine Environment Monitoring
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Earth Science > Biosphere > Aquatic Ecosystems
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Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
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Aquatic wildlife
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Aquatic animals
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Fish
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DFO Areas
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North Pacific Ocean > South Inner Coast(Johnstone Strait, Strait of Georgia, Juan de Fuca, inlets and passages)
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PSF_thesaurus
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Hydrography
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Oceanography
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- Intellectual property rights
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- Intellectual property rights
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- Unclassified
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- Vector
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English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- 2015-01-02
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- 2024-01-01
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Name Version none
CSV
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Pacific Salmon Foundation
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name DOI
https://doi.org/10.48689/ab455d82-59c5-4d8a-9c9f-bbc9636144b5 Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Metadata
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- ab455d82-59c5-4d8a-9c9f-bbc9636144b5 XML
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-07-18T17:44:15.92Z
- Metadata standard name
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North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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NAP - CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Pacific Salmon Foundation
Jamie Hargreaves
Author
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