Marine bio Camp - day 5 recap
Category:
Camp,
Marine Biology,
RWU
Today's Itinerary:
Morning Session
Trawling on the 54' fishing vessel, the Captain Bert - students got to see the deployment of a smallish otter trawl and learn some fish biology while examining the haul;
Our catch included fluke, flounder, lobstahs, sea robins, scup/porgies, and squid;
Observe fluke dissection - examine internal anatomy and stomach contents (two recently eaten scup);
Afternoon Session
Winkler titrations of light/dark bottles from yesterday;
determine and graph primary productivity (gross and net) and respiration rates for surface and deep water;
Evening Lecture
Marine Mammals, given by yours truly (why me? cause our resident marine mammologist is on sabbatical and I lost the coin flip; thank goodness for wikipedia!)
3 comments:
I am so jealous! I hope these kids (aside from the dork who thought it sucked) realize the opportunity they have. I never could have dreamed of such a thing as teen in Iowa.
Maybe next year I can come out to do a crash course in invert anatomy?
A guest speaker, huh? I like that - less work for me! You may be on to something here, Kev
Fly me out and cover my expenses (and beer tab) and lets call it even!
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