Crestwood Prep - Day 1

Yesterday Grade 11 students from Crestwood Preparatory College arrived on campus bright and early after an very, very long bus trip from Toronto.  When we met the students for their introduction they were all dressed in their rain gear and rubber boots ready to start their immersion into marine biology.  They were eager!

Throughout the day the students conducted plankton tows and scallop drags while aboard the Huntsman research vessel, the Fundy Spray, viewed phytoplankton and zooplankton using microscopes in the aquarium lab, and studied the invertebrates collected earlier in the day from the boat trip.

Below are some picture highlights from the day.

Looking smart in all their lovely rain gear!

The first group on the Fundy Spray.

Studying plankton in the lab.

A copepod.

The second group boarding the research vessel.

The tide in this area can drop vertically 8 meters!

Viewing the plankton collected.

Our captain emptying the scallop drag for us to study.

The students were eager to see what we had found!

Sponge.

A female hermit crab without a shell, allowing us to see her black eggs.

Taking data on the temperature and salinity of the water.

Back in the lab studying some sea peached collected while on the boat.

IDing a common sea star.