|
|
Each
summer ODU's
Sea Camp
participants visit CQFE for lessons in fish ecology and
management. The
Special thanks to
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. |
|
|
||