My students in Biology of Marine Organisms (MSCI 311) spent 3 days in the field at Baruch Marine Field Lab. They ran a transect across the marsh from the waterline to the tree line and assessed elevation, vegetation, sediment composition and fiddler crab burrow density. They collected sediment cores and brought them back to the lab to quantify chlorophyll abundance using a fluorometer. Then they surveyed the marsh birds and did some play-back experiments using recorded marsh bird calls to find secretive species like the least bittern and the clapper rail. Everyone got super muddy and had a great time :) Comments are closed.
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AuthorErin Meyer-Gutbrod is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. Her lab researches human impacts to marine ecosysems. Archives
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