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Lessons & Field Trips - The Marine Science Consortium
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The Marine Science Consortium

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Coastal Ecology Program: Lessons and Field Trips

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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

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 and identify fish, invertebrates, zooplankton and phytoplankton collected in earlier field trips.

Salt Marsh
Identification 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.

Special Topics
Interested in other topics? Our education
staff can develop specialized topics to meet
your curricular needs.

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General Information

The Coastal Ecology Program

-Lessons & Field Trips

-Sample Schedule

Young Coastal Explorers

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Teachers that want more information about our programs or are interested in booking can contact the Marine Science Consortium:

(757) 824-5636 or mscva@msconsortium.org

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