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Integrated Science Data Management (ISDM)
Providing Access to Ocean Data
ISDM's mandate is to manage and archive ocean data collected by DFO, or acquired through national and international programmes conducted in ocean areas adjacent to Canada, and to disseminate data, data products, and services to the marine community in accordance with the policies of the Department.
Programme Descriptions
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- Argo
- Argo is an international programme aimed at deploying approximately 3000 profiling Alace floats around the world. Every 10-15 days these floats surface with a temperature and salinity profile and a surface drift velocity. Canada will be contributing approximately 90 floats to the programme.
- Atlantic Zone Monitoring Programme (AZMP)
- An operational marine research program conducted by DFO for the North-Western Atlantic, including the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy. The data and information reside on servers in each DFO region and at MEDS. Access is password protected for some limited data sets.
- BioChem
- Database of biological and chemical oceanographic data.
- Climate Variability (CLIVAR)
- An international research programme addressing many issues of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change. It seeks to better understand and predict our climate in order to take precautions and to reduce impacts of climate variability and change on our planet.
- National Contaminants Information System (NCIS)
- 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.
- Tides and Water Levels
- As Canada's national data center, the historical tide and water level data archive presently holds over 500 million records with the earliest dating back before the turn of the century. Over 2 million new observations, reported from the CHS permanent gauging network, are added on a daily and monthly basis. Data are also exchanged annually with Environment Canada.
- Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Project (GTSPP)
- A joint IOC / WMO project designed to develop the oceanographic data management model for the next decade. The GTSPP is a joint venture by nine participating member states of the IOC.
- Joint Commission on Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (J-COMM)
- A joint IOC / WMO program program which makes oceanographic data available within "operational" time frames.
- Responsible National Oceanographic Data Centre (RNODC)
- ISDM acts as the Responsible National Oceanographic Data Centre for drifting buoy data on behalf of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Committee (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). ISDM archives data collected by drifting buoys deployed anywhere in the world.
- Ship of Opportunity Programme (SOOP) Implementation Panel
- A joint IOC / WMO programme, the SOOPIP in striving to operationalize global upper ocean measurements. One task is to monitor the performance of the system in covering the oceans in both space and time.
