Science Department
Tualatin Valley Academy
Hillsboro, Oregon
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Our students who participated in the Marine Career Day Program had the opportunity to check on the block left under the pier at Hatfield Marine Science Center. By February 7, 2003 the block had been in the ocean nearly six months. We found barnacles, mussels, hermit crabs, kelp crab, ribbon worm, ghost shrimp, isopods, and a small sculpin. A second block (the one we examined in September 2002 and then returned to the water) had many of the same organisms as the new block. In addition to those organisms it also had obelia, tunicates and traces of the algae and seaweed we found in September. Unfortunately we have come to the conclusion that our school's digital camera is not going to work out for taking close-ups of these organisms. We will need to find a better method of photographically documenting our discoveries in the future. Our apologies for the out-of-focus close-ups. Click on the picture to enlarge.
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