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, 15 July 2025 (08:30) to Thursday, 17 July 2025 (18:00)

Monday, 14 July 2025
Tuesday, 15 July 2025

08:30 Light Breakfast
Light Breakfast
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

09:00 Welcome Ceremony, Workshop Overview, Introduction to VENUS & ONC
Welcome Ceremony, Workshop Overview, Introduction to VENUS & ONC
09:00 - 09:45
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
09:45 Salish Sea System Digital Twin
Salish Sea System Digital Twin
09:45 - 10:45
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
Contributions

09:45 Tammy Sam: Salish Sea – First Nations Perspective

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

10:25 Gary Greene
10:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:05
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

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

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

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Large Scale System and Changes
Large Scale System and Changes
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
Contributions

13:00 Richard Dewey: Two decades of second-by-second State of the Ocean monitoring with VENUS

13:10 Rich Pawlowicz: Circulation processes in the Salish Sea

13:20 Jennifer Jackson: An overview of DFO's Salish Sea Biophysical and Shore station data programs from 1914 to present

13:30 Jody Klymak: Water mass budgets

13:40 Discussion
14:00 Biological Systems and Ecosystem Health
Biological Systems and Ecosystem Health
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
Contributions

14:00 Akash Sastri: Overview of DFO plankton monitoring in the Salish Sea

14:10 Vera Pospelova: What we have learned from our sediment trap studies

14:20 Megan Tomlin and Steven Henry Jr: Clam garden restoration

14:30 Stephane Gauthier: Sannich inlet active acoustic observations

14:40 Discussion
15:00 Breakout Introduction
Breakout Introduction
15:00 - 15:05
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

15:05 Refreshments
Refreshments
15:05 - 15:20
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

15:20 Topical Breakouts
Topical Breakouts
15:20 - 16:05
Room: Large Scale—Rm 101; Bio Systems—Rms 109 and 201

16:05 Short break
Short break
16:05 - 16:15
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

16:15 Report Backs & Group Discussion
Report Backs & Group Discussion
16:15 - 16:45
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

16:45 Graphical Recording, Day 2 Preview, Closing
Graphical Recording, Day 2 Preview, Closing
16:45 - 17:00
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

17:00 Mixer & Informal Poster Session
Mixer & Informal Poster Session
17:00 - 18:30
Wednesday, 16 July 2025

08:30 Light Breakfast
Light Breakfast
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

09:00 Day 1 Recap, Day 2 Preview
Day 1 Recap, Day 2 Preview
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
09:30 Biogeochemistry in the Salish Sea
Biogeochemistry in the Salish Sea
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
Contributions

09:30 Kohen Bauer: Distributed biological observatories

09:35 Wiley Evans: Ocean acidification research and/or our approaches for measuring the marine CO2 system

09:40 Maycira Costa: Coupled satellite and ONC data from ocean surface dynamics

09:45 Roberta Hamme: Drivers of biogeochemical changes in deep Saanich Inlet

09:50 Panel Discussion
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Coastal Management, Soundscapes & Traffic
Coastal Management, Soundscapes & Traffic
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
Contributions

11:00 Lorne Underwood

11:05 Harvey Takhar

11:10 Shahin Dashtguard

11:15 Kees Lockman

11:20 Panel Discussion
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Physical & digital infrastructure and innovation
Physical & digital infrastructure and innovation
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
Contributions

13:00 Ben Skinner: The PSF Marine Data Centre

13:10 Brad de Young: CIOSS Pacific enabling data access

13:20 Jan Newton: NANOOS observing system and science observations from it

13:30 JP Juteau: Turbulence Measurements & British Columbia

13:35 Randy LeVeque: Machine learning for tsunami forecasting

13:40 Jeff Harris: Towards a digital twin of the Salish Sea: reduced-order modeling through machine learning

13:45 29 - Oliver Kirsebom: New opportunities for data collection and environmental monitoring in the Salish Sea
14:00 Intro to Breakout Exercises
Intro to Breakout Exercises
14:00 - 14:05
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

14:05 Move to breakout rooms
Move to breakout rooms
14:05 - 14:15
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

14:15 Topical Breakouts
Topical Breakouts
14:15 - 15:00
Room: Coastal Mgmt—Rm 101; Biogeochem—Rm 109; Innovation—Rm 201

15:00 Refreshments
Refreshments
15:00 - 15:20

15:20 Report Backs & Group Discussion
Report Backs & Group Discussion
15:20 - 16:15
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

16:15 Capture the Gold, Graphical Recording, Day 3 Preview
Capture the Gold, Graphical Recording, Day 3 Preview
16:15 - 16:45
Room: Rooms 101 & 109
Thursday, 17 July 2025

08:30 Light Breakfast
Light Breakfast
08:30 - 09:00

09:00 Preview: Where ONC should do what?
Preview: Where ONC should do what?
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

09:30 Our Collective Grand Vision
Our Collective Grand Vision
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Rooms 101, 109, 201

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

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

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00

13:00 Capture the Gold, Graphical Recording, Next Steps
Capture the Gold, Graphical Recording, Next Steps
13:00 - 13:40
Room: Rooms 101 & 109

13:40 Closing Ceremony
Closing Ceremony
13:40 - 14:00
Room: Rooms 101 & 109