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How many uses does a petabyte of data have? Our stories capture how ONC uses data to deliver a wide range of services that range from Early Earthquake Warning to monitoring the impact of climate change on the ocean.

There are more than 32,000 users of ONC data around the world. Revisit this page as we reveal their stories, and update our own technology advances, education outreach and valued partnership initiatives.

A sea sponge stakeout

December 19, 2024

Four-year study shows sea sponge’s behaviour, dormancy in wild

2024

December 17, 2024

2024 ONC Artist-in-Residence Megan Harton reflects on "solastalgia"

December 11, 2024

#ONCabyss Fall 2024 Expedition Recap

December 5, 2024

Giant Pacific Octopus battles rough seas during bomb cyclone

December 3, 2024

ONC at AGU 2024

November 18, 2024

Deep Dive into Ocean Climate Solutions

November 8, 2024

Explore Deep Sea Maritime Archaeology with ONC’s SeaTube

October 7, 2024

Canada must invest in the blue economy or that ship may sail without us

September 26, 2024

A vessel of opportunity

September 24, 2024

#ONCabyss Summer 2024 Expedition Recap

September 18, 2024

ONC at OCEANS 2024 Halifax

June 27, 2024

Advancing AI for ocean research and climate solutions

June 13, 2024

Meet the 2024 recipients of the Roy Hyndman Award

June 10, 2024

Changing STEM TO STEAM: ONC farewells Kim Juniper

June 6, 2024

Meet ONC Artist-in-Residence for 2024, Megan Harton

May 29, 2024

Using AI to detect orcas in the Salish Sea

May 16, 2024

Delta Dynamics Lab completes final tour of duty

March 27, 2024

#ONCabyss Spring 2024 Expedition Recap

March 13, 2024

ONC Antarctic observatory prepared for polar winter

March 8, 2024

Endeavour site records the highest level of earthquake activity in 20 years

February 15, 2024

ONC expands Antarctic monitoring with deep ocean Argo floats

February 12, 2024

ONC at Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024

February 2, 2024

Ocean-based carbon removal solutions to combat the climate crisis

January 16, 2024

Data now flowing from new Antarctic Ocean observatory

January 4, 2024

Why ONC is carbon neutral

2023

December 11, 2023

ONC at AGU 2023

October 10, 2023

2023 #ONCabyss Fall Expedition Recap

October 4, 2023

2024 Artist-in-Residence Program Call for Proposals

September 8, 2023

ONC’s deep sea observatory supporting ocean-based carbon dioxide removal research

August 24, 2023

Studying the origins of the universe, under the sea

July 28, 2023

#ONCabyss Summer 2023 Expedition Recap

July 17, 2023

ONC hosts IPMEN 2023 Conference

June 30, 2023

ONC president and CEO appointed as Officer of the Order of Canada

June 9, 2023

ONC at Coastal Zone Conference

June 8, 2023

The science and mystery of a deep-sea whale fall

June 7, 2023

ONC featured as global leader in World Ocean Council docuseries

May 27, 2023

Greater Victoria 10-day ocean celebration returns this June

May 26, 2023

Continuous improvements for quality data collection

May 15, 2023

Meet the first recipients of the Roy Hyndman Award

May 8, 2023

Minutes-to-hours: arrival times for tsunami on BC coast

April 11, 2023

New documentary explores history of West Coast tsunamis from Indigenous perspective

March 13, 2023

Have your say on a new proposed Marine Protected Area

March 13, 2023

Ocean music from deep-sea data

March 13, 2023

Discover Pacific sea life in the Canadian Museum of Nature

March 3, 2023

Decolonizing data

February 10, 2023

Exploring deep ocean hydrothermals

February 6, 2023

Advancing Canada’s science and innovation for ocean protection

January 31, 2023

AAAS Fellows Announced

January 31, 2023

ONC at IMPAC5 Vancouver

January 19, 2023

Oil & water fuels Ocean Networks Canada artistic residency

2022

December 16, 2022

Expeditions Recap 2022: #ONCAbyss

December 14, 2022

Two-eyed seeing: Embracing the power of Indigenous knowledge for a healthy and sustainable Ocean

