Field trip survey

Hello Marine Biologists!

As you know, each lab student is required to participate in one field trip.

There are five separate field trips to two different locations. Which trip you participate in will be decided by a combination of preference and lottery. We will attempt to accommodate each of you to the best of our abilities.

Brief description:

1. Overnight Intertidal Survey at Alki Trip. We will be heading out to Alki to do a midnight beach survey under the full moon! This trip will involve assessing biodiversity along several different transects. The low tide should provide a wonderful array of life. Trip Logistics: You will begin this trip Saturday evening and return Sunday morning. Be prepared to work through the night!

2. COASST Bird Trip. The south coast of Washington is a broad sandy beach which collects a myriad of flotsam and jetsam. We’ll be looking a beached marine birds (yup, that’s right - dead ones) which have washed in on the previous tide as part of the largest beached bird program in the world—Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST). Not for the squeamish, last year's trip found 173 carcasses of 30 different species. Trip Logistics: You must be able to walk on a beach for up to two miles. **Note: You will have to assist to an orientation training class the day before  at 5pm.

 Please, take in mind that once you are assigned to a field trip, you are not eligible to request a change - unless some student is willing to swap their spot with you. NO EXCEPTIONS. If you can not make any of the field trips, you should consider dropping the lab portion of this course. 

Please, select in this survey your FIRST, SECOND and THIRD preferences for the field trips.