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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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📣 Calling all University of Victoria Fine Arts grad students 📣

Apply now for the 2026 ONC/UVic Fine Arts ArtScience Fellowship — a paid opportunity bridging art and science to explore the environment, technology, oceans, and culture.

⭐ Apply: bit.ly/ONCJobs

#KnowTheOcean
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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
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
🌊 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
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
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
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
October 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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
October 2, 2025 at 5:29 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
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
September 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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
September 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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
September 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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
September 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM