Employment Opportunities
There are currently no job postings for NEPTUNE Canada. Potential applicants
are encouraged to visit this site regularly as positions will become
available when full funding is secured and as the project develops.
Scientific Research Opportunities
NEPTUNE offers an incredible opportunity for all researchers involved
in the ocean and earth sciences. The real-time interactive design
of NEPTUNE will give scientists the ability to respond to rare oceanic
events,
observe ocean change over decades, and adjust experiments and sampling
over time, all through the Internet. The opportunity for international
collaboration and interdisciplinary studies of geological, physical,
chemical, and biological systems on this scale is truly unique. NEPTUNE
Canada’s major research themes include:
- Plate Tectonic Process and Earthquake Dynamics
- Seabed Fluid Dynamics
and Gas Hydrates
- Ocean Climate Change and Marine Biota
- Deep Sea Biodiversity and
Ecosystems
Please contact
NEPTUNE Canada if you are a researcher interested in participating
in NEPTUNE Canada’s
unique research initiative and did not participate in the earlier science
workshops held in Victoria. Also visit “What’s New” for
upcoming scientific meetings and opportunities.
Industry Opportunities
NEPTUNE represents an important opportunity for
the Canadian private sector. It is expected that more components of
the project, in the
USA or Canada, will be open to bids from Canadian companies, competing
(or possibly in cooperation) with American companies.
There is a broad array of opportunities for Canadian companies, breaking
down into two basic types: opportunities related to selling to the NEPTUNE
Project the services, technologies, and equipment required to build and
operate the NEPTUNE system, and opportunities related to using the system
for experiments and testing.
Building and Operating
Design, development, testing, construction and installation
of components of the basic network, including:
- Cable network
- Shore landings
- Communication and control systems
- Undersea research nodes
- Shore control systems
- Management and service facilities
Scientific equipment to be installed on the network, including:
- Remotely operated observatories
- Manipulators
- Samplers
- Passive and active acoustic sensors
- Chemical sensors
- Geophysical sensors
- Oceanographic sensors (chemical, physical and
biological)
- Communications systems
Autonomous and tethered vehicles capable of monitoring, sampling,
performing maintenance functions, and obtaining video images:
- Large vehicles adapted for tasks related to deployment and maintenance
of network nodes and their associated experiments
- Smaller vehicles
to be employed in situ at nodes to collect data, samples and visual
images as required
Subsea service equipment capable of performing such tasks
as:
- Winching scientific equipment through the water column
- Ensuring
that instruments and equipment are kept clean of organic fouling
- Drilling shallow holes in the ocean floor
- Clearing debris
- Repairs
Technologies for collecting, storing, archiving, finding,
and massaging large quantities of data collected over decades.
Management, operation and maintenance of the system, including:
- Offshore servicing of the system
- Onshore servicing of the system
- Data management and archiving
- Analysis, interpretation and application
of the information coming from NEPTUNE
- Management of the experiment
process
Industry Research
NEPTUNE will be of interest to, and offers opportunities for private
sector companies to use the system for a variety of purposes, including:
- Resource industry interested in sustainable mineral and
energy resources
- Seafood industry interested in variables effecting marine
productivity
- Information and communications companies interested in
testing new technologies in cabled networks, communication,
and data management
- Environmental industry interested in climate change and
human environmental impacts on the marine ecosystem
- Education and distance learning agencies will benefit from
the wealth of information and images from the deep ocean
Many people believe that NEPTUNE is but the first of many such large-scale
subsea research networks destined to be installed around the world.
This poses the opportunity for international contracts and sales.
Companies are encouraged to visit this site regularly. At this key
stage it is also helpful for us to hear from companies expressing their
interest
in, and support for, the NEPTUNE project. Please see the "Contact" page.
Education and public outreach
- Public relations
- Development of products for education and public
awareness
- Marketing and sales
Business Contracts
The US/Canada “NEPTUNE
Executive Team” awarded its first public contract in October
to Fugro Seafloor Survey Inc. of Seattle to carry out a desktop study
of the proposed cable
route and landings.
Contact Information
Please direct all inquires regarding employment, scientific, and industrial
opportunities with NEPTUNE Canada to [email protected].
Please visit the “What’s New” regularly
for updates on opportunities available with NEPTUNE Canada.
Individuals and companies are also encouraged to visit the “US
NEPTUNE” site for information
on opportunities available in the United States and the overall project.
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