Salmon release at Browning Mill Pond!

Over vacation, we assessed the habitat and released the fry!!

Ask Slate and Rory about our adventures!

Salmon Release!

We will be releasing the salmon next week!
Some students have expressed an interest in coming to participate. We cannot provide transportation from school so please arrange carpooling. If you want to come, but can't find a ride, please email me and I will help you coordinate.

The location is 
Browning Mill Pond at
260 Arcadia Road, Hope Valley

This link will allow directions:
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/rhode-island/browning-mill-pond-tefft-hill


Currently, the planned release date is Tuesday, April 17.
We can meet at school at 10:30 to get supplies and salmon!
(You can knock on the classroom window)

OR, you can meet me at Browning Mill Pond.

PLEASE EMAIL if you are coming so that I can wait for your arrival before release!
Let me know if you will meet me at school or at the pond.

Weather looks like showers, so be prepared. You may want boots, or backup shoes if your feet get wet by the stream.

Schedule: (Please check Classroom and this blog for updates. Note: sometimes there is a delay in the posts being sent to subscribers. Students should check Classroom for any changes on Monday and/or Tuesday!)

School at 10:30
Leave at 11
Arrive at 11:40
Habitat inventory, assessment of stream.
Release of salmon. 

Live Science!

Research Vessel: Endeavor from URI.  Live Interaction!

Some classes had a live interaction with this research vessel! You can tune in tonight and tomorrow on Facebook for a live feed !
Have fun!! Ask alot of questions and share your new understanding next week!

Here's the info from the Inner Space Center:

On April 3rd students from the University of Rhode Island (URI) Honors program will depart on a six-day oceanographic research expedition, and you are invited to come along. Learn about their exciting research and directly ask the students and scientists questions during three live broadcasts and one hosted event.

 

The Inner Space Center (ISC) at URI's Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) will broadcast live from URI's research vessel, the RV Endeavor, to Facebook on April 5th, 6th, and 7th, and during a community event to be held on April 6th at URI's White Hall (details below).

 

The research expedition, from April 3rd through 8th, will focus on whale and zooplankton interactions with the environment that occur in the coastal and offshore waters of Rhode Island. Investigating these interactions is central to management and conservation decisions regarding marine species, such as the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. 

 

The expedition is part of CSI Oceans, a URI Honors course led by Dr. Karen Wishner, a Professor of Oceanography at GSO, and Chief Scientist Christopher Orphanides, a GSO graduate student.

 

Holly Morin, an ISC Marine Biologist, will be your guide to the students and science on the ship. Eight URI Honors students under the guidance of Dr.Wishner and Orphanides will use oceanographic instrumentation to display, analyze, and communicate collected data. Live, interactive broadcasts will engage you in the interdisciplinary nature of oceanography, with an emphasis on the physical dynamics of ocean waters and their influence on marine life and the marine food web.

 

These broadcasts will run about 25 minutes:

 

Endeavor Live! Facebook Live Events

Thursday, April 5 at 7 p.m.

Friday, April 6 at 7 p.m.

Saturday, April 7 at 6 p.m.

Be sure to "like" the Inner Space Center Facebook page  to follow this expedition and others. 

Hurricane Island

Applications for Hurricane Island summer program are due by Friday, April 13.

There is a scholarship for 2 students to attend a week long program for free!

Applications were handed out last week to interested students.

They can be returned to me or Mrs. Goodburn by April 13.

For more information: http://www.hurricaneisland.net/summer-programs


Good luck!

Ms.Tuttle

ROV practice tomorrow

Greetings,

We are planning on ROV practice tomorrow with a temporary pool.
Please be prepared for some rain, and bring a towel to wrap and dry the ROV when done.

See you soon!!
Ms.Tuttle