Oceanography

Provides more information on how to prepare a research data plan and how to store and manage your data.

Canadian scientific data sets, including oceanography and marine sciences.

Data regarding location of marine animals and plants.

Includes more than 280 datasets related to biogeochemical and physical ocean variables.

From the UK The Marine Biological Association

from National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

US Global Change Research Program.

Freely available data contributed by environmental researchers in the US and other countries.

Digitized "fish notebooks" that describe fish specimens collected over a 100 year period. More than 11,200 records contain data on species co-occurrences and habitat and environmental conditions.

"The Polar Data Catalogue is a repository of metadata and data that describes and provides access to diverse data sets generated by Arctic and Antarctic researchers." Coverage includes "a wide range of disciplines from natural sciences and policy, to health and social sciences."

Open datasets from Canadian federal government departments and agencies. Search by organization, keywords, and more.

Provides links to sources of free geospatial data as well as datasets available through the GIS Centre.