The Marine Data Centre BC is a collaborative program between the Pacific Salmon Foundation and the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at UBC to build a secure data archive for marine ecosystem information on the Salish Sea and West Coast Vancouver Island.
You can submit data by using our online submission form, ensuring that your dataset meets our submission guidelines. If you have questions, feel free to contact us and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
Most of the data hosted on the Marine Data Centre BC are available to everyone. Exceptions exist depending on the dataset’s access permissions.
Data are updated regularly based on the frequency of new submissions. We continuously conduct revisions on our products and our data portal throughout the year.
Please read our disclaimer in the About section to read more about the usage of our products.
Refer to our data submission form and feel free to contact us with any additional questions.
Submitted data undergoes a review process for quality, consistency, and formatting before being published in our repository.
Yes, you can request updates or removal of your data by contacting us through our contact us page.
You can reach us via our contact us page. If you require assistance from a specific team member, you can also email us directly.
If you experience issues accessing data, please report the problem using our contact us page, and we will address it promptly.
We welcome feedback through our feedback form available on our contact us page, and we will address it promptly.
In line with our evolving mission and the growing needs of the Marine Science Program at the Pacific Salmon foundation, we adopted a new name that better reflects who we are, the Marine Data Centre BC. Additionally, our datasets and products now cover a broader area beyond the Strait of Georgia.
We ask that you acknowledge the Data Centre if you use data from our various data sources. If your publication uses data gathered in part from the Data Centre, please send us the literature citation. Please cite the Strait of Georgia Data Centre as: The Marine Data Centre BC: A secure Data Centre for Information on Marine Ecosystems of British Columbia . World Wide Web electronic publication. https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~pearsalli/sgdc_site/