ODU Sea Camp 2009

Reading otoliths under a microscope

Volunteers to extract otoliths from a fish

Reading otoliths

Reading scales on a microfiche reader

Watching scales being prepared for pressing and reading

Sea Camp 2008

Lab Manager Hank Liao explaining the work done at CQFE.

Lab Tech Billy Culver shows how to press scales.

Senior Lab Tech Tina Morgan demonstrates sectioning otoliths.

Doctoral student Stacy Beharry explains fish processing.

Stacy begins checking fish sex and reproductive stage.

Stacy removes an otolith.

Hank demonstrates how to age a fish by its scales.

Scale ageing practice.

Stacy watches as an otolith is removed.

An otolith successfully removed.

A properly pressed fish scale.

Billy monitors thermopressing of fish scales.

Looking at black drum otolith sectons.

More otolith section observations.

Doctoral students Joey Ballenger and Stacy Beharry along with Post-Doctoral Researcher Jason Schaffler (in back in orange shirt) answering questions.