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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 18h

Drop, Cover, and Hold On!

BC feels earthquakes every day—early detection saves lives.

Join ONC + BC Earthquake Alliance on Oct 10 to learn how the deep sea is helping build Canada’s earthquake early warning systems.

Hosted by online | 2 pm EST

Register 🌎 bit.ly/4o3f8eo

#ShakeOutBC #SciLitWeek

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 19h

Learn how ONC is playing a key role in managing and processing the oceanographic data from the Canadian Antarctic Research Expedition, soon to be available on our open access, data management portal Oceans 3.0 🧊 bit.ly/4h1bfEC

🧪 🌊 #KnowTheOcean #CDNsci #SciComm #DataScience #BigData

UVic-led Ocean Networks Canada shares data from first all-Canadian Antarctic expedition

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is making research data from the first all-Canadian-led scientific expedition to the Antarctic publicly available.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 5d

3/🧊Data from 35 CTD deployments spanning 22 locations within the South Shetland Islands are being processed by ONC’s data specialists.

Full story 🔗https://bit.ly/4n7CvmA

🧪 🌊#KnowTheOcean #CDNsci #SciComm #DataScience #BigData

Researchers in cold-weather gear ride in a small inflatable boat across icy Antarctic waters, with floating ice chunks and snow-covered mountains under a bright sun.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 5d

2/🧊ONC was proud to support the #Canadian Antarctic Research Expedition (CARE) team as they sailed the Southern Ocean aboard the Royal Canadian Navy vessel, HMCS Margaret Brooke in Feb+Mar 2025.

Full story 🔗https://bit.ly/4n7CvmA

🧪 🌊#KnowTheOcean #CDNsci #SciComm #BigData

A bathymetric map of the South Shetland Islands and Bransfield Strait near Antarctica, showing ocean depths, islands, research bases, and sampling locations marked with colored dots.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 5d

1/🧊 ONC is partnering to support the global delivery of research data from the first all-Canadian led scientific expedition to the Southern Ocean.

The data will soon be available on ONC’s data portal, Oceans 3.0 and partners’ platforms.

Full story 🔗 bit.ly/4n7CvmA

🧪 🌊#KnowTheOcean #CDNsci

A yellow oceanographic instrument floating on calm Antarctic waters, with glaciers in the background under an overcast sky.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 6d

🌊 Meet the 2025 recipients of ONC’s Roy Hyndman Ocean Observing Award!

🎓 Adam Stoer (@dalhousie.bsky.social)—studying oxygen loss in the NE Pacific with ONC’s Deep-Argo floats.
🎓 Alexander Dolcimascolo (@uvic.ca) — advancing tsunami science using ONC seafloor sensors.

🧪 Full story: bit.ly/48FZlh5

Portrait of Alexander Dolcimascolo, wearing glasses and a beige sweater with “SMUGGLERS’ NOTCH” text, smiling in an indoor atrium with posters and signage in the background.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 8d

2/🧡Orange Shirt Day began in Williams Lake, BC in 2013 at the St. Joseph Mission residential school commemoration event. Survivor Phyllis Webstad told of when her new orange shirt was taken away on her first day of school.

Info & resources 🧡uvic.ca/orangeshirtday
@uvic.ca

#EveryChildMatters

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 8d

1/🧡ONC is closed on Tue Sep 30 to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a federal statutory holiday to honour the lost children & survivors of residential schools, their families, & communities.

Info & resources 🧡uvic.ca/orangeshirtday

@uvic.ca

#OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters

A group of people, smiling at the camera, wearing orange in honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 13d

Behind every dataset are people—and stories of identity, culture & ocean connection. 🌊

Episode 3 of Surfacing Secrets explores how Indigenous & local knowledge is shaping ocean science: partnerships, youth empowerment & climate action.

🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple, or bit.ly/ONCpodcast

#SciComm

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 19d

ONC’s seafloor seismic sensors detected the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck offshore near the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region about two hours ago.

