Dungeness Crab Megalope larva
Session 2 – Small Life In The Salish Sea
Friday, May 22, 1 :00- 4:30 pm
Field portion: Meet at The Government Dock behind the Treehouse Cafe at 1pm. (This is the only session that does not start at the SSIC Blackburn Lake facility.) We will meet at the Government Dock (top of the ramp) in Ganges Village, near the Treehouse Cafe. We will spend about an hour examining life on the docks, collecting a plankton sample, and possibly a light trap collection – before returning to our ‘lab’ at Blackburn Lake.
Lab portion: We will examine our collections and use the SEM to reveal otherwise unseen details. The discussion will include remarkable accounts of life histories of crabs, skeleton shrimp and other small marine life, and we will view many organisms that provide the food/energy foundation for the Salish Sea marine food pyramid.