With hundreds of instruments monitoring Canada’s ocean environment, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) gathers the same amount of data as the Hubble Telescope. Turning a firehose of high resolution data into useful knowledge is the challenge of the century. ONC’s robust and sophisticated data management system, Oceans 2.0, is already recognized as a state-of-the-art ocean management tool for marine decision-making, and it’s about to get even better.

Oceans 2.0 is a versatile online tool that allows scientists and the public to access and manipulate data—including audio and video—from ONC’s hundreds of deep ocean and coastal sensors in real time, 24/7. Thanks to...