Gathering data from moorings, ferries, drifters, gliders, remotely operated vehicles and ships. 


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Mobile Networks 

Measuring ocean currents & wave heights to support safer shipping, incident response and tsunami detection

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Oceanographic Radar

Panel discussion with Canada’s Chief Science Advisor Dr. Mona Nemer at the Canadian Science Policy Conference 2024. 

Financial support, mentorship and residency programs for visiting scientists, scholars and students. 

Localized systems for continuous, real-time ocean monitoring in Canada’s coastal communities.

Community Observatory Data

ONC operates world-leading ocean observatories that collect data from the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic oceans.

ONC’s deep-sea, coastal and land-based infrastructure includes cabled, autonomous and mobile ocean observing instruments. 

Fibre-optic cable provides power and connectivity to subsea instruments, enabling real-time continuous, long time series data collection.  

Cabled Networks

Physical Infrastructure

Reliable, seamless, real-time data transfer and advanced data management solutions.


Providing power and Internet connectivity to subsea networks.

Shore Stations

ONC’s world-leading data management system.

Oceans 3.0

Digital Infrastructure

Explore ONC’s observatories and networks by location.  

Locations

Observatories

# Cabled observatories
ONC maintains a large regional cabled observatory network off Canada’s west coast, known within the science community as NEPTUNE (**N**orth **E**ast **P**acific **T**ime-series **U**ndersea **N**etworked **E**xperiments). Hundreds of kilometres of subsea fibre optic cable provide power and Internet connectivity to thousands of sensors. High resolution, continuous, free, open data from these sensors can be accessed via ONC’s digital infrastructure Oceans 3.0.




Map of Ocean Networks Canada observing systems along the Southern coast of British Columbia.

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## Community observatories
Modelled on our large cabled observatories, community observatories are small versions tailored to the needs of coastal and Indigenous communities. These cabled ocean observing systems make it possible for community members to conduct year-round continuous monitoring of their own ocean environments.


community ocean observatory at Kitamaat Village

In March 2016, ONC installed a community ocean observatory at Kitamaat Village, on the northern coast of British Columbia. 