O’Neill Sea OdysseyCommunity Service Project

Community Outreach

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O’Neill Sea Odyssey

• We learned many things while sailing on the O’Neill Sea Odyssey.

O’Neill Sea Odyssey

• Ecology Lesson: Kelp, ecosystems

O’Neill Sea Odyssey

• Navigation Lesson: talk about the radar, GPS, maps, charts, learning how to use the compass, etc.

O’Neill Sea Odyssey

• Plankton net: Talk about how you collected samples of plankton. What equipment did you use?

• What did the naturalist talk to you about?

O’Neill Sea Odyssey

• Back on shore in the lab: Talk about the watershed lesson (sprinkling different substances to represent various pollutants). Then you sprayed water on the land. What happened? Where did the water flow to?

O’Neill Sea Odyssey• Plankton: Examining the water

samples you collected. Talk about the two drops of water, what you observed, etc.

• In every drop of water since 1996, they have found plastic! The blue string-looking pieces are plastic.

• Talk about phytoplankton, the red tide, how the water color changes, etc.

• In spring and summer the water looks GREEN because the ocean “blooms”. In winter the water is a blue-green. Nature’s warning signs: RED. If there are a lot of dioflagulates, that is BAD!

O’Neill Sea Odyssey

• Navigation Lab: Talk about using the parallel rulers, mapping out our course, what the different numbers mean (FATHOMS), HS means hard sandy bottom, etc.