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Student Field Trips


Students from Hampden-Sydney College pull up to Goodwin Island

Bob Carroll and Stephanie Breeden with a group of high school students on the shores of the York River and Sarah Creek Inlet

Returning to our put-in site at Shackelfords in Guinea during the 2003 Gloucester Courthouse Rotary Club's Chesapeake Bay Conference

Canoeing through a windy marsh creek in the Guinea marshes

Collection of fish that students captured at Goodwin Island

The canoe fleet heads out to the Goodwin Islands from Goodwin Neck Marina

Jim Goins sampling with a group of students on the York River

Middle school students looking at a zooplankton sample

Students from Gloucester Montessori School during an oyster restoration field trip on the restored oyster reef off Felgates Creek in the York River

Student from Grafton High School holding one end of a seine net in the York River

Students with oysters that they will tranplant on the Felgates Creek oyster reef

Student from Gloucester Montessori School holds an oyster that her class raised during the school year before transplanting it to the oyster reef

High school students seining in the Dragon Run during the Gloucester Courthouse Rotary Club's Chesapeake Bay Conference

Seining on the York River with Jim Goins

Seining on a restored oyster reef off Fishermans Island, Eastern Shore

Students digging for benthic animals in an intertidal flat off the Eastern Shore

Students with oyster transplants ready to be placed on the reef

Students sieve through oyster shell looking for small worms, crabs and mollusks

Students listen to a presentation about plasticulture during a week-long course on hard clam aquaculture

Gear drying out between programs at the Felgates Creek oyster reef

NERRS vessels head out of the boat basin during Marine Science Day 2005

Dr. Willie Reay shows specimens from the trawl net at Marine Science Day while Scott Lerberg looks on

Exploring the salt marsh at Catlett Island during a Tour of the Reserves program

Looking for the 'inside passage' through the Catlett Islands on a Tour of the Reserve program

3rd grade students from Yorktown Elementary Science and Technology Magnet School prepare for field collection in the York River off the CBNERRVA office

David Lange (Wolf) instructs a group on the banks of the York River

3rd grade students from Yorktown Elementary Science and Technology Magnet School take part in the first program in our new wet-lab classroom in May 2005

Students observe aquatic life captured in the York River shallows

Students use a transect to count the number of live oysters per 1/2 meter on the Felgates Creek oyster reef

Students check the seine net for aquatic animals

Students filter water samples during a chlorophyll-a lab analysis

Students begin analyzing data at the VIMS Eastern Shore Lab

Students counting live oysters and looking for other aquatic life in the Felgates Creek Oyster Reef

Teacher Field Trips


Teachers returning to VIMS from a day at the Goodwin Islands

Teachers investigate life on an oyster reef during a summer workshop

Group of teachers investigating an SAV bed off the VIMS campus with benthic cores

Teachers investigate life on an oyster reef in the York River

Teachers investigate the Felgates Creek oyster reef during a rising tide

Teachers find homes for Bob's pet oysters
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia
Virginia Institute of Marine Science / Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062
Phone: (804) 684-7135 / Fax: (804) 684-7120 / cbnerr@vims.edu