Blog Archive
10 Dec
By Allan Roberts
Students, educators and researchers can watch the seasons change via Ocean Networks Canada data. For example, the Arctic Observatory at Cambridge Bay is measuring ice thickness, and the NEPTUNE Canada shore station at Port Alberni records weather data, including rainfall and solar radiation. The graph below shows the seasonal change in solar radiation at the NEPTUNE...
4 Dec
Another interdisciplinary R workshop was held at UVic on Nov. 29. Participants in this workshop included graduate students studying fisheries, marine birds, biology, geography, and Earth and Ocean sciences. This was the second R workshop organized this fall by Ecostats and Ocean Networks Canada. The Ecology@UVic Stats Discussion Group (Ecostats) organizers were graduate students Justin Suraci...
4 Dec
by Allan Roberts
Student-accessible posts about the NEPTUNE Canada and VENUS networks can be found on the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre student blog. These posts have been written by Kara Aschenbrenner and Allan Roberts of Ocean Networks Canada.
Topics include: where to find video of hydrothermal vents and hydrophone recordings of whale vocalizations; and tutorials on plotting NEPTUNE and...
20 Dec
Because the ONC network websites are used by people with various backgrounds, finding the material that meets your needs can be a little difficult at first. For anyone with a casual interest in ocean sciences, here are some suggestions to help you navigate the VENUS and NEPTUNE Canada websites.
Becoming Familiar with the Arrays
Let’s start out with the NEPTUNE Canada website...
