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UW GEAR UP Summer Institute 2007
"Get Hooked on Fishery Sciences!"
JISAO hosted two science workshops for GEAR UP in summer 2007 along with its NOAA and University of Washington partners. The Summer Learning Lab and Experience College Life Workshops were titled "Get Hooked on Fishery Sciences!" and the pictures tell the story of how much fun the students had learning.
GEAR UP students put on latex gloves and worked with frozen fish specimens to identify the differences between flatfish, rockfish, and salmon. In addition, students learned how to tell the six species of salmon found in Washington State apart by studying their different characteristics. They then conducted a mock fish population survey for the Puget Sound, California Current and Bering Sea
JISAO and NOAA fisheries biologists talked about their research in the Gulf of Alaska and UW graduate students shared stories about their research and the types of classes they take.
To round out the workshop, GEAR UP students toured the UW Fish Collection where they where shown several species of preserved fish including the deep-sea monster known as the anglerfish. Here's a picture of an anglerfish.
The science workshops—co-sponsored by JISAO and the NOAA Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center in partnership with the UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, the UW Fish Collection, and the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center—were attended by over sixty middle and high school students from around Washington State.
