Ashbury College 2018

On campus this week we had students that travelled from Ashbury College in Ottawa. The students have been very busy exploring the bay in the field and in the lab. Here are a few photos from their busy week of marine biology.

Exploring the beach at low tide.

Searching under rocks for live animals.

Seastars!

Identifying plankton collected while on the research vessel.

View through the microscope at 40x magnification.

Sorting through the items collected using the benthic drag.

Sea spider

Brittle star

Jonah crab

Purple sunstar

Identifying the invertebrates collected while in the field.

The students travelled by ferry to Grand Manan to go whale watching with Sea Watch Tours.

There were lots of fin whales.

Shearwater

Puffins

Grey seals

Experimenting with live echinoderms.

Does size affect the flipping rate?

Visiting the St. Andrews Bird Banding Station.

Black-and-white warbler that already had a band.

Checking the fat reserves.

Banding a Swainson's Thrush.

Does temperature affect the feeding rate of barnacles?

Drawing and describing sponge.

Sponge spicules at 100x magnification.