The Build-a-Whale program is an innovative education program designed to encourage an excitement for marine biology. It is a hands-on activity that gives the opportunity to handle the bones of a real killer whale. The bones are put together by the attendees on a framework display that gives the skeleton a real life perspective.

We conduct a monthly survey in Ucluelet and Tofino to monitor the sea star wasting disease in the area. We are always welcomming volunteers, so come and join us in the intertidal! 

This year SIMRS is starting a kelp monitoring project to determine how kelp canopies are shifting in the area, and how that may affect macroinvertebrate communities inhabiting these important ecosystems.