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Our Internet-connected cabled observatories bring real-time continuous ocean data to the surface for research & decision-making.

One of Canada's Major Research Facilities & a University of Victoria initiative.

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From sea to sky, the waters around Digby Island teem with life! 🐟

See diving birds, rockfish, and skates through ONC’s Digby Island observatory—27m below the surface near Prince Rupert Airport.

🎥 Watch the full video: https://bit.ly/3X9BsaL

#KnowTheOcean
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
When creativity and science share the same current of curiosity 🌊

Three voices from around the world—Parvin Hassani, Dennis Gupa, and Dwight Owens—join ONC to explore how art and science merge to understand the ocean in new ways.

🎧 Surfacing Secrets: Art & Ocean Science → bit.ly/ONCpodcast
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Sleek seals and sensational squids! 🦑

The waters around Kitamaat Village are perfect for the tiny bobtail squid. See this adorable cephalopod and more from the Kitamaat Village observatory—deployed w/ Haisla Nation to monitor B.C.’s changing coastal waters

🎥 https://bit.ly/4oNyrZI

#KnowTheOcean
November 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Nothing is more frightful than real life — and in this case, the missing “zombie worm,” Osedax, in low oxygen waters, may signal future species loss and ecosystem decline, as climate change-driven, low oxygen zones spread in the NE Pacific Ocean.

Full story 👇
Zombie worms play a key role in recycling whale bones on the seafloor. Yet UVic’s @oceannetworks.ca hasn’t observed them in over a decade—an absence that may signal how expanding low-oxygen zones, driven by climate change, threaten deep-sea biodiversity. 🪱
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Where are the zombie worms?   - UVic News
An Ocean Networks Canada supported experiment has revealed the absence of the “bone devourer,” Osedax, on submerged whale bones, bringing scary lessons about climate change and potential species loss.
news.uvic.ca
October 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
All work and no play makes ONC a dull place so we make sure to bring our A-game during ONC’s annual Halloween costume contest!

We hope you have a safe and happy #Halloween 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
In horror films, unseen monsters scare us most. In the deep sea, it’s the missing zombie worms that worry scientists.

When whale bones were placed on the seafloor off #BC, researchers expected these bone-devourers to appear—but none did.

Where are the zombie worms? 🎃 bit.ly/3WrQQ20

@uvic.ca 🧪 🌊
October 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Where did the zombie worms go?

A decade after ONC sank whale bones in Barkley Canyon, the deep-sea decomposers are nowhere to be found.

Dive into the story 🪱 https://bit.ly/3WrQQ20

University of Victoria

🧪 🌊 #SciComm #KnowTheOcean

Photo credit: Alamy Stock Photos
October 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Visit ONC’s booth at the Ocean Floor Explore symposium to chat with our geographic information systems (#GIS) experts about our 3D bathymetry modelling projects, tsunami inundation mapping, and more!

#KnowTheOcean
October 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🦑 Of all ONC’s coastal community observatories, Hartley Bay seems to be a favourite hangout for schoolmaster armhook squid!

📍 Douglas Channel
🥽 85 metres depth

Watch the full video ⭐ bit.ly/4os2sxK

#SciComm #KnowTheOcean
October 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
🇨🇦 From feats of marine tech engineering to the arts, ONC have capped off a busy summer of advancing ocean observing within Canada & on the international stage.

Learn how Canada’s ocean observatory is making waves in our latest newsletter 🗞️ http://bit.ly/4htVaaQ

#SciComm #KnowTheOcean
#KnowTheOcean Fall 2025 Newsletter
From feats of marine technology engineering to the arts, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) staff have capped off a busy summer of advancing ocean observing within Canada and on the international stage.
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October 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🌊 Victoria #OceanHackathon kicks off tonight at the COAST Innovation Hub!

Best of luck to the four hacker teams competing for the chance to travel to France for the global Ocean Hackathon in Dec 🇫🇷

Join us Sun Oct 19 at 3PM PST at COAST to see the teams present their hackathon solutions!
October 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
⭐Among all of ONC’s coastal community observatories, Campbell River stands out as a sea star hotspot!

📍Kwakwaka'wakw and Coast Salish territory
🥽8 metres

Watch the full video ⭐ bit.ly/42EZ4Hu

#KnowTheOcean #Underwater #MarineBiology #CDNsci #OceanScience #OceanMonitoring #Canada #BritishColumbia
October 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
👩🏻‍🏫 Teachers! Visit ONC at the Catalyst & myPITA conferences this month to explore new ocean education resources.

Free, curriculum-aligned lessons co-developed with Indigenous partners 🌊 bit.ly/3L0IkV3

#KnowTheOcean #myPITA2025
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
#DYK❓ #BritishColumbia, #Taiwan & #Japan are the only places in the world that hosts ‘land+seafloor’ seismic networks.

ONC’s ‘land+seafloor’ seismic network provides max notification time compared to land-only systems for most earthquakes occurring off the BC coast.

Learn more 👉🏼 bit.ly/serviceEEW
October 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
1/🗺️ Researchers on the Canadian Antarctic Research Expedition mapped the seafloor around the ONC-Spanish National Research Council ocean observatory in the Southern Ocean in February and March 2025.

Full story 🔗 bit.ly/4n7CvmA

🧪 🌊 #KnowTheOcean #CDNsci #SciComm #BigData #Bathymetry
October 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Reposted by Ocean Networks Canada
M7.4 Earthquake 20 km E of Santiago, Philippines
58.1 km depth detected far from the source off Canada's west coast by @oceannetworks.ca seafloor realtime sensors that help us to #knowtheocean. Tsunami warnings are currently local only. Updates to come.
October 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Happy #WorldOctopusDay 🐙

Spot these incredible creatures on ONC’s subsea cameras—from BC’s coast to the deep ocean—and during our annual hashtag#ONCabyss expeditions.

See them in action on SeaTube 🐙 bit.ly/4q300Q1

#KnowTheOcean #CDNsci
October 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It's #WorldOctopusDay!

Let's throw it back to November 2024, where ONC's subsea camera at Folger Pinnacle captured footage of a Giant Pacific Octopus battling rough seas 🐙🐙

Watch the video 🐙 bit.ly/4gonmda

#KnowTheOcean
Giant Pacific Octopus battles rough seas during bomb cyclone
Watch rare underwater footage captured by Ocean Networks Canada observatory
www.oceannetworks.ca
October 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Reposted by Ocean Networks Canada
Happy World Octopus Day!

I have no shortage of octopus pictures to share today. Octopus and amazing, beautiful, and so very smart. Thank you to @schmidtocean.bsky.social @nautiluslive.org
@oceannetworks.ca
@nepdep_ for taking us along on your journeys as we have seen these amazing animals!
October 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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
October 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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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October 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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
October 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🌊 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
October 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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
September 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM