Tentative Schedule
Day 1: Sunday July 21, 2013
- Students arrive at Barnegat, check into dorms and store personal belongings.
Day 2
- Morning orientation and safety lecture
- Team-building canoe trip on a blackwater river. The group will travel with plant and animal ecologists to explore the habitats in the unique Pine Barrens of New Jersey.
- Nighttime bug collection
Day 3 (Alternating Team Groups)
- Morning orientation and lecture
- Plant and animal identification in the Pine Barrens
- Freshwater and tidal marsh exploration and walkabout
- Hands-on Lesson: "Diatoms are Dynamic"
- Lecture: "Collections Made Perfect"
Day 4 (Group Trip)
- Morning lecture
- To the beach! Students will work a little and relax a lot. Activities include: beach profiling in the wake of Hurricane Sandy; an examination of currents, waves, dunes and shells; and some relaxing, swimming and surfing.
Day 5 (Alternating Team Groups)
- Morning lecture
- Fish seining along the shoreline of Barnegat Bay
- Sampling the marine environment on a research vessel
- Laboratory analysis
Day 5 (Group Trip)
- Morning lecture
- Paleontological dig at Inversand Mine in Mantua, New Jersey
- Fossil preparation
Day 6 (Saturday)
- Bug collection and preservation
- Clean up and lunch for students, parents, faculty and staff