Blog
23 May
On May 21 and 22 two sessions in the Ocean Networks Canada/Ecostats R Workshop Series were held at the University of Victoria.
In total, there were 21 participants, including grad students, undergraduates, UVic faculty, and others. Participants came from the departments of Biology, Geography, Environmental Studies, and the department of Mathematics and Statistics; some of their...
10 May
By Lincoln Hood
On May 7 and 8, the Ocean Networks Canada education team held two workshops at UVic on plotting data and images with the statistics application R. The workshops used Conductivity-Temperature-Depth sensor (CTD) data from the Barkley Canyon node of the NEPTUNE network, and one of ONC’s amazing octopus photos! The instructor covered a variety of topics including how to...
19 Feb
The graph shows pressure data from the Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) sensor at the NEPTUNE Canada station at Folger Pinnacle. The sample period for this instrument is one second, and the values used in this graph were downloaded as averages by the minute; the depth at the Folger Pinnacle station is 25 m, with one decibar of pressure corresponding to roughly one metre of depth. Observe...
13 Feb
On February 5 & 6, two workshops on data management with the statistics application R were held at UVic. The workshops used Ocean Networks Canada data from the Arctic Observatory at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Ocean data and weather data from the Arctic Observatory are available to researchers, students, and the public; to search for data, click here. Topics covered in the workshops...
30 Jan
By Allan Roberts
The graph shows chlorophyll readings from the Ocean Networks Canada Arctic Observatory. As winter has set in, the chlorophyll concentration at the site has declined. Chlorophyll is an important indicator of primary productivity. The observatory also measures water temperature, salinity, ice thickness, air temperature, and other variables. For more data from the...
26 Jan
By Allan Roberts
A free R workshop was held at UVic on January 23, 2013. R is a statistics application and programming language that is widely used in the marine sciences. Most of the 15 workshop participants were graduate students. Their research interests included the following: benthic ecology, salmon ecology, Pacific herring, sable fish, marine population genetics, and nutrient...
10 Dec
By Allan Roberts
Students, educators and researchers can watch the seasons change via Ocean Networks Canada data. For example, the Arctic Observatory at Cambridge Bay is measuring ice thickness, and the NEPTUNE Canada shore station at Port Alberni records weather data, including rainfall and solar radiation. The graph below shows the seasonal change in solar radiation at the NEPTUNE...
2 Oct
Wow, I can’t believe how quickly my first week and a half working for Ocean Networks Canada went by. Working here has been a fantastic learning experience and has me totally fired up about teaching ocean science!
Unfamiliar faces in unfamiliar places:
Much of my time these days has been spent looking at pictures and videos of creatures few people have ever seen. Technically,...
21 Sep
At the beginning of September, Ocean Networks Canada’s Education team hired three fabulous students to help us develop resources for the Post-Secondary and K-12 classrooms, which incorporate the data coming from NEPTUNE Canada and VENUS. Meet Kara, Monika and Allan! Also, if you’re an educator teaching about the ocean and are interested in using the NEPTUNE Canada and/or VENUS data...
30 Aug
With September only a week away, ONCCEE’s Education Team is gearing up for the exciting and busy start of the school year. Last year, as part of our post-secondary program, we facilitated the creation of an Ocean Students Society (OSS) at UVic and this year the enthusiastic students will be back and we are encouraging new students to join. The club is open to both undergrad and...
