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Feb 5, 2021

Building TRUST to be FAIR: data stewardship for a sustainable ocean economy

Our society’s dependence on digital data is growing exponentially, along with our need to trust how and where that information is being managed and preserved. While consensus on ‘good’ data management and stewardship is beginning to develop and evolve, it demands constant diligence and on-going practice to keep up with the 24/7 demands of big data.

At this critical time, Canada is developing national infrastructure and services and best practices for research data management. These initiatives include open access to data, achieving FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data and the launch of the CoreTrustSeal certification process for data repositories—places where large...

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TRUST | FAIR | data | data repository | Reyna Jenkyns | Data Stewardship

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Apr 8, 2020

Coming soon: MINTED dynamic citation tool

One of ONC’s newest data stewardship initiatives developed over the last year is MINTED (Making Identifiers Necessary to Track Evolving Data), funded by the CANARIE Network. Due for public release later this month, this exciting project addresses the growing need to cite research datasets that change over time.

ONC data are very dynamic due to continually accumulating data streams, data reprocessing, and data product code versioning. While there has been a growing recognition of the benefits and need for data citations made evident by the reception of the FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable), existing platforms and tools such as Dataverse and the Federated Research Data Repository are currently only able to serve the needs of static or non-...

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data | Data Stewardship | World Data System | sensors | MINTED

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Jun 12, 2019

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Feb 7, 2019

Wiring the Abyss Leg 2: 23 July – 3 August 2018
Jul 20, 2018

Nov 14, 2019

Drop, cover, and hold on

The final land-based Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) sensors have been installed, completing this advanced seismic infrastructure for British Columbia's alerting system. The system, now ready for commissioning, includes eight seafloor EEW sensors installed on the Cascadia subduction zone, providing real time data on earthquakes—a first on the seafloor off the coast of North America. 36 land-based EEW sites on Vancouver Island help to pin down high magnitude earthquakes.

Data integration is done with the Canadian National Seismograph Network and Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. We are currently working with alerting authorities to determine future roll out of the earthquake early warning system.

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earthquake | earthquake early warning | tsumani | Cascadia subduction zone | data

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Jun 12, 2019

Data from Alaska’s Magnitude 7.9 Earthquake and Tsunami
Jan 23, 2018

Oct 24, 2019

Visiting scientist to focus on marine geohazard research and data

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Dr. Phil Hill, former director at the Geological Survey of Canada’s Pacific division, is ONC’s latest visiting scientist. Hill has a long-standing connection with ONC—he was one of the original principal investigators of ONC’s inshore observatory project proposal and the Delta Dynamics platform—and is looking forward to using ONC data to advance his research on marine geohazards, including submarine landslides and related processes.

Read more about Dr. Hill ...

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visiting scientist | Delta Dynamics platform | Science | data

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Jun 12, 2019

Ocean Networks Canada 2018 visiting scientist program: Marco Francescangeli of Marche Polytechnic University (Italy)
Nov 2, 2018

Ocean Networks Canada 2018 visiting scientist program: Heidrun Kopp of GEOMAR/University of Kiel (Germany)
Jul 4, 2018

Ocean Networks Canada 2018 visiting scientist program: Q&A with Christian Stranne of University of Stockholm
May 8, 2018

Jun 12, 2019

Experience ocean data through interactive art

Our first artist-in-residence program was an exciting, innovative and fruitful venture that helps the public understand and engage with ocean data in the Salish Sea and Fraser Delta.

Visual artist and University of Victoria alum Colton Hash recently completed a six-month residency working with Ocean Networks Canada scientists and data specialists to create artistic visualizations from ocean data.

“I think interactive art has an opportunity to engage with environmental data in a way that is intuitive and interactive, that allows people to form their own connections,” comments Colton. The Atmospheric Ocean visualizes the carbon dioxide exchange between air and sea...

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Colton Hash | artist-in-residence | data | art visualization

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Jul 26, 2017

Real-time radar data spurs international gathering

In June 2017 Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) hosted a WERA high frequency oceanographic radar workshop to discuss “first ever” real-time data that detected tsunami waves when Typhoon Songda hit the west coast of Canada in October 2016, triggering a tsunami alert on the WERA system.

The storm caused Tofino’s Emergency Program Coordinator Keith Orchiston to close beaches in the famous surfing location. “It is always a hard decision to close beaches, but that day we decided to play it safe. Real-time data from an instrument like the WERA radar (Figure 1) would support critical and lifesaving decision making for coastal communities.”

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WERA | radar | workshop | tsunami | data | Wave Radar | Tofino

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Feb 27, 2017

Canada’s first three-glider mission maps whale habitat

For the first time in Canada, a triple glider project has successfully mapped out critical gray whale habitat off the west coast of Vancouver Island. While previous missions have deployed one or two gliders, this Whales, Habitat, and Listening (WHaLe) project—funded by the Marine Environmental Observation, Prediction, and Response (MEOPAR) and the Deparment of Fisheries and Oceans—is the first to fly three coordinated gliders.

In late January, the three gliders...

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Glider | data | whale | habitat | triple glider project | gray whale | MEOPAR | WHaLe project | Ocean Tracking Network

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Jan 25, 2017

Jan 25, 2017

Are earthquakes on the rise?

With media coverage of the recent earthquakes in Italy (M6.6), New Zealand (M7.8), Japan (M6.9), and Papua New Guinea (M7.9), you might be wondering whether earthquake activity is increasing. Long-term earthquake statistics in the last 12 months indicate that it was an average year: there were no earthquakes of M8.0 or higher (one M8.0+ is the annual average) and 19 earthquakes with M7.0 - 7.9 (17...

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earthquake | earthquake early warning | statistics | data | megathrust earthquake

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May 10, 2016

A Canadian First: NOAA brings tsunami Digital Elevation Model training to Victoria, BC

When Kelly Carignan, University of Colorado scientist, visited Victoria, British Columbia for the first time in April 2016, she was surprised that no tsunami evacuation routes were posted in this coastal city. “In northern California you see a lot of tsunami hazard zone signs,” says Kelly.

Fortunately for Victoria, Kelly was in town to lead a ground-breaking workshop that will contribute to improved emergency preparedness efforts in Canada’s coastal communities.

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Apr 26, 2016

Sea Ice Research and its Benefits

Understanding Sea Ice: Ocean Networks Canada Coordinates POLAR Safe Passage Project.

Imagine an area of the size of Ontario ‒ gone. That’s roughly the amount of Arctic sea-ice that has melted in the last 30 years: over 1 million square km. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg: some climate change forecasts are predicting an ice-free summer Arctic Ocean by as early as 2030.

Understanding sea-ice change is critical to life in the high north, particularly when it comes to getting around. Local transportation and commercial shipping are defined by the Arctic’s shifting seasonal extremes, which is becoming harder to predict. Not only is the thickness and extent of the frozen ocean shrinking, but the dates of freeze-up, break-up and the duration of solid...

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