Small Town, Big Picture: Ucluelet

Ucluelet Community Centre 500 Matterson Drive, Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada

Learn about local history, cross-cultural understanding, businesses and activities, festivals, host etiquette, and important civic information specific to Ucluelet.

Free

Small Town, Big Picture: Tofino (via Zoom)

Zoom Event

Learn about local history, cross-cultural understanding, businesses and activities, festivals, host etiquette, and important civic information specific to Tofino.

Free

Event Series Beach Seine

Beach Seine

Tofino Sea Kayaking 320 Main Street, Tofino, BC, Canada

Explore intertidal eelgrass meadows and learn about the animals that live in this important habitat at a beach seine this summer!  FREE EVENT Most of us have probably encountered eelgrass […]

Event Series Plentiful Plankton!

Plentiful Plankton!

Tofino Resort & Marina 634 Campbell Street Tofino, Tofino, BC

Though you may not always see them – plankton are out there, and some will become a feast for tiny fish or giant whales. Come observe plankton from up close and learn more!

Mushrooms of the West Coast 2023

Ucluelet Community Centre 500 Matterson Drive, Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada

This weekend field course will introduce participants to the wonderful world of West Coast Mushrooms. Topics to be covered include introduction to fungi (what are they, and what is their […]

$300.00

Salps are poop-machines and pyrosomes can light up the sea!

Zoom Event

Introducing two unique gelatinous zooplankton and their roles in the ocean. Salps and pyrosomes are zooplankton – free floating animals that drift with the ocean currents. They are unique because […]

Free

Sea Slugs of the Northeastern Pacific

Zoom Event

Related to dull-colored, garden-munching land slugs, “naked gilled” sea slugs (nudibranchs) are some of the most colorful and charismatic inhabitants of the marine world. They come in all different shapes […]

Free

Are we Prepared for the Zombie (Fungi) Apocalypse?

Zoom Event
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Are we Prepared for the Zombie (Fungi) Apocalypse? Zombie fungi are a group of ascomycetes, all formerly in the genus Cordyceps, that parasitize insects (and a few other organisms). The […]

Free