Activities in the Centre : In the Centre students are able to spend time observing the live animals in the aquaria. They work in pairs or groups on a number of practical activities based around their focus topic. Each activity usually takes approximately 15 - 20 minutes. Some examples of activities are:
- Adaptations - vertebrate and invertebrate
- Classification - between and within phyla
- Legal Size Limits for recreational fishing
- Feeding relationships
- Plankton survey
- Marine Protected Areas
- Biodiversity Survey
- Pollution
.............. and many more!
Activities on the RV Penghana
Whilst out on the R.V. Penghana students work in groups to collect and compare information from a number of sites with varying depths, varying exposure to environmental conditions or varying degrees of human influence
The boat is equipped to collect data about :
- Temperature
- Salinity
- Turbidity
- Dissolved oxygen levels
- Weather conditions
- Sediment types
- Benthic populations
We are also able to take small groups to Snake Island to study foreshore populations