Extra Credit

Course Name: Marine Science 100 & Marine Science 100 Lab
Instructor Name: Mike Curtis
Instructor Phone Number/Voice Mail: (714) 241-6121 Ext. #1
Instructor E-Mail address: mcurtis@coastline.edu

Dear Distance Learning Student:

The following contains dates, times, locations and other information regarding the two extra credit field trips offered for Marine Science 100.


Little Corona Tide Pools Trip
Date: Saturday, October 27, 2007
Time:
2:00 – 5:00 pm

On this date, I will lead an Intertidal field trip at the Little Corona Tide Pools. Marine Intertidal ecology will be discussed including the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of the area. Please meet at the chain-linked fence at the top of the bluff at the time listed above.

Please bring your text Pacific Intertidal Life or the handout of common Intertidal organisms included in the handbook.

View a map to the Little Corona Tide Pools

 

Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve Field Trip
Date: Saturday, November 10, 2007
Time: 8:00 – 11:30 am


Students will learn the ecology of upper Newport Bay by participating in a “hands on” inventory of the fish in the bay by conducting an otter trawl on a boat and identifying the fish; conducting a beach seine and identifying the fish; collecting a mud sample with a coring device and viewing the animals within and collecting water quality data. Located at entrance to Newport Back Bay – drive just past Newport Dunes, near Jamboree and Pacific Coast Hwy. Please bring the handbook with you.

For both field trips, wear old clothes and bring a note pad and pencil. Each field trip is worth a possible thirty (30) points of extra credit. In order to get the extra credit, you must turn in the assigned written assignment no later than the day of the final exam.

I hope you attend these field trips. They will certainly reinforce the material covered in Marine Science 100, and will give you a whole new perspective of our southern California coastal intertidal environments.

If you have any questions, please contact me at (714) 241-6121 Ext. #1 or e-mail me at mcurtis@coastline.edu.


Mike Curtis 
Instructor, Marine Science