December 12, 2022

New online toolkits for students & educators

December 9, 2022

ONC at AGU 2022

December 7, 2022

New ocean research award for graduate students

November 28, 2022

An earthquake notification system for British Columbia shows its value for public safety

November 14, 2022

Cambridge Bay Observatory: the forerunner to community ocean monitoring nationwide

October 21, 2022

ONC at OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads

October 2, 2022

Celebrating 10 years, Cambridge Bay Observatory

October 2, 2022

Timeline of the Cambridge Bay Observatory

September 15, 2022

The CLOCKS expedition - Summer 2022

September 6, 2022

ONC and the UN Ocean Decade

August 25, 2022

Monitoring for megathrust earthquakes

August 18, 2022

Researcher in Residence: Claudio Lo Iacono and cold-water corals

August 2, 2022

Meet ONC Artist-in-Residence for 2022, musician Colin Malloy

July 21, 2022

Explore the new ONC website

June 8, 2022

Revitalization: Collective Action for the Ocean

May 3, 2022

DynaCITE project promotes sea-change in big data research

February 25, 2022

ONC provides ideal conditions for a new neutrino telescope

February 10, 2022

#OceanDecade Challenge: cultivating diversity in science

February 4, 2022

Summer 2021 low oxygen event in the northeast Pacific

February 2, 2022

Sweet 16, #ONC15 story map and 2030 Strategic Plan

January 19, 2022

Real-time tsunami data from the Tonga volcano

January 13, 2022

Ocean Networks Canada’s founding visionary appointed to Order of Canada

December 8, 2021

Expert Q&A on ocean-based carbon removal

September 28, 2021

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

August 31, 2021

SHIP UPDATE #ONCabyss Expedition 2021

July 28, 2021

Gearing up for #ONCabyss Expedition 2021 6 August – 2 September

July 22, 2021

Discovering unexplored deep-sea worlds: highlights from the Pacific Seamounts Expedition 2021

July 21, 2021

Haida Nation and ONC partnership expands small vessel traffic monitoring in territorial waters

July 20, 2021

Community Fishers: enabling citizen scientists to collect their own ocean data

June 3, 2021

Pacific Seamounts Expedition 2021

May 31, 2021

World Ocean Week 2021: One Ocean, One Climate, One Future, Together

May 27, 2021

Ocean Networks Canada joins the 50 – 30 Challenge

May 18, 2021

Using theatre and traditional ways of knowing to address climate action

April 21, 2021

ONC’s Carbon Neutral Operations

March 16, 2021

The Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition launches Land, Water, Ocean, Us: A Canadian Ocean Literacy Strategy

March 9, 2021

Ocean Networks Canada supports Canada’s participation in the International Ocean Discovery Program

