Kudos for NEPTUNE Canada, Large Hadron Collider

The Dec. 17 edition of Science magazine—one of the world’s top popular science journals—lists UVics NEPTUNE Canada ocean observatory—the world’s largest—among 37 developments in 2010 “that tested the limits of our knowledge and influenced thinking about the global research enterprise.” View story.

NEPTUNE continued to make waves on the national and international science scene as CBC-TV’s The National ranked NEPTUNE Canada #4 on its list of the world’s top 10 science stories for 2010. Host Bob MacDonald described the observatory as “a fabulous world-class facility being run by the University of Victoria” and “a brilliant, brilliant system.”

Also on the CBC list is the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. UVic physicists were instrumental in developing and building the ATLAS particle detector that is a key component of the project.