details
- Name
- Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS)
- Country
- Canada
- Changed into
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section
- Year
- 2005
organisation profile
Established in 1969 to initially coordinate the Canadian Wave Climate Study, MEDS was enlarged in 1973 when the Tides and Water Levels Section of the Canadian Hydrographic Service and the Canadian Oceanographic Data Centre (established in 1962) were incorporated into it.
National affiliation:
- Department of Environment from 1971 to 1976
- Department of Fisheries and the Environment from 1976 to 1978
- Department of Fisheries and Oceans from 1979 onwards.
International roles:
- Canada's National Oceanographic Data Center in the IODE (IOC) network from 1973 onwards
- Responsible National Oceanographic Data Center for Drifting Buoys under IODE from 1986 onwards
- Regional Environmental Data Center for ICNAF and subsequently for NAFO from 1975 onwards
- Real-Time Data Assembly Center for the Global Temperature Salinity Pilot Project and subsequently, the Global Temperature Salinity Profile Programme under IOC-WMO from 1990 onwards
results in other services
edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 1775
- Collating centre
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS)
- Latest update
- 10 September 2015 5:13:41 PM