Women in Science
Below are images from former students who are working in science and natural history.
Email us if you have candidates, items to share, or suggestions for this page (and for school administrators).

The Ocean Institute:
"Changing science; one university president at a time."

 
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