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View from 2117 - Student Blog Posts April 12, 2024 - 1:23pm

Student Research Assistants on the View from 2117 project have been working hard over the last few years. Learn about their experience by reading their blog post below!

VIURAC Internal Award Recipients October 30, 2024 - 8:48am

These lists reflect VIURAC funding administered and awarded through the Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity Office.

Keep It Simple Science Challenge January 13, 2023 - 4:06pm

Knowledge Translation: (1) Activities that move research into the hands of people who can put it to practical use (Wikipedia). (2) Having fun and being creative helps (CREATE).

Calling all Science, Tech, and Health Students

CREATE is challenging you to take your somewhat complicated materials and translate it for all! You can do this via a poster, presentation, or limerick. Oh yes. Limerick. The main point is to make it all fun and informative at the same time. 

Intertidal BioBlitz February 4, 2022 - 12:35pm

Join us on our first annual Intertidal BioBlitz! We are collecting data from all around the shores of the Salish Sea. We are looking for citizen scientists of all ages to head to the shore and document the biodiversity you discover! It's free to participate, just download iNaturalist onto your phone or tablet and get started.

When? April 1 - 3, 2022

How? See, discover, photograph or listen, upload, identify, learn.

Why? Learn more about what lives on the intertidal. The closer you look, the more you will find!

Who? Citizen Scientists of all ages!

Look Up Look Out Art Exhibit January 13, 2023 - 4:05pm

CREATE 2022 will have a dedicated student art exhibit from April 4-7 that will encourage our VIU community to extend their gaze up and out. Depending on the artists' availability, there will be a face-to-face showcase time when the artists will be at the exhibit and able to talk to others about their work. 

Comments February 18, 2022 - 10:38am
Human-Nature Transactions within the MABR January 17, 2022 - 11:00am

In the fall of 2021, we had the opportunity to briefly introduce the diverse field of environmental psychology through a blog post (see here). The blog post illustrated the highlights of the ‘Sense of Place Study,’ which serves as one portion of a larger project titled The View from 2117: Human Actions, Consequences, and Perspectives on Mountain Regions, in collaboration with the MABRRI and the Canadian Mountain Network.

Visiting Student Researcher January 24, 2023 - 3:24pm

Vancouver Island University welcomes Visiting Student Researchers wanting to pursue research directly related to their current degree. Visiting Student Researcher (VSR) status is available to graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in a full-time degree program at a recognized post-secondary institution. As a VSR, you are a full-time student who attends VIU to participate in a research project that aligns with your studies.

Visiting Researcher June 11, 2024 - 2:03pm

Vancouver Island University is pleased to host Visiting Researchers who engage in research collaborations in fields enhancing VIU’s research capacity to engage internationally.

How to Become a Visiting Researcher

All Visiting Researchers must have a VIU faculty host. Learn about our faculty researchers visit Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity and contact a faculty member with a request to host your visit.  Once the Visiting Researcher and host agree upon the details, the Visiting Researcher – Offer letter can be completed.

Grand Opening: Centre for Seafood Innovation February 14, 2024 - 3:33pm
About Us May 17, 2024 - 10:15am

Deep Bay Marine Field Station is a renowned research and education facility located in Bowser, British Columbia, on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. Operated by Vancouver Island University, the station is dedicated to advancing scientific knowledge and fostering environmental stewardship in coastal and marine ecosystems.

Amazing Adaptations (Grades 1-4) January 18, 2023 - 11:58am

Sea Cucumber

Seaweed Aquaculture and Rural Communities November 26, 2021 - 11:58am

Session 3 LTS

Land-based Salmon Aquaculture: A Community Planning Perspective November 26, 2021 - 11:57am

Session Two of Let's Talk Seafood

Workshop: Submitting a Mackenzie King Memorial Scholarship Application November 20, 2021 - 11:28am

Interested in applying for this Scholarship? Come on out and get some advice on how to complete the application. These are for students who will be in a graduate program come Fall 2022 and will have completed at least one degree at a Canadian institution.

Zoom info:

https://viu.zoom.us/j/65855560318?pwd=aFRaaldsTDJNY1RtelRqUDMxN1pHUT09
Password: MK$$
Meeting ID: 658 5556 0318

Sense of Place in the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region: Introducing Environmental Psychology November 19, 2021 - 9:57am

When people are asked what they think the field of psychology entails, many fail to appreciate the broad range of subfields involved in the discipline. Environmental psychology is a relatively new and growing subfield—and it is gaining the attention of professional researchers, architects, and facilities managers of a variety of built environments. The concepts germane to environmental psychology can be applied to a number of different settings, such as parks, cities, hospitals, and libraries (and more!). As defined by Dr.

Get Involved! November 18, 2021 - 2:17pm
Employment Opportunities January 18, 2023 - 1:03pm
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Volunteer Application August 7, 2024 - 2:25pm

Deep Bay Marine Field Station is looking for dependable and enthusiastic volunteers to assist our staff in providing services to our visitors and other projects. We require good interpersonal skills, organization, and initiative to complete assigned tasks with confidence and a minimum of supervision. 

Please complete this application if you are interested in being a volunteer at the station.

Major Graduate Awards - Ugly Sweater Social June 22, 2023 - 4:10pm

Hi folks, 

I hope that we can find a date and time between now and the holidays to get together. Pizza will be on the menu so please indicate any food sensitivities/choices that may go along with that meal. 

Thanks, Kendra

And yes, please wear your best "ugly sweater" - holiday themed, ridiculous thing you were given by a family secret Santa, the one you thought was perfect 15 years ago...