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Canada's Exclusive Economic Zone in the Northeast Pacific encompasses a rich variety of offshore benthic habitats, from continental shelf, slope and abyssal sediments, to sponge reefs, seamounts, gas hydrates and hydrothermal vents. Knowledge of these remote areas is uneven, derived from mostly uncoordinated surveys and sampling expeditions by surface vessels, exploration with remotely operated vehicles...
Ocean Networks Canada submitted a proposal to Western Economic Diversification Canada (WED) in 2014 to develop ocean monitoring infrastructure using advanced sensing technologies in areas critical to BC's economic future, such as the proposed LNG facilities at Campbell River, and the ports of Kitimat and Prince Rupert. The proposed infrastructure included technology related to monitoring maritime...
The University of Victoria's VENUS coastal observatory is the most technologically advanced system of its kind. Forty five kilometers of telecom cable link two shore stations to three primary science sites at 100, 170 and 300 m depth in Saanich Inlet and the Strait of Georgia, respectively. These science sites are flush with instrumentation and sensing systems, from cameras and streaming hydrophones,...
The VENUS cabled ocean observatory is one of the first in the next generation of ocean observing platforms. It is an integration of marine telecommunication and sub-sea technologies with oceanographic instrument systems, accessible over the Internet. Commands originate at the network operations centre and are piped over a virtual private network (VPN) through a shore station and down a marine fibre...
High-frequency acoustic backscatter measurements have long been used as a method to detect zooplankton populations in the ocean. Ship-borne echo-sounders can map distributions over relatively large areas, but are not practical for following developments over long periods of time. Self-contained echo-sounders, either moored at depth looking upward, or mounted on surface buoys looking downward produce...
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