BIO460 Marine Science Field Trip
to
Eastern Shore Laboratory, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
at Wachapreague, Virginia

NKU biology students studied water chemistry and biological communities of tidal creeks, salt marshes, barrier islands, and other littoral habitats of the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay estuary.

  NKU Marine Science class of  Fall 02  on the beaches of the Chesapeake Bay - this is no vacation.



Seining for the big (and small) ones in high-salinity estuarine waters.



Trawling  Nickawammpa Creek for  terrapins, shrimp, flounder, and croakers.
 
  

Some instructional learning did take place occasionally during the trip.