The Huntsman is an education
and research organization
here on the east coast of Canada.
The education is for high school
and elementary school.
We have universities
and adult groups come to
do programs with us,
learning biology through their
hands on animals.
Sometimes we’re told that we’re the
best kept secret in eastern Canada.
We go out on the boat along
where we find — we collect
organisms from the bottom
of the bay.
What we did this morning is
we took half of them out
on the boat to collect the subtidal
creatures, to show them
what the plankton is, how we sample
the marine environment, and
then the other half was back in
the lab looking at the plankton
and seeing what is in
a drop of water.
A lot of people think that, to
study marine biology,
we need to go to warmer climates.
But here, in the Bay of