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Taking A Local Look At Science
The students traveled to the laboratory located in Old Field, New York to learn about the history, biology, and geology of the area.
From Three Village Central School District: Three Village Central School District’s R.C. Murphy Junior High School’s Earth SMART classes recently took their learning outside of the classroom and participated in an interactive program call the Flax Pond Marine Lab through Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Department.
For the project, the students traveled to the laboratory located in Old Field, New York to learn about the history, biology, and geology of the area. According to their website “The Flax Pond Marine Lab is an active research and instructional facility involved in investigating fundamental problems affecting marine fisheries on regional and national scales. The lab is located at Flax Pond, a 0.6 km² preserve that encompasses an entire tidal wetland area." During their visit, students spent some time in the marsh learning about the ecology and then went inside the lab to learn about what experiments were currently being conducted at the facility, including how temperature affects the growth of blue shelled crab among others. Additionally, the students spent some time on the stream table to learn about erosion and how water moves the soil.
Photo courtesy of the Three Village Central School District
