10/19/2026
As summer rolls into fall, it feels virtually impossible to sum up all the incredible things that happened these past few months – but here is an attempt (Read the longer version in our News and Stories).
Our Field Trips program supported The PRODIGY field school and the Biophonic World's workshop. The team spent long hours preparing for fall and spring programming that will provide hands-on learning for diverse groups.
University Programs ran ten immersive summer courses, including the first year of Ecological Data Synthesis and Rapid Evolution in the Anthropocene. Students were in the lab, out in the field, tackling stats with R, communicating science, and more.
More than 225 unique researchers visited over the summer months.
Various researchers come through our station every year, and between managing equipment and chemicals to collecting and keeping organisms healthy, the research and animal care teams stay busy.
We carried out dozens of glider retrievals and deployments, maintained systems for continual seawater monitoring, and more...
The Kelp Rescue Initiative (The Kelp Rescue Initiative) dove dozens of times to monitor sites after outplanting and continued to work on research and best practices for the future of kelp restoration.
Throughout the summer we also hosted our Summer Seminar Series, with 17 talks from researchers and experts.
We wrapped up with Canada's first Ocean Hack Week, a workshop for cross disciplinary work looking at the intersection of computer science with ocean science.
Finally, The Third Biennial World Congress of Marine Stations, a UN Ocean Decade Event, was attended by 80 professionals from more than 20 countries, who came together to discuss marine stations’ unique role in studying and protecting our oceans.
During is all, the crucial "behind the scenes” work is always happening, as the foreshore, kitchen, maintenance, and guest services and admin teams maintain our vessels and infrastructure, bookings and spaces. None of this happens without them.
We are proud of our team and so honored to have provided safe and reliable ocean access to all these groups this summer. Here’s to another summer inspiring transformational rela