February 9, 2021

Expert Q&A on Canada’s growing blue economy

February 5, 2021

Celebrating 15 years of ocean intelligence

February 5, 2021

Building TRUST to be FAIR: data stewardship for a sustainable ocean economy

January 8, 2021

Oceans link to climate change

2020

December 2, 2020

Three weeks late: Cambridge Bay sea ice freeze-up 2020

December 1, 2020

Advancing tech and science to #knowtheocean: Story Map

November 4, 2020

Tsunami Monitoring and Public Safety for At-Risk Coastal Communities

July 31, 2020

New research explains why Saanich Inlet is good for the climate

July 31, 2020

Endangered southern resident killer whales return to a quieter Salish Sea

June 1, 2020

Celebrate World Oceans Week with ONC and partners

May 13, 2020

Hushed seas: monitoring underwater noise during COVID-19

April 8, 2020

Coming soon: MINTED dynamic citation tool

April 8, 2020

Researcher in Residence: Craig Smith on whale falls

April 8, 2020

Sensors, science and sampling: March 2020 expedition highlights

April 8, 2020

Resilience through preparedness: remembering the 1964 ‘Good Friday’ tsunami

April 8, 2020

Online ocean science resources to #knowtheocean

February 19, 2020

Bringing Indigenous knowledge to the table at OceanObs’19

February 19, 2020

A decade of continuous deep sea data: looking back to plan forward

January 30, 2020

Celebrating Queenswood’s first anniversary with Coast Salish Art

2019

November 14, 2019

Drop, cover, and hold on

November 14, 2019

Expedition 2019: Highlights Story Map

October 25, 2019

Real-time ocean current data for safe navigation

September 11, 2019

An Indigenous Ocean Governance Forum at OceanObs’19 in Hawaii

August 14, 2019

Seamounts expedition discovers 'Coraltropolis' and scratching shark

August 14, 2019

Marine imaging workshop advances ocean intelligence

July 24, 2019

Transport Canada extends pilot project to develop maritime information system for coastal communities

June 13, 2019

Women at the Helm: Celebrating World Oceans Day 2019

June 13, 2019

ONC president/CEO provides industry insight in interview

June 12, 2019

Going deep on meroplankton

June 12, 2019

Experience ocean data through interactive art

May 8, 2019

Watch Live: Wiring the Abyss Leg 1, 7 – 21 May 2019

May 8, 2019

Underwater cameras: a window to the deep sea

March 20, 2019

The Launch of a Canadian Integrated Ocean Observing System

March 20, 2019

Youth Science Ambassadors: Empowering coastal communities to #knowtheocean

February 7, 2019

World Data System International Technology Office opens at ONC/UVic

February 6, 2019

ONC wraps up 2018 science theme series with international workshops in Spain, at new UVic ocean-climate home

2018

November 6, 2018

Helping remote coastal communities to #knowtheocean

November 2, 2018

Ocean Networks Canada 2018 visiting scientist program: Marco Francescangeli of Marche Polytechnic University (Italy)

October 31, 2018

Building northern-led sensor technology skills to monitor the changing Arctic Ocean

October 18, 2018

Ocean Networks Canada partners with Canada Line operators on a simulated earthquake early warning exercise

September 14, 2018

New research shines a light on the importance of submarine canyons

September 12, 2018

From Cosmos to Core: Wiring the Abyss Expedition 2018

September 11, 2018

New study quantifies natural flux of methane gas in the northeast Pacific

September 6, 2018

An International summer school for marine scientists

August 31, 2018

Discovering and protecting seamounts in the northeast Pacific

July 20, 2018

Wiring the Abyss Leg 2: 23 July – 3 August 2018

July 6, 2018

Using innovative tech to monitor and protect remote seamounts

July 4, 2018

Endeavour expansion during Leg 1 of Expedition 2018: Wiring the Abyss

July 4, 2018

Ocean Networks Canada 2018 visiting scientist program: Heidrun Kopp of GEOMAR/University of Kiel (Germany)

June 21, 2018

Wiring the Abyss Leg 1: 19 June - 3 July 2018

June 8, 2018

ONC puts deep on display at world marine biodiversity conference

June 6, 2018

Hazards Beneath the Surface

May 10, 2018

Science Machines: a pilot project to empower girls with science tools

May 8, 2018

Ocean Networks Canada 2018 visiting scientist program: Q&A with Christian Stranne of University of Stockholm

May 8, 2018

Ocean Networks Canada 2018 visiting scientist program: Q&A with Warwick Vincent of Université Laval

May 8, 2018

Ocean Networks Canada 2018 visiting scientist program: Q&A with Connie Lovejoy of Université Laval

April 9, 2018

ONC’s Endeavour, Northern Cascadia science workshops attract international researchers

