This Poem was written by Saryn Knox as a final project for one of BMSC’s recent workshops – Science Communication for an Ever-Changing World with instructor Niki Wilson. A mix of science and art, this poem explores a common but fascinating inhabitant of our backyard, the Banana Slug Poem, images, and recording all…
Today’s publication highlight is: Lancaster, D., Mouy, X., Haggarty, D., Juanes, F., 2025. Knock knock, who’s there? Identifying wild species-specific fish sounds with passive acoustic localization and random forest models. Journal of Fish Biology 1–15. http://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70294 In short With this work, researchers were able to identify unique sounds for eight different fish species…
As summer rolls into fall, it feels virtually impossible to sum up all the incredible things that happened at our marine station over these past few months – but here is a brief snapshot of just a few highlights. Watch this space for in-depth stories in the coming months! Our Field Trips program…
In September of1996, the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre started something that would prove to be quite special, The Fall Program in Marine Sciences. Each year, a cohort of 24 students comes to Bamfield for a full semester of immersive and hands-on courses. From September to mid-December this group lives and breathes marine and coastal…
The PRODIGY field school, held here at BMSC in May of 2026, was recently featured in ECO magazine! Read it here: PRODIGY Field School Gives Graduate Students Hands-On Ocean Mooring Experience – environment coastal & offshore
We are thrilled to announce that the 3rd Biennial World Congress of Marine Stations (WCMS 2026) has been officially endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade activity. This event will be hosted here at the BMSC this September 1st-5th of 2026. The congress, convened by the World Association…
Blog and photos by Anna Kottek, 4th year student at SFU There are many reasons why students choose one class over another in their final years of undergrad, and I had signed up for the Invertebrate Biology course at Simon Fraser University for one main reason: it included a weekend field trip to the…
We are beyond thrilled to announce that we are starting renovations to our touch tanks in the Whale Lab. This means that the Whale Lab will be completely closed until September. But, it will be well worth it. BMSC’s touch tanks provide an invaluable experience to our students and guests by allowing them to…
I recently struck up a conversation on the boardwalk outside the West Side store (Bamfield Mercantile & Marine) after eavesdropping on a family playing the trivia game someone left there. I correctly guessed that “chickadee” was the answer for “which type of bird has a boreal, a mountain, and a black-capped species?” They asked…