Bamfield Resources

Online Resources

• The EOSC 473-573 DATA ARCHIVE (all the CTD data from all years)
• Bamfield Web Site
• Tidal predictions (Bamfield) from Fisheries & Oceans Canada
• River flows from Environment Canada - Sarita River, Carnation Creek, and Sproat River are the useful ones for Barkley Sound (use the map interface).
• Offshore buoy data (you probably want "La Perouse C46206")
• Weather forecast (Tofino)
• Marine weather forecast (West Coast Vancouver Island South)
• The Bamfield Weather Station (great when its working)
• Barkley Sound Time Series (BSTS) - a monthly CTD time series that ended a few years ago, but has some nice plots.
• Ocean Networks Canada- the cabled underwater observatory (Barkley Sound data at Folger Passage)
• Remote sensing data: Chlorophyll and other parameters from space

Charts & Maps

• A nautical chart of Barkley sound
• A nautical chart of Bamfield/Grappler Inlets
• A colour version of the Inlets chart
• A charting web app that may be VERY useful (especially for planning)
• This web site has a low-altitude aerial imagery of BC/WA coastal waters (super cool)
• If you want to use MATLAB to make a nice figure, this .mat file contains a super-high resolution coastline on the NAD83 datum. These code fragments show how it can be used:

For a line coastline:

load BMS_coastline

plot(BC(:,1),BC(:,2));

set(gca,'dataaspectratio',[1 cosd(49) 1]); % so land doesn't appear squashed

set(gca,'tickdir','out','linewidth',2);

axis([-125.25 -125 48.78 48.94]);

xlabel('Longitude');

ylabel('Latitude');

title('Barkley Sound Area');

For a filled coastline:

load BMS_coastline

ii=find(isnan(BC(:,1))); % fine separators between lines

landcolorRGB=[.8 .8 .8];

for k=1:length(ii)-1,

  patch(BC(ii(k)+1:ii(k+1)-1,1),BC(ii(k)+1:ii(k+1)-1,2),landcolorRGB);

end;

set(gca,'dataaspectratio',[1 cosd(49) 1]); % so land doesn't appear squashed

set(gca,'tickdir','out','linewidth',2);

axis([-125.25 -125 48.78 48.94]);

xlabel('Longitude');

ylabel('Latitude');

title('Barkley Sound Area');