Royal West Academy - 2019

Last week on campus we had a group of sec 4 (grade 10) students from the Montreal school, Royal West Academy. This school has been coming to the Huntsman for many, many years as part of their Enriched Biology course. While in St. Andrews the students are exposed to different marine habitats. They also study plankton, seaweed and invertebrates in the lab. Here are a few photos from their marine immersion.

Exploring the intertidal zone at low tide.

This group found a few green crabs.

Exploring the subtidal invertebrates aboard the research vessel, the Fundy Spray.

Rock crab

Blood stars

Plankton concentrations are still low this time of year.

Studying plankton in the lab.

The students had to identify and draw marine invertebrates, such as this scallop.

Study of zonation patterns in the intertidal zone.

Measuring the elevation for the zonation project. 

Studying the external anatomy of live sea urchins. What parts can you identify?

Behaviour experiments: how does temperature affect the feeding rate of barnacles?

How do different organisms react to changes in salinity?

Does size affect the flipping rate of sea urchins?

Exploring a muddy shore at low tide.

The tide kept pushing us further up the beach!

Blood worm

Blood worm shooting out its proboscis! On the end there are 4 black teeth!

One group found a milky ribbon worm that was at least 3 feet long!!

Soft-shell clams

Shoreline cleanup at Pagan Point Nature Preserve.

Lots of rope on the shore.

Thank you for helping us remove all of this plastic debris from the shore!