May 10, 2013
Today marked the end of Leg 1 - servicing installations in the Salish Sea - wrapped up after a successful 10 days of operations.
Mar 8, 2013
After several months of “silence”, our instruments in the Strait of Georgia are alive again, with data streaming into the database, and out to users via the website.
Feb 13, 2013
Responding to a failure of an array power connector on the VENUS Strait of Georgia in early fall 2012, a joint team of engineers from Ocean Networks Canada and OceanWorks Int’l have spent a week (Feb 5-9) aboard CS Wave Venture recovering, repairing, testing and redeploying the VENUS primary sub-sea infrastructure in the Strait of Georgia.
Jan 23, 2013
The VENUS buoy profiling system winch system test on the Ocean Technology Testbed buoy is progressing. Soon after installation in December 2012, the system underwent a site acceptance test with the manufacturer. Following on from this, the Data Management group has now developed a real time linkage between the system and the database. The next stage is to develop the software infrastructure to command and control the system.
Jan 23, 2013
On 12 January 2013 Kirill was watching the video feed from our Pod 4 camera in Barkley Canyon (depth: 894 m) and noticed a hagfish moving around on the sediment below the camera, when something unusual happened.
Jan 10, 2013
"Who could ask for a better 12 years?? I am leaving VENUS with such a wealth of memories, experiences, new knowledge and cakes consumed..."
-Verena Tunnicliffe, VENUS Director (2001-2012) changes perspectives and says goodbye to VENUS.
Jan 5, 2013
A strong magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck west of Craig, Alaska at 12:58AM PST, 5 January 2013. Tsunami warning and alerts were issued for a broad section of the Alaskan and Canadian coastline, but no damaging waves were generated.
Jan 3, 2013
With the New Year just beginning, the VENUS observatory continues its Phase II expansion with the testing of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in Saanich Inlet.
Jan 2, 2013
The Ocean Technology Lab’s (UVic) Bluefin AUV has been retrofitted with a suite of instruments to support science experiments in Saanich Inlet (and beyond).
Dec 11, 2012
A joint team of VENUS and UVic/Ocean Technology Lab engineers tested a winch system on the Ocean Technology Test Bed (OTTB) Buoy in Saanich Inlet.
Nov 5, 2012
The VENUS Observatory opens a rare window into the undersea environment of a unique ocean ecosystem: Saanich Inlet, off the southeast coast of Vancouver Island. The observatory site here includes a wide range of sensors and instruments, including DISCO, or Digital Stills Camera system, that provides researchers with high-resolution 8 megapixel underwater images.
Nov 2, 2012
From Alaska to Vancouver, residents along the west coast felt the powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck the Haida Gwaii archipelago at 8:04PM PDT, on October 27th, 2012. Ocean Networks Canada seafloor hydrophones also registered the low-frequency rumbles from this earthquake, along with the calls of humpback whales in the area.
Oct 27, 2012
A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Moresby Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago at 8:04PM PDT, 27 October 2012. Residents along the west coast—from Alaska to Vancouver—also felt several aftershocks up to magnitude 5.8. However, no major damage or injuries were reported. This was the largest temblor to hit Canada since 1949, when an 8.1-magnitude quake hit west of the Queen Charlotte Islands, in the same area.
Oct 26, 2012
Folger Pinnacle instrument platform, part of ONC's Folger Passage observatory is now back online, streaming data and video from 23 m below sea level in Folger Passage.
Oct 23, 2012
Continuous undersea monitoring by Ocean Networks Canada enables a wide variety of research studies, including leading-edge forensic experiments by two BC scientists.
Oct 18, 2012
The orange reel is >5 km of extension cable on the deck of the powered barge “Georgia Transporter” after a successful recovery. The Delta cable supplies power and a communication link from the East Node in the Strait of Georgia (175 m) to an instrument platform near the mouth of the Fraser River. This cable was damaged in June 2012 by an underwater landslide and will be repaired and then redeployed in April 2013.
Sep 26, 2012
A recent paper examines the response of the benthic animals to changing levels of oxygen.
Sep 18, 2012
Thanks to the help of three boat crews and a dive team, our Folger Pinnacle instrument platform is now reinstalled on a submerged reef inFolger Passage, ready to be reconnected to the network. The platform, which was recovered earlier this year, has been cleaned, refurbished and upgraded with new instruments.
Sep 18, 2012
On September 7, 2012, Paul Macoun and Richard Dewey headed out with the Ocean Technology Laboratory (OTL-UVic) engineers Emmett Gamroth and Jeff Kennedy to deploy a small autonomous (internally recording) mooring just inside the sill at the entrance to Saanich Inlet.
Sep 13, 2012
Canada’s efforts to demonstrate world leadership in tidal energy research and technology are taking a significant step forward, as Ocean Networks Canada’s Innovation Centre partners with researchers and industry to design and install the world’s first cabled underwater monitoring platform specifically for extreme, high-flow tide conditions.
Sep 5, 2012
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile in February 2010, generating a tsunami that crossed the Pacific, with measurable waves recorded throughout coastal British Columbia. A recent paper, published in Pure and Applied Geophysics, describes this tsunami in detail and compares it to the Great Chilean earthquake and tsunami of May 1960.
Aug 27, 2012
The University of Victoria’s Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is making its first foray into the Arctic, just as the sea ice extent is setting a new record low. The observatory has been granted a five-year research license from the Nunavut Research Institute for a cabled seafloor observatory system and surface weather station in the coastal hamlet of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. The community observatory, using technologies developed by UVic’s VENUS and NEPTUNE Observatories, intends to provide year-round, near real-time undersea monitoring of the northern environment, and to make research data available to the community for educational and other purposes.
Aug 27, 2012
It’s hardly been a case of “all play and no work” for Wally the Crawler. Researchers in Germany and Canada have been making heavy use of Wally and the unique data this deep-sea crawler gathers among the gas hydrates outcrops of Barkley Canyon. A recent paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters details their recent findings, which have implications for changes we may expect as Earth’s climate warms.
Aug 22, 2012
Rhea Sanders (Oregon State University) and Rick Noel (Rockland Scientific) discuss alignment of instruments on a new package destined for Saanich Inlet. Rhea works with Dr. Clare Reimers to measure turbulent fluxes of oxygen over sediments.
Aug 15, 2012
In the first week of August, the Strait of Georgia VENUS array suffered a major power fault (see System Status). As a result, the field team retrieved all instruments on the seafloor leaving only the cable and the node frames.
Aug 8, 2012
A four-member team from VENUS traveled to the Strait of Georgia shore station, located near Vancouver Airport, to calibrate the newly-installed CODAR antenna.
Jul 18, 2012
POGO (Profiling OceanoGraphic Observatory) is alive and well! The vertical profiling system, installed at a depth of 396 m on Barkley Upper Slope is now sending its instrument float on regular journeys from seafloor to surface and back. And some interesting new data products are available for examining a host of water properties through the depth of the water column.
Jul 17, 2012
Paul Macoun (VENUS Engineering team) prepares the second CODAR antenna for installation at our shore station near Vancouver airport.
Jul 15, 2012
In early July, the Ocean Networks Canada education team travelled up island to the quaint seaside community of Bamfield to meet with undergrad students and educators from across western Canada. The team was invited by the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre to introduce the Observatory to students attending the summer academic session and also to teachers and educators attending an annual workshop.
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