Lower Canada College

Over the weekend we welcomed grade 12 students from Lower Canada College to the Huntsman campus. While here the students studied the diverse marine animals and habitats of Passamaquoddy Bay and the Bay of Fundy. Below are some pictures of their adventures.

Boarding the research vessel, the Fundy Spray.

Collecting plankton.

Sorting through the items collected using the benthic drag.

A jonah crab.

Sea urchin

Playing plankton bingo in the lab.

A polychaete larva at 100x magnification.

Preparing for a classification lab.

Using power of observation to draw and describe the live animals.

Using field guides and a dichotomous key to identify the animals.

Enjoying the skate and lobster touch tank at the Huntsman Fundy Discovery Aquarium.

Gathering specimens from the intertidal zone to study in the lab.

Conducting independent studies on different topics.

Going whale watching with Quoddy Link Marine.

Spending time with Cork, a female humpback.

Individual humpbacks can be identified by the pattern on the underside of their fluke.

The beautiful Head Harbour Lighthouse.

Studying the external anatomy of a sea urchin.

Drawing the pattern on the top of an urchin.

Urchin teeth through the microscope.

Creating a dichotomous key for seaweeds.

Searching for marine worms.

A red lined worm.

The longest worm of the day, a two foot long blood worm.

Searching for invasive green crabs.

Data about size and gendered is collected.

Touring the ARC.

A dragon fish.

The last specimen of the tour, a porbeagle shark head.