![]() Bird banding, migration and parasite studies at Cape Cod |
Studying nesting falcons in Greenland |
![]() Cutting a research area in the ice and capturing penguins for physiology studies in Antarctica |
![]() Young emperors huddle for warmth and wait for food. Visit Penguin Ranch in Antarctica |
![]() "Tobogganing" |
![]() A curious youngster. |
![]() A surprise catch! Chilean Seabass - Dissostichus mawsoni) |
![]() Feeding penguins for metabolism experiments |
![]() Studying 100-pound "ice cod." Visit Penguin Ranch in Antarctica |
![]() Weddell seals at the diving holes. |
![]() Who's afraid of a jellyfish? Not our intrepid Sandy Hook students! |
An Australian
high school teacher, and Ocean
Institute guest, visits South African
sharks
on her trip home. |
![]() A Polish marine biologist and guest "shoots the sun" with the sextant to determine our Latitude off of Sandy Hook. |
![]() The view through the sextant eyepiece: Using mirrors to "bring the sun to the horizon" and determine its angle above the horizon to calculate Latitude. |
![]() Rigging the poles to collect, tag and release fishes in Sandy Hook Bay. |
![]() A hungry mussel? " "It's not the size of the catch, but the quality of the experience." |
![]() Trawling up the first horseshoe crabs of the year on an April boat trip, students proudly showing the coveted Learning With Limulus trophy as they help us study horseshoe life history in Sandy Hook Bay. |
![]() Cedar Crest College oceanographers testing our bay waters out on the boat. The secchi disk and colors of the Forel-Ule scale measure turbidity and plankton communities |