Ocean Networks Canada

Ocean Networks Canada

Established	2007 (2007)
President	Kate Moran
Staff	150 Approx.
Location	Victoria, BC , Canada
Website	www.oceannetworks.ca www.uvic.ca

Ocean Networks Canada is a research and ocean observing facility hosted and owned by the University of Victoria. It is managed by the not-for profit ONC Society.

ONC operates observatories in the deep ocean and coastal waters of Canada’s three coasts, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Atlantic, gathering biological, chemical, geological and physical data. ONC operates the NEPTUNE and VENUS cabled ocean observatories in the northeast Pacific Ocean and the Salish Sea. Additionally, Ocean Networks Canada operates smaller community-based observatories offshore from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, ^[1] Campbell River, Kitamaat Village and Digby Island.^{[ citation needed ]} Over 200 gigabytes of data are collected every day. ^[2]

The NEPTUNE observatory is situated off the west coast of Vancouver Island in Barkley Sound, along the Cascadia subduction zone, on the Cascadia Basin abyssal plain, and on the Endeavour segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. ^[3]

Altogether, the system includes 3 observatories, 5 shore stations, 850+ km of seafloor backbone cables, 11 instrumented sites, 32 instrument platforms, 6 mobile instrument platforms, 400+ instruments and over 2000 scientific sensors deployed. ^[4]

Scientific topics of study that are enabled by data from these observatories include Arctic oceanography, ^[5] deep-sea biodiversity, ^[6] marine ecosystem function, ^[7] marine forensics, ^[8] gas hydrates, ^[9] hydrothermal vents, ^[10] marine mammals, ^[11] sediment ^[12] and benthic ^[13] dynamics and tsunami ^[14] studies.

Notes

1. Juniper and McLean, 2014
2. Dewey et al, 2013
3. Barnes et al, 2011
4. Heesemann et al, 2013
5. Juniper and McLean, 2014
6. Matabos et al, 2013
7. Wang and Pawlowicz, 22014
8. Anderson 2010
9. Riedel and Willoughby, 2010
10. Bemis et al, 2012
11. André et al, 2011
12. Katz et al, 2012
13. Robert et al, 2012
14. Fine et al, 2013

References

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• André, M.; Zaugg, S.; Houégnigan, L.; Sánchez, A. M.; Castell, J. V. (2011). "Listening to the Deep: Live monitoring of ocean noise and cetacean acoustic signals". Mar. Pollut. Bull. 63 (1–4): 18–26. Bibcode:2011MarPB..63...18A. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.04.038. hdl: 2117/12808 . PMID   21665016.
• Barnes, Christopher R.; Best, Mairi M. R.; Johnson, Fern R.; Pautet, Lucie; Pirenne, Benoit (2011). "Challenges, benefits and opportunities in operating cabled ocean observatories: Perspectives from NEPTUNE Canada". 2011 IEEE Symposium on Underwater Technology and Workshop on Scientific Use of Submarine Cables and Related Technologies. pp. 1–7. doi:10.1109/UT.2011.5774134. ISBN   978-1-4577-0165-8. S2CID   11387293.
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• Dewey, R. K.; Hoeberechts, M.; Moran, K.; Pirenne, B.; Owens, D. (1 December 2013). "Ocean Networks Canada's "Big Data" Initiative". AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 41: U41A–02. Bibcode:2013AGUFM.U41A..02D.
• Fine, Isaac V.; Kulikov, Evgueni A.; Cherniawsky, Josef Y. (June 2013). "Japan's 2011 Tsunami: Characteristics of Wave Propagation from Observations and Numerical Modelling". Pure and Applied Geophysics. 170 (6–8): 1295–1307. Bibcode:2013PApGe.170.1295F. doi:10.1007/s00024-012-0555-8. S2CID   140721563.
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• Katz, Timor; Yahel, Gitai; Reidenbach, Matt; Tunnicliffe, Verena; Herut, Barak; Crusius, John; Whitney, Frank; Snelgrove, Paul V. R.; Lazar, Boaz (July 2012). "Resuspension by fish facilitates the transport and redistribution of coastal sediments". Limnology and Oceanography. 57 (4): 945–958. Bibcode:2012LimOc..57..945K. doi: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.4.0945 . hdl: 1912/6564 .
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• Matabos, M; Tunnicliffe, V; Juniper, SK; Dean, C (2012). "A Year in Hypoxia: Epibenthic Community Responses to Severe Oxygen Deficit at a Subsea Observatory in a Coastal Inlet". PLOS ONE. 7 (9): e45626. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...745626M. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045626 . PMC   3446942 . PMID   23029145.
• Pawlowicz, Rich; McClure, Bob (2010). "Inverted echosounder for continuous high-resolution water column profiling from the NEPTUNE (Canada) ocean observatory". Oceans 2010 MTS/IEEE Seattle. pp. 1–8. doi:10.1109/OCEANS.2010.5664112. ISBN   978-1-4244-4332-1. S2CID   30021062.
• Riedel, M., and E. C. Willoughby (2010), Gas hydrates - Geophysical exploration techniques and methods, in Geophysical Characterization of Gas Hydrates, edited by M. Riedel, E. C. Willoughby, and S. Chopra, pp. 1–13, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Tulsa. [online] Available from: http://www.seg.org/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=0e72d3c0-9535-4e8f-bb94-8dd25b5ca36c&groupId=10161
• Robert, K; Juniper, SK (7 May 2012). "Surface-sediment bioturbation quantified with cameras on the NEPTUNE Canada cabled observatory". Marine Ecology Progress Series. 453: 137–149. Bibcode:2012MEPS..453..137R. doi: 10.3354/meps09623 .
• Scherwath, M., G. Spence, M. Riedel, and M. Heesemann (2012), Gas Release Near Bullseye Vent - New Observations From NEPTUNE Canada"s Seafloor Cable, in Fall Meeting, AGU, p. OS43A–1794, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.
• Wang, C., and R. Pawlowicz (2014), High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Oxygen Measurements in the Strait of Georgia and Their Relationship to Primary Production, in Ocean Sciences Meeting 2014, Honolulu. [online] Available from: http://www.sgmeet.com/osm2014/viewabstract.asp?AbstractID=14626

External links

• Official website