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”.
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.