March 27, 2018

Be Tsunami Prepared

March 5, 2018

Central Coast of British Columbia Expedition

February 28, 2018

ONC hosts international ocean acidification workshop

February 9, 2018

Oceans 2.0: An Internet of Things for the Ocean

February 2, 2018

A viral sensation: hungry sea urchins keep Campbell River observatory clean

January 23, 2018

Data from Alaska’s Magnitude 7.9 Earthquake and Tsunami

2017

December 8, 2017

Ocean Networks Canada in the Arctic: Local problems, global connections

December 5, 2017

Biodiversity surprises at bubbly deep-sea cold seeps along Cascadia fault

November 28, 2017

A glimpse at the team behind Canada’s national ocean observatory

November 20, 2017

Your new Digital Fishers mission (should you choose to accept it)…

November 2, 2017

Maintaining the Arctic’s Internet-connected ocean is no picnic

September 26, 2017

Ocean Network’s first Youth Science Ambassador passes the torch

September 15, 2017

Monitoring Canada’s ocean, coasts, and killer whales through technology and data

September 15, 2017

Don Krusel retires as President and CEO of Prince Rupert Port Authority

September 12, 2017

Earthquakes shed light on British Columbia’s early warning system

September 6, 2017

All Eyes on Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

September 5, 2017

Ocean Tech Alliance Canada: A National Voice for the Blue Economy

August 29, 2017

Turning data into knowledge to build a smart ocean

July 26, 2017

Real-time radar data spurs international gathering

July 18, 2017

Earthquakes, pyrosomes, robots, and big seas

July 17, 2017

Redundancy, graceful degradation and good engineering practice

June 28, 2017

The Deepest Way to Celebrate #Canada150

June 2, 2017

Sablefish study reveals citizen scientists are expert observers

May 26, 2017

Our Oceans, Our Future: World Oceans Day at 25 and beyond

May 15, 2017

Teens dive into ocean science

May 12, 2017

The Great Thaw: our melting Arctic must be monitored and Canada should lead the way

April 27, 2017

Cool tech, hard science and daring innovation - Expedition 2017: Wiring the Abyss

April 26, 2017

Do fish talk? An innovative experiment to study fish using sound and imaging

April 24, 2017

Tumbling to success: delta dynamics laboratory becomes scientific highlight

March 30, 2017

Q&A with Kim Martini

March 27, 2017

A first anniversary for British Columbia’s community observatories

March 14, 2017

Federal funding supports British Columbia's earthquake early warning system

March 8, 2017

Celebrating International Women's Day coast to coast

March 2, 2017

Collaborative stewardship for the Pacific coast

February 27, 2017

Canada’s first three-glider mission maps whale habitat

February 16, 2017

The global ocean community celebrates Innovation Canada's twentieth birthday

January 30, 2017

The cumulative effects of bottom trawling and low oxygen on marine life

January 25, 2017

Are earthquakes on the rise?

January 23, 2017

The warm Blob chills out

2016

December 20, 2016

United States and Canada unite to protect the Arctic

December 5, 2016

Arctic sea ice: slow growth in 2016

December 2, 2016

Taking ocean data to the next level: custom web services for marine decision-making

November 28, 2016

Saanich Inlet and the science of dead zones

November 7, 2016

Delivering a smart ocean for Canada: Trudeau’s historic Oceans Protection Plan

October 31, 2016

Monitoring Saanich Inlet and the Strait of Georgia: Fall inshore expedition (2016)

October 28, 2016

The extent of habitat compression and hypoxia in Saanich Inlet from the 2016 hypoxia cycle

October 26, 2016

Fisheries and Oceans Canada partners for a sustainable and healthy ocean future

October 20, 2016

Sedimentary principles: marine geology, shrimp fisheries, and the impact of deep sea trawling

October 3, 2016

Ocean Networks Canada and Victoria’s Capital Regional District monitor ocean conditions

September 30, 2016

Ocean Networks co-op student improves thermodynamic sea-ice model

September 29, 2016

Cambridge Bay at the crossroads of history and climate science (2016)

