Welcome to this week’s Midweek Memo. In this issue, read about Innovate BC’s awards program for researchers, two new tuition-free programs at Camosun College, and Campbell River tech in Norway.

Now, onto today’s briefing. It’s 698 words, a three-minute read.

Island spotlight: Ocean Networks Canada

It feels like I’ve been writing a fair bit about Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) lately, but frankly, it’s a little hard not to geek out on some of the work ONC is doing.

An initiative from the University of Victoria, ONC collects real-time data and monitors the three oceans bordering our coasts. In their own words…

Recent highlights from ONC include:

• A seven-day journey to conduct maintenance on ONC’s Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea (VENUS) observatory sites — complete with photos and videos from the trip, for a more visual experience.

• Video of the Spanish National Research Council team preparing the Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) Antarctic Ocean subsea observatory. The observatory has been sending data since its deployment in January.

• The detection of more than 200 earthquakes per hour at the Endeavour observatory site, 240 kilometres off the coast of Vancouver Island.

The plethora of data, photos, videos, and other content from ONC exists for a reason — ONC’s goal is to provide “access to free, open, continuous, long-time series data from anywhere in the world, in real-time.”

📰 More Victoria innovation news

🔥 Light me up: Applications opened for Innovate BC’s Ignite program, which awards up to $300,000 to fund B.C.-based research and development projects focused on natural resources, engineering, and applied sciences.

🎓 I love college: Camosun College launched two new programs targeting women and Indigenous students. The programs are last three months, are tuition-free, and centre on civil, mechanical and electrical engineering and computer sciences.

🌊 My body is a cage: Campbell River’s Poseidon Ocean Systems announced a distribution partnership with Norwegian based technology supplier, Fjord Miljø. The partnership will give customers in Norway access to Poseidon’s Life Support & Hybrid sea cage technology.

🕴️ Tech jobs of the week

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• Business Process & Data Integration Automation Engineer at NextAcre

• Business Solutions Specialist at Regional District of Nanaimo

• Senior Business Solutions Specialist at Regional District of Nanaimo

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