details
- Name
- Ocean Tracking Network (OTN)
- Address
- Steele Ocean Sciences Building 1355 Oxford Street
- Zipcode
- B3H 4R2
- City
- Halifax
- State
- NS
- Country
- Canada
- Centre Website
- http://oceantrackingnetwork.org
organisation profile
The Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) is a $168-million global ocean research and technology development platform headquartered at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. OTN deploys Canadian, state of the art acoustic receivers and oceanographic monitoring equipment in key ocean locations. These are being used to document the movements and survival of marine animals carrying electronic tags and to document how both are influenced by oceanographic conditions.
OTN is a pilot project and system of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), Global Ocean Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). And has been welcomed as the first Canadian Associate Data Unit (ADU) of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) also a programme of UNESCO’s IOC.
OTN tracks many keystone, commercially important, and endangered animals including marine mammals, sea turtles, and fishes including sharks, sturgeon, eels, tuna, salmonoids and cod. OTN also deploys benthic pods and Slocum electric gliders for oceanographic sampling measuring temperature, salinity, conductivity, oxygen and depth. An essential component of the OTN platform is the Data Centre hosted at the Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Canada. All OTN data are archived at the Oceans Science Branch, DFO Canada (IODE NODC) and in addition, near real-time glider data are submitted to GTS and tag release metadata is sent to OBIS Canada (BIO, DFO Canada).
The data portal can be accessed at http://members.oceantrack.org
edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 4487
- Collating centre
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS)
- Latest update
- 27 February 2017 9:33:13 AM