NEPTUNE Canada: Organization

Organization

Governance

NEPTUNE Canada and its sister project VENUS are cabled ocean observatories operating under the administrative umbrella of Ocean Networks Canada (ONC).

ONC is a not-for-profit society created by the University of Victoria to build and sustain Canada's world leadership in ocean science and technology through the two observatories. ONC supports the core research programs and the applications of the results of the research in at least three major areas: public policy, economic development and commercialization, and public education and outreach.

University Consortium

The following Canadian universities comprise a consortium, led by the University of Victoria, which received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund for the NEPTUNE Canada Project. Funding requirements designate the University of Victoria as the owner and operator.

MOUs

NEPTUNE Canada has signed memoranda of understanding for cooporation with:

Tongji University

For details on these MOUs, contact Fern Johnson, NEPTUNE Canada's associate director for finance and administration.

Advisory Committees

NEPTUNE Canada decision making benefits from the advice of several key committees with external representation:

Science Advisory Committee
Data Management and Archive System Advisory Committee
Fishery Advisory Committee
Cybersecurity Committee

NEPTUNE Staff and Consultants

Directorate

Chris Barnes, project director

Elizabeth Redpath, executive assistant

Science

Mairi Best, associate director

Dilumie Abeysirigunawardena, scientific data specialist
Brian Bornhold, project scientist
Reece Hasanen, scientific instrument manager
Martin Heesemann, research theme integrator
Dwight Owens, web content manager

Engineering

Position Vacant, associate director

Position Vacant, quality assurance manager
Jonathan Zand, Systems Integration Engineer

Engineering Consultants

The following external consultants work closely with NEPTUNE Canada.

Steve Lentz, network engineering consultant
Peter Phibbs, systems engineering consultant

Information Technology

Benoît Pirenne, associate director

Eric Guillemot, Manager, Software Development
- Darryl Bidulock, observatory monitoring and control developer
- Tim Boesenkool, web developer
- Ray Bon, Java developer
- Yan Chen, Java developer
- Karen Douglas, Metadata specialist
- Dmytro Draga, Java developer
- Reyna Jenkyns, scientific applications programmer
- Tim Lavallee, data acquisition developer
- Tony Lin, Java developer
- Kalpana Rawat, Java developer
- Ronald Schouten, senior front-end application developer
- Karen Tang, user applications developer
- Mitozcelle Valenzuela, Java developer
Quality Assurance Team
- Murray Leslie, software quality control specialist
- Daisy Qi, software quality control specialist
- Yingsong Zheng, software quality control specialist

Martin Hofmann, systems manager
- Shane Kerschtien, mission-critical systems administrator
- Eric Kolb, senior operations/systems analyst
- Jason Rush, systems administration
- Nic Scott, mission-critical systems administrator

Finance and Administration

Fern Johnson, associate director

Leslie Elliott, project coordinator
Natalia Gartley, administrative assistant

NEPTUNE Staff Photo

NEPTUNE Canada staff photo, September 2008. From left: Mairi Best, Chris Barnes, Yingsong Zheng, Dmytro Draga, Darryl Bidulock, Yigal Rachman (no longer with NEPTUNE Canada), Tim Lavallee, Benoît Pirenne, Nic Scott, Eric Kolb, Fern Johnson, Daisy Qi, Jason Rush, Tim Boesenkool, Murray Leslie, Eric Guillemot, Dwight Owens, Leslie Elliot, Elizabeth Redpath, Karen Tang, Martin Hofmann, Natalia Gartley, Tony Lin.