Bloor Collegiate Institute

This week on campus we welcomed grade 12 students from Bloor Collegiate Institute. This is the first time this school has visited the Huntsman so we were very excited to introduce the group to marine biology and the Bay of Fundy. Below are some pictures from their visit to St. Andrews, NB.

Using the microscopes in the lab to study plankton.

Phytoplankton & zooplankton collected from the bay.

Looking at the copepod at 40x magnification.

Diatoms & a dinoflagellate at 40x magnification.

Touring the Huntsman Fundy Discovery Aquarium.

Preparing to sort through animals collected using the benthic drag onboard the research vessel, the Fundy Spray.

Many different marine invertebrates were collected from the bottom of the bay.

blood star

toad crab

brittle star & tiny sea cucumber

Exploring the intertidal zone at low tide.

Students found many animals including lots of little sea stars under the rocks on the beach.

Does size affect the flipping rate of urchins and sea stars?

A sea star mid-flip. They are very flexible!

Testing the strength of sea urchin tube feet. Many of the urchins could hold ten to twenty times their own weight!

The last session included a presentation on the amazing life of lobsters. We learned this lobster is a left handed male.