Our board of directors were also volunteers and have all put in much effort to make the Centre fulfill its mandate. They were: Derek Ashurst, Judy Ashurst,  Kerrie Talbot,  Rick Hudson, Dave Hutchinson, Jim Johnson, Rhonda Reidy, Sue Stanniforth, and Bryce Kendric . : John Harper, Carol Lalli, John Scull, Pam Williams, Michael Anderson, Beth Stewart, Bob Holden, John Roe, Eric Marshall,  John Wheelock, and Cheri Ayers.

Short Term Employees

The Marine Ecology Centre was successful in obtaining funding from Human Resources Development Canada for an Education Assistant during the summer. These have included Danielle Wilson, Paula Romagosa, Rene Cenerini, Chelsea Eby, Robyn Luff, Emily McGiffin, Eve Robinson, Alana Scruton,  and Pauline Landry.

We also received funding from the BC E-team to hire two Eco-ed youths. One a Marine Education Webmaster, Greg Bate who worked on our web site.  Sean Aldcroft held the position as a Marine Education Interpreter. He went through the Ministry of Education learning outcomes for grades 1 through 12, and listed those which are addressed by each or the MES education programs. This allows teachers to see the direct relevance of our programs to classroom subject areas at each grade level. Sean also updated and upgraded our 8 year old hypercard computer program on rocky shore life to put on our web site in living colour. 

The Marine Centre also sponsored three youths under the BC Youth Community Action Program which awards tuition credits for work performed. The youths, Madeline Southern, Sean Aldcroft and Graham Fielding worked in the store and in the aquarium. Employees during a Juvenile Chinook Habitat Project were Jackie Hendrix, David Tattam, Margaret Walker, and Barbara Benoit.