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We are excited by being featured in the current issue of Canadian Builders Quarterly. “We didn’t build a green building just because we thought, ‘We’re the university, and we should have a green building,’” Kingzett says. “We built it because we’re not going to save the earth without a shift in foundational beliefs. And that starts with education.”
Dr. Helen Gurney-Smith, Research Scientist and Head of Shellfish Health & Husbandry Group at the Centre for Shellfish Research (that us!) talked about her cutting edge work at TEDx Victoria this fall. Her talk, filmed at TEDxVictoria on November 19 2011 is now available on the web. Very exciting! Read the rest of this entry »
Don Tillapaugh and Brian Kingzett accepted a $75,000 cheque from VIU’s Foundation Chair Bruce Williams, at VIU’s annual Festival of Trees. Williams explained the Foundation will match every dollar donated, up to $75,000, to develop and support student learning opportunities at the Deep Bay Marine Field Station. Read on to learn more about this philanthropic challenge.
Baynes Sound VIUcam now live on the VIU Website! A new camera on our roof is sending still shots every 5 minutes of Beautiful Baynes Sound to the web! More real time pictures found below and at on the VIU website. ENJOY! Read the rest of this entry »
Wow, 2011 was a crazy busy year! We spend most of every day down in the details with what isn’t working yet, still to do and looking forward. But a quick look back is a good reminder for how far we’ve come and what great things happened in 2011. The panorama above is where we were still in throes of final construction as we entered 2011, 2011 was a year of milestones every month. Read the rest of this entry »
Dates available for Christmas Lunches and parties. Contact Stephanie Richards at 250-740-6398 or Stephanie.Richards@viu.ca for available dates and menus !
Come celebrate with us – a fundraiser for Nature Trust of BC Conservation efforts in Baynes Sound. And a fun time! catered by culinary students from VIU! Please be sure to RSVP to Tracy Loewen at Nature Trust as seats are limited. 1-866-288-7878 ext 222 or tloewen@naturetrust.bc.ca.
British Columbia is blessed with tremendously diverse and productive ocean and freshwater habitats and resources. However, our aquatic foods sector may not currently be living up to BC’s potential. Can we have both healthy, sustainable marine and coastal ecosystems; and a thriving, innovative seafood sector that together benefit BC’s coastal communities? Read the rest of this entry »
Sarah Leduc prepares oysters during a conference at Deep Bay Marine Field station. (Photograph by: Adrian Lam, Times Colonist)
Sarah made the front page of the Victoria Times Colonist this Sunday – Check out the three stories in the Times Colonist by reporter Sandra McCulloch.
Oysters Cum Laude anyone? Seafood University makes a Splash Seafood University by the numbers
We had our first snow fall on the Beaufort Mountain Range this morning. Was such a nice day I climbed to the top of the water tank and took some pictures. Then Stephanie went out and took photos of the building reflecting all the foliage this afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »
