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

Weekly Temperature, Salinity and Density Time Series and Anomalies

- Fig 1:Bedford Basin
- Fig 2:Ship's Wheelhouse
- Fig 3:Monitoring Equipment
- Fig 4:Monitoring Equipment
- Fig 5:Monitoring Equipment
- Fig 6:Monitoring Equipment
- Fig 7:Loading the Sigma T
- Fig 8:Zooplankton sample from net tow
- Fig 9:Zooplankton in cod end
- Fig 10:Rinsing the net
- Fig 11:Recovering the net
- Fig 12:Extracting samples
- Fig 13:Deploying the CTD
- Fig 14:Dalhousie crew prepares gear
- Fig 15:Sampling gear ready to go
- Fig 16:Labelled sample vials in the lab
For further information contact: Lindsay Beazley.
- Date modified: