Monday, 16 September 2019

Ottawa Catholic School Board 2019

Last week on campus we had students from three high schools within the Ottawa Catholic School Board. This is their 29th year coming to the Huntsman! That is amazing!

Identifying plankton in the lab.

Phytoplankton and zooplankton collected by the students onboard the research vessel, the Fundy Spray.

Copepod at 100x magnified.

Drawing the plankton seen through the microscope.

The amazing life that lives in a drop of seawater!

The marine invertebrates collected while on the Fundy Spray are kept in the lab for the week.

sea anemone

jonah crab

Identifying, drawing and describing the collected animals.

Students study the diversity animals collected from the bay.

purple sunstar

Learning about the amazing life cycle of lobsters.

Lobsters on display at the Fundy Discovery Aquarium show a variation of colours caused by genetics. 

In the lab observing the external anatomy of sea urchins.

Urchins have 5 teeth on the bottom.

View of the urchin through the microscope.

Drawing the pattern and a microscopic view of the urchins.

Whale watching off Grand Manan Island. The group spotted a humpback whale named Penguin.

Atlantic white-sided dolphins!

Atlantic white-sided dolphins

Atlantic white-sided dolphin

On the last day the students conducted behaviour experiments on different species.
Does size affect the flipping rate of sea urchins?

Data was gathered on the diameter and mass of the urchins.

How to arthropods react to light?

Testing the strength of different echinoderms.

Does temperature affect the feeding rate of barnacles?

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