Bedford Basin Monitoring Program

Acknowledging BBMP:

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (2025). Bedford Basin Monitoring Program. Available at: https://www.bio.gc.ca/science/monitoring-monitorage/bbmp-pobb/bbmp-pobb-en.php. Accessed 23 Mar 2025.

Notice: due to errors in the CTD post-processing procedures applied to data collected between 2020 and 2023, the aggregated file has been temporarily removed. If you have used the data collected during this time period for your analyses, please contact Lindsay.Beazley@dfo-mpo.gc.ca for more details. The CTD data associated with bottle measurements are also affected. The data from 2020-2023 are currently undergoing revision and will be posted shortly.

Archived Data:

To acquire archived bottle data please contact Lindsay Beazley

The Bedford Basin Monitoring Program is a long-term oceanographic monitoring site, sampled every week since 1992.

Recent Conditions

Recent Conditions

Weekly Temperature, Salinity and Density Time Series and Anomalies

Time Series and Anomalies

Archived Data

CIOOS
Bedford Basin Map

Weekly Temperature and Salinity Plots Versus Climatology
(2m, 5m, 10m, 60m)

Temperature and Salinity Weekly Anomaly Bar Plots
(2m, 5m, 10m, 60m)

For further information contact: Lindsay Beazley.