[…] days before your program. Just a reminder, for sustainability reasons LiMPETS moved to a fee-based program with partial scholarships available. Scholarship requests are based on the school’s free/reduced price lunch percentages. Schools with a free/reduced price lunch of 40% or higher (and/or Title 1) will be free of charge. Fees will be per program […]
[…] teachers to improve our trainings and protocols. Our curriculum has been updated to align with Next Generation Science Standards and California state teaching standards. We’ve created a new and improved quality control plan which we are piloting this year. Increasing LiMPETS scientific rigor is a big goal of 2015! The roll-out of our new […]
[…] splash their ankles. “It’s a really wonderful investment,” said retired Modesto Junior College professor Richard Anderson, who with wife Lynn Hansen helped start the field trips. With free admission from Monterey Bay Aquarium, free training and a beach science project through the nonprofit LiMPETS, and parent and community chaperones donating their time, Anderson figures he gets […]
[…] middle dark red bar and the recruits are the light red bar on the right side of the year** At first glance, there’s not much of a pattern between the years and the numbers of crabs. But in reality there is a boom and bust pattern, which means a large population increase followed by […]
Teachers say LiMPETS aligns with new school standards
This July 2011, students from the Treasure Island Boys and Girls Club in San Francisco created a short film about the LiMPETS program. The video was created by the Watershed Video Project, a student-created video series produced by high school students. Created as an instructional video, this short 5-minute piece is both inspirational and […]
[…] program connects over 6,000 citizens annually to the ocean, involves them directly in an immersive scientific endeavor and increases their knowledge of the marine environment, creating a new generation of informed and engaged ocean stewards. Beyond the educational value of the program, the power of LiMPETS lies in the large quantity of data collected […]
[…] and it’s along certain parts of Ocean Beach. Ocean Beach isn’t only a great spot for sand crabs to find love, but it’s also a near many new Marine Protected Areas in California. The National Oceanic Administration Association informs us that California has established 120 new Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) that create safe environments […]
[…] and restore our ocean wilderness. Currently, two LiMPETS partners (Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association) have been awarded funding to support this effort. Students and LiMPETS staff are collecting new data and analyzing historic data within these new MPAs to document key aspects of these areas as they are established.
[…] wind rips across the beach, chilling the shivering O’Dowd students to the core. But there is no room for weakness. The research must be conducted at any cost. As the oceans continue to be examined, the relationship between sand crabs and sanderlings remains unclear. The two species are locked in the age-old, evolutionary battle […]
