Elementary, middle, and high school teachers from Newport News, Culpeper, Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Williamsburg, and Norfolk visited CQFE to learn how to teach their students about fish during the summer of 2002 as part of their in-service program with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.


Teachers in CQFE Laboratory

Standing [left to right]

Patty Chaney (Denbigh HS)
J. Watson Hypes (Culpeper MS)
Andrew Hawkins (Denbigh HS)
Stephen Chamberlain (Hickory HS)
Audra Hyman (Hickory HS)
Chris Nixon (Kemp's Landing Magnet School)
Debbie Pawlin (Corporate Landing MS)
Jen Krezewinski (Corporate Landing MS)
Lisa Horrell (James Blair MS)
Wendy Brenstuhl (Northside MS)
Angela Allen (Northside MS)
Justin Dewall (Deer Park ES)
Janice Wright (Deer Park ES)
Carol Bennett (Deer Park ES)
Pat Berson (Kemp's Landing Magnet School)

 Kneeling or Sitting [left to right]

Steve Bobko (CQFE Assistant Director)
Eric Robillard (CQFE Chief Lab Technician)
Kathleen McNamee (CQFE Lab Technician)
Carey Dilday (James Blair MS)
Roxanne Carter (CQFE Lab Technician)
Sharaon Scott (Hickory HS)
Ken Slazyk (Chesapeake Bay Foundation, James River Boat Program)
Lynne Schulz (Hickory HS)
Gwen Poole (Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Virginia Canoe Rig)

 

Chief Lab Tech Eric Robillard demonstrates how to cut otoliths using an ordinary pill-cutter.

Teachers read the age of fish by counting the annual rings in processed scales.

Lab Tech Kathleen McNamee helps teachers read the age of fish using processed otoliths.

Roxi shows Audra Hyman how to remove an otolith from a weakfish.

Carol Bennett tries her hand at locating an otolith in a weakfish.

Lab Tech Roxanne Carter demonstrates the procedures used in processing fish for ageing.

Roxi demonstrates how to determine the sex of a fish to Barbara Sayer of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation