STUFF WE DO IN MARINE SCIENCE 
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| COURSE | ECOLOGY | CHEMISTRY | PLANKTON | FISHERIES | OCEANOGRAPHY | PREVIOUS |
2013 |
Estuaries
Keradec expedition |
Theory / notes Salinity Mud |
Theory / notes Sampling Viewing Rules for drawing Satellite image of Cook Str bloom
|
Species studies: Mussels Crayfish Fish Biology Management Issues Mammals |
Planet what? |
Work from other yrs |
See the Orca we (respectfully) observed: Orca 1 Orca 2
Marine Science at FRENCH PASS Dec 2011 and then again Nov 2012
also some video clips of us (2012 us that is) with dolphins vid1 & vid2 & vid3
International Marine Science 2013 (terms 1 & 2)......
| Task: to test everything works |
| Where do things live? (we will look at this later) |
| The Estuary.... research task |
| Boat trip to see birds etc...some photos and the task or look here (my Bloomscool Weebly site) |
ECOLOGY
I.D. for some of the critters you will find on shores around here......click here
Niwa material on estuaries
Some good general marine science stuff The Seashore... (a UK site)
Te Ara (Encyclopedia of NZ) material on estuaries
MESA notes on zonation and drying out issue
Notes & Instructions for our
population study
& A mud crab exemplar & a
population study
exemplar
plus a periwinkle study
example
and pictures
from our crab study
and... Robert's & Angel's crab population reports
Notes for our
zonation
study
and a
zonation exemplar
Oyster Island task
Oyster Island info & pics
Oyster Island NCC plan (go to page 30)
Oyster Island data exercise
NCC Biodiversity technical report (pp35-41)
NCC Biodiversity strategy submission form
Undaria topic...
Your work for the week ...
click here (for Level 1 AS)
or here (Level 2
US)
Photos of
Undaria
Get started by having a look at this MFish site about
Undaria
If you think revising Ecology would be a good idea go and have a wizz thru...
CDroms (from start menu)..go to...Ecology Resource...there
are 7 sections
(view as pdf or powerpoint/win.ppt)
Data exercise (computer)
Oyster Island management assessment task
Salinity work.... Theory, calibration curve and investigation
Mud work... Photos & calibration curve
Notes & material on plankton & photos
NIWA article on plankton in our region click: or try plankton reading
Cawthron Report ... Motueka river nutrient loading
NIWA archives of Water & Atmosphere articles
The assessment (word doc) (or webpage) task for this work...
Some of the links below need updating... I'm workin' on it,
try going here for some useful stuff on fish/fisheries
Fisheries in NZ a (very) detailed..history
Tasman Bay scallop catch history
Some info on the impact of fishing
NZ commercial fish catch history
Stuff about important NZ fish species...(Seafood Industry Council)
crayfish (general biology) and crayfish (Tonga Island Marine Reserve info)
mussels
paua
scallops
Deep sea
fish
orange
roughy
hoki
snapper
and more snapper
Bluefin tuna
(Charlies)Angel fish
Mauis dolphins
Fishing methods and such......
a Nelson
fishing company
catching
methods
Fisheries Management......
fisheries
management
fisheries management2
seafood
industry
Forest & Bird info (Best Fish Guide)
Also go and check out seafriends (from Leigh Marine reserve)
An oceanography site with lots of stuff
SITO
material on Greenshell mussel
Description
Anatomical features
Life cycle
Growth
Disease
Other SITO resources .....finfish (link gone...must fix)
TIDES & WEATHER
Notes, animations and so on
Do you need to know the TIDE
TIME
Or look at an animation of what
causes tides
US 18981 (click here for) Weather assessment
Check out a data processing exercise on the Biology page.
There are a couple of CD Roms that we have on the intranet (found on
the start menu under CDs).
One is called Seafood Industry, the other is called NZ Coasts.
Both are well worth looking at.
Stuff from years gone bye.....
2A Marine Science 2012
| Plankton: Theory / notes, Sampling, Viewing... (see below) and Rules for drawing |
| Excel practice data exercise |
| Waimea Estuary salt marsh : data and some reference material and a pic |
| Oyster Island : task & assess. sched. & (model assess sched) & our trip pics & data and background info & pics and Hannahs report |
| Chl xls calibration graph and directions for measuring and.... just the calibration graphs and some xls practice (trendlines) |
| Benthic algae (May Mud Madness) info...&... pics and task and a little something for us from Shenae and someones study |
| Animal Adaptations (reproduction) test and resources page and SITO Biology of finfish resource |
| Salinity computor research task and the salinity investigation and the calibration graph and the class data and pics |
| Extreme environment background and investigation task |
| Salmon: the issue (links), the task and a bit more about the task and the self/peer assessment sheet |
International Marine Science 2012 (terms 3 & 4)......
