racerocks.com EVENTS

	Media Coverage on Race Rocks from 2000-2011
	*EVENTS 2010-2011*
	Race Rocks Celebrates its 150th birthday, December 26, 2010
	Publication of MPA Scorecard Process where Race Rocks is provided as one of the samples for North America.

*EVENTS 2008-2009*
	Dec 16 Release of Entangled Sealion from Race Rocks See pictures and news links in this file
	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
	First Elephant Seal to be born at Race Rocks, and probably a first for Canada
	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

	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
	*Project week at RR, spring 2005 with a commentary by Raisa Mirza*
	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.
	CBC Radio broadcasts Live from Race Rocks for Oceans Week 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: Apple provides a generous upgrade of 3 new eMac computers for racerocks.com. In addition they supplied the new 360 degree SONY camera which provides improved coverage.
	The Rock was ours. Second Nature was packed up high with our bags, food and dive gear as we left Pearson with Garry. The task list for the weekend included digging a trench for a new camera, fulfilling all island duties, and doing underwater camera work during our dives.

	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. Faculty member Eileen Dombrowski took some photos and has a story on the college LINK

	EVENTS 2002
	Jeremias, Rosie and Ahmed stay at Race Rocks for their Project week
	In June of 2002, The APPLE LEARNING INTERCHANGE opened the new Gallery of Virtual field Trips. Race Rocks has been included on the ALI websight as one of their exhibits.
	Students stay 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 11/01
	Paul 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-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

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