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Ocean Networks Canada

Oceans link to climate change

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UVic PhD student Brett Jameson is exploring where nitrous oxide comes from.

UVic experts on BC election

UVic experts are available to media for comment on the BC election on topics ranging from campaign strategies to COVID-19 including economic recovery plans, public sentiment and PR challenges.

Boosting ocean intelligence

Media release

A federal investment in Ocean Networks Canada, an initiative of the University of Victoria, will advance the infrastructure and scientific data required to grow Canada's ocean intelligence for the benefit of society and a sustainable planet.

Milestone for ONC-led project

Media release

UVic initiative Ocean Networks Canada is one of the highest-scoring proposals in the prestigious 100&Change competition by the MacArthur Foundation for a single US$100 million grant.

A rock-solid solution for CO2

The Ring

Scientists now know that for Earth to stay within the temperature increase limit set by the Paris Agreement, negative emission technologies, which remove and permanently sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, are essential. The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions is bringing together an international team of experts to take on this challenge in a new four-year feasibility study.

PICS funds $1.5M global research project

Media release

Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions funds new $1.5M international research project. The global team of scientists, engineers and social scientists plan to turn the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into rock permanently beneath the Earth's ocean floor

Canada's biggest underwater volcano is just off B.C.'s coast

CBC News

Canada's biggest underwater volcano is just off B.C.'s coast

Queenswood now the Ocean-Climate Building

The Ring

The Ocean-Climate Building officially opened Jan. 10 with an event acknowledging the funding support to renovate and reconfigure the Queenswood residential care facility. At the opening, the Government of Canada announced $12.6 million over four years for ONC, the anchor group in the building.

UVic expands oceans, climate research

Media release

World-leading ocean and climate researchers at the University of Victoria have a new centre where they can continue producing the critical knowledge used by communities, governments and industry for sustainable ocean management and to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

ONC and Tsleil-Waututh Nation to monitor Burrard Inlet

Ocean Networks Canada

ONC and Tsleil-Waututh Nation to monitor Burrard Inlet

More eyes on the ocean

The Ring

UVic geographer Maycira Costa has received $361,500 in funding from the Marine Environmental Observation, Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR) and UVic’s Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) to study biophysical processes in ocean waters along the migration route of juvenile salmon.

Coastal connections

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Since 2014, UVic's Ocean Networks Canada has been installing smaller community observatories on Vancouver Island, along the BC coast and in the Arctic, partnering with First Nations and coastal communities to measure ship traffic, weather, underwater acoustics and more.

ONC sensors monitor Alaska earthquake

The Ring

In the early morning hours of Jan. 23, a magnitude-7.9 earthquake occurred off Alaska, generating a tsunami warning for coastal BC, and alerts and evacuations on Vancouver Island. As the tsunami wave moved over Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) sensors connected to its deep-sea offshore observatory, ONC staff surged into action interpreting real-time data, working with emergency planning and response authorities, and interacting with the public on social media.

Arctic sea ice research

The Ring

Expanded community engagement into more Arctic communities is helping UVic's Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) carry out the ocean science that matters most to the people who live in Canada’s North.

Focus is community engagement

Media release

New funding for expanded community engagement in more Arctic communities will help Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) carry out the ocean science that matters most to the people who live in Canada's North.

Climate role of undersea canyons

The Ring

Unprecedented high-resolution data from undersea canyons off Vancouver Island's west coast is helping us understand the importance of these canyons as rapid-transit corridors for carrying carbon from the ocean surface to the deep sea.

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