	Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
	Canada's premier coastal and marine facility for teaching and research

News

April 2013: Film Release; Central Westcoast Forest Society is excited to announce the launch of a new film! This short documentary highlights stream ecology and the important habitat restoration work Central Westcoast Forest Society has been involved in since 1994. [....MORE]

Feb 2013: The Archaeology Society of BC hosted a talk about research done at Bamfield last summer, click here for the abstract

Jan 2013: Barnacles in the news... again!

Dec. 2012: NCMA’s Algal Culturing Techniques Course now accepting applications for 2013

Nov 3, 2012: BMSC remembers Professor R. C.B. Hartland-Rowe

Professor Hartland-Rowe was one of the founding members of WCUMBS and instrumental in bringing the University of Calgary into the consortium. His continued participation and support on the Management Council was very important in the early years of the Society's & Station's operation.

John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

Fall Seminar Schedule:

Sep 13	Dr. Carin Magnhagen	Trade-offs between conflicting demands - to eat and not be eaten.
Sept 20	Dr. Mike Hart	Selection and gene flow in sea star population biology
Sep 27	Finn Hamilton	Inherited symbionts and castrating parasites: ecology and evolution of a defensive symbiosis of Drosophila
Oct 18	Dr. Katie Lotterhos	Population genetics in spatially and temporally dynamic systems: from rockfish recruitment to genome scans for adaptation
Nov 1	Dr. Elizabeth Elle	Habitat fragmentation: Pollinator diversity and plant function in endangered oak-savannah of BC
Nov 15	Brett Favaro	A trap with a twist: Evaluating a bycatch reduction device to prevent rockfish capture in crustacean traps
Nov 29	Dr. Jonathan Moore

Summer Seminar Schedule:

July 19	Dr. Rich Palmer	A secret treason: Studies of right-left asymmetry and handed behavior support an unconventional mode of evolution
July 26	Dr. Doug Altshuler	Powering and controlling flight in hummingbirds
Aug 2	Dr. Jonathan Driver	Human Impacts on Ancient Environments in the American Southwest
Aug 13	Dr. Alan McMillan	Thunderbird and Whale: The Enduring Importance of Whaling in Nuu-chah-nulth Culture
Aug 16	Caroline Fox	Pacific herring spawn: a subsidy to intertidal and terrestrial ecosystems?
Aug 18	Dr. Bruce Miller	Oral History, Archaeology, and the Courts
Aug 30	Dr. Edd Hammill	From the Gulf of Alaska to the Costa Rican Rainforest - Can do stat, will travel

July 17, 2012: 40 Priority Research Questions for Ocean Science in Canada Report

July 12, 2012: Watershed Watch Releases Report on Cohen Inquiry Highlights - Fraser River Sockeye Report

July 2012: Kathryn Anderson (BMSC and UBC PhD student) featured on CBC

July 2012: BMSC welcomes Dr. Eric Clelland as the new Research Coordinator.

Originally trained as an Electronic Engineering Technologist, Eric was employed as a Data Communications Technician for nearly 30 years. He was certified as a SCUBA diver in 1985 and his first dive in the ocean inspired him to study biology. At York University he completed a BSc Hons., (reproductive physiology of pond snails), an MSc (V-type proton pumps in the accessory boring organ of whelks) and his PhD (TG-beta family peptides in zebrafish ovarian follicle development). He completed Post Doctoral Fellowships at York University (differential expression of tight junction proteins in response to environmental salinity challenges (pufferfish) and during ovarian follicle development (zebrafish)) and at the University of Windsor (isolation of steroid pheromones secreted by the round goby). An avid SCUBA diver, he currently maintains Dive Master certification and has dove in various locales around the globe.

June 2012: BMSC wishes all the best to Sarah Tyne (our Librarian and Communications Officer) and her family, Dennis, Eli and Emmet, with their new adventure in Saskatchewan. Sarah kept the library well organized, and created beautiful newlsetters, posters, pamphlets and brochures for us. Her cheerful smile and creativity will be missed!

