1. Marine Science Field Trip Introduction

2. Stockton Marine Science and Environmental Field Station
Located off of the Mullica River
Mullica River empties into the Great Bay
The Great Bay empties into the Atlantic Ocean

3. Designated as the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JCNERR)
NOAA funded program
Designated in October of 1997

4. My Position (1996) Faculty support Facility management
co-teach in field and laboratory
Support research/courses in general
Facility management
Scheduling
Maintenance
Purchasing
Director of marine operations
Safety program
Dive program

5. Boating Safety – year round
Medical needs – must inform me
Eat properly day of trip
Non-swimmers?
Other concerns?
Boarding a boat – carefully
While underway – PFD’s on
Getting off the boat
To assist or not to assist…fending off, etc.?
Questions?

6. Your experience... Unique undergraduate experience Get involved
Ask questions
Use each piece of equipment
Form partnerships
Record data in pencil, use a clipboard/rubber band
Consider classroom knowledge while afield

7. Experience continued…
Act responsibly
You can lose field privileges
Negatively affect you overall course grade
This experience will get you jobs…
Field Station
RUMFS
NJDEP
Summer and year-round positions, resume builders

8. Activities… Boating experience in general Environment experience
Seining
Trawling
Water quality sampling
Sediment sampling
Plankton community sampling

9. Seining…

13. Trawling…

17. Field work, equipment and other hazards
Be wary of equipment on deck
Strain on anchor and trawl lines
Entanglement
Bottom grabs – wear gloves
Seining – wear shoes/booties/waders
Formaldehyde – gloves/goggles
Handling fish – some w/ hard spines

18. Field Station facilities
Teaching laboratory
Faculty research spaces
Aquaculture laboratory
Dry lab/physical science lab
Repair facilities
Offices of Manager and CRC
Waterfront mooring for R/V’s

26. Personal equipment/clothing
Weather – highly variable
Early season – dress light colored clothes, be prepared to get wet
Later season – consider waders, warmer clothes
Sunblock – even when cloudy
Bug spray
Water/food

28. Other important knowledge
Where you are
Travel from Nacote Creek – Mullica River - across Great Bay
Little Egg Inlet area
Little Egg Harbor Bay
Back Brigantine Bays
Up rivers – Mullica, Bass and Wading
Communication
VHF radio – field station/USCG, Ch 82
Cell Phone – boat cell phone has list of important numbers

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