Lobsters and Climate Change
Overview
Investigate how the lobster population has changed in the Sound. Students will be working through a series of stations which includes a live lobster!
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June
Student Limit: Up to 25
Trip Description
Students will rotate through stations in which they examine live lobsters, practice skills related to the lobster fishery such as lobster measurement and banding, examine a lobster trap, learn about lobster life cycles, interpret data from CT DEEP and Project Oceanology on climate change and lobster populations in Long Island Sound, and create a graph based on Project Oceanology’s lobster catch dataset. We’ll end with a discussion of causes and consequences of the lobster die-off in Long Island Sound.