September 1, 2016

INCISE 2016 gathers the international submarine canyon community

August 31, 2016

Cambridge Bay observatory monitors Arctic ocean health and safety

August 23, 2016

Canadian scientist awarded for exceptional contribution to Earth science

July 27, 2016

Deployed: the first spike for British Columbia's earthquake early warning system

July 8, 2016

Expedition 2016 Wrap: Bigger Footprint Enables Better Science

July 4, 2016

Partnering to Expand Ocean Networks' Reach from Sea to Sky

June 28, 2016

A Fly-on-the-Wall: Notes from Port Alberni's Exercise Coastal Response

June 21, 2016

Ocean Networks Canada Attends the 38th Annual Prince Rupert Seafest

June 10, 2016

Tsunami Models Used for Preparedness Exercise in Port Alberni

June 1, 2016

Wiring the Abyss 2016 Leg 1 - Summary and Highlights

June 1, 2016

A Tenth Anniversary Inshore Maintenance Cruise

May 27, 2016

Whalebone Experiment in a Minimum Oxygen Zone

May 26, 2016

Teens Dive Deep into the 4th Annual Ocean Science Symposium

May 16, 2016

New Generation of Seafloor Imaging

May 10, 2016

A Canadian First: NOAA brings tsunami Digital Elevation Model training to Victoria, BC

May 9, 2016

EXPEDITION 2016: Wiring the Abyss

May 2, 2016

Ocean Network's New Arctic Youth Science Ambassador

April 29, 2016

Observing Seasonal Marine Changes with BC Ferries

April 26, 2016

Ocean Networks Canada: Big Science for the Salish Sea

April 26, 2016

Sea Ice Research and its Benefits

March 31, 2016

New ocean observatory and radar for Prince Rupert

March 30, 2016

New observatory comes to Kitamaat Village

March 21, 2016

Introducing Campbell River's new observatory

February 28, 2016

A decade of discovery in Saanich Inlet

February 26, 2016

Ocean Networks Canada joins the excitement in Prince Rupert

February 9, 2016

The Northeast Pacific Blob: fading or not?

February 3, 2016

Coming to Nuu-chah-nulth Territory: exciting developments in ocean monitoring

March 25, 2015

The Blob Blog - Warm Northeast Pacific Ocean Conditions Continue (2016)

January 29, 2016

Making progress on earthquake early warning

2015

December 30, 2015

South coast communities feel the shake!

November 24, 2015

Addressing climate change coast to coast

November 21, 2015

Young Arctic scientist crazy for marine invertebrates

November 20, 2015

Sea ice returns to Cambridge Bay

October 30, 2015

Barkley Canyon under the microscope

October 21, 2015

ONC’s new dashboard tracks earthquakes around the world

October 2, 2015

ONC completes its most complex operation in 10 years

October 1, 2015

Van Aqua takes audiences to extreme deep ocean environments

September 30, 2015

Expanding the Cambridge Bay observatory (2015)

September 29, 2015

A Conversation with ONC Visiting Scholar, Dr. Tom Kwasnitschka

September 18, 2015

Megathrust Chilean quake captured on ONC sensors

August 14, 2015

Explore the ocean depths—live—while ONC wires the abyss!

July 30, 2015

ONC now monitors Strait of Georgia with three BC Ferries

July 30, 2015

A conversation with Jim Gower - B.C. ferry data pioneer

July 13, 2015

ONC designs weather portal for Pan Am athletes

July 7, 2015

Ocean Networks Canada Partners to Protect the Arctic

June 30, 2015

World Oceans Day 2015: Taking action for the oceans

June 30, 2015

Young scientist maps how animals are responding to decreasing oxygen in NE Pacific Ocean

June 29, 2015

Making science happen: a conversation with Jackson Chu, marine biologist

May 11, 2015

Spring bloom arrives early this year

May 6, 2015

Hands-on Science at the 3rd Annual Ocean Science Symposium

April 28, 2015

Newer, greater capacity for the Delta Dynamics Lab

April 28, 2015

These crime solvers are real pigs*

April 28, 2015

ONC heads back to sea

April 24, 2015

ONC detects M6.1 earthquake near Haida Gwaii

March 31, 2015

A Conversation with Dr. Ali Abdolali

March 31, 2015

Scientists weigh in on warming coastal waters

March 30, 2015

Crabs everywhere! A mystery caught on camera!

