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Volume 22, Summer 2009 – Funding, data use and innovation

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  • VENUS is about to Grow with New Funding from CFI – We have just heard that the first part of an $11M request is granted.
  • Using VENUS Data Yet? – With VENUS virtually everyone can tap into the ocean and explore.
  • Denitrification and Oxygen Cycling in Saanich Inlet – How do the tides, upwelling and freshwater runoff control the timing of renewal events in Saanich Inlet?
  • HD camera tested on VENUS – Collaboration with CANARIE and UVIC’s Ocean Technology Laboratory.
  • VENUS Oculus – New technology for Subsea Visual Monitoring – from security cam to subsea.
  • Ocean Discovery Days at the Institute of Ocean Sciences – public outreach event.

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June 25th, 2009 | Filed in: Newsletters, Newsroom |

Volume 21, Spring 2009 – VENUS part of a bigger picture

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  • VENUS Cruise Update – A week of intense work on board CCGS P. Tully.
  • The State of VENUS: Recent Meetings and Regional Initiatives – How does VENUS fit in the big picture?
  • The Launch of a New Oceans Network – The Canadian Healthy Oceans Network is born.
  • Recovery of the Delta Extension Cable
  • Centre for Commercialization and Research Established – Centre for Enterprise and Engagement will focus on links between research and industry.

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March 31st, 2009 | Filed in: Newsletters, Newsroom |

Volume 20, Winter 2008-09 – Working together to get the job done

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  • VENUS on the Road – Presentations in Toronto and Marseilles.
  • Research at Home and Abroad – Working with Scientists from Israel.
  • The Ocean Technology Test Bed in Saanich Inlet – Collaborations between UVIC projects.
  • Web Use Analysis – who uses our website and where are they located.
  • Decomposition in the Ocean – Update from Dr. Gail Anderson on the study of bodies in the ocean.

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December 1st, 2008 | Filed in: Newsletters, Newsroom |

Volume 19, Summer/Fall 2008 – New and improved

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  • VENUS Installation is Complete – last VENUS node pod lowered to the bottom.
  • VENUS Proposes Expansion to Serve Research – CFI proposal submitted.
  • Challenges on the Delta Front – DDL platform buried in sediment.
  • New Data streams on VENUS – Several new instruments successfully deployed.
  • Transmissometer Biofouling Protection System
  • NEPTUNE Canada Platform 1 and IFREMER TEMPO-Mini – Collaboration allows NEPTUNE to test platform design.
  • VENUS Student News – Update from Andrea Price on using VENUS data.

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October 14th, 2008 | Filed in: Newsletters, Newsroom |

Volume 18, Spring 2008 – Plankton takes center stage

The latest VENUS newsletter highlights our new Broadband Inverted Echo-Sounder!

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  • VENUS Tests New Broadband Inverted Echo-Sounder.
  • Data Streams from Fraser River Delta – research platform successfully deployed.
  • VENUS Research Highlights – The surface to bottom zooplankton conveyor belt.
  • VENUS Galleries – New Look and Feel!

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June 5th, 2008 | Filed in: Newsletters, Newsroom |

Volume 17, Winter 2007/2008 – Strait of Georgia Live!

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  • Strait of Georgia goes live! – A dozen sensors producing data.
  • Installation of the Delta Dynamics Laboratory – studying processes on the Fraser Delta at 40m.
  • Data Flow from VENUS in the Strait of Georgia.
  • A New Look for VENUS – Website updated.
  • VENUS Data News – Now data is available from Saanich Inlet and Strait of Georgia.
  • $353,700 for Research on Fraser River Delta – NRCAN receives funding to extend DDL.
  • Project overview – Who are we and what do we do.

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December 1st, 2007 | Filed in: Newsletters, Newsroom |

Volume 16, Fall 2007 – Comparing data over two years

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  • Node Pod Deployment – 1st node pod successfully lowered into Strait of Georgia
  • 20 Months Under the Sea – Data from Saanich Inlet available.
  • What’s Up and Down with the Temperature/Salinity/Oxygen Signals?
  • Inter-Annual Variability: 2006-2007 – two complete years can now be compared.
  • VENUS Visits Taiwan – discussing plans and pitfalls of installing a cabled ocean observatory.
  • VENUS Eye in Saanich Inlet – Second pig deployed.

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October 1st, 2007 | Filed in: Newsletters, Newsroom |

Volume 15, Summer 2007 – Updates and maintenance

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  • Changes at UVIC – ONC first not-for-profit registered society.
  • VENUS Personnel Changes – Nikolai Korniyuk replaces Deborah Smith.
  • Strait of Georgia Array – Update – Cable has landed.
  • Saanich Inlet Maintenance Cruise – September 10-17,2007 – Instruments serviced with CCGS Vector.
  • Seiches in Saanich Inlet
  • Project Overview – who are we and what do we do.

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July 1st, 2007 | Filed in: Newsletters, Newsroom |

Volume 14, Spring 2007 – Step one in the Strait of Georgia

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  • Funding News – NSERC will fund operations for next three years.
  • Laying the Strait of Georgia Cable: May & June 2007
  • Student News – Ian Beveridge and Kamira Peters first to use VENUS data in thesis.

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March 14th, 2007 | Filed in: Newsletters, Newsroom |

Volume 13, Winter 2006/2007 – Patterns detected

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  • Project overview
  • VENUS Celebrates 1st Anniversary – One year of data now available.
  • Detecting the Annual Pattern of Basin Flushing in Saanich Inlet at the VENUS Site
  • Hydrophone Array Redesign – Deployment of new design successful.

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December 1st, 2006 | Filed in: Newsletters, Newsroom |
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