Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre Bamfield Inlet in the foreground, Aguilar Point and Barkley Sound in the background. |
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Full- size group photo (2009) Wiwchar- Bamfield Inlet Panorama (2009)
OPTIONAL FIELD TRIP TO THE BAMFIELD MARINE SCIENCES CENTRE
The Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre - co-owned by the University of Alberta and four other western Canadian universities - clings to the spectacularly rugged west coast of Vancouver Island. It lies in the heart of the coastal rain forest, on the southeast side of Barkley Sound, near the Broken Island Group and the West Coast Trail portions of the Pacific Rim National Park.
It is the premier marine research and teaching field station in Canada, and is among the very best in the world. It offers a wide variety of summer courses and a full-term Fall Program for university students. During the winter months it hosts a lively and successful Public Education Program that welcomes students of all ages from throughout western Canada. |
Looking north across Barkley Sound Helby Island & Deer Group in the foreground, mountains of central Vancouver Island in back. |
Full moon rising over BMSC Space is available for 20 students to visit the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre over reading week. - fly to Victoria, meet charter bus, see Cathedral Grove old-growth forest, dinner in Bamfield. - 3 days of field trips, dredging and viewing live invertebrates and shallow-water marine habitats (view pictures from past trips) - charter bus from Bamfield to Victoria, fly back to Edmonton. - to students who have not already been to Bamfield as a U of A student - to students with a higher GPA, and - to Honors & Specialization students in Biological Sciences programs. |
Cape Beale near Bamfield |
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