Charles P. Allen High School 2018

The past few days we've had two classes of Grade 11 IB Biology students on campus from Charles P. Allen High School in Bedford, Nova Scotia. Below are a few pictures from their marine biology field course.

Specimen and data collection trip on the Huntsman research vessel, the Fundy Spray.

Zooplankton and phytoplankton collected from the bay.

Using microscopes to view the plankton.

The view at 100x magnification. 

Drawing and describing the marine invertebrates.

A toad crab.

Searching for green crabs, an invasive species.

The students found 142 green crabs. Data was gathered about the size and gender of each crab.

Testing to see if temperature effects the feeding rate of barnacles.

Does size effect the flipping rate of sea urchins...

or sea stars?