Environment and Climate Change Canada

626 datasets found
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    xSO4 Wet Deposition Maps

    Annual and five-year (5YA) average wet deposition maps for the non-sea-salt sulfate ion are available. The file formats include geodatabase files (*.gdb) compatible with geospatial software (e.g. ESRI ArcGIS) and KMZ files compatible with virtual globe software (e.g. Google Earth™). Maps can also...
    Organization:
    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • WMS
    • HTML
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    NO3 Wet Deposition Maps

    Annual and five-year (5YA) average wet deposition maps for the nitrate ion are available. The file formats include geodatabase files (*.gdb) compatible with geospatial software (e.g. ESRI ArcGIS) and KMZ files compatible with virtual globe software (e.g. Google Earth™). Maps can also be viewed...
    Organization:
    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • WMS
    • HTML
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    The Saskatchewan In-Situ Automated Solid Precipitation Measurement Intercomparison Dataset

    Two precipitation measurement super-sites were established in Saskatchewan in anticipation of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) intercomparison initiatives for automated in-situ measurement of solid precipitation and snow (2013-2015) and to provide infrastructure support for exploring...
    Organization:
    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • HTML
    • XML
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    Tributary Benthic Invertebrates, Oil Sands Region

    Tributary Biomonitoring (Lower Athabasca River) Benthic macroinvertebrates, comprising insects, crusteaceans, molluscs and worms, represent a group of organisms used widely in environmental monitoring programs as early warning indicators to assess the effects of change in water quality...
    Organization:
    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • PDF
    • CSV
    • HTML
    • XML
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    Changes in the status of wildlife species at risk

    The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The Changes in the status of wildlife species at risk indicator reports on changes in wildlife species designations for...
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    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
    • HTML
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    Priority Species for Species at Risk

    This dataset displays the Canadian geographic ranges of the priority species identified under the Pan-Canadian Approach for Transforming Species at Risk Conservation in Canada (“Pan-Canadian Approach”). These species include Barren-ground Caribou (including the Dolphin and Union population);...
    Organization:
    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • WMS
    • XLSX
    • FGDB/GDB
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    Human exposure to harmful substances

    The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues.These indicators present the concentrations of 4 substances (mercury, lead, cadmium and bisphenol A) in the Canadian...
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    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
    • HTML
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    Metformin: Environmental fate and effects on the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

    This study aimed to address the toxicological effects the type-2 diabetes drug, metformin has on wild fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas). Fathead minnow embryos and adults were exposed to metformin via in-lake mesocosm and their survival, development and growth was assessed. Exposures were...
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    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • HTML
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    Whitemans Creek Water Quality

    Stream sampling was conducted in the Whitemans Creek watershed in February 2012 to assess water quality during winter baseflow conditions. A total of 30 stream sites were sampled where streams in the watershed intersected roadways. In addition to conventional water quality parameters (e.g.,...
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    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • HTML
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    Metformin: Environmental fate and effects on freshwater plankton

    Zooplankton and phytoplankton were collected during the 56-day metformin in-lake mesocosm exposure conducted Lake 114 at the International Institute for Sustainable Development-Experimental Lakes Area (IILSD-ELA) in northern Ontario, Canada. Samples were collected three times throughout the...
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    Environment and Climate Change Canada
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    • HTML
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    Metformin: Environmental fate and effects study

    This study will determine the toxic effect the pharmaceutical metformin has on an aquatic environment. Chronic exposures were conducted at Lake 114 located at the International Institute for Sustainable Development-Experimental Lakes Area (IILSD-ELA) in Ontario, Canada. Three concentrations of...
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    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • HTML
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    Parasites of amphibians (Lithobates pipiens) as indicators of agricultural pollution

    This project examined the effects of pesticides and agricultural practices on parasites of juvenile leopard frogs, Lithobates pipiens (formerly known as Rana pipiens) in southwestern Quebec, Canada. Nine wetlands and two reference sites were sampled in 2004 and 2005, all of which were in various...
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    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • HTML
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    Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in fish and sediment – PentaBDE concentrations in Lake Trout from Lake Ontario, Canada

    The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators CESI program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers PBDEs in Fish and Sediment indicators identify the drainage regions where concentrations...
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    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
    • HTML
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    Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in fish and sediment – PBDE subgroup concentrations in fish relative to guidelines by drainage regions, Canada

    The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators CESI program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers PBDEs in Fish and Sediment indicators identify the drainage regions where concentrations...
    Organization:
    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
    • HTML
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    Minesing Wetlands Groundwater

    As part of a study to characterize the habitat of Canada’s only known population of Hine’s emerald dragonfly (HED), a species listed as endangered since 2011, groundwater was collected and analyzed from the eastern Minesing Wetlands near Barrie, Ontario. The water quality analyses included...
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    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • HTML
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    Reconstructed river water temperature dataset over Canada 1980-2018.

    The daily water temperature (°C) dataset is reconstructed using the air2stream model (Toffolon and Piccolroaz 2015) with i) air temperature from ~10 km resolution 1980-2018 Regional Deterministic Reforecast System, version 2.1 (Gasset et al. 2021) and ii) streamflow data from the Water Survey of...
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    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • HTML
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    Lake Ice Database

    Since 2009, the Watershed Hydrology and Ecosystems Research Division of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has coordinated spring time multi point ice thickness and composition surveys at up to 15 lake sites in the Northern Hemisphere. Data collected includes on ice snow depth, total...
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    Environment and Climate Change Canada
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    • HTML