Terrestrial Projects

Marine Projects: Point Defiance Beach Organisms

To emphasize the connection between the sciences, a companion project to the “Point Defiance Park geology” is "Point Defiance park beach organisms," which focuses on marine biodiversity. We plan to work with students from the General Ecology (Bio 211) and Marine Biology (Bio 477) courses to examine marine diversity within 1 m x 1m quadrats at random intervals along a beach transect. Images of the quadrats will be georeferenced and then analyzed for species present, number of motile species, and percent cover of immotile species. The following map displays some the organisms students may encounter when conducting this project.	View Map
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Webpage and project content by: Dr. Joel Elliott, University of Puget Sound, Department of Biology Liz Fly, University of Puget Sound, Department of Biology Erin Spear, University of Puget Sound, Department of Biology This project is funded by the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium and the University of Puget Sound . jkelliott@ups.edu \| lfly@ups.edu \| Send Feedback!