Check out the data 👉🏼 bit.ly/oncearthquak...

#KnowTheOcean #Earthquake

Kate Moran @katemoran.bsky.social · 19d

M7.8 earthquake offshore Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region ~2 hrs ago was tsunamigenic. This quake shook the seafloor offshore Canada ~4800km distant, as measured by @oceannetworks.ca sensors that help us to #knowtheocean Stay tuned as we monitor our other sensors that track tsunamis.

Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 28d

Register to join ONC in-person for the @sabincenter.bsky.social & New York Sea Grant’s marine carbon dioxide removal law + policy symposium, followed by a BC–WA state discussion on working in the @SalishSea context.

Take part in the one-day opportunity in Victoria 🔗 bit.ly/4fVdxEO

#YYJevents

Underwater view of a sunlit kelp forest with beams of light filtering through the water.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · Sep 5

2/🧵The exhibition will be open to the public from September 8–12.

Hasani is the 2025 recipient of the ONC/@uvic.ca Fine Arts' ArtScience Fellowship + the 6th UVic Fine Arts graduate student to hold this annual residency.

Event details 🔗 bit.ly/4gadJA7

#ArtFellow #STEAM #KnowTheOcean #SciArt

Tides of Memory ONC MFA exhibit

The annual Fine Arts/Ocean Networks Canada ArtsSci Fellowship features a sculptural exhibit & talk Visual Arts MFA Parvin Hasani

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · Sep 5

1/ 🧵Step into Parvin Hasani’s exhibition ‘Tides of Memory’, where she reimagines hydrothermal vents as bodily archives where, water, iron, and geological processes record memory across time.

Joine Hasani’s talk at uvic.ca on Sept 9.

Event details 🔗 bit.ly/4gadJA7

#ArtScience #SciComm #YYJevents

Person wearing a cozy blue and white plaid sweater standing against a textured white wall with peeling paint.

Twelve circular metal discs with various rust patterns and corrosion textures arranged in a grid on a black background.

Poster for 'Tides of Memory' by Parvin Hasani with event details and logos on a tiled background featuring abstract blue shapes.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · Sep 4

Join ONC at the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea for a live Ship2Shore video call w/ scientists at-sea during the Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Exploration Project: Seamounts + Mapping expedition!

🗓️ Sept 11
🕐 1-2pm
🔗 bit.ly/ONCevents

Photo by Toby Hall, Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

#YYJevents

Two women stand inside a vessel with flags behind them, one holding a microphone and the other holding a round device near a ring light.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · Sep 2

There is still time to register & join ONC at our Queenswood Campus in #Victoria, BC to participate in @sabincenter.bsky.social's #mCDR symposium!

Hear from cross-border #PNW panelists as they discuss marine #CarbonDioxide removal efforts in & around the #SalishSea.

🔗 bit.ly/4fVdxEO

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · Aug 11

🌊On September 19, the Sabin Center & New York Sea Grant are holding a symposium on marine #CO2removal activities. Leading experts will discuss governance and how to ensure a fair approach to #mCDR development:
Agenda ➡️ buff.ly/DAnTB6L
Register ➡️ buff.ly/WtZh4lf

#events #NYC #ClimateAction

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · Sep 1

ONC + Canpac are working hard today recovering, refurbishing and redeploying the autonomous regional circulation mooring RCM-SW at Endeavour. An experimental MRV float was deployed. No ROV dives today. Watch the deck operations and follow the log: bit.ly/4mgkD8M

#ONCabyss #KnowTheOcean #UVic

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · Aug 31

🚨DIVE ALERT🚨ROV Mantis is diving at Cascadia Basin East, 2680 metres below sea surface!

Catch the live dive 🌊 bit.ly/4mgkD8M to watch us orient a new seismometer, connect a new camera and a new smart cable device.