March 30, 2015

Praise for "Reaching Blue" in Washington DC

March 29, 2015

ONC data supports latest research in tsunami modeling

February 26, 2015

New Digital Fishers Campaign: Feeding Deep Sea Critters

February 23, 2015

Charting a course for coastal oceanography in BC

February 6, 2015

JASCO’s Sound Monitoring Technology Used to Protect the Orcas

January 28, 2015

January quakes cause jitters in British Columbia

2014

December 3, 2014

From Sea to Space | Robots Explore Extreme Environments

December 3, 2014

Second BC Ferry Data Now Available

November 26, 2014

VENUS Data Now Available via Oceans 2.0

November 24, 2014

Northeast Pacific Warming

October 30, 2014

Whale Bones on the Seafloor

October 16, 2014

Drop, Cover and Hold On!

October 15, 2014

Smart Ocean™ | From Sensors to Decisions

September 21, 2014

Understanding the Oceans

September 20, 2014

3D Cameras in the Ocean

September 19, 2014

What's the Deal with Flatfish?

September 18, 2014

CSI Salish Sea Completes with 10th Deployment

August 25, 2014

Northward Ho! (2014)

July 3, 2014

Secret Lives of Submarine Gas Flares

June 27, 2014

ONC Advisers Gather in Victoria BC

June 4, 2014

Vehicle in the Vent Plume

May 21, 2014

Sablefish Countdown Redux

May 16, 2014

Expedition sails to Endeavour hot vents

April 30, 2014

Spring Bloom Observed in Ferry Data

April 24, 2014

A Year of Arctic Sea Ice

April 1, 2014

Tsunami alert follows 8.2 quake off Chile

March 19, 2014

Stuck Crawler Gets Unstuck

March 7, 2014

Maintaining the VENUS Observatory: March 2014 Expedition

2013

October 27, 2013

VENUS Observatory Maintenance Expedition: October 2013

October 25, 2013

Folger Pinnacle Maintenance Mission Complete

October 23, 2013

Final Expedition of 2013 in the Salish Sea at Full Swing

October 3, 2013

Cambridge Bay, a Year of Data!

August 6, 2013

Fraser River Plume

August 5, 2013

Listening to Deep Ocean Whales

July 4, 2013

CBC's Bob McDonald Goes to Sea

June 26, 2013

Thompson Expedition Summary: June 2013

May 28, 2013

Gas Plume Detected

May 22, 2013

Tully Leg 2 Summary: May 2013

May 10, 2013

Tully Leg 1 Summary: Apr-May 2013

April 30, 2013

MicroSquid Experiment

April 27, 2013

CSI Salish Sea

February 20, 2013

Seven Years In Saanich Inlet

January 23, 2013

Teen Spots Hagfish-Slurping Elephant Seal

January 10, 2013

Verena Tunnicliffe—Changing Perspectives

2012

October 5, 2012

New Eyes For Wally

August 27, 2012

Methane Flux in Barkley Canyon

August 27, 2012

Community Observatory Keeps Eye on Arctic Sea Ice

July 5, 2012

Wiring the Abyss: Part 2

June 15, 2012

Wiring the Abyss: Part 1

May 23, 2012

Sediment Mix-Masters

May 1, 2012

Supporting BC's Economy

March 26, 2012

New Species Revealed in our Backyard

March 25, 2012

Super Digital Fisher Contributes 10000 Annotations

February 21, 2012

Seismic Shift in Whale Studies

February 8, 2012

VENUS Celebrates 6 Years of Streaming Data

February 3, 2012

Using Sound to Visualize Currents

2011

December 9, 2011

Hydrate Growth at Bullseye Vent?

November 30, 2011

Tempo-Mini Inhabits the Hot Vents

November 7, 2011

ONCCEE Facilitates Creation of National Ocean Technology Alliance

November 7, 2011

Arctic Observatory Feasibility Study

October 5, 2011

September 2011 Expedition Complete

September 21, 2011

Free Wally Keeps on Ticking

August 22, 2011

Folger Pinnacle Frontiers

July 29, 2011

July 2011 Expedition Comes to an End

February 7, 2011

Folger Pinnacle Connected

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