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Race Rocks

Race Rocks in an archipelago situated at 48^o17’45”N, 123^o31’50”W, south of Vancouver Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. A tidal range that exceeds 3m yields a large intertidal community that is constantly battered by large waves and subject to currents up to 6 knots. The islands are surrounded by forests of Nereocystis luetkeana in the summer months, under which a highly developed subtidal community exists.

Study Features

Ryan Murphy used digital video equipment from Lester B. Pearson College and an hp digital camera to record the materials presented in this herbarium. As Race Rocks is a Marine Protected Area, no live samples could be taken, thus necessitating this digital collection. The author hopes that the benefits of this collection far outweigh the benefits of having brittle preserved samples stored away from public use.

Images and video were collected in the summer of 2002 with the help of Pearson College student Joe Downham. Identification was completed by Ryan, Anne K. Salomon of the University of Washington, and Garry Fletcher of L.B. Pearson College.

Funding was provided to this project by the Leadership Mount Allison Academic Initiative.