[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Programs are scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis. Step 2: At the end of the form you will be directed to a payment page. Schools with a free/reduced-price lunch of 40% or higher (and/or Title 1) are free of charge and do not need to complete this step. For other schools, we recognize these […]
[…] 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 Isl and 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 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.
[…] 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 […]
[…] trip to Ocean Beach in San Francisco and gathering data about the local sand crabs, we wondered how many of them were “recruits,” little crabs which are new to life on the beach. How does this number change over time? Once a recruit settles on a beach, it will spend the rest of its […]
