Cataloguing and monitoring changes in Arctic marine biodiversity through SCUBA diving

• Main Authors: Gibbs, Donna M, Gibbs, Charles J, Schultz, Jessica A
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: PeerJ 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Cambridge Bay; Nunavut; Pond Inlet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26850v1; https://peerj.com/preprints/26850v1.pdf; https://peerj.com/preprints/26850v1.html; https://peerj.com/preprints/26850v1.xml

Since 2014 divers from Ocean Wise have been SCUBA diving in the Cambridge Bay, Nunavut area collecting data on fishes, invertebrates and marine plants at numerous sites. For each dive a file is created that catalogues the species found and a rough abundance of that species. These files accumulate ov...