Dr. Don Levitan will speak about: “Love and jealousy in sea urchins: sexual selection and the evolution of gamete recognition proteins”.
Blog 2016
HIGH FIVE to our Field Trip program, awarded an NSERC PromoScience grant!
NSERC PromoScience provides financial support for organizations working with young Canadians that use hand-on learning experiences to promote an understanding of science.
How do dogfish escape from larger predatory sharks?
“Sharks modulate their escape behavior in response to predator size, speed and approach orientation”. Scott Seamone, Tristan Blaine, and Timothy E. Higham.
“At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast”, by Dr. Caroline Fox
Dr. Caroline Fox, BMSC Fall Program instructor, has written a new book entitled: “At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast”, to be released early May.
VP’s from our 5 member universities visited to learn all about BMSC
Vice Presidents from our 5 member universities enjoyed learning all about BMSC during their visit here last weekend.
Ambrose University Zoology students share their field trip adventure
Discovering marine science on the wild wet coast; Ambrose University Zoology students share their field trip adventure!
Morphological trade-off between drag avoidance and tolerance in wave-swept kelps.
Kelps from wave-swept shores have either a streamlined morphology to reduce drag, or increased attachment and breakage force, but not both, having implications for the evolution of morphological diversity in this group.
The Field Trips crew returns for a new season of marine science education!
BMSC is gearing up for another season of Field Trips, with the first group arriving on the weekend.
A new book on the evolution of ‘animal athletes’, by Irschick & Higham
This book by Duncan Irschick and BMSC instructor Tim HIgham examines how and why ‘animal athletes’ have evolved using examples from across the animal kingdom, integrating them into the broader context of ecology and evolution.