Datasets
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iTrack Oysters February 2023 Experiment - Environmental and Oyster Health Data
This data package is a component of the Hakai Institute’s Marna Wet Lab and Caren Helbing (University of Victoria, UVic) collaborative iTrack project investigating environmental... -
Global Eutrophication Monitoring Dataset of Trinidad and Tobago
Eutrophication refers to the enrichment of aquatic systems with nutrients, leading to enhanced primary productivity and the accumulation of algal biomass beyond natural levels.... -
Kelp Canopy Extent 2012 - NW Calvert Island
Polygons manually created based on August 2012 air photos. Two species are mapped: Nereocystis luetkeana and Macrocystis pyrifera. Density is classified as either High or Low... -
Data for Paper: Detection differences between eDNA and mid-water trawls are d...
Marine scientific trawl surveys are commonly used to assess the distribution and population size of fisheries-related species, yet the method is effort-intensive and can be... -
High Resolution Coastal Carbon Monitoring in the Northeast Pacific
This is a collection of high resolution coastal carbon monitoring datasets (both provisional and research-ready) from instrumentation configured on shore-side infrastructure and... -
Protistan plankton time series from the northern Salish Sea and Central Coast...
From 2016 through to the end of 2025, the Hakai Institute Oceanography Program monitored surface (0-1 or 5m depth) protistan plankton community composition, via optical... -
Spatial extent of surface canopy kelp derived from fixed-wing surveys (2024),...
This data package consists of digitized surface canopy extent for two species of canopy-forming kelp – giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) and bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) –... -
Environmental DNA survey of Calvert Island, British Columbia, 2021
This data package contains molecular resources derived from a large DNA-based survey of marine biodiversity carried out around Calvert Island, British Columbia, in 2021. During... -
Water Property Measurements from Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers, BC...
Temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence, photosynthetic active radiation, and turbidity data collected from 2012 to present by the Hakai Institute in waters... -
Putting fjord biodiversity on the map for British Columbia conservation planning
Fjords are deep-water estuaries that support a wide range of marine habitats for pelagic fish. Yet, knowledge gaps in fish distribution and habitat use limit the implementation... -
Vertical Water Properties Profiles (CTD) from the Hakai Institute Juvenile Sa...
Water column property data including temperature, depth, conductivity, salinity, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence, photosynthetically active radiation, and chlorophyll a were... -
Hakai Place Names Service - Coastal British Columbia - Canada
The place names service is derived from the British Columbia Terrain Resource Information Management Program (TRIM) annotation layer, as well as from place name information from... -
Kelp Canopy Extent 2006 - NW Calvert Island
2006 air photos sourced from the province were used to digitize kelp canopies for NW Calvert Island. Focal areas of West Beach and Choked Passage off Calvert Island have been... -
Sentinel 3A and 3B Chlorophyll and Suspended Matter Concentrations for Coasta...
This is an ongoing dataset of fully processed 8-day average Sentinel 3A and 3B chlorophyll-a (Chla) and suspended particulate matter (SPM) imagery for coastal and offshore... -
Water Property Measurements from Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers, BC...
Temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence, photosynthetic active radiation, and turbidity data collected from 2012 to present by the Hakai Institute in waters... -
Mystery Creek Aerial Photo and LiDAR Survey - 2025 - Airborne Coastal Observa...
As part of the Natural Hazards and Climate Change Geoscience Program at Natural Resources Canada (Geological Survey of Canada), the Hakai Institute has partnered with the GSC to... -
Bute Inlet Geohazard - Topography Surveys - 2023 - Hakai Airborne Coastal Obs...
Hakai Institute collected LiDAR and Imagery via the ACO in 2023 over three watersheds as a part of the Indigenous Watersheds Initiative (IWI) for a project "Assessing Geomorphic... -
Nanwakolas LiDAR Surveys - Airborne Coastal Observatory
The purpose of this data acquisition was to collect new LiDAR data in support of the Nanwakolas 50 Watersheds Project. The acquisition plan was guided by three complimentary... -
Nereocystis kelp canopy productivity data from BC Central Coast
The nereocystis canopy production dataset is a component of Hakai Institute’s Nearshore research and monitoring program. This dataset documents seasonal changes in Nereocystis... -
Farwell Canyon Airborne Surveys - 2024 - Airborne Coastal Observatory
Late in the evening of July 30, 2024, a large landslide occurred on the Chilcotin River approximately 30 kilometres upstream of its confluence with the Fraser River, resulting...
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