Ottawa Catholic School Board - Day 1 & 2

It has been a great week so far working with the students that are on campus from six schools within the Ottawa Catholic School Board.  The students have been fully immersed in marine biology; collecting specimens on the boat and on the beach, exploring the Huntsman Fundy Discovery Aquarium, receiving presentations about lobsters and whales in the Bay of Fundy, and identifying their specimens in the lab.  Today they are off to Grand Manan to go whale watching, explore the island and learn about the fisheries.

Exploring the beach on campus and finding green crabs.

A lesson on how to determine a crab's gender.

Collecting plankton on the research vessel.

The scallop drag collected animals from the bottom of the bay.

Students getting familiar with the benthic invertebrates.

A sea peach.

In the lab identifying and drawing the plankton samples.

Day 2 exploring the intertidal zone at Indian Point.

Finding lots of animals including sea stars and sponge.

Time to study the animals we have been collecting.

Drawing and describing the different species.

Sponge

Lobster presentation.

The students spent time studying urchin anatomy.

Wrestling with an urchin pedicellaria.