Hakai Institute
Looking east across Pruth Bay from the Hakai Institute campus (then a fishing lodge) in 2008 | |
| Established | 2002 |
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Laboratory type | Ecological observatory |
| Location | Calvert Island, British Columbia, Canada 51°39′16″N 128°07′53″W / 51.65444°N 128.13139°W |
Operating agency | Tula Foundation |
| Website | www |
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Location in British Columbia | |
The Hakai Institute (formerly the Hakai Beach Institute) is a scientific research, teaching, and meeting center established by Eric Peterson and Christina Munck on Calvert Island, a remote island on the exposed Pacific edge of the Great Bear Rainforest on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada. The Hakai Institute is a program of the Tula Foundation, a British Columbia-based private foundation also founded by Peterson and Munck. The Hakai Institute specializes in "long-term ecological research".
The Hakai Institute has active research programs in archaeology, earth sciences, terrestrial ecology, and marine ecology. The institute enjoys partnerships with neighbouring First Nations, local schools, government agencies, and the BC universities. The institute has partnered with numerous universities and government institutions in researching the ecology of the wider British Columbia Coast.