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Interview with Professor Philippe Archambault
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryIn this interview, Professor Philippe Archambault (Université Laval) presents his work on the impacts of changes in aquatic biodiversity and cumulative environmental stressors in the St. Lawrence River. His research shows that the interaction of multiple…
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Interview with Professor Jean-Éric Tremblay
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryIn this interview, Professor Jean-Éric Tremblay (Université Laval) presents his work on nutrient dynamics in the St. Lawrence system, from the riverine part to the Gulf. His research reveals a major change in the ecosystem: while phosphorus inputs have been…
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The Logistics of Moving Containers Between the Docks and the Storage Yard in Port Terminals With Challenging Topography
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryThe growth of global trade in manufactured goods has been made possible by containerization, a specific branch of maritime transport in which goods are transported in standardized metal boxes called containers. Container port terminals (CPTs) are a key link in…
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Ecological Characterization of Benthos and Physicochemical Properties of Sediments (Granulometry, Organic Matter, Pigments) from the Amundsen Missions (2007-2024)
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryThis dataset brings together data that was collected during the BIOME laboratory's annual scientific expeditions aboard the research icebreaker NGCC Amundsen, covering a period from 2007 to 2024. This long-term monitoring aims to document the structure of…
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Water Governance in the St. Lawrence River Basin
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryRecent events at the local and federal levels in the United States have rekindled the debate about the sustainability of water governance in the North American Great Lakes. This governance is adaptive, responding to the contemporary concerns of governments,…
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Aquaculture, Driver of Environmental Change: eDrivers Project for the St. Lawrence System
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryAs aquaculture sites are managed at the provincial level in the St. Lawrence, data on aquaculture sites come from various source. Invertebrates aquaculture is especially important in the southern and western Gulf. Fish and algae aquaculture, on the other hand,…
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Recruitment and Abundance of the Blue Mussel (Mytilus edulis) Along the Shore of the St. Lawrence Maritime Estuary (2003-2010)
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryAbundance data (biomass and density) of populations of blue mussel (Mytilus spp.) in the mid-littoral zone from 2007 to 2010. The biomass data (after drying by sponging) come from 6 quadrats (0.0225 m2) at each of 29 sites visited during the summer on the…
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eDrivers, a Knowledge Platform on 22 Environmental Drivers Present in the St. Lawrence System
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryeDrivers is an open platform focused on sharing knowledge on the distribution and intensity of drivers. It gathers a community of experts committed to structuring, standardizing and sharing knowledge on drivers of environmental change in support of science and…
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Sea Level Rise, Driver of Environmental Change: eDrivers Project for the St.Lawrence SystemSea Level Rise
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryThe data used to characterize sea-level rise risk come from the global cumulative impacts assessment on habitats and available on the NCEAS online data repository. For more details, refer to Halpern et al. (2015)( Sea-level rise was characterized by Nicholls…
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Multibeam bathymetry from an Autonomous Underwater Vehicule (AUV) - Pointe-des-Monts (2019-2020)
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryUsing an autonomous underwater vehicle (HUGIN) equipped with an EM2040 multibeam echosounder, submarine canyons and channels offshore Pointe-des-Monts were surveyed in 2019 and 2020. This survey aimed at identifying the fine-scale morphological variability of…
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Hypoxia, Driver of Environmental Change: eDrivers Project for the St.Lawrence System
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryThe data used to characterize hypoxia come from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ (DFO) Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program survey in late spring and fall of 2013 to 2017, as well as from DFO’s annual multispecies surveys for the northern Gulf in August and…
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Coastal development, Driver of Environmental Change: eDrivers Project for the St.Lawrence System
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryTerrestrial stable lights at night mostly represent light from human settlements and industrial sites with electricity. We thus used lights at night as a proxy of coastal infrastructure development. The data come from the Nighttime Lights Time Series.…
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RQM - CTD Data From the Coriolis Concerted Mission (MIC2022): Inclusion 2022
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryThe Inclusion concerted mission in July 2022, funded by the Réseau Québec maritime (RQM) Odyssée Saint Laurent program, was aimed at acquiring new knowledge about the ecosystems of the St. Lawrence and reaching out to North Coast communities. The mission…
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Infaunal Macrofauna in the Deep Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence in 2005-2006
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryThese data were acquired as part of the Hypoxia project to study the spatio-temporal variation of benthic macrofauna and the relationship with environmental variables in the deep estuary and the gulf of the St. Lawrence River. Abundance data (ind. /dumpster)…
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Commercial fisheries intensity, Driver of Environmental Change: eDrivers Project for the St.Lawrence System
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryThe impacts of fisheries activities in the St. Lawrence are evaluated using DFO fisheries logbooks program. While logbooks are not mandatory for all fisheries in the St. Lawrence, they still provide a very thorough overview of the spatial distribution and…
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Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies, Driver of Environmental Change: eDrivers Project for the St.Lawrence System
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryThe data used to characterize surface-water temperature anomalies come from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ (DFO) Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program. The surface-water layer is characterized using sea surface-water temperature (SST) monthly composites…
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Toxic algae, Driver of Environmental Change: eDrivers Project for the St. Lawrence System
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryThe data we use to describe the risk of toxic algae come from an expert based map delineating the areas where coastal areas are at risk from five different toxins. The map presents coastal areas at risk from: 1) paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins from…
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Acidification, Driver of Environmental Change: eDrivers Project for the St. Lawrence System
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryOceans are the largest reservoirs and sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Its uptake increases seawater acidity and lowers the saturation state of waters with respect to calcite (ΩC) and aragonite (ΩA), the two most common CaCO3 polymorphs that…
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Benthic Biodiversity in the Intertidal Zone on the North Shore (2009)
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryInfaunal abundance data acquired in the intertidal zone at the Baie de Milles-Vaches and the Betsiamites Bank on the North Shore from June 15 to July 15, 2009. They were acquired as part of Camille Robineau's master's project at UQAR-ISMER, focusing on the…
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Nutrient input, Driver of Environmental Change: eDrivers Project for the St. Lawrence System
St. Lawrence Global ObservatoryThe data used to characterize nutrient pollution come from the global cumulative impacts assessment on habitats and available on the NCEAS online data repository(https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/view/doi:10.5063/F1S180FS). Annual fertilizer use in tonnes (t) was…
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