Crestwood Prep - Day 2

Today the students started their day in the lab studying seaweed in preparation for their zonation lab later in the day.  The rest of the morning the students toured the Huntsman Fundy Discovery Aquarium and the ARC (Atlantic Reference Centre), a museum for researchers that houses many species of fish and invertebrates that inhabit the North Atlantic Ocean.

After a delicious lunch at Anderson House the students headed to Holey Point to conduct a zonation study in the intertidal zone.  The students gathered data on the seaweed and animals living every 2.5 meters along a transect line.  It was a bit of a damp day but the weather is looking up for tomorrow.

Identifying seaweeds in the lab.

Checking out the collection at the ARC.

Rebecca showing the group a tripod fish from the deep sea.

Wowzers!  Look at those teeth!

A gulper eel from the deep sea.  Its stomach can expand to eat

fish bigger than itself!

Basket stars on a piece of coral.

The porbeagle shark head...which some of the students kissed...gross!!

Learning about the giant tides of the Bay of Fundy.

Enjoying the touch pool in the aquarium.

Lily the lovely blue lobster.

The students got to view the harbour seals having their lunch.

Zonation in the intertidal zone.

What's in the quadrate?

Some of the students found green crabs.