Friday, 4 September 2015

Ashbury College

This week Grade 12 IB students from Ashbury College have been on campus for a marine biology field course.  Here are some pictures to tell the story of their week.
 
A beautiful morning exploring the intertidal zone at Indian Point.

Finding sea stars in a tidal pool.

The students found lots of different animals, including scale worms...

and brittle stars.


Sampling plankton on the research vessel.

Sorting through the animals collected from the ocean floor.

Blood star.

Toad crab.

Identifying phytoplankton and zooplankton in the lab.

On the ferry to Grand Manan gathering data on marine mammal and seabirds.

We spent some time with a Mola mola in the Bay of Fundy.

We found humpbacks!


One of the humpbacks, Magpie.

Gannet Rock lighthouse.

Making videos at Long Pond Beach at Anchorage Provincial Park.

Examining a humpback flipper at Gaskin Museum.

Classroom on a ferry.

Mapping the data of whales spotted while out on the bay.

Digging worms at Pottery Creek.

That's a big blood worm!

On the hunt for the invasive green crab.

Gathering data on the size and gender of a local green crab population.

Identifying seaweeds in the lab.

Conducting a zonation lab at Green's Point.

Marking periwinkles to recapture.

Nail polish is a fantastic tool for a field biologist!

Studying the anatomy of sea urchins.

What pattern do you see?

Behaviour lab testing the effect of temperature on barnacles.

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