Marine pollution, Driver of Environmental Change: eDrivers Project for the St. Lawrence System

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The data used to characterize marine pollution risk come from the global cumulative impacts assessment on habitats and available on the NCEAS online data repository.

Marine pollution was considered to be mainly driver by the shipping industry. As such, the driver layer was constructed by combining the shipping (i.e. shipping lanes) and invasive species (i.e. cargo volume) layers.

It is possible to consult the scientific report of the eDrivers project: Characterizing Exposure to and Sharing Knowledge of Drivers of Environmental Change in the St. Lawrence System in Canada and the additional data. It is possible to consult the application eDrivers.

REFERENCE:

Halpern, B., Frazier, M., Potapenko, J. et al. Spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world’s ocean. Nat Commun 6, 7615 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8615

Data and resources

Environmental Driver: Marine Pollution

Web Coverage Service (WCS) of the OGC standard provided by GeoServer. Presents the intensity of marine pollution in the St. Lawrence Estuary and Gulf modelled…

WCS Open

Additional information

Temporal extent	2003-01-01 – 2011-12-31
Vertical extent	-520.0 – 0.0 m
Date (creation)	2003-01-01
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-07-31
Created	2026-07-31
API	package_show