Grice Field Trip

On April fourth, 2019, our class ventured to the off-campus classrooms where the Grice Marine labs are located in Charleston, SC. The temperature reached a high of 69 degrees Fahrenheit at 2:00 p.m. and reached a low of 57 degrees earlier that morning at 6:15 a.m.. There was a 62% cloud coverage around between the times of 12-3 p.m. (duration of trip). There was a 5.1% chance of rain around 1:30 p.m., and the wind made the temperature feel slightly chilly. Humidity also accounted for less than 14% during the day. We began our trip by walking through the a knee covered area of ocean to reach a beach area where we began to examine organism. We had access to nets where we would drag the bottom of the net across the sea floor in order to capture organism and examine them. Over the course of three or four tries with the net, we discovered a few fish species such as a "Stripped Kill-fish", and "Atlantic Silverside", which are the fish that you usually observe swimming fast near the shore. It was interesting to see the various types of jellyfish that were scattered along the beach which included: "Cannonball Jelly," "Lion's Mane Jelly," "Moon Jelly," . I remember a few unique organisms that were new to my knowledge, one being a "Sandy Sea Squirt," that shorted water when it was squeezed and a "Caprellidae" family organisms that looked like a little branch. A few interesting shells that we found, some including their host, were "Eastern Mud Snails," a "Knobbed Whelk," and a "Shark Eye". After we captured organism in the net and released them, we walked up and down the shore to collect shark teeth and any other organisms that washed up. The most neat thing I collected was a 2-3 inch Tiger shark tooth!

Publicado el abril 9, 2019 01:38 MAÑANA por lindsaywalls