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Teen Marine Biology Field Course
A full day in Sarasota Bay for ages 13–17: plankton tows, seagrass surveys and time in the wet lab.
About this event
Mote educators take a small group out on the research boat in the morning to run plankton tows and pull a seine net through the seagrass, then back to the wet lab to identify what they caught and test water chemistry off the dock. Students keep a field journal, and the day counts toward Florida middle and high school science service hours.
What you'll do
- Pull a plankton tow from the research boat
- Identify invertebrates from a seagrass seine net
- Test salinity and dissolved oxygen on the dock
- Meet a working marine biologist in the wet lab
- Finish a field journal you keep
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Venue
Mote Marine Laboratory — Education Dock
1600 Ken Thompson Pkwy, Sarasota, FL 34236
Organizer
Mote Marine Laboratory — Education
Sarasota, Florida