Essex Agricultural and Technical High School

Today students from Essex Agricultural and Technical High school took a field trip to Indian Point to explore the biodiversity there and to collect some specimens for further study.  Upon their return they toured the Fundy Discovery Centre where they watched the seal feeding and took a hands on approach to the creatures in the touch pool. 
After lunch it was onto the boat to collect plankton and subtidal specimens or to the lab to study plankton under the microscope.

 

Students had an early start to the day on Indian Point.

 

Students searched the tidal pools looking for the perfect specimen.

 

 

This Green Crab is carrying many eggs.

 

Here Genny, our seal trainer, has the seal pull out onto the rocks to receive its' fish.

 

Students particularly enjoyed the touch pool.

 

Waved Whelks lay their eggs in large clumps in the touch pool.

 

The students from Essex are the first to greet our new Wolfish.

 

These large fish are one of the only things that can eat the Green Sea Urchin as their mouths are specially designed to crunch through the spines.

 

This large sea cucumber makes its home with the Wolfish.

 

The sea cucumber uses its many branching arms to pluck food from the water.

 

Some students take advantage of our whale feeding game for a photo op!

 

A medusa sp. zooplankton found under the microscope.

 

Many copepods under the dissecting microscope.