Updated: July 22, 2026
OTN Node
A regional node of the Ocean Tracking Network.
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Detections
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Tags
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Receivers
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Species
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Projects
Data portals
Access datasets via standard services and community aggregators.
- OTN Data PortalPlone portal with per-project pages, All Public Data listing, and node discovery directories.
- RAFT Data PortalTag lookup by transmitter number, receiver coverage map over time, project browser and upload areas with USGS QA/QC.
- GeoserverStation, animal and project layers as WFS/WMS, KML and CSV. Loads straight into QGIS or ArcGIS.
- ERDDAPDeployments, detections and animal releases as CSV, NetCDF or JSON. URL-addressable, so scriptable.
- OTN OBIS IPTVersioned DwC-A downloads with EML metadata, CC-BY 4.0. The archive of record.
- OBISOTN is the thematic node for animal tracking. 111 datasets, 8.2M records, 81 species.
- GBIF101 published datasets, publisher since 2019, endorsed by OBIS.
- Wild MovesGBIF-hosted portal built with WILDLABS and the International Bio-Logging Society. 497 datasets, 21.4M occurrences. OTN datasets assigned to the network appear automatically
- otndata R packageWrapper for OTN's Plone REST API. Explicitly lists MigraMar as covered under the OTN server. Project metadata is queryable without login; files need credentials.
- RAFT programme pageOverview and tool summary on the UMESC site. Mississippi River Basin, invasive carp focus, real-time feeds for the upper Illinois River and Chicago Area Waterway.
Latest data push
Snapshot of the most recent data ingest for this node.
June 2026 Push
The June 2026 push is now available to download. It includes updated detection counts, newly qualified tag records, and receiver deployment updates for this node.
Contacts
DougAppel
Publications
Selected peer-reviewed publications from OTN PIs and collaborators using OTN or OTN animal tracking data.
General inquiries
+1 902 494 4101
otn@dal.ca
Data Centre
otndc@dal.ca
Media Contact
anja.samardzic@dal.ca
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