May 10, 2012: Noisy clockwork of infections, fishing, cycles, and extinction
Presented by Dr. Martin Krkosek, University of Otago
7PM at the RIX Centre. Everyone welcome

March 21, 2012: Holy Flying Plankton!

Former Bamfield TA and UVic graduate, Dr Brad Gemmell (currently of the University of Texas in Austin), had his recent study reported inScienceNOW,Discover Magazine, and BBC News.
The paper will also be featured by CBC's radio program 'Quirks and Quarks' and on their website later in the week. They have scheduled Dr. Ed Buskey for a non-live radio interview Thursday.

March, 2012: PEEC 2012 and R Bootcamp, well attended.

March, 2012: Public Education program in full swing as spring approaches!

News 2011

August 22, 2011: BMSC mourns the loss of Dr. Fu-Shiang Chia (1931-2011), a long time supporter of BMSC. [MORE...]

July 11, 2011: Great Tide Pool Video, and more! by Graeme Barber

July 5, 2011: Introduction to 'R' Workshop, Dr. Chris Neufeld.
Please bring laptop with R and Rstudio installed and course script file downloaded (for instructions see: Moodle/University Programs/R workshop)

June 2011: Dr. Tom Carefoot's "A Snail's Odyssey" A SNAIL'S ODYSSEY is a scientific account of the biology of shallow-water, benthic-marine invertebrates on the west coast of North America. check it out!

May 18, 2011: Student Scholarship Opportunity, Deadline, July 1st. It is open to any student studying in North American: MANSA - Marine Aquarium Societies of North America

April 12, 2011: University of Alberta / BMSC graduate student Chris Neufeld successfully defended his PhD thesis! Congratulations Dr. Neufeld!

Chris is heading to Friday Harbor Laboratories to conduct a Post Doc this fall.

BMSC wishes Chris all the best in his career!

April 8, 2011: BMSC Fall Program 2008 alumna, Katie Gale publishes a paper in CJZ and wins an NSERC CGS-M award!Katie will be starting her Master's this fall; where yet to be decided.

The paper "Diets of two congeneric species of crayfish worm (Annelida: Clitellata: Branchiobdellidae) from western Canada” was just published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology (Gale & Proctor, 2011. 89:289-296) and was from the research she did for her honors thesis at the University of Alberta in 2009/2010.

March 31, 2011: BMSC's Dr. Hana Kucera and Dr. Dave Riddell are working with faculty and staff at SFU as part of an interdisciplinary team investigating the presence of the radioisotope iodine-131 in BC coastal waters. Following the earthquake of March 11, 2011 off the west coast of Japan, agencies worldwide have become interested in the dispersal of iodine-131 from the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

SFU press release, March 28, 2011

Features

Research Feature: Director, Brad Anholt's Lab is up and running at BMSC

Facilities Feature: BMSC Fluid Dynamic Laboratory

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Video conferencing: BMSC's Public Education Program provides interactive learning for students across North America.

BMSC provides schools worldwide with video-conferencing opportunities for unique real-time learning experiences at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre (BMSC). The Centre provides students with interactive learning centered on the diversity of coastal marine organisms and their environments.

The Public Education staff conduct video conferences with students from across North America. For example, in March 2009, six conferences were held with Havergal College. Also, in conjunction with the celebration of Darwin's 200th birthday, schools from New Brunswick and Alaska participated in videoconferences on the subjects of Evolution and Diversity of Marine Organisms, and analysis of sea lion scat.

Present-day Internet technology makes it possible to bring students educational content that is engaging, interactive and effective for a reasonable cost. MORE…

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Contact

Website Manager:

(250) 728-3301 ext. 359

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Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
100 Pachena Rd, Bamfield, BC
Canada, V0R 1B0
Phone: (250) 728-3301
Fax: (250) 728-3452