At 6:00 this morning, the group met at the Stanford University Hopkins Marine Laboratory to go "tide pooling" or "collecting" at low tide. During our PM lecture session last night, Gilly (Dr. William Gilly, neurobiologist extraordinaire and international man of mystery) walked us through the fundamentals of the tides and introduced us to some of the flora and fauna that we would encounter on our intertidal experience today.
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| Sea Star! |
Roundabouts 6:27 (low tide), we hopped in the drink for an extremely hands-on experience with the tidal invertebrates... "stay low and go slow" was the guiding theme of our maiden voyage across the pools. Close encounters of the anemone, nudibranch, snail, crab, fish, eel, tunicate, sea hare, barnacle, limpet, abalone, sea star, etc. were had, and in great plentitude. The density and complexity of life in the pools was truly overwhelming... one of my colleagues drew a parallel between examining the tidal pool and performing close readings of literary texts--very apt! Following our tidal explorations, we attended a brief lecture on the history of the Hopkins Marine Station and the evolution of Monterey Aquarium given by Dr. Stephen Palumbi, the current director at Hopkins.
At 12:00 we met for a "behind the scenes tour" of the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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| Morning on the pools... |
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| After the tide comes back in... |
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| Diversity and density of life... |
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| Sea Hare! |
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| Collecting like Ricketts! |
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The fruits of our labor!
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