Merrymeeting Bay / Kennebec Estuary Research Program (Bowdoin)

Introductory Environmental Studies ES 101

As part of our introductory Environmental Studies class, we have a day long field trip out to a set at Merrymeeting Bay - Swan Island or Bowdoinham Wildlife Refuge. It is ES students first chance to experience Merrymeeting Bay as part of a day long lab exercise looking at water quality and vegetation studies at the two sites.

Bowdoinham Wildlife Refuge Field Trip - Fall 2005

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Identifying aquatic invertebrates	Identifying aquatic invertebrates

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Water sampling - Merrymeeting Bay	Field sampling - insects

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Taking soil core samples	Exhausted from a full day of field sampling

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Class presentations	sampling for aquatic invertebrates - Merrymeeting Bay

Field Trip to Swan Island - Fall 2004

Water Quality sampling	Water Quality sampling

Water quality sampling - Kennebec River	IFW truck transports students to field sites

Insect sampling and identification	Lunch break

Soil core analysis	Soil core analysis