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Service Learning & K-12 Outreach

I incorporate service learning in my upper level undergraduate courses at FHL. Partnering with FHL’s K-12 Science Outreach Program and Friday Harbor Middle School teachers Marine Botany students spend parts of several days mentoring 6th graders in their exploration of marine biodiversity, a subject the FHL students study in considerable detail all quarter. This assignment with all participants; teachers appreciate the added expert help, middle schoolers make personal connections with university students, and the FHL students reinforce their own learning by sharing their new knowledge with younger students, and it is fun! As part of the new Marine Biology Quarter offerings in Autumn 2009, FHL Marine Environmental Research students work with 1st graders at Friday Harbor Elementary School.

UW FHL student Emily Haug sifts through a mud sample with 6th graders at 4th of July Beach on San Juan Island. Photo by L. Salisbury.

 UW FHL student Ben Weisgall explores a tidepool with students near Dead Man's bay on San Juan Island. Photo by L. Salisbury.

Field Sites

The Pumphouse near the Weather Station, Friday Harbor Labs, Washington Argyle Creek, San Juan Island, Washington
Bass Rock, Rhode Island Black Point, Rhode Island

Study Organisms

Northern Star Coral
Astrangia poculata		 Mytilid Mussels
Mytilus edulis		 Irish Moss
Chondrus crispus


Mytilus californianus M. californianus
foot and thread

Equipment

Spring Scale: device used to measure the attachment strength of organisms in the intertidal zone. Eric Luiker is removing a mussel using this device near Bamfield Marine Science Center in British Columbia.
 Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV): device used to measure water velocity using the doppler effect. Sean Thompson using this instrument to measure water velocity above a mussel bed at Argyle Creek.


Racetrack Flume: paddle-flume used to create unidirectional flow. Sylvia Yang is using this flume in combination with the ADV to examine deposition within algal beds. Dynamometer: device used to measure maximum water velocity in the intertidal zone (Bell and Denny, 1994). An "original" autographed dynamometer sold for $85 at a recent WSN auction.