Biodiversity and Oceanographic data from the False Creek Bioblitz, 2022

10.21966/8sgn-jg38

False Creek is an urban inlet that runs through the city of Vancouver British Columbia. From April to September 2022, the Hakai Institute and the False Creek Friends Society, in collaboration with the City of Vancouver and other local organizations, conducted a BioBlitz of False Creek. This initiative undertook community engagement activities (outreach, education and community science) and scientific initiatives to provide a comprehensive understanding of the biodiversity of the seafloor, the water and the shorelines of the False Creek area in Vancouver. The False Creek Bioblitz combined several complementary methods for studying biodiversity including visual observations, video surveys, DNA Barcoding, and the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) to catalogue the biodiversity of False Creek. This metadata package provides links to the biodiversity and oceanographic data collected during these surveys.

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Biodiversity observations and oceanographic dataHTML

Comprehensive list of all species visually observed by participants during...

iNaturalist projectHTML

Link to the dedicated iNaturalist project for the False Creek Bioblitz.

Barcode of Life Database (BOLD) recordsHTML

Public records for specimens that were sampled for DNA Barcoding analysis.

Biodiversity from environmental DNA (eDNA) dataHTML

Processed eDNA-derived biodiversity observations

Environmental DNA (eDNA) raw sequence dataHTML

Raw environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding sequence data (Illumina MiSeq of...

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Related Works

False Creek Bioblitz Interim Report
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Metadata Reference Date(s) October 18, 2025 (Publication)
October 18, 2025 (Revision)
Data Reference Date(s) April 29, 2022 (Creation)
October 18, 2025 (Publication)
Frequency of Update As Needed

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Responsible Party 1
Name
Lemay, Matthew ORCID logo
Affiliation
Hakai Institute ROR logo
Email
matt.lemay@hakai.org
Role
  • Author
  • Custodian
  • Distributor
  • Owner
  • Point of Contact
Responsible Party 2
Name
Kellogg, Colleen ORCID logo
Affiliation
Hakai Institute ROR logo
Email
colleen.kellogg@hakai.org
Role
  • Author
  • Custodian
Responsible Party 3
Affiliation
Hakai Institute ROR logo
Email
data@hakai.org
Role
Publisher
Responsible Party 4
Affiliation
Tula Foundation ROR logo
Role
Funder
Responsible Party 5
Affiliation
False Creek Friends Society
Role
Collaborator
Responsible Party 6
Name
Whalen, Matthew ORCID logo
Role
  • Principal Investigator
  • Collaborator
  • Contributor
Responsible Party 7
Name
Henderson, Kate
Role
  • Collaborator
  • Contributor

Field Value
Ocean Variables
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Subsurface Temperature
  • Fish abundance and distribution
  • Microbe biomass and diversity
  • Marine turtles, birds, mammals abundance and distribution
  • Invertebrate abundance and distribution
  • Other
Scope Dataset
Status Completed
Topic Category oceans
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Spatial Extent { "coordinates": [ [ [ -123.2, 49.27 ], [ -123.1, 49.27 ], [ -123.1, 49.28 ], [ -123.2, 49.28 ], [ -123.2, 49.27 ] ] ], "type": "Polygon" }
North Bounding Latitude 49.28
South Bounding Latitude 49.27
East Bounding Longitude -123.1
West Bounding Longitude -123.2
Temporal Extent
Begin
2022-04-29
End
2022-09-07
Vertical Extent
Min
0.0
Max
30.0
Default Locale English
Citation identifier
Code
https://doi.org/10.21966/8sgn-jg38
Projects
  1. Genomics
  2. Nearshore
  3. Oceanography
Included in Data Catalogue
Included in Data Catalogue 1
Name
Hakai Data Catalogue
Description
Science on the Coastal Margin
URL
https://catalogue.hakai.org