| Task: to test everything works |
| Boat trip July 23...shorebirds photos and the task |
| Parasites ....these look rather horrible :( |
| Where do things live? |
| Pukeko research task |
| Oyster Island, August 2012: task and information |
| Cable Bay pre-trip work and the task and some nice pics |
| Potato salmon task and expt method and our results |
| Picture of a couple of Japanese visitors... one guest the other an invader |
| The Nelson Boulder bank... task and photos |
| Salinity: our Maitai River channel sampling sites and data (and the calibration graph ) and your salinity research task |
| Extreme environment background and investigation task |
| Our walk along Rabbit Island, a wee task and then some stuff about NZ fishing |
| Task for the video.... The vampire finches of the Galapagos |
International Marine Science 2012 (terms 1 & 2)......
| Mudsnail task, and data (excel ss) and pics (these are in the dropbox on S drive) |
| Boat trip Feb 27...shorebirds photos and the task |
| Oyster Island task March 2012 and background info & pics (above) |
| Cable Bay pre-trip work and the task and some nice pics |
| Microscopic life |
| Tahuna sand dunes |
| The Nelson Boulder bank... task and photos |
| Salinity: our Maitai River channel sampling data (and the calibration graph ) and your salinity research task |
| Native fish pics and task |
| Pukeko research task |
| Fish reproduction task |
| The end of it all (report), time to wrap it up and go home :( |
International Marine Science 2011 (terms 3 & 4)......
| Boat trip Aug 4 ...shorebirds photos and the task |
| The Nelson Boulder bank... task and photos |
| Oyster Island info & pics |
| Your Undaria task and some info and some more info |
| Cable Bay task |
| Monaco shorelife template |
| Cawthron hatchery visit task |
| Marine Science at FRENCH PASS, Dec 2011 |
| International Marine Science 2011 (terms 1 & 2)...... |
 what are these blokes up to, they are putting up some sort of fence? |
| Tahuna beach sand dune study: your task and some photos of us at the beach and our data |
| Monaco shore critters graph and blank data sheet |
| NZ native fish research task |
| The Nelson Boulder bank task |
| Salinity Research task |
| Creek Salinity task |
| Potato fish (osmosis) task & data |
| Cable Bay task |
| Tahuna sand algae task |
Your Undaria task and some information to get you started |
| Fishing, seal watching and sample collecting |
International Marine Science 2011 end of course task  |
Class of 2010...
| Our course: outline & assessment |
| When you need to know the Tide time |
| Our trip to Monaco...the task and pics and a look at the succession blocks ...(just for fun) |
| Oyster Island task & info & pics (above) |
| Salinity of our creek task & theCalibration graph for our conductivity meter & pics |
| Mud algae Task & Calibration graph for our colorimeter & Pics of our mud algae/snail feeding expt |
| Fisheries assessment task (word doc) (or webpage) |
| Oyster Island task 2 for US 21610 |
| Cawthron hatchery task for US 6309 (element 3) |
| Oyster Island succession task for US 8930 (element 3) |
| Weather task for US 18981 |
| International students fishing trip... pics |
Class of 2009.....
| Half crab data |
| Oyster Island task |
| Pics of Our fishing, March 19 also Callum went fishing for slightly bigger fishies & Callum is cool (or is about to be) |
| Mudcrab: Pics of our work & transect location, (March 26) & Emelies & Callums |
| Calibration graph for our conductivity meter |
| Pics of our sampling the water collumn in Tasman Bay, May 14 |
| Calibration graph for our colorimeter & Pics of our mud algae/snail feeding expt |
| Cable Bay task and pics of us at work |
| Weather Test Unit Std 18981 |
| Pics of us rowing to a wee island |
Class of 2008...
| Mud crab quadrat sampling data |
| Waves job click here |
| Our trips to Oyster Island (click here) |
Class(es) of 2007:
Wed pm class:
| Estuary trip pics (mudsnail population) Feb 14 |
| Our reports on the snail population |
| Estuary trip pics (our critter population) Feb28 |
| Maitai salt wedge trip pics |
| trip to get sand or mud |
Thurs pm class:
| Estuary trip pics (mudsnail population) Feb 15 |
| Our reports on the snail population |
| Estuary trip pics (our critter population) Mar 1 |
| trip to get sand at the beach |
Wednesday class salt wedge results
Thursday class salt wedge results
Class of 2006:
Robert's & Angel's crab population reports
Photos from estuary collecting mud for ChlA / snail grazing expt
Photos of us sampling... the stream to measure salinity
Class of 2005:
Data exercise (computer)
Mud work... Photos & calibration curve
Salinity work.... Theory, calibration curve and investigation
Class of 2004:
Boulder
Zonation data
Maitai
channel salinity data
Monaco Estuary Succession
study
Examples of student work from 2003/04
Photos of our Chlorophyll extracted from benthic microalgae at the beach (for class use only-rather boring )
Photos of the trip on the R V Kaharoa
Some photos of a trip to Cable
Bay
(this could take a wee while to load )
some photos of our work on the salinity of the creek as it runs into the estuary
Our conductivity meter work (calibrating)
To find our data on a study of the salinity of Nelson Harbour click:
salinity