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Wolf Eel, Anarrhichthys ocellatus	August 27, 2019 - 1:34pm	Wolf Eel, Anarrhichthys ocellatus *Family Anarchichadidae* Range: Northern Baja California, Mexico to the Aleutian Island Chain in Alaska. Depth: Barely subtidal to 740 feet (Love, 1996). Rocky reef and shoreline, usually lives within a caves or crevices known as dens.
Winter Solstice/Yule	January 31, 2020 - 10:19am	Yule is a festival historically observed by the Germanic peoples. Departing from its pagan roots, Yule underwent Christianised reformulation resulting in the now better-known Christmastide. For more information, please visit https://wicca.com/celtic/akasha/yule.htm.
Winter Break Closure	August 27, 2019 - 1:34pm
Who We Are	November 23, 2022 - 12:18pm	About the Centre for Seafood Innovation The Centre for Seafood Innovation (CSI) is an innovation hub that helps BC seafood companies extract more value from sustainable seafood harvests. As part of the Vancouver Island University ecosystem, CSI connects industry to researchers and students to capture opportunities and solve problems.
Whitney Wood	July 18, 2019 - 4:38pm
White Sea Cucumber, Eupentacta quinquesemita	May 27, 2018 - 4:19pm	White Sea Cucumber, Eupentacta quinquesemita Phylum Echinodermata Class Holothuroidea
What We've Done	January 16, 2024 - 6:14pm	What we've accomplished at the Centre for Seafood Innovation We celebrated our grand opening in style with the Oyster Challenge. This exciting event challenged VIU culinary arts students to use oysters treated with high-pressure processing (HPP) for new recipes suitable for institutional settings. They excelled!
What is a SHORT?	March 16, 2021 - 11:32am
What is a poster session?	July 16, 2019 - 8:32am	Poster sessions are typical for most academic conferences. They allow space for numerous projects to be displayed at once. If you participate in the poster session you will be required to design a poster that details your project. A good poster requires you to be succinct and creative!
What is a 3-minute SLAM?	February 3, 2021 - 11:51am
What is a 10-minute presentation session?	January 28, 2021 - 10:54am
What Happens When Sea Otters Eat 15 Pounds of Shellfish a Day?	February 2, 2021 - 10:14am	This story was featured on NPR. Read more.
Wetlandkeepers Course	March 5, 2019 - 10:23am	During the weekend of July 14-16 MABRRI student researchers, Maria Kawahara, Curtis Rispin, and Lauren Shaw participated in a Wetland Keepers Course facilitated by Michele Jones and the British Columbia Wildlife Federation (BCWF). The course took place at North Island College in Campbell River and was designed to teach participants wetland mapping, plant and animal identification, soil sampling, and other wetland classification and stewardship skills.
Wetlandkeepers Course	March 5, 2019 - 10:22am	The BC Wildlife Federation partnered with Greenways Land Trust in Campbell River, BC to host a Wetlands Keeper course free of charge and open to the public. Wetlands are important ecosystems that are disappearing in BC and urgently needs community protection. In 2016, MABRRI started a wetland mapping project in partnership with the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) and Vancouver Island University (VIU). This project is helping build an inventory of where wetlands are, and promotes research regarding connectivity between wetlands and other water systems.
Wetland Practice Field Day	March 5, 2019 - 9:55am	Today the MABRRI research team loaded all of their gear in the VIU truck and headed north to Parksville B.C, in search of the Ermineskin wetland nature park. Ermineskin wetland is the first wetland that we have decided to recce in preparation for our wetland mapping project, which is a project initiated by MABRRI in collaboration with the Regional District of Nanaimo’s (RDN) Drinking Water and Watershed Protection Program (DWWP).
Wetland Monitoring in the MABR	June 11, 2021 - 9:44am	The MABR is comprised of many unique and diverse ecological landscapes, including some very spectacular wetlands! However, relatively little is known about these wetlands and their importance in the hydrology of the MABR. Since both groundwater and surface water play a critical role in providing many coastal communities in MABR with water throughout the year, the Regional District of Nanaimo’s (RDN) Drinking Water and Watershed Protection (DWWP) program and MABRRI began researching more about these wetlands through the Wetland Mapping and Monitoring project.
Wetland Mapping - October 4th and 25th	October 31, 2019 - 3:12pm	One of my favourite things about working at MABRRI is the opportunity to help with a variety of the different ongoing projects. On October 4th and 25th I joined Haley, Jess, and Alanna on trips to Gabriola Island for the Wetland Mapping project. The goal was to map some of the wetlands on the island to better understand where they are situated and how they are classified. Our first day of mapping was a very wet one, as we were greeted with heavy rain soon after we arrived at the site. Haley and Jess conquered one big wetland and Alanna and I another.
Wetland Mapping	March 5, 2019 - 10:19am	Today, June 9, 2017, Ashley, Kayla, Lauren, and I (Carson) set out to Milner Gardens to do our best impression of swamp monsters as we completed some wetland mapping. Starting at 8am we loaded our gear in the MABRRI truck and started northbound on the Island highway. After about a 40 minute drive with some excellent scenery along the way we arrived at our destination, the picturesque Milner Gardens. Pulling into the parking lot we were greeted by a very calm group of deer lounging about in flat spot of grass near the truck.
Westwood Farm Stream Adventure	June 24, 2019 - 1:19pm	On Tuesday, June 11th, Alanna, Colby, and I visited the beautiful Westwood Farm and Cathers Lake to continue water monitoring and plant identification. Westwood Farm is 48 gorgeous acres of meadow bisected by the Millstone River and Sabiston Creek. We plan to do minnow trapping and water monitoring in the Millstone, but we have had difficulties accessing the water due to a 2-3 meters barrier of Himalayan blackberry preventing our entry. In our previous visit we were able to locate an access point, so today we went exploring.
Western Deans' Agreement	August 1, 2023 - 11:23am	Vancouver Island University is a member of the Western Deans' Agreement (WDA). This agreement was established in 1974 as an expression of cooperation and mutual support among universities offering graduate programs in Western Canada. The agreement provides an automatic tuition fee waiver for visiting students. See below for instructions if you are (1) a VIU graduate student looking to go 'outbound' to another western university or (2) an non-VIU graduate student looking to come 'inbound' and take a VIU course.