
Modernization
Learn more about government’s intention to modernize the museum to protect our historic holdings and provide better access to our collections.
Join Natasha Ewing from Ocean Networks Canada to learn about their unique and innovative work and connect live to the E/V Nautilus to hear about their adventures at sea. ONC staff and E/V Nautilus Communication Fellows will discuss the work they are doing at sea in real time in a Q/A format from the audience.
Dive into the deep sea without getting wet!
Ocean Networks Canada, an initiative of the University of Victoria, operates world-leading ocean observatories off the west coast of Canada and in the Arctic. By gathering real-time data about our changing ocean, monitoring marine safety, earthquake and tsunami hazards and collecting images and sounds of marine life, ONC supports evidence-based decision-making and opens the door to our planet’s next frontier, the world beneath the waves. Ocean data collected 24/7 allows scientists, students and teachers around the world to explore complex earth processes and discover ocean mysteries. Ocean Networks Canada is currently on a live expedition off the west coast with the E/V Nautilus, a 64 m ship equipped with the latest oceanographic technology and two robotic vehicles, Hercules and Argus that can dive to 6000m, to maintain the regional observatory (NEPTUNE).