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Roll with the Sea
Working as one big team, the Collections Group led by Teresa collected water, sediment, and plankton samples for the other groups to examine.
June 16, 2019Girls Camp
A Day at the Beach
While the wind was howling in from the southwest at around 14 miles per hour, all the kayaks made fairly easy work of the trip.
June 14, 2019Girls Camp
The First Day of Camp
Oceanography Camp for Girls 2019 is finally upon us and in full swing!
June 11, 2019Girls Camp
Oceanography Camp for Girls kicks off today
The 2019 Oceanography Camp for Girls kicks off.
June 10, 2019Girls Camp
Engineering Remotely Operated Vehicles
Practicing design collaboration, communication, and some hands-on engineering skills, the ROV Lab campers got to spend a day in the life of an ocean engineer.
July 23, 2018Girls Camp
Microbiology Techniques with Ocean Critters
The girls of OCG spent two half days with the Dishaw Lab at USFSP identifying and exploring characteristics of microbes from a marine organism.
July 15, 2018Girls Camp
Remote Sensing
The first two lab days, I had four amazing campers who learned how satellites use light from the sun to make interpretations of the environment based off the surface conditions of our oceans.
July 11, 2018Girls Camp
Iron, Bubbles, Oil Spill Troubles
In the Ocean Chemistry labs, campers explored the invisible processes essential to our oceans.
July 9, 2018Girls Camp
Fish Banks: Learning about conservation
The second to last day of camp is the day of the Fish Banks game, or as I like to call it, the “Best Day of Camp”!
July 5, 2018Girls Camp
Lab Days: Fish Ecology
The girls got a crash course on the common characteristics of fishes and the important local species we have here in the Tampa Bay area.
July 2, 2018Girls Camp
Lab Days: Electron Microscopy
The objective of this lab was to explore the Ocean Microcosm using the Transmission (TEM) and Scanning Electron microscopes (SEM) and record images of some these marine microbes.
June 29, 2018Girls Camp
In the Field: Explorations on Caladesi Island
The goal of the field trip was to explore and examine the processes that shape and change barrier islands.
June 25, 2018Girls Camp