Meet The Team

Hi.

My name is Phillip Turner. I am a freshmen Accounting/ Business management major in the Corps of Cadets. I be researching Pytoplankton for the group and i have selected Smooth Cordgrass (picture to the left ). Marsh Orach are also know was Spartina Alterniflora Lois, they can grow up to 6 to 80 in. They are usually found high land and the low of the salt marsh.

helpful links

Salt Marsh & SMooth Grass

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SPAL

http://des.nh.gov/organization/commissioner/pip/publications/wd/documents/wd-04-19.pdf

http://www.edc.uri.edu/restoration/html/gallery/plants/smooth.htm

http://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/pg_spal.pdf

Group Member: Brett Sewing

Hello my name is Brett Sewing. I am freshman civil engineering major in the corps as well as playing Lacrosse. I will research an invertebrate, specifically the fiddler crab, which are often found in salt marshes. The male fiddler crab is most well known for its completely disproportional claws, the bigger being used to find food, fight other males, and attract mates, while the other is used to pick up food.

Fiddler Crab:

photo:http://www.peconicestuary.org/PhotoContest.html

fiddler crab info:

1) http://pelotes.jea.com/fidcrab.htm

2) http://www.chesapeakebay.net/fiddler_crab.htm

salt marsh info:

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Salt_marsh

Group member : Tom Stanley

Hello everyone,

My name is Tom Stanley and I am a business management/accounting major, freshman in the corps. I will be researching a zooplankton, which is snail larvae. Snail larvae, which is a gastropod larvae is a type of zooplankton that is common in salt marshes and will eventually develop into a snail.

Snail Larvae:

Salt Marsh information:

http://www.dep.state.fl.us/coastal/habitats/saltmarshes.htm

Early Development of Snails:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10074/

Picture from:

http://woodringsimulacra.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/snail-larva/

Ebook Refrence:

Johnson, William S. "Zooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts". Google Books. JHU. Electronic.

Norwich GL111 Term Project Introductions

As part of our Introduction to Oceanography class this Spring 2011 semester at Norwich University, our group will be researching and presenting on plants and animals that live in an ecosystem called a 'Salt Marsh'.

We have four group members:
Brett Sewing, Phillip Turner, Brandon Stubbs, and Tom Stanley

Each member of our group will be reporting on a different marine organism that lives in the rocky shore ecosystem. One will be a zooplankton, one a phytoplankton, one a marine invertebrate, and one a marine vertebrate.

As part of an integrated approach, we will be researching how our organisms interact with the other aspects of the ocean system (geological, physical, and chemical).

***Note to groups:

Once you have accepted the invitation to join this blog, I will check back and grant you admin permissions, you will then be able to edit this post to include your name in one of the placeholders above. (You will also all be able to edit the same post - to add your individual information -- for future assignments).

Your next task is to comment on this post (after you click 'publish post', then click 'view post' and a comment box will be available). Your comment should introduce yourself in more detail, say what you would like, but be sure to at least include your year and major. Also say which marine organism you will be investigating.

Finally, the last person to add should delete these instructions.

Hi, my name is Brandon Stubbs. I am from Dunstable, Mass. and am an Environmental Science major here at Norwich. I am a Marine Corps option and I also play lacrosse here for the Cadets. My topic of study in the salt marsh ecosystem are the vertebrates, with an added focus on the Diamondback Terrapin.