Victoria
COAST Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies (2021) is Pacific Canada's hub for the sustainable blue economy. Our mission is to strengthen the West Coast’s role in the immense and emerging ocean and marine sectors, fostering innovation, nurturing community, and building inclusive prosperity in British Columbia along the way.
Ocean Networks Canada is a world-leading ocean observing facility hosted and owned by the University of Victoria (UVic). ONC delivers ocean data from its cabled, mobile and community-based observing networks that represent an essential component of Canada’s ocean observing science capacity. Ocean data are archived, processed and made freely available via ONC’s data management system, Oceans 3.0.
COAST and ONC join forces for the 2025 Ocean Hackathon®.
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Victoria
Develop an AI/ML driven application to classify ships based on a training dataset of hydrophone recordings with four different identified types of ships (tug, cargo, tanker, passenger). Train this ...Develop a simple model to predict very low pH at 40m depth, based on a time series of related and co-located variables: CO2, temperature, salinity, density, oxygen, and various weather conditions. ...An AI/ML system that can detect and quantify boat traffic from thousands of still images captured every 5 minutes by a shore camera. This kind of quantitative analysis could be of great interest to ...An AI/ML system that can categorize plots of surface currents (measured by a coastal radar array) into 3 dominant modes, which we hypothesize to be mostly influenced by tides, river flow and ...
