Each summer the College of Marine Science hosts the Oceanography Camp for Girls, which is a three-week long camp for girls entering the ninth grade. During those three weeks the girls learn about the different aspects of the marine world. In weeks two and three the girls are separated into small groups and sent to different labs throughout the college. For two days each week the girls are scientists in these labs, learning about what the lab focuses on and doing experiments with some of the graduate students. At the end of the camp the girls prepare a presentation about their research experience, which they present in an assembly for the other campers and their parents. The Marine Microbiology lab is one of the labs that participate in this learning experience.
A camper from the 2004 program prepares to make a viral slide.
The 2003 campers preparing viral lysates while two graduate students look on.
Girls from the 2004 camp learned how to correctly identify samples for later
examination.
Participants sample from the natural environment to determine and understand the
different organisms in seawater.
Two attached diatoms surrounded by viruses and bacteria prepared by campers
who sampled from Bayboro Harbor.
Karenia brevis under Nomarski interference microscopy prepared by campers in 2003.
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