Staying on the Huntsman campus for the next week is a group of sixteen grade 11 students from Essex Agricultural and Technical High School in Danvers, Massachusetts.
Today the students enjoyed a beautiful, sunny day outside. They took advantage of a negative tide this morning to scour the beach at Indian Point. The students found lots of interesting invertebrates including terebellid worms but also a number of fish species including rock gunnels and a small ocean pout.
The tide pushed them inside just before lunch for a tour of the Fundy Discovery Aquarium; they were just in time to see the harbour seals, Loki and Snorkel being feed.
This afternoon the group had a great trip on our research vessel, the Fundy Spray. They did a number of scallop drags in different locations and to the amusement of all the students one of the drags collected a large number of sea cucumbers. They also had the opportunity to check out some salmon aquaculture cages and a herring weir while out past Deer Island.
The students finished off their day by looking at the plankton that they had collected while out on our research vessel. The samples contained lots of great diatoms and dinoflagellates but also some pretty cool zooplankton, including sea cucumber larvae, rotifers, and a little worm.
We are all looking forward to a great morning at Pottery Creek digging for worms!
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