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Observations by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory over the last decade have revealed a bright, near-isotropic high-energy neutrino background of almost entirely unknown origin, with a small number of neutrinos from identified sources: two active galaxies and the Milky Way. Understanding the origin and production mechanism of this neutrino background will require a new generation of detectors with a shift in emphasis toward precision measurements, in particular including improvements in angular resolution. In this talk, I will discuss the current status and prospects for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE), located in the Cascadia basin off the west coast of Canada and planned for initial construction start in the next year, which leverages the long optical scattering length of ocean water to provide best-in-class angular resolution and has the potential to increase the number of known neutrino sources by an order of magnitude at completion.
