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

Načiks/Monks Point 174 West St., Tofino, BC

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

Free

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 – from spending hours in the ocean alongside these green ribbons, or exploring eelgrass-filled mudflats. Eelgrass meadows create habitat for a myriad of coastal species […]

Event Series Discovery Tent on the Wild Pacific Trail

Visit the Discovery Tent on the Wild Pacific Trail

Lighthouse Loop on Wild Pacific Trial Ucluelet, BC, Canada

Join our summer educators as they explore local science focused topics. These will be inclusive, interactive and open to all.  The topics vary- examples are: Kelp forests, sea star wasting syndrome, shorebird migration, salmon forests, bears, whale migration. Where: Visit the Discovery Tent with Raincoast Education Society on the Lighthouse Loop of the Wild Pacific […]

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 role in our forests?), essentials of collecting and identifying fungi in the field, edible, medicinal and poisonous fungi, cooking with wild mushrooms, and more! Course […]

$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 they have gelatinous bodies, similar to cnidarian jellies, but unlike jellyfish they don’t have stingers and primarily consume phytoplankton. They are part of a group […]

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 and sizes – as small as a grain of rice or as large as a loaf of bread - yet these animals have no commercial […]

Free