Archive of EVENTS at Race Rocks

Ecoguardians at Race Rocks  Courtney and Tristan, have posted a video on daily recording of the growth of the new elephant seal born Dec 22, 2020  over 12 days. 

 

Pearson College Marine Science Field Trips to Race Rocks. after 2010

 

July 2014: The Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves members Garry Fletcher and Mike Fenger serve as Intervenors in the Kinder Morgan Trans-Mountain Pipeline Hearings stating the concerns over increased tanker traffic from the TAR SANDS for the Marine Ecological Reserves such as Race Rocks .

 Publication of MPA Scorecard Process where Race Rocks is provided as one of the samples for North America.(pdf) CEC Guide to Ecological Scorecards for MPAs 

 

 

Race Rocks Celebrates its 150th birthday,
December 26, 2010

 

 

 

 

The First Elephant Seal Born at Race Rocks

 

 

EVENTS 2008-2009
sea lion entanglement Dec 16 Release of Entangled Sealion from Race Rocks

 

 

Deployment of equipment for the wind assessment experiment October, 2009.

 

 

 

 

Link to this file which profiles the repair process on the tower which began in February, 2009

 

 

 

 

Students represent Race Rocks at the Puget Sound, Georgia Basin Ecosystem Conference, Seattle, February 8-11th 2009

 

EVENTS 2006-2007

Prime Minister Stephen Harper visits Race Rocks and Pearson College for an “ecoenergy announcement”. January 19, 2007

 

 

 

Schedule of Events in the Integrated Energy Project

 

 

 

 

Technology Overview –– examples of the technology developed for the Race Rocks Project that Lester Pearson College has developed since 2000

 

 

EVENTS 2005

The TV film crew from Canadian Geographic Kids Program goes to Race Rocks with the divers to video a sequence for a program.

 

 

 

Race Rocks Weather in Real Time :
The new Davis Weather Instrument is installed at Race Rocks with sensors used for real-time weather plotting and Environmental monitoring.

 

 

Pearson College,Encana,Clean Current Tidal Power Demonstration Project at Race Rocks Launched at Pearson College, February 25, 2005

 

 

 

The  PowerPoint presentation  Race Rocks, An island of Education in a sea of Technology. This used to explain about the Race Rocks Project by Garry Fletcher

 

 

The racerocks.com activity in 2004-2005

 

 

EVENTS 2004

The Friends of Ecological Reserves Field trip,
on October 3, 2004

 

 

 

The Commonwealth of Learning selects the racerocks.com website for its Excellence in Distance Education Award: 2004.

 

 

 

Students stay at Race Rocks for the Johan Ashuvud 04 Project and welcome students from Journey Middle School for live webcasts on two of the days.January 2004: See this Intertidal Video

 

 

 

EVENTS 2003

On the 9th of December, 2003, Stephanie White from the Shell Environmental Fund came out to Lester B. Pearson College to present a cheque from the Shell Environmental Fund for the support of Race Rocks. In these pictures some of the students of the Race Rocks Activity show Stephanie the Race Rocks website.


October , 2003 : The racerocks.com activity group go to Race Rocks for a practice session.

 

 

EVENTS 2002

In June of 2002, The APPLE LEARNING INTERCHANGE opened the new Gallery of Virtual field Trips. Race Rocks has been included on the ALI website as one of their exhibits. ( link gone)

Students stay for two weeks at Race Rocks in June for the Johan Ashuvud Race Rocks02 Project. see video 

 

STILL WORKING ON CONVErtiNG thE FOLLOWING LINKS..

Jeremias, Rosie and Ahmed stay for their Project week for two weeks at Race Rocks in June for the Johan Ashuvud Race Rocks02 Project

 

 

EVENTS 2001

racerocks.com activity starts the new term – Sept 11/01Paul Kennedy of CBC IDEAS Visits to record for a program.

 

EVENTS 2000

Race Rocks was officially designated Canada’s first Marine Protected Area under the Ocean’s Act by the federal and provincial governments and Coast Salish First Nations on September 14, 2000

 

.Webcast Live to QuickTime Live Conference in California -October 2000

 

 

 

Mobile Live Webcasts from Race Rocks- June 2000

 

 

 

The Victoria Foundation Millennium Recognition Certificate

 

 

 

racerocks.com opened March 2000 with a visit of the Environment Minister, the Hon.David Anderson

 

 

An Index of the Events leading up to the opening of racerocks.com

 

 

 

The Schools Project 1999

 

 

 

 The Schools Project: 1998

 

 

 

 

The CoastWatch program in the 1990s