BMSC Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre

Spiny dogfish actively uptake toxic ammonia across their gills, convert to valuable urea, which is then used for osmoregulation and supplement dietary nitrogen for protein growth.

John L. Fitzpatrick (Stockholm University) and authors describe how female mate choice can potentially influence sperm competition risk and shape investment patterns in males between and within male reproductive tactics.

Never a dull moment! It’s getting busy here at BMSC, with the start of the Fall Program and Field Trips visitors arriving soon!

It’s been a great summer of Marine Sciences field courses as well as the new and innovative courses ‘In Pursuit of the Whale’ and ‘Acoustic Ethnography’. We wish all our Faculty, TA’s and students a good winter and best wishes on your future endeavors, and hope we will see many of you…

University of Calgary researchers test the hypothesis that stickleback populations inhabiting differing freshwater environments display cranial phenotypes that are intermediate between the ancestral marine form and the low-plated freshwater populations.

On June 25, we were visited by David Rockefeller Jr, his wife Susan, and friends from the Rockefeller Foundation and Oceana.

Dr. Russell Wyeth will speak about: “The pure and the applied: the neuroethology of navigating nudibranchs and ultraviolet illumination to control marine biofouling”.

Dr. Sean Rogers will speak about: “Integrating ecological genomic approaches to predict evolution in a changing world”.