BMSC Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre

Apply now for Summer Field courses in Coastal Sciences, Archaeology and Forest Literature, and Fall Semester in Marine Sciences.

Join us for the 21st Annual Symposium of the Bamfield Scholar’s Society, Friday Dec. 16, and learn about the research our Fall Semester students have been conducting!

James Gosling, Java creator, is giving a seminar today, RIX Centre, 4pm

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.

Dr. Chris Neufeld will speak about: “Life and death on a small island: Novel interactions between wolves and sea otters in Kyuquot Sound, BC”.