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Spanish Harbour AOC recovery monitoring
Spanish Harbour was identified as an Area of Concern (AOC) due to degraded water quality and environmental health and was recognized as an Area in Recovery in 1999. As part of... -
Historical observations of physical limnology in Canadian lakes
As part of research projects in Environment and Climate Change Canada, historical physical limnology observations have been collected in Canadian Lakes since 1968. These... -
Analysis of Priority Alkyl Aryl Sulfonates (AAS) in Wastewater 2018
In 2018 samples of raw influent and final effluent wastewater from fourteen municipal wastewater treatment plants at various locations in Canada were analyzed for priority alkyl... -
Effect of substituted phenylamine antioxidants on three stages of the...
Substituted phenylamines (SPAs) are incorporated into a variety of consumer products (e.g., polymers, lubricants) in order to increase the lifespan of the products by acting as... -
Precipitation Occurrence Sensor System (POSS)
The Precipitation Occurrence Sensor System (POSS) is a small X-band 10.525 GHz continuous-wave bi-static vertically pointing Doppler radar. The system reports precipitation... -
Stable Nitrogen, Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen Isotopes in Adult Polar Bear Hair
This dataset contains the stable nitrogen (δ15N), carbon (δ13C), oxygen (δ18O), and hydrogen (δ2H) isotope data from 1123 samples of underfur hair of adult polar bears (Ursus... -
Canadian Ozonesonde Network
The Canadian Ozonesonde Network measures vertical profiles of ozone from ground level up to 36 km altitude across Canada. The objectives of the network are to provide long-term... -
Adjusted and Homogenized Canadian Climate Data (AHCCD)
This web site provides adjusted and homogenized climate data for many climatological stations in Canada. These data were created for use in climate research including climate... -
Treatment of oil sands process affected waters by constructed wetland:...
Constructed wetland treatment systems (CWTSs) offer a potential solution to reduce toxicity by remediating the oil sands process-affected waters (OSPWs) produced by bitumen... -
Ambient Air Quality, Oil Sands Region
Air emissions from oil sands development can come from a number of sources including industrial smokestacks, tailings ponds, transportation, and dust from mining operations. Air... -
Borden Forest Ozone and Sulphur Dioxide Dry Deposition Study
These data are associated with the following two publications: Zhiyong Wu, Staebler R., Vet R., and Zhang L. (2016), Dry deposition of O3 and SO2 estimated from gradient... -
Shale Petroleum Extraction Emission Characterization (SPEECH) Study
In October and November 2015, ground-based air measurements of pollutants were made from two mobile laboratories in southeast Saskatchewan in an area within a 50 km radius of... -
Meltwater from snow contaminated by oil sands emissions is toxic to larval...
To assess the toxicity of winter-time atmospheric deposition in the oil sands mining area of Northern Alberta, embryo-larval fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) were exposed to... -
Iqaluit, Nunavut (CYFB) Enhanced Site for Canadian Arctic Weather Science...
In 2015 as part of the Canadian Artic Weather Science (CAWS) project, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) established an enhanced monitoring reference site at Iqaluit,... -
Mercury in Ringed Seals (Pusa hispida) from the Canadian Arctic in Relation...
The objectives of the present long‐term study, spanning a 45 year period, were to 1) investigate the temporal trends of total mercury (THg; muscle and liver) and selenium (Se;... -
2000-2018 annual total deposition fluxes of nitrogen and sulfur at CAPMoN sites
The datasets and maps are associated with a research study. Annual total (dry + wet) deposition fluxes of nitrogen (nitric acid, nitrate and ammonium) and sulfur (sulfur dioxide... -
Ecosystem Sites, Volatile Organic Compounds, Preliminary Data, Oil Sands Region
Ecosystem Sites, Volatile Organic Compounds – Preliminary Data, Oil Sands Region Volatile organic compounds (VOC) data are currently collected by Environment and Climate Change... -
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections
We publish Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) and air pollutant emissions projections annually. These projections help measure progress in reducing emissions and combating climate... -
Metal contamination in the Saguenay soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria
As part of the research activities of the St. Lawrence Action Plan (SLAP) and in collaboration with Parks Canada, a 5-year monitoring program was initiated to assess the effect... -
Silver nanoparticles in Canadian municipal wastewater effluents
The purpose of this study was to assess the release and characterization of forms of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in urban effluents across Canada. Samples were collected from...