NEPTUNE Canada

Orcas Playing at Folger

01-Feb-12
We're hearing Orcas via our Folger Passage hydrophone right now!! Here's the link: Listening to the Deep Ocean. (Click Folger Passage on the LIDO map.)

Possible Service Outage Today

26-Jan-12

Thursday 26 January 2012, 2300 UTC (1500 Pacific Time): Our systems team needs to do a critical patch to fix the problems we were seeing with our new storage system.  We do not anticipate this causing any outages however there is always the possibility of a service disruption.

Ongoing System Problems

24-Jan-12

We're experiencing ongoing intermittent problems with our web-based systems and services. We're working hard to resolve these as quickly. Scheduled system maintenance work for Wednesday and Thursday this week has been canceled.

Using Sound to Visualize Currents

03-Feb-12
Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers, or ADCPs, are used in our subsea network and other oceanographic applications to measure the various currents at different sites.

Dumpster Days are Numbered

18-Jan-12
Ground has been broken and construction is now underway on a new test tank and storage facility.

Play Digital Fishers

16-Dec-11
Over our first two years of operations, NEPTUNE Canada has recorded thousands of hours of video, both during installation dives and from underwater cameras installed across our subsea network. All this video needs to be studied. But it’s a daunting task for scientists to view so much footage and describe what they see – this is where you can help.

Hydrate Growth at Bullseye Vent?

09-Dec-11
University of Toronto researchers Lisa Roach and Nigel Edwards are trying to determine if gas hydrate outcrops grow over time by looking at the Bullseye Vent at our ODP 889 location.

Happy 2nd Birthday to Us!

08-Dec-11
Two years ago today, NEPTUNE Canada started live online delivery of data from our seafloor network.

Tempo-Mini Inhabits the Hot Vents

30-Nov-11
Meet Tempo-Mini, the newest instrument platform at Main Endeavour.

September 2011 Cruise Complete

05-Oct-11
Our fall 2011 installation and maintenance cruise sailed September 10 – 30 aboard the R/V Thompson.

Sailing in September

11-Sep-11
NEPTUNE Canada scientists and engineers are sailing again, aboard the R/V Thompson for 3 weeks.

Folger Pinnacle Frontiers

22-Aug-11
From August 2-4, 2011, NEPTUNE Canada teamed up with Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre and Pelagic Technologies to visit our network's shallowest site - Folger Pinnacle.

New “Green” Ship

08-Aug-11
Coastal research cruises will get a little greener next year.

Cruise End!

29-Jul-11
Highlights and summary of our July 2011 installation and maintenance cruise.