Corkum Miranda E, Omar Naaman M, Campbell Douglas A
Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada.
PLoS One. 2025 Jan 30;20(1):e0315742. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0315742. eCollection 2025.
The re-emergence of episodic faecal contamination of Parlee and Murray Corner beaches, on the Northumberland Strait of New Brunswick, Canada, in 2017, raised renewed community concerns on the health, environmental and tourism sustainability of these community resources, and led to creation of an Integrated Watershed Management Plan for the Shediac Bay Watershed (October 2021). In response we have to date compiled, curated and made accessible 205,772 microbial water quality data records spanning over 80 years from Southeastern New Brunswick and the Northumberland Strait. This dataset derives in large part from Shellfish Surveys completed by Environment and Climate Change Canada, along with data generated by multiple government agencies, Non-Governmental Organizations and citizen science sources. Records derived from these multiple sources are now deposited in the Gordon Foundation's DataStream (https://atlanticdatastream.ca), an open access common platform for sharing structured information on fresh and marine water health, delivered on a pan-Canadian scale, in collaboration with regional monitoring networks. We herein outline our data assembly, curation and deposition, along with preliminary analyses of contamination patterns at three representative sites on the Northumberland Strait coast of New Brunswick. Our results suggest that cumulative rainfall over 48 h is useful in predicting contamination risk at the developed Parlee Beach, and thereby demonstrate how open data can be used to inform policy and management decisions.
2017年，加拿大新不伦瑞克省诺森伯兰海峡的帕利海滩和默里角海滩再次出现间歇性粪便污染，这再次引发了社区对这些社区资源的健康、环境和旅游可持续性的担忧，并促成了谢迪亚克湾流域综合流域管理计划的制定（2021年10月）。作为回应，我们迄今已收集、整理并提供了来自新不伦瑞克省东南部和诺森伯兰海峡的80多年间的205772条微生物水质数据记录。该数据集很大程度上源自加拿大环境与气候变化部完成的贝类调查，以及多个政府机构、非政府组织和公民科学来源生成的数据。来自这些多个来源的记录现已存入戈登基金会的数据流（https://atlanticdatastream.ca），这是一个开放获取的通用平台，用于在泛加拿大范围内与区域监测网络合作共享有关淡水和海水健康的结构化信息。我们在此概述了我们的数据收集、整理和存储，以及对新不伦瑞克省诺森伯兰海峡海岸三个代表性地点的污染模式的初步分析。我们的结果表明，48小时内的累计降雨量有助于预测已开发的帕利海滩的污染风险，从而证明开放数据可如何用于为政策和管理决策提供信息。
