BMSC Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre

BMSC is gearing up for another season of Field Trips, with the first group arriving on the weekend.

This study documents the discovery of a novel control pathway to increase heart rate, and is the first to report a chordate heart implicating HCO3 stimulation of intracellular sAC to produce cAMP and stimulate the spontaneous heartbeat.

The Government of Canada and five western universities, led by UVic, are contributing a total of $3 million to enhance facilities here at the Bamfield Marine Science Centre.

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.

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.

On June 25, we were visited by David Rockefeller Jr, his wife Susan, and friends from the Rockefeller Foundation and Oceana.

Dr. Russell Wyeth will speak about: “The pure and the applied: the neuroethology of navigating nudibranchs and ultraviolet illumination to control marine biofouling”.