VENUS

The VENUS (Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea) project is a cabled sea floor observatory, operated by the University of Victoria consisting of fibre optic cables connecting oceanographic instruments on the sea floor of the Pacific Ocean off the coast British Columbia to a dedicated shore-station. Data from the sub-sea instruments is relayed to the University of Victoria in real time. The data, including images and audio, is processed and made available to researchers and the public through the VENUS website.

The first array of sub-sea instruments is in Saanich Inlet. A second array is planned for the Strait of Georgia.

ee also

*NEPTUNE, another United States-Canada cooperating oceanography project on Juan de Fuca plate
*MARS, a similar MBARI cabled-based oceanography observatory
*SATURN, Science and Technology University Research Network, a coastal margin, or river-to-ocean, testbed observatory for the United States Pacific Northwest, a project of the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction.

External links

* [http://www.venus.uvic.ca/ VENUS official website]
* [http://www.stccmop.org/ Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction official website]