Project Oceanography

== My Connection to this Place ==
Project O was a common field trip location for me since i was in Marine Biology classes. I went here on field trips since i was in Grade School in Preston. We would always go out on the boat during school and go fishing. We'd use the big net from the boat. It catch and bring up so many spider crabs and flounder. I loved catching lobsters for my teacher's class. We'd always catch stuff, then learn about them. The workers at Project O were always nice and friendly. They always knew their stuff. They'd also hold seal watches and water measuring like salinity and temperature. Also bird watching was common during Bald Eagle season. Learing the info on the sound was very interesting and i loved it. 
Project O definately should be most school's go to for marine sciences.
== What They Do ==
Project O is a Marine Biology based laboratory for schools to visit and learn from. Usually schools have field trips here to have the students learn basic biology and behavior of the ocean and its habitats. They also study the coastal regions connected to the water. 
Most field trips occur on the boat, when the staff bring the students out into the Long Island Sound. They throw the nets out and measure the amount of plankton in the water. Plankton are the microscopic or barley visible tiny creatures that flat with the water. These are animals and plants. They also catch lobsters if the season is right. We always caught some to take back to the classroom at NFA. The marine biology teacher has tanks in his room that the students study in class. We always took something back. Of fish, the most common was the fluke/flounder, but others were porgys, and sea-robins. We always cought hundreds of spider-crabs. We would measure them, the either release them, or take them to school. 
Project O also does water testing, where the students learned how to measure the water. These were either temperature, salinity, water quality, and planktonic creatures. 
We also did a seashell and sea worms catch. 
They also during the winter commonly did a seal watch. We'd go on the boat to see all the seals visiting the area.
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