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Sep 14, 2018

New research shines a light on the importance of submarine canyons

We are only beginning to understand the vital role that submarine canyons play in our global ocean. Acting as ‘deep sea gutters’, these biodiversity hotspots trap and concentrate organic matter that serves as food for many marine invertebrates, fish, and marine mammals.

While nearly 10,000 submarine canyons have been mapped to date, only 8.5% of them have been studied by the scientific community. In a new volume of research published recently in Progress in Oceanography, 17 scientific articles describe new discoveries on physical, geological, and biological processes of these incredibly diverse and dynamic seabed topographic features, highlighting the key role submarine canyons...

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barkley canyon | submarine canyons | INCISE symposium

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A sea of crabs captured on camera!
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Sep 12, 2018

From Cosmos to Core: Wiring the Abyss Expedition 2018

The deep sea holds answers to many scientific questions about the origin of life on Earth, our changing ocean, and even outer space. This year, Ocean Networks Canada’s (ONC) annual Wiring the Abyss expedition expanded infrastructure to monitor both deep sea and deep space⎯from the cosmos to the core⎯reaching new milestones for our offshore observatory in the northeast Pacific Ocean.

ONC’s annual maintenance expeditions allow for instrumentation to be added, maintained, and recovered, live streaming these deep sea operations in real time so everyone can #knowtheocean. Wiring the Abyss Leg 1, aboard Canadian Coast Guard ship John P. Tully,...

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Wiring the Abyss | neutrinos | hydrothermal vent | endeavour | cascadia | EEWS

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Jul 20, 2018

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Jan 23, 2018

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Sep 11, 2018

New study quantifies natural flux of methane gas in the northeast Pacific

Beneath the ocean floor, bacteria produce methane gas that is regularly released up through the sediment and into the sea water as bubble streams (Figure 1). While these gas flares have been observed on continental margins around the world, until now there has been no systematic study of all available gas flow observation data to estimate the total amount of methane escaping from the seafloor. These data are important for the global inventory of carbon and also for analyzing the uptake of carbon dioxide (ocean acidification), and its impact on climate change.

Figure 1: Methane gas bubbles escaping the seafloor near Clayoquot Slope.

In a new...

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methane | barkley canyon | gas hydrates

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Sep 6, 2018

An International summer school for marine scientists

Since 1992, the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) has coordinated international marine research in countries surrounding the north Pacific Ocean. Annual meetings, events and trainings are hosted by research institutions in member countries, Canada, Japan, China, Korea, Russia, and the United States.

“High quality science lectures from the experts themselves, a tour of the actual equipment deployed; and working with outstanding young scientists from all over the world.” ~ PICES Summer School 2018 participant.

In July 2018, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) hosted 25 early career scientists from 11 countries⎯including Australia, Brazil, Switzerland, Ecuador, Germany and Greece⎯...

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PICES | summer school | dataset

Aug 31, 2018

Discovering and protecting seamounts in the northeast Pacific

Imagine exploring Banff National Park and discovering mountains that no one knew were there. That’s what happened during our recent Northeast Pacific Seamounts Expedition, in collaboration with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Oceana Canada, the Haida Nation and Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) (Figure 1).

Figure 1. The Northeast Pacific Seamounts Expedition was a 16-day, 2500 kilometre voyage to explore and map little-known underwater volcanoes with a goal to inform future marine protection measures.

While mapping and exploring these underwater volcanoes, the science team aboard exploration vessel (EV) Nautilus discovered six...

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seamounts | DFO | Haida Nation | Oceana Canada | mapping

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Apr 11, 2018

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Jul 20, 2018

Wiring the Abyss Leg 2: 23 July – 3 August 2018

In July 2018, a team of 48 scientists, engineers, communicators, and crew aboard the exploration vessel Nautilus conducted around-the-clock operations to maintain and expand instrumentation on Ocean Networks Canada’s cabled observing systems off Canada’s west coast.

Highlights include an exciting new neutrino experiment at Cascadia Basin to determine whether this location can support a large-scale neutrino detector array in the future; expanded instrumentation at Endeavour, including new sensors and cameras to improve our understanding of this dynamic hydrothermal vent ecosystem; installation of the final earthquake early warning seafloor sensors at Cascadia Basin, Barkley Canyon, and Clayoquot...

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Wiring the Abyss | Leg 2 | neutrinos | endeavour | cascadia basin | sensors | EEWS

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Jan 23, 2018

Jul 18, 2018

Deep space meets deep sea in summer expedition

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is installing specialized equipment at its deepest site in the northeast Pacific Ocean to assess the location’s suitability for observing one of the universe’s most essential and difficult-to-study ingredients—neutrinos.

An initiative of the University of Victoria, ONC is deploying the equipment as part of Expedition 2018: Wiring the Abyss, its annual offshore expedition to install and improve cabled observatory infrastructure.

Neutrinos are one of the universe’s most essential ingredients and most abundant subatomic particles, produced by nuclear reactions from solar fusion,...

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Jul 6, 2018

Using innovative tech to monitor and protect remote seamounts

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is extending its long-term continuous monitoring capabilities to support new marine protection efforts by deploying a sophisticated instrument package on Dellwood Seamount within the Canadian Offshore Pacific Area of Interest (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Dellwood Seamount is located within the Offshore Pacific Area of Interest, announced in May 2017 as the first step to establishing a large marine protected area under Canada’s Oceans Act. This unique seafloor ecosystem includes 17 named seamounts—with perhaps as many as 40 in total—and a series of hydrothermal vents.

Seamounts are submerged underwater...

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Jul 4, 2018

Endeavour expansion during Leg 1 of Expedition 2018: Wiring the Abyss

Following the successful completion of Wiring the Abyss Leg 1 aboard Canadian Coast Guard ship (CCGS) John P. Tully, the Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) team are busy preparing for Leg 2 of our annual offshore expedition to install and improve cabled observatory infrastructure, 21 July - 4 August. The upcoming 2-week expedition aboard exploration vessel (E/V) Nautilus will complete many of the installations deployed aboard CCGS Tully (Figure 1).

Figure 1. 2018 Wiring the Abyss Leg 1 by the numbers.

Highlights of this 2-part expedition include the deployment of a long-awaited vertical...

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Jul 4, 2018

Ocean Networks Canada 2018 visiting scientist program: Heidrun Kopp of GEOMAR/University of Kiel (Germany)

Visiting scientist Heidrun Kopp, a professor at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) in Germany, is at Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) until October to research seafloor geodesy along the northern Cascadia margin and explore possibilities for international collaborations.

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