The Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre is a non-profit educational organization owned and operated by 5 western Canadian universities and boasts and exceptional public education program.
Experience a Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre (BMSC) lab from the comfort of your classroom! Live Labs take place in our laboratory studio meet your learning expectations and include pre- and post- conference material for your students. Each 60 minute Live Lab includes interactions with live marine organisms, videos of organisms, video-microscopy, videos of marine habitats, behavioural demonstrations and of course plenty of interacting with our highly dynamic biologist instructors! Live Labs are available in both English et en Français!
Live Dives take students underwater without leaving the classroom! Join SCUBA diving biologist-instructors for an engaging 45 minute undersea experience in which students interact directly with divers to explore diverse subtidal environments. New technology allows for two-way dialogue between students and divers. Students will assist divers by helping with data collection or by guiding divers to organisms of interest. This multidisciplinary approach to learning includes information about our diverse sub-tidal habitats and organisms, diving physiology, and physical oceanography. Let us help you meet your learning outcomes underwater!
Provider's Events:
1. View Invertebrate Invasion - Barkley Sound is home to an amazing diversity of marine invertebrates. This session introduces students to some of the dominant invertebrate phyla found in the marine environment. This hour-long session takes students through the evolutionary pathway of the invertebrates discussing the Porifera, Cnidaria, Annelida, Mollusca,
Arthropoda, and Echinodermata. Students will learn what organisms comprise each phyla and interesting facts about the groups. This is a great introduction to some of the common and unique organisms found in the marine system. BMSC instructors will also discuss where the different organisms live and what makes them unique.
This session works nicely with our Subtidal Safari Live Dive.
2. View Virtual Visit - Visit BMSC with this virtual fieldtrip and get ready to
experience the wonder!
3. View Back to Base-ics - Learn about the chemistry and biology behind our world’s changing oceans, how humans are affecting our oceans, and what we can do to change it. See how increased carbon dioxide levels are affecting our world's oceans and how this is impacting the organisms that live in it. Students will be involved in this highly engaging and interactive program and will come away with a better understanding of how we are affecting our oceans and what we can do.
4. View Be a Marine Biologist - One aspect of becoming a marine biologist is being able to complete experiments to answer questions about our world. During this Live Lab, students will complete virtual experiments with the help of our biologist instructors. Students will develop questions and hypotheses based on information provided about local organisms. During the Live Lab, students will carry out the experiments over the Internet with BMSC's enthusiastic staff. Students will assist with data collection and ensure that our biologists set up the experiments properly! Students will then write up their experiment and can even prepare presentations to present to their fellow classmates.
5. View Currents, plankton, and tides, oh my! - During this Live Dive, students will learn about currents and subtidal planktonic organisms. Divers will take students on a trip to the ocean floor to examine the effects of light attenuation and look at organism’s adaptations. Students will examine the properties of water and buoyancy by interacting with our scientist SCUBA divers.
6. View Back from the Brink: Recovery of Marine Species at Risk - In this Live Lab, students will gain an appreciation of how humans have impacted the population size and distribution of marine species. Using local examples, BMSC instructors will link human activities to species decline and recovery. Students will explore case studies such as the decline of the Northern Pinto abalone in British Columbia. They will take a virtual tour of BMSC’s abalone hatchery where abalone are being raised for out planting. The students will also discuss the extirpation of the sea otter and its current status. The videoconference will end with a discussion of what they can do to help these marine species recover.
7. View Rock on Rockfish - This Live Dive will take students underwater to see endangered BC rockfish in their natural habitat. During this program students will learn about the importance of kelp forests and eel grass beds as nurseries for juvenile fish. Students will learn how to monitor rockfish abundance with standardized and what is being done to protect them.
8. View Subtidal Safari - Join our diving scientists for an underwater scavenger hunt! Students assist underwater naturalists to find subtidal organisms of all shapes and sizes! You may not find any zebras or lions but you’ll be amazed at the subtidal diversity present in Barkley Sound. This program pairs nicely with the Invertebrate Invasion Live Lab.
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