{"id":8064,"date":"2024-07-09T04:14:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/?p=8064"},"modified":"2024-07-09T04:14:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T04:14:15","slug":"day-16-projects-and-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/day-16-projects-and-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 16: Projects and Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Westcott Bay Shellfish Company:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who didn\u2019t need to start their research project piled into the vans for a trip to Westcott Bay Shellfish. As the name implies, they grow shellfish, mainly Pacific Oysters but also a few types of clams, mussels, and even Olympia Oysters. Today, we got a tour of the facility from Chaz who told us all about the history of the Westcott Bay Shellfish Company. We learned the company started farming oysters in the late 70s. Chaz also told us about how oyster farming isn\u2019t the easiest as it involves a lot of strategic planning. Growing these oysters is very difficult due to the high mortality rate. To account for this, Chaz and his team change the \u201ccages\u201d of the oysters every six months, checking sizes and overall health. Chaz also discussed how harmful algal blooms (HABs) are monitored. Every week, the company sends in mussels for science to test for neurotoxins and bacteria. Luckily, the Westcott Bay Shellfish Company hasn\u2019t had to shut down the company due to HABs, as the bay is pretty protected.\u00a0 After the discussion, Chaz continued his tour and showed us the equipment that is used to collect and store the shellfish. At the end of the tour, we were able to check out the same and larger oysters that were gonna be shucked today! We are extremely grateful to the Westcott Bay Shellfish Company for allowing us to tour their establishment and telling us the intricacies of shellfish farming.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Westcott Bay Shellfish Company: https:\/\/www.westcottbayshellfish.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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-Photo credits to Soren<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cattle Point:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To complete their research projects, many people traveled to different parts of the island to collect data and specimens. Today, Sam and Gretchen needed their respective data from Cattle Point: Sam searched for red sponge nudibranchs, while Gretchen set out to complete a survey on mossy chitons and the algae surrounding them. Unfortunately, the trip was unsuccessful, as Sam only found 2 of his 8 needed nudibranchs. Thankfully, Gretchen made some ground on her research on mossy chitons as she managed to find 10 chitons in her survey of the intertidal zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Credit to Gretchen, in the picture above there, are 4 Mossy Chitons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eagle Cove: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cassandra and Jeff drove the gang over to Eagle Cove, where we all bathed in the sun and played in the water. Matt and Sid cut up Bull Kelp to create horns and played notes together, and even attracted a couple of folks asking how to do it. Max, Nina, and Scarlett took a paddleboard out into the water and had some fun, and Sam, Katie, and Ansuya had a blast reading. When it was time to head out, everyone gathered their stuff and made it back up the big hill. Everyone was sad to leave their Bullhorns and reading perches, but we all piled back into the vans to meet Finlee, Caleb, and Gretchen back at home, as they had been hard at work at FHL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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-Photo credits to Morgan, in the middle is Cara, and off to the right is Soren jumping into the waves<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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-Photo credits to Morgan, in the picture is Cara playing in the sand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trivia: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group ended the night with an exhilarating trivia game at JP\u2019s. We had to split up into three teams because we were too big of a group: the Chill Pickles (Caleb, Nina, Soren, Ben, Katie, Gretchen, and Finlee), HABs (Scarlett, Sam, Ansuya, Max, Flora, and Tatum), and Brevetoxins (Sid, Ian, Matt, Tyler, Morgan, Claudia, Cassandra, and Cara) We even got our own category! The science directors, Adam, Emma, and Riley banded together to create a super-team, and in the end, Adam led his team to victory with a second-place tiebreaker, a quick bowling match.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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-Photo credits to Max, in the picture is Adam about to lead his team the Chase Fan Club to the victory of second place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Westcott Bay Shellfish Company: Those who didn\u2019t need to start their research project piled into the vans for a trip to Westcott Bay Shellfish. As the name implies, they grow shellfish, mainly Pacific Oysters but also a few types of clams, mussels, and even Olympia Oysters. Today, we got a tour of the facility from Chaz who told us all about the history of the Westcott Bay Shellfish Company. We learned the company started farming oysters in the late 70s. Chaz also told us about how oyster farming isn\u2019t the easiest as it involves a lot of strategic planning. Growing these oysters is very difficult due to the high mortality … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8067,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions\/8067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}