Experiments

The Three Seas Program offers a number of opportunities to design and execute an experiment of your choosing. In the Experimental Design & Analysis class, we get to run a two month long experiment determining if crab cues have an effect on snail behavior with both low and high resources. The experiment is certainly dirty and tedious, but the results could be well worth it. If our results prove to be mind-blowingly cool, then we can publish them in a scientific journal.

Our set up

Happy crabs!

I really enjoy the hands-on experience we are gaining from the class because it shows how in depth a simple experiment can be: from going out into the field and collecting animals, to maintaining and altering the experiment, as well as analyzing and presenting all the data collected. We all are truly learning how messy, but fun marine biology can be. The class also really prepares you as a scientist to be ready to take on and complete an experiment by yourself.