Bamfield is a small fishing town on the west-end of Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. The air here is clean and crisp, sweet from the surrounding rainforest. The people are weathered from the cold, but warm and close, people you'd have over for dinner. Most of Bamfield's inhabitants commute to work on on a boat. It's hard to get around without one. Some of Bamfield's inhabitants even include bald eagles, black bears, sea lions, seals, and other interesting little critters.
We conduct our research through the Bamfield Marine Sciences Center, but the magic really happens out on the mussel beds found across Barkley Sound. You can find us jetting around to different mussel beds across the sound, but as of this year, we've launched new buoys.
The buoys have sensors on them to help us take salinity and temperature readings in the water. By having the buoys at strategic points across the sound, we can track changes in the water throughout in the year. In particular, we want to see how rainfall and freshwater runoff affect salinity across the sound.
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| Pulling up buoys. The sensor is in a housing attached to the chain. |
Considering the huge downpour of rain and hail since we got here, we should be getting some interesting results.
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| We're waiting for better waves to work the mussel beds. |
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