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Note that this website is currently being updated! More information will be added soon.

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Data and Publications

A great deal of our work is data correction and upload for the Water Properties Database. Much more information, data, and program details can be found on the Water Properties website (login required). The data archive can be searched accessed at this link.

Code and packages

A number of processing packages are currently under development, and will be shared here as they come available:

  • ios-shell, a python package to easily read and parse files found in the Water Properties database (“IOS shell” format).
  • oceancolouR, an R package with useful functions for processing and analysis of satellite ocean colour remote sensing data.
  • We also contribute code to the pacea R package, which includes many more Pacific datasets for ecosystem monitoring and fisheries management🐟

Recent publications and contributions

  • New!📣 Biophysical and Ecological Overview of the Kitkatla Inlet Network Zones. K.H. Bannar-Martin, A. Vanderjagt, C.E. Bluteau, A.D. Liu, A. Hilborn, B. Proudfoot, F. Beaty, D. Denley, C.D. Stacey, A. Sastri, J. Herbert, and E. Rubidge. 2026. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3668: xvii + 345 p. doi:10.60825/2y44-vp69
  • New!📣 Biophysical and Ecological Overview of the Caamaño Sound and Douglas Fjord System Network Zones. A. Liu, K. Bannar-Martin, C.E. Bluteau, A. Hilborn, K. Clifton, L. Burke, B. Wright, J. Wray, E. Keen, G. Baer, J. Pilkington, L. Nichol, D. Denley, C.D. Stacey, J. Herbert, A. Vanderjagt, C. Robb, and E. Rubidge. 2026. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3664:xviii + 374 p. doi:10.60825/NCTJ-N651
  • New!📣 Biophysical and Ecological Overview of the ƛ̓ušiiʔaaʔaq (Swiftsure Bank) Area. K.H. Bannar-Martin, J. Yakimishyn, B. Proudfoot, H. Booker, A. Vos, M. Wright, J. Boldt, L. Burke, K. Douglas, C. Favaro, C. Fu, H. Gartner, A. Hall, A. Hilborn, E. Keppel, V. Lam, Z. Li, E. Lok, K. Neary, C. Nordstrom, M. Ogilvie, T. Ross, A. Sastri, L. Spaven, Y. Zharikov, and C.K. Robb. 2025. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3735:xxiii + 459 p. doi:10.60825/6w6a-8t10
  • New!📣 Biophysical and Ecological Overview of the Offshore Haida Gwaii Network Zones K.H. Bannar-Martin, S.J.V. Zahner, K.H.T. Brown, C. McDougall, C.K. Robb, L. Burke, C. Du Preez, H. Gartner, C.G. Hannah, C. Bluteau, A. Hilborn, J.C. Iacarella, E.K. Lok, A. Liu, B. Proudfoot, A.R. Sastri, C. Stacey, and E.M. Rubidge. 2025. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Res. Doc., 2025/012. xx + 263 p.
  • Why Deep-Water Dissolved Oxygen Is Higher in G̱andaawuu.ngaay Xyangs (Juan Perez Sound), Haida Gwaii, Than Other British Columbia Fjords. J. Jackson, A. Hare, C. Hannah, A. Hilborn, Skil Jáada, S. Page, S. Rosen, A. Timmerman, and L. Lee. 2025. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130. doi: 10.1029/2024JC021826. doi:10.1029/2024JC021826
  • A sea surface temperature product for monitoring Marine Heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific. A. Hilborn, L. Guan, D. Wan, and A. Peña. 2025. Canadian Technical Report of Hydrography and Ocean Sciences. 394: v + 23 p.
  • Improving Satellite Chlorophyll-a Retrieval in the Turbid Waters of the Bay of Fundy, Canada. K.L. Wilson, A. Hilborn, S. Clay, and E. Devred. 2024. Estuaries and Coasts. doi:10.1007/s12237-024-01334-x
  • New tools for ADCP processing. H. Hourston, D. Wan, and L. Guan. 2021. Canadian Technical Report of Hydrography and Ocean Sciences. 336: vi + 36 p.

Datasets

A few of the layers we have published are listed below. Some of the datasets listed here can also be found in the Canada Marine Planning Atlas, and the Salish Sea Initiative.

Climatology layers:

  • Satellite chlorophyll-a concentration monthly climatology of the Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone, 2003-2020 (1 km and 4km spatial resolution, MODIS-Aqua)
  • Satellite sea surface temperature monthly climatology of the Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone, 2003-2020 (1 km, MODIS-Aqua)
  • Satellite sea surface temperature monthly climatology of the Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone, 1981-2010 (4 km, AVHRR)
  • Satellite sea surface temperature monthly climatology of the Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone, 1990-2020 (4 km, AVHRR)
  • In situ temperature, Salinity and Sigma-t seasonal slimatologies of the Northeast Pacific Ocean, 1980-2010
  • In situ temperature, Salinity and Sigma-t seasonal climatologies of the Canadian Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone, 1980-2010

Long-term monitoring data:

  • British Columbia Lightstation Sea-Surface Temperature and Salinity Data (Pacific), 1914-present
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Ocean Sciences Division
Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney B.C.

 

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