2010 12-16

Students, pelicans, intruments, sand dollars.

A colony of 26 individual Balanus crenatus found washed up on the beach.
Balanus clump beach debris 2010 Zuma 027
Hand held compass reading 60 degrees magnetic.
compas degrees 2010 Zuma 013
Hand held compass reading 160 degrees magnetic.
compass 160 degrees 2010 Zuma 003
Hand held compass reading 275 degrees magnetic.
compass 275 degrees 2010 Zuma 008
Corvus brachyrhynchos feeding on a deceased Aechmophorus occidentalis.
Corvus brachyrhyncus eats Aechmophorus occidentalis DEC 2010 Zuma 065
Test of the Western Sand Dollar (Dendraster excentricus), aboral view.
Dendraster shell aboral CLOSE 2010 Zuma 040
Test of the Western Sand Dollar (Dendraster excentricus), oral view.
Dendraster shell oral CLOSE 2010 Zuma 047
Graduated cylinder tipped 45-degrees to slide the metal seawater hydrometer without letting it crash to the bottom.
hydrometer grad cyl tipped 2010 Zuma 071
The Kestrel 2000 thermoanemometer reading air temperature 18.1C.
Kestrel air temp 2010 Zuma 022
The Kestrel 2000 thermoanemometer reading wind speed 2.9 kts.
Kestrel kts wind 2010 Zuma 018
A flock of seven Pelecanus occidentalis riding a wave at dawn.
Pelecanus SEVEN soaring dawn wave 2010 Zuma 017
Happy face plastic beach debris.
smiley face plastic debris 2010 Zuma 034
Student researchers and a flock of Pelecanus occidentalis.
students Pelecanus 2010 Zuma 021
Student researchers identify and count species of marine birds.
students count birds wet sand 2010 Zuma 041

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