Blog
6 May
Authored by Greg England:
On Friday and Saturday of this past weekend (April 26 and 27), I had the pleasure of attending the 2nd annual Ocean Science Symposium hosted at the University of Victoria in a joint effort by Ocean Networks Canada and Let’s Talk Science. The symposium was a 2-day event for both students and teachers and consisted of several guest speakers and some great...
25 Apr
Greetings all marine enthusiasts! My name is Greg England and I am an education student studying at the University of British Columbia. As part of my journey in becoming a science educator, my program has sent me on a 3 week internship with Ocean Networks Canada (ONC). I was informed of my placement with ONC in November 2012 and have been completely and utterly stoked about this...
25 Apr
I am one of two educator interns at Ocean Networks Canada. As part of our Bachelor of Education program from UBC and as future science teachers we have the opportunity to get some hands on experience applying what we have learned in a non-school setting. Over the next three weeks you will be hearing from my colleague Greg England and myself, Adam Wasik, regarding our time...
13 Mar
by Allan Roberts
The 34th annual Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference (PEEC 2013) took place March 1–3, at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, in Bamfield, BC. Graduate students and undergraduates presented more than 50 talks. In total, 80+ students were in attendance.
The view from the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, looking across Trevor Channel (photo credit: A....
11 Mar
Authored by: Kimon Kassis
Introduction:
My name is Kimon Kassis and I’ll work for the next three weeks as an intern from Germany for Ocean Networks Canada. I’ll be participating on some projects including job shadowing. Basically, I’ll observe daily work of professionals and try to help wherever I can. Therefore I’d like to give you a brief report of my first...
8 Mar
- Chrysogorgia sp. viewed at Endeavour 2274 meters below the ocean (June 2012) .
Have you ever heard of deep-water corals? Or had the chance to view live video clips of these organisms 2000 meters below the ocean surface? With NEPTUNE Canada’s SeaTube you are able to view a variety of deep-water corals, which live just off our coast in the Pacific Ocean. Video clips include...
19 Feb
The graph shows pressure data from the Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) sensor at the NEPTUNE Canada station at Folger Pinnacle. The sample period for this instrument is one second, and the values used in this graph were downloaded as averages by the minute; the depth at the Folger Pinnacle station is 25 m, with one decibar of pressure corresponding to roughly one metre of depth. Observe...
18 Feb
Monday, February 11, an open house was held at the NEPTUNE Canada Shore Station in Port Alberni. The turn out was excellent, with about 300 people attending. The Shore Station is usually closed to the public, so this was an excellent opportunity for Port Alberni area residents to learn about the NEPTUNE Canada network of seafloor instrument platforms. These platforms collect...
13 Feb
On February 5 & 6, two workshops on data management with the statistics application R were held at UVic. The workshops used Ocean Networks Canada data from the Arctic Observatory at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Ocean data and weather data from the Arctic Observatory are available to researchers, students, and the public; to search for data, click here. Topics covered in the workshops...
1 Feb
A team of four courageous men are taking on an adventure of a lifetime – rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. Equipped with oceanographic instruments, solar panels, GPS, communication tools and enough food for each member to eat 6,000 calories/day, the OAR Northwest team will row 6700km from Dakar Senegal (Africa) to Miami Florida in a 29-foot rowboat!
While at sea, the crew will be...
