The University of Victoria’s Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is partnering with the University of Manitoba to develop, install and maintain the cabled estuary observatory component of a new Churchill Marine Observatory (CMO) in Hudson Bay.

The CMO, formally announced by the federal government on July 6 in Churchill—Canada’s only Arctic deep-water port—will be a multidisciplinary facility where researchers will study the impact of oil spills on sea ice and investigate issues related to marine transportation and resource development in the Arctic.

The facility, led by the University of Manitoba, is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the...