Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Marine biological and chemical database
Original (non-English) name
Acronym
BioChem
Citation
DFO [current year]. BioChem: database of biological and chemical oceanographic data. Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada. http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/data-donnees/biochem/index-eng.html. Database accessed on [insert date here]
Abstract
BioChem is an archive of marine biological and chemical data maintained by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). It holds biological and chemical data that are:
from department research initiatives
collected in areas of Canadian interest
The data held in BioChem are divided into 2 functional areas, which are:
1)discrete data, usually from water bottle sampling, including: pH, nutrients, chlorophyll,
dissolved oxygen
2)plankton data, usually from towed nets, including: species counts and biomass measurements.
While the data support climate research, they may also be used for other purposes. These include improving our understanding of ecosystem variability, ground-truthing satellite data, and supporting fisheries research.