Coastal Ecology Program: Lessons and Field Trips
MSC offers the following lessons and field trips for schools. Contact us for information regarding these offerings or if you have other ideas for field exploration.
Oceanography Lab and Research Cruise
navigation, water sampling, salinity, temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, currents, turbidity, benthic grab, and trawl. Data is analyzed during evening lab.
Intertidal Beaches
organism collection and sampling for various environmental parameters, species diversity, distribution, adaptation.
Organism Labs
dichotomous keys, field guides and microscopes are used to examine zooplankton and phytoplankton collected in the field
Salt Marsh
dentification of flora and fauna, food webs, trophic levels,
nutrient cycles, marsh formation and tidal zonation.
Dune Ecology
Littoral currents, wave energy, beach formation, sediment
deposition, distribution of flora and fauna, ecological succession
Maritime Forest/Ornithology
forest ecology, flora, fauna, special emphasis given to birds if requested.
Advanced Topics
may be substituted for advanced or returning groups.
Examples are:
Wetlands Ecology
Coastal Morphology
Advanced Marine Biology
Chemical Lab
Chincoteague and Chesapeake Bays
Advanced Marine Biology
Special Topics
Interested in other topics? Our education staff can develop specialized topics to meet your curricular needs.
The Marine Science Consortium 7278 Enterprise Street Wallops Island, VA 23337 757-824-5636 Email: mscva@msconsortium.org
The Marine Science Consortium
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A residential environmental learning center and field station on Virginia's Eastern Shore
