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Apr 24, 2014

A Year of Arctic Sea Ice

A winter's passage has been captured by cameras and instruments measuring ice thickness, salinity, oxygen and phytoplankton abundance in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. These data are being analyzed by staff scientist Akash Sastri and Scientific Data Specialist Alice Olga Victoria Bui, revealing new insights into how conditions evolve beneath the ice over the long Arctic winter. The data are being collected by instrumentation attached to a community observatory operating at a depth of approximately 6 metres below the surface and connected by cable to a nearby wharf for realtime data collection.

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Cambridge Bay | community observatory | Nunavut | Arctic | ice | sea ice | oxygen | salinity | ice draft | Greenland Cod | time-lapse

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Ocean Properties

Oceanographers and marine scientists measure or observe attributes or properties of the ocean that allow them to interpret water or component or organism behaviour. Although Ocean Networks Canada cannot measure all required parameters, many instruments are available to provide useful data.

This section discusses the properties measured and provides links to the instruments that provide all or part of the information. Not all parameters are measured at all locations, and some locations have more than one instrument that will measure the same feature in different ways.

Bottom Animal Behaviour

Sometimes biologists have to see animals to understand their actions related to abundance, feeding, competition, and mating. Thus, a camera on the seafloor can often reveal...

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ocean properties | animal behaviour | underwater video | conductivity | currents | CTD | adcp | density | depth | pressure | dissolved nitrogen | oxygen | salinity | Temperature | water clarity | zooplankton | ZAP

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VENUS Ferries System Data are Available on Website

BC Ferries Color Spatial map of SeaBird Salinity data.

The VENUS Ferry System is back online, collecting data from a number of surface and meteorological station sensors. After the scheduled maintenance the M/V Queen of Alberni (BC Ferries) is back on its route between Nanaimo and Vancouver (Duke Point – Tsawwassen). Browse our data plots gallery or access the data in the archive.

 

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BC Ferries | Queen of Alberni | strait of georgia | ferry data | salinity

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