Museum news: Coastal waters teem with herring

By contributor James Mackinnon. Read more from the Museum News series. As you read this, one of the ocean’s great feeding frenzies is occurring just...
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Museum news: The gray whale
Surface feeding gray whale. Photo courtesy Jay Feaver. By contributors James Mackinnon & Iona Kearns Perhaps it’s the sheer size of the ocean...
VIU hosts free science & technology lecture series
Dr. Marc Trudel of Nanaimo’s Pacific Biological Station delivers a free public lecture January 21 at VIU’s Nanaimo campus about the...
Ocean floor overwhelmed by exotic algae
The VIU Deep Bay Marine Field Station is currently documenting the activity of an introduced species of algae and its environmental effects. The...