Tuesday, September 22, 2026
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
MarineLabs headquarters, 2100 Douglas Street, Victoria, BC V8T 4L3 (open in Google Maps)
Free Event
Presented by MarineLabs
Host: Noelle Quin
An open door over the lunch hour, with the team explaining how a growing network of coastal buoys becomes real-time weather data that maritime operators act on. Science, slushies and Dough Eyes pizza too. Noelle frames it as come-curious rather than a programme: no agenda to sit through, just the people who run the sensor network and, in their words, a few stories from ten years in marine tech. Access is off Pembroke Street; ring the doorbell.
Anu's Take
The most extreme rogue wave ever recorded, 17.6 metres off Ucluelet, was caught by one of their buoys, and a UVic researcher put the odds of it at once in 1,300 years. Now the people who built that instrument are opening the door and standing next to it. Easy yes.
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Published Thursday, September 3, 2026 by Anu Jolliffe on LinkedIn