#ONCabyss #KnowTheOcean #UVic

Watch live! | #ONCabyss Summer 2025 Expedition leg 2

Watch the ocean expedition livestream August/September 2025

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · Aug 30

🚨DIVE ALERT🚨ROV Mantis is diving at Cascadia Basin East, 2680 metres below sea surface!
Tune into the live dive 🌊 bit.ly/4mgkD8M
See the intricate connection of a prototype smart cable instrument and a new camera platform!
#ONCabyss #KnowTheOcean #UVic

Watch live! | #ONCabyss Summer 2025 Expedition leg 2

Watch the ocean expedition livestream August/September 2025

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · Aug 29

🚨Dive alert🚨 ROV Mantis is diving at Cascadia Basin, heading approximately 2,658 metres below sea surface!

#DYK: Cascadia Basin is an abyssal plain shrouded in total darkness, with water temperatures that fall below 2°C!

Catch the live dive 🌊 bit.ly/4mgkD8M

#ONCabyss #KnowTheOcean

A white remotely operated vehicle suspended over the ocean by a blue crane. Text overlay reads: ROV Mantis, Summer 2025 Expedition, Live Dive.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · Aug 29

Learn more about ONC's seafloor #geodesy project ⏪ bit.ly/4lL8KYn

🧪 🌊 #SciComm #KnowTheOcean

Monitoring for megathrust earthquakes

Wave glider retrieval advances ONC’s pioneering geodesy project

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · Aug 29

Unlike Gretchen, we DID make Fetch happen!

ONC + Canpac replaced a Fetch yesterday—1 of 21 acoustic transponders that act as permanent markers on the seafloor, tracking tectonic plate motion near the Cascadia subduction zone.

Watch our live dives 🌊 bit.ly/4mgkD8M

🧪 🌊 #SciComm #KnowTheOcean

Yellow underwater instrument suspended by blue ropes at the ocean floor, 408 meters depth.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · Aug 28

🚨Dive alert🚨 ONC & Canpac Marine Services are diving at Barkley Upper Slope this morning!

#DYK? Barkley Upper Slope is one of five unique and biologically active locations within Barkley Canyon that ONC monitors.

Catch the action 🐙 bit.ly/4mgkD8M

#KnowTheOcean

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · Aug 27

🚨Dive alert🚨ROV Mantis is diving at Barkley Upper Slope, heading approximately 400 metres below sea surface to service ONC's NEPTUNE observatory!

Tune into the live dive 🌊 bit.ly/4mgkD8M

#ONCabyss #KnowTheOcean

A white remote-operated vehicle suspended by crane over open sea with mountainous coastline in the distance.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · Aug 26

ONC + Canpac Marine Services are mobilizing the M/V Canpac Valour for leg 2 of the #ONCabyss Summer 2025 Expedition!

Catch our operation live dives from Aug 27 to Sept 3 with #ROV Mantis.

Watch our live dives 🌊 bit.ly/4mgkD8M

🧪 🌊 #SciComm #KnowTheOcean

Map of Ocean Networks Canada's 2025 summer expedition showing NEPTUNE Observatory sites off Vancouver Island.

Blue and white vessel named CANPAC VALOUR docked at a harbour with cranes and equipment on board against a mountainous backdrop.

Workers in safety gear operate a large blue crane on a vessel deck loaded with white remotely operated vehicle on a calm body of water.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · Aug 22

Not in New York?

Come to ONC's Queenswood Campus in Victoria BC to watch the symposium live!

Hear from cross-border Pacific Northwest panelists as they discuss marine #CarbonDioxide removal efforts in & around the #SalishSea, sharing insights and lessons learned.

🔗 bit.ly/4fVdxEO

#mCDR 🧪

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · Aug 11

🌊On September 19, the Sabin Center & New York Sea Grant are holding a symposium on marine #CO2removal activities. Leading experts will discuss governance and how to ensure a fair approach to #mCDR development:
Agenda ➡️ buff.ly/DAnTB6L
Register ➡️ buff.ly/WtZh4lf

#events #NYC #ClimateAction

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