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…
Today’s BMSC Publication Highlight is Effects of planting orientation and size on survival of juvenile Pacific geoducks Panopea generosa by Talen Rimmer , Rylan J. Command,, Heather J. Alexander, Aaron M. Eger,J. P. Hastey, Kieran Cox , and Tao M. Eastham. In short Planting orientation and size influence juvenile Pacific geoduck survival and…
We are thrilled to announce we are once again offering weekly seminars throughout the summer months from visiting (and occasionally local) experts here at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre. Where: Rix Centre for Ocean Discoveries When: Tuesday from June 2 to August 25 at 7:00pm Who: All are welcome! Why: For the love of…
Dear community, Our station is undergoing a major tech and internet upgrade that was made possible through a Canada Foundation Innovation grant. This upgrade is crucial to the education, research, and conservation work happening here and was also necessary to prepare for when Connected Coast can provide the community with fibre optic! Like any…
We are excited to spread the word that BMSC and our partner and neighbor, Nova Harvest, along with the Hakai Institute and the BC Shellfish Growers Association, have received one of the CRBS (Climate Ready BC Seafood) Program Grants! This grant provided funds for research that helps understand the impacts of ocean acidification and…