Ferndown School brought their A-level biology students out on the boat.
SecchiDiscussion of light penetration into the water columnGary explaining how the temperature and salinity probe worksDeployment of the beam trawlThe catch being sorted to see what animals we haveA student holding a long-legged spider crabA female Shore crab Carcinus maenas carrying her eggsGary, getting students to smell the mud from the estuaryStudents sieving mud for the small members of the infaunaGary and Moira explain how the plankton net works