Intro to Marine Bio 2016 - Day 4

Today we awoke to another bright shiny day. We started in the lab studying the effect of temperature on the feeding rate of barnacles.  Check out this video we posted on twitter of the barnacles feeding. They are a cool animal to study. We then had an artist join us to help the students make connections between art and biology.  Their artwork was pretty impressive!

Armed with shovels and buckets we went on the hunt for marine worms on a muddy intertidal zone. We found a great diversity including clam worms, blood worms, milky ribbon worms, red lined worms, clams and moon snails. There was even a small war wound inflicted by one of the blood worms. Did you know some worms have teeth?

We finished off the afternoon screen printing Huntsman t-shirts. Mess but fun.

The students are now in town completing the Almost Amazing Marine Race. Stay tuned tomorrow to see which team is the winner!

Very carefully watching the temperature.

A few of the art pieces.

On the hunt for marine worms.

A cute little red lined worm.

T-shirts in the making.