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Graduating class 2009: B.Sc. Fisheries & Aquaculture. Left to right Chris Presslauer, Shane Johnson, Albert Kasprowitcz, Sabrina Halvorsen, Carol Bob (not pictured) Congratulations to the graduating class of 2009: Bachelor of Science in Fisheries and Aquaculture. Click on the photo to enlarge image. For other images from the grad click here

 

 

Click on photo for larger viewWorld leader in science & Fisheries and Aquaculture department instructor, Richard Beamish, presented with honorary doctorate from VIU at the 2009 convocation ceremony. To read the full article click here

 

 

Kate Rolheiser and Dan McNeill: USRA recipients, Fisheries and Aquaculture diploma graduates and current B.Sc. students working in the microalgae culture room in the Cnetre for Shellfish ResearchUndergraduate student research awards administered through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC) were awarded to recent fisheries and aquaculture diploma program graduates, Kate Rolheiser and Dan McNeill. Kate will be conducting research on invasive tunicates at the Pacific Biological Station while Dan studies the native basket cockle at the Centre for Shellfish Research. Congratulations to you both!

 

 

(from left to right – VIU President, Dr. Ralph Nilson, VIU Board of Governors Chair, John Phillips, James Lunney, MP for Nanaimo-Alberni, Darlene Wells, Counselor, Qualicum First Nation, Ron Cantelon, Minister of Agriculture, and Joe Stanhope, Chair of the Island Coastal Economic Trust)

May 21, 2009. VIU Breaks Ground on the $8.6m Deep Bay Field Station for shellfish aquaculture

 

 

 

LogoApril 8, 2009. $8.6M HELPS TO FUND DEEP BAY SHELLFISH RESEARCH CENTRE. An investment of $8.5 million from the federal and provincial governments and Vancouver Island University will help fund a new shellfish research station for Vancouver Island University in Deep Bay and contribute to creating up to 55 direct jobs. Click here to read the funding announcement.

 

Working with Dr. Stewart Johnson of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Dr. Helen Gurney-Smith hopes to find the answer to mass shellfish mortality events . The two scientists recently received a $400,000 grant from Genome BC to develop a new genomic health assessment tool for marine mussels.

Dr. Helen Gurney-Smith leads genomics research at CSR studies health of shellfish. Click here to read the full article

 

 

VIU Fisheries and Aquaculture graduate Carol Bob has received her third Undergraduate Student Research Award in chemistry from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Government of Canada supports most promising student researchers. Carol Bob, a recent grad of VIU’s Fisheries and Aquaculture program, has received her third USRA in chemistry. Bob will spend the summer working in the Department of Chemistry’s Applied Environmental Research Laboratories (AERL) at the Nanaimo campus studying the influence of freshwater chemistry on an invasive algai species. To read the full article click here.

 

 

VIU Fisheries and Aquaculture technologist Anne McCarthy shows off the aquaponics system at VIU. VIU experiments with sustainable food source. Inside a small, 10'x10' greenhouse tucked away in an inconspicuous corner of Vancouver Island University’s Nanaimo campus, Anne McCarthy points to a lush display of healthy vegetable plants including strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers.  The read the full article click here.