Name: VENUS / Salish Sea Workshop 15-17 July 2025
Start: 2025-07-15T08:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-07-17T18:00:00-07:00
Location: No location set

VENUS / Salish Sea Workshop 15-17 July 2025

from Tuesday, July 15, 2025 (8:30 AM) to Thursday, July 17, 2025 (6:00 PM)

Monday, July 14, 2025
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

8:30 AM Light Breakfast
Light Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

9:00 AM Welcome Ceremony, Workshop Overview, Introduction to VENUS & ONC
Welcome Ceremony, Workshop Overview, Introduction to VENUS & ONC
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
9:45 AM Salish Sea System Digital Twin
Salish Sea System Digital Twin
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
Contributions

9:45 AM Tammy Sam: Salish Sea – First Nations Perspective

10:05 AM John Delaney: Next-gen Stewardship of Urban Sea Systems

10:25 AM Gary Greene: Salish Sea as a potent natural laboratory for designing the first urban sea digital twin
10:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

11:05 AM Salish Sea System 1-2-7-All
Salish Sea System 1-2-7-All
11:05 AM - 11:55 AM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

11:55 AM Group Photo
Group Photo
11:55 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Large Scale System and Changes
Large Scale System and Changes
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
Contributions

1:00 PM Richard Dewey: Two decades of second-by-second State of the Ocean monitoring with VENUS

1:10 PM Rich Pawlowicz: Circulation processes in the Salish Sea

1:20 PM Jennifer Jackson: An overview of DFO's Salish Sea Biophysical and Shore station data programs from 1914 to present

1:30 PM Jody Klymak: Water mass budgets

1:40 PM Discussion
2:00 PM Biological Systems and Ecosystem Health
Biological Systems and Ecosystem Health
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
Contributions

2:00 PM Akash Sastri: Overview of DFO plankton monitoring in the Salish Sea

2:10 PM Vera Pospelova: What we have learned from our sediment trap studies

2:20 PM Megan Tomlin and Steven Henry Jr: Clam garden restoration

2:30 PM Stephane Gauthier: Active acoustics monitoring in the Salish Sea

2:40 PM Discussion
3:00 PM Breakout Introduction
Breakout Introduction
3:00 PM - 3:05 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

3:05 PM Refreshments
Refreshments
3:05 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

3:20 PM Topical Breakouts
Topical Breakouts
3:20 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: Large Scale—Rm 101; Bio Systems—Rms 109 and 201

4:05 PM Short break
Short break
4:05 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

4:15 PM Report Backs & Group Discussion
Report Backs & Group Discussion
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

4:45 PM Graphical Recording, Day 2 Preview, Closing
Graphical Recording, Day 2 Preview, Closing
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

5:00 PM Mixer & Informal Poster Session
Mixer & Informal Poster Session
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

8:30 AM Light Breakfast
Light Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

9:00 AM Day 1 Recap, Day 2 Preview
Day 1 Recap, Day 2 Preview
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
9:30 AM Biogeochemistry in the Salish Sea
Biogeochemistry in the Salish Sea
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
Contributions

9:30 AM Kohen Bauer: Integrating Planetary Boundary thinking

9:35 AM Wiley Evans: Ocean acidification research and/or our approaches for measuring the marine CO2 system

9:40 AM Maycira Costa: Coupled satellite and ONC data from ocean surface dynamics

9:45 AM Roberta Hamme: Drivers of biogeochemical changes in deep Saanich Inlet

9:50 AM Panel Discussion
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Coastal Management, Soundscapes & Traffic
Coastal Management, Soundscapes & Traffic
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
Contributions

11:00 AM Lorne Underwood

11:05 AM Harvey Takhar

11:10 AM Shahin Dashtguard

11:15 AM Kees Lockman

11:20 AM Panel Discussion
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Physical & digital infrastructure and innovation
Physical & digital infrastructure and innovation
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
Contributions

1:00 PM Ben Skinner: The PSF Marine Data Centre

1:10 PM Brad de Young: CIOSS Pacific enabling data access

1:20 PM Jan Newton: NANOOS observing system and science observations from it

1:30 PM JP Juteau: Turbulence Measurements & British Columbia

1:35 PM Randy LeVeque: Machine learning for tsunami forecasting

1:40 PM Jeff Harris: Towards a digital twin of the Salish Sea: reduced-order modeling through machine learning

1:45 PM 29 - Oliver Kirsebom: New opportunities for data collection and environmental monitoring in the Salish Sea
2:00 PM Intro to Breakout Exercises
Intro to Breakout Exercises
2:00 PM - 2:05 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

2:05 PM Move to breakout rooms
Move to breakout rooms
2:05 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

2:15 PM Topical Breakouts
Topical Breakouts
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Coastal Mgmt—Rm 101; Biogeochem—Rm 109; Innovation—Rm 201

3:00 PM Refreshments
Refreshments
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

3:20 PM Report Backs & Group Discussion
Report Backs & Group Discussion
3:20 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

4:15 PM Capture the Gold, Graphical Recording, Day 3 Preview
Capture the Gold, Graphical Recording, Day 3 Preview
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
Thursday, July 17, 2025

8:30 AM Light Breakfast
Light Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM Preview: Where ONC should do what?
Preview: Where ONC should do what?
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

9:30 AM Our Collective Grand Vision
Our Collective Grand Vision
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Rooms 101, 109, 201

10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM Report Backs & Group Discussion
Report Backs & Group Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Capture the Gold, Graphical Recording, Next Steps
Capture the Gold, Graphical Recording, Next Steps
1:00 PM - 1:40 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

1:40 PM Closing Ceremony
Closing Ceremony
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Rooms 101 & 109