Good morning New York! After making it through the rollie pollie waters off the coast of New Jersey, we woke up to beautiful blue sky and the skyline of New York City in the distance. Right after breakfast as we passed the Statue of Liberty in all her glory, we got to the fun stuff: trawling on the East River (Bay Ridge Flats to be exact). The trawl brought up a bunch of cool critters: crabs, flounder, fish, conches and even a big skate! The students spent a chunk of time ID'ing the critters to put into our official logs so we can report the species and species count numbers back to the state. After ID'ing all the critters and learning a bit about their biology from Sarah, we let them all go back to their watery home of the East River.

The students checking out what we caught in the trawl and ID'ing the critters!