Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Essex - Day 1

Last evening a group of students from Essex Agricultural and Technical School in Massachusetts arrived on campus for a week of intense marine biology.

Today the students collected specimens while on the boat, studied plankton in the lab, identified subtidal invertebrates, and toured the aquarium.

Can't wait for tomorrow when we head to the beach!

Identifying plankton in the lab.

Copepod!

Plankton collected from Passamaquoddy Bay.

Lots of cool specimens in the sample!

Scallop drag.

Sorting through the benthic collection.

Scallop

Sea spider

Hermit crab with eggs and minus a shell. Don't worry we gave her a selection of new 'homes' in the lab.

Looking at all the interesting animals collected back in the lab.

Drawing and identifying the invertebrates.

Brittle star

Diversity of Passamaquoddy Bay.

Touring the Huntsman Fundy Discovery Aquarium.

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