and their teacher Debra Brice, a National Science Foundation grant recipient. Brice takes her students
ON A GRAY DAY IN MAY, a group of San Marcos Middle School girls and other visitors gathered in the Birch Aquarium galleria to try some- thing that had not been done at the aquarium before: a live ship-to- shore communication with scientists aboard a research vessel. From the ship Sikuliaq, a research vessel 40 nautical miles off shore north of Point Conception (California’s coastal elbow), Scripps scientists patched in via Skype to talk with the eighth-graders about research conducted on the ship. While the students chatted with researchers about El
Niño studies and the challenges of adapting to daily life on a boat, Birch Aquarium staff tried out a concept that will be integrated into The Expedition!, a new exhibit being phased in this year. The concept: link visi-
tors to the seagoing action aboard research vessels. It’s a view that land-dwellers never see: the open water, sea birds above, and ocean- dwellers swimming along (or jumping, or breaching) on camera. Shark, whale, and dolphin sightings hap- pen fairly regularly. A vision of the aquar-
ium’s director, Harry Helling, the exhibit aims to immerse visitors in
The cushion sea star lives on coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific
the exploration experi- ence. It will replace the climate-change exhibit called Feeling the Heat. A display demonstrating the high-tech capabilities of Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s new $280
million research ship Sally Ride will be the centerpiece. An exhibit preview in June and July included El Niño watchers and a shipwreck- diving marine archaeolo- gist. Officially opening in October, the exhibit is roll-
ing out in stages. Hence the “guinea pigs”
from San Marcos Middle School. It just so happened that one of the field trips on the aquarium’s schedule for that day back in May was a group of eighth-grade girls
We could see the
researchers, but they couldn’t see us.
on field trips to the Ocean Institute in Orange County, “Where they go out to sea for a half day on a boat. They do plankton tows, sedimentation analysis, side scan sonar, water chemis- try, wildlife observation (whale watching), and then lunch on beach, and then more hands-on lab studies inside. They spend a day being oceanographers. “Studies have shown that
it is middle school where you need to capture their
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