Characterisation of Saint John River Saltmarshes Around the Port of Saint John, NB (2021)
This project is conducted under the Department of Fisheries and Oceans' Coastal Environmental Baseline Program; part of the national Oceans Protection Plan. The project collects baseline data on saltmarshes within the Port of Saint John study area which are tidally influenced, and which impact marine ecosystems by the various ecosystem services they provide; including absorbing water in storm events and reducing erosion and runoff into the marine environment, filtering chemicals and sediment out of water before it is discharged into the ocean, and providing food and habitat for wildlife. The focus of the baseline evaluation will be to follow the Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol for Atlantic Canada (WESP-AC), developed by Dr. Paul Adamus (Oregon State University) and the New Brunswick Department of Environment and Local Government (Adamus, P., 2018). In order to rapidly characterize the ecosystem services of wetlands within the study area, as well as to collect species data (including invasive species). The standardized protocol involves a desktop assessment and a field visit to each wetland.
The dataset contains a Tidal WESP-AC spreadsheet (.xlsx) for each wetland, a species spreadsheet (.csv), and a geodatabase (.gdb) of wetland boundaries, a centroid, monitoring tracks, and boundary of the Port of Saint John study area.
Field visits were done in 2021 on the following dates: Hospital wetland (July 13), Spruce Lake Stream wetland (July 27), Quarry wetland (July 28), Mosquito Cove wetland (July 28), Randolph Island wetland (Aug 11), Belmont wetland (Aug 12), Ragged Point wetland (Aug 12), Bay Street wetland (Aug 12), and Martinon Beach wetland (Aug 12).
REFERENCE:
Paul Adamus (2018), Chapter 4.3.2 - WESP (Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol): A Suite of Regionalized RAMs. Editor(s): John Dorney, Rick Savage, Ralph W. Tiner, Paul Adamus. Wetland and Stream Rapid Assessments. Academic Press. Pages 343-351. ISBN 9780128050910. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-805091-0.00011-6.
Data and resources
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Occurrence data for different species found in the various salt marshes in the Saint John River area.CSV Open
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Geodatabase (.gdb) of wetland boundaries, a centroid, monitoring tracks, and boundary of the Port of Saint John study area.ZIP Open
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Spreadsheet (.xlsx) with Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol for Atlantic Canada analyses for the Bay Street wetland.XLSX Open
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Spreadsheet (.xlsx) with Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol for Atlantic Canada analyses for Belmont Wetland.XLSX Open
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Spreadsheet (.xlsx) with Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol for Atlantic Canada analyses for the hospital area wetland.XLSX Open
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Spreadsheet (.xlsx) with Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol for Atlantic Canada analyses for the wetland in the Martinon Beach area.XLSX Open
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Spreadsheet (.xlsx) with Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol for Atlantic Canada analyses for the wetland in the Mosquito Cove area.XLSX Open
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Spreadsheet (.xlsx) with Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol for Atlantic Canada analyses for Quarry Wetland.XLSX Open
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Spreadsheet (.xlsx) with Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol for Atlantic Canada analyses for Ragged Point wetland.XLSX Open
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Spreadsheet (.xlsx) with Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol for Atlantic Canada analyses for the Randolph Island wetland.XLSX Open
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Spreadsheet (.xlsx) with Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol for Atlantic Canada analyses for the Spruce Lake stream.XLSX Open
Additional information
| Temporal extent | 2021-07-13 – 2021-08-12 |
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| Vertical extent | 0.0 – 0.0 m |
| Date (creation) | 2021-07-13 |
| Status | completed |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| Projects | Coastal Environmental Baseline Program |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-07-31 |
| Created | 2026-07-31 |
| API | package_show |