Opportunities
with NEPTUNE
Employment Opportunities
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Procurement Opportunities
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:
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.
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Industry Opportunities
NEPTUNE represents an important opportunity
for the Canadian private sector. It is expected that more
components of the project, in the U.S. 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
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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
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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.
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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 NEPTUNE
U.S. site for information on opportunities available
in the United States and the overall project.
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