On June 25, we were visited by David Rockefeller Jr, his wife Susan, and friends from the Rockefeller Foundation and Oceana.
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Summer seminar, June 23th, 7pm, Rix Centre, Dr. Russell Wyeth
Dr. Russell Wyeth will speak about: “The pure and the applied: the neuroethology of navigating nudibranchs and ultraviolet illumination to control marine biofouling”.
Summer seminar, June 16th, 7pm, Rix Centre, Dr. Sean Rogers
Dr. Sean Rogers will speak about: “Integrating ecological genomic approaches to predict evolution in a changing world”.
Summer seminar, June 9th, 7pm, Rix Centre, Dr. Heather Jamniczky
Dr. Heather Jamniczky will speak about: “The devil is in the details: quantitative morphology reveals new insights into evolutionary history of threespine stickleback”.
Seminar TONIGHT, 7pm, Ross Theatre, Dr. Wendy Palen & Dr. Thomas Sisk
Dr. Sisk and Dr. Palen will speak about: “Oil sands, hydropower and wildfire: Leveraging science for policy innovation”.
Summer Seminar tonight 7pm, Dr. Don Levitan
Dr. Don Levitan will speak about: “Love and jealousy in sea urchins: sexual selection and the evolution of gamete recognition proteins”.
‘Waxopods’ provide a reliable estimate of crab predation intensity
Gastropod wax replicas can be used to quantify the frequency and type of attacks by crab predators, which likely play a vital role in structuring gastropod populations.
Dr. W. Gallin at BMSC, working onJelly fish nervous system structure and function
Dr. Warren Gallin (U of Alberta) was at BMSC recently working on Polyorchis penicillatus, a frequently observed jelly fish species in Barkley Sound. He is characterizing the structure and function of their nervous system.
Maximizing power generation from tidal energy.
Maximizing energy from tidal energy: University of Washington mechanical engineers are testing generation methods using the flume and PIV at BMSC.