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Mar 14, 2017

Federal funding supports British Columbia's earthquake early warning system

Good news for British Columbia! Ocean Networks Canada is one of 26 projects to be selected for funding through the Canadian Safety and Security Program (CSSP), a federal program led by Defence Research and Development Canada, in partnership with Public Safety Canada.

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Earthquake early warning

This funding will support our ongoing work with Hon. Naomi Yamamoto, BC's Minister of State for Emergency Preparedness, and...

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EEW | Earthquake warning | DRDC | Public Safety | warning systems | CSSP | Emergency Management | Canada | security

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Celebrating International Women's Day coast to coast

For International Women’s Day, we celebrate two powerful ocean leaders who stand on guard for the sea on Canada's east and west coasts.

Kate Moran and Wendy Watson-Wright

On the Pacific coast, Ocean Networks Canada’s CEO Dr. Kate Moran (left) is an internationally renowned ocean engineer who has led several major oceanographic expeditions. And on the Atlantic coast, Dr. Wendy Watson-Wright is CEO of Dalhousie University's brand new...

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International Women's Day | Women in STEM | women | STEM | #internationalwomensday
Jan 23, 2017

The warm Blob chills out

2017 began with an icy snap: in early January, British Columbia experienced the first really cold weather in several years. Starting in late 2013, wind and weather patterns over the northeast Pacific shifted, evolving into what has become known as the warm Blob (Figure 1). The surface temperatures of this massive region of the northeast Pacific Ocean climbed as much as three degrees Celcius above the seasonal average.

Warm Blob in June 2015 NOAA sea surface temperature maps

Figure 1: The warm Blob in June 2015, as revealed by NOAA sea surface temperature maps.

From 2014-2016, the entire region from California to Alaska experienced long, warm summers and short, mild...

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Blob | Pacific Ocean | El Nino | sensors | Northeast Pacific

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United States and Canada unite to protect the Arctic

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) applauds the United States and Canada in their resolve to embrace opportunities and confront challenges in the changing Arctic through Indigenous partnerships and responsible, science-based leadership.

On 20 December, President Obama and Prime Minister Trudeau issued a United States-Canada Joint Arctic Leaders’ Statement to launch actions ensuring a strong, sustainable, and viable Arctic economy and ecosystem. Actions include low-impact shipping, science-based management of marine resources, and freedom from the future risks of offshore oil and gas activity. Together, these actions set the stage for deeper partnerships with other Arctic nations,...

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Arctic | Cambridge Bay | Trudeau | Obama | United States | partnership

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Delivering a smart ocean for Canada: Trudeau’s historic Oceans Protection Plan

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) applauds the Government of Canada for putting the ocean at the top of its agenda.

Yesterday, 7 November 2016, the Right Honourable Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $1.5 billion national Oceans Protection Plan that outlines measures to implement world-leading ocean safety and monitoring systems and strengthen engagement with Indigenous and coastal communities. This historic initiative will protect Canada’s ocean and coastal ecosystems for generations to come.

On Tuesday, 8 November, Jonathan Wilkinson, Member of Parliament for North Vancouver and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, visited ONC to speak to the announcement of the new Oceans Protection Plan and how it relates to Victoria and...

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Smart Ocean™ | Oceans Protection Plan

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Monitoring Saanich Inlet and the Strait of Georgia: Fall inshore expedition (2016)

Twice a year, every spring and fall, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) heads to sea aboard the Canadian Coast Guard Vessel (CCGV) John Tully to maintain and upgrade ocean monitoring instrumentation in Saanich Inlet and the Strait of Georgia. Between 4 - 11 October 2016, in addition to the infrastructure maintenance priorities of the expedition, the ONC team also successfully deployed new instrumentation, carried out several activities in support of our science community, and collected samples for benchmarking and calibration of instruments.

ONC crew aboard the CCGV Tully​

The ONC crew aboard the CCGV Tully

Using acoustics to “see”...

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Coast Guard | CCGS Tully | venus | ocean monitoring | underwater listening station | ocean noise | instrumentation | infrastructure maintenance | maintenance expedition | delta dynamics lab | in-shore | expedition

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Fisheries and Oceans Canada partners for a sustainable and healthy ocean future.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is providing Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) with more than half a million dollars to organize its Pacific fisheries science, marine mammal and ocean data. This pilot project will use ONC’s powerful data management system, Oceans 2.0, to support science and make DFO data more open, accessible and user-friendly for their decision-making, stakeholders academia and Canadians. Oceans 2.0 is recognized by the International Council for Science as part of the World Data System.

 

The announcement was made by the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of...

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Funding | announcement | fisheries | Oceans 2.0 | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | data management

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Ocean Networks co-op student improves thermodynamic sea-ice model

Undergraduate student, Ada Loewen, just completed her co-op term at Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) as part of her combined University of Victoria degree in physics and ocean sciences. Using data from the Cambridge Bay observatory, Ada improved a one-dimensional thermodynamic sea-ice model funded through ONC’s Safe Passage project with Polar Knowledge Canada.

Ada Lowen with ONC staff

Ada Loewen with ONC staff (l-r) Dwight Owens, Martin Scherwath, Fabio De Leo and Pere Puig

The purpose of the model is to simulate sea-ice growth in Cambridge Bay using...

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Sep 13, 2016

CANARIE funding supports new tools for big data

An investment of $577,000 has been made by CANARIE to enhance access to and processing of big data collected by Ocean Networks Canada (ONC). ONC’s cabled ocean observatories support hundreds of underwater and on-land sensors that generate a huge volume of continuous, high-resolution data about the ocean.

Minister Aldag makes CANARIE funding announcement

MP John Aldag making the CANARIE funding announcement on 13 September 2016.

As the size of ONC’s data archive grows the need for enhanced tools to help researchers efficiently process and understand a fire hose of data is...

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CANARIE | Funding | big data | Oceans 2.0 | announcement | API | open source | software development

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INCISE 2016 gathers the international submarine canyon community

Imagine the Grand Canyon, submerged underwater. Now multiply that by 10,000. That’s how many underwater canyons have been identified in the global ocean over the last decade. But while the scientific exploration of canyons advances, so does the human footprint. Increased demand for energy, minerals and fisheries makes it all the more urgent for us to understand and protect these dynamic ecosystems before they are altered or damaged by these human impacts.

This summer, an international community of submarine canyon scientists gathered in Victoria, British Columbia to present state-of-the-art research and discuss new technology, marine policy and conservation. From 25-27 July, Ocean Networks Canada hosted the third INCISE...

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submarine canyon | INCISE | marine geology | symposium | biodiversity | Fabio De Leo

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