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Brentwood's CANARIE: Mining Ocean Data
This week it was announced by the University of Victoria (UVic) that a $1.55 million dollar project has been given the go-ahead for ocean based research just a few hundred meters from the Brentwood College shoreline.
Our school is collaborating with the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at UVic to host a data collection buoy that will remotely sense a range of environmental factors and transmit them to a website that will be available to Brentwood students for analysis. Cameras and hydrophones will allow us to view and listen in to the ocean fauna. The monitoring project forms part of CANARIE - Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network. It also links to the NEPTUNE and VENUS projects that are currently gathering data from the deep on both coasts of Vancouver Island. In addition, Brentwood students will be using their own data gathering devices this year (with a portable data logger known as a LabQuest) to provide information on the changing salinity, temperature and nutrient levels within the Mill Stream estuary itself. More information about the CANARIE project is available here: http://communications.uvic.ca/releases/release.php?display=release&id=1083
Our school is collaborating with the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at UVic to host a data collection buoy that will remotely sense a range of environmental factors and transmit them to a website that will be available to Brentwood students for analysis. Cameras and hydrophones will allow us to view and listen in to the ocean fauna. The monitoring project forms part of CANARIE - Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network. It also links to the NEPTUNE and VENUS projects that are currently gathering data from the deep on both coasts of Vancouver Island. In addition, Brentwood students will be using their own data gathering devices this year (with a portable data logger known as a LabQuest) to provide information on the changing salinity, temperature and nutrient levels within the Mill Stream estuary itself. More information about the CANARIE project is available here: http://communications.uvic.ca/releases/release.php?display=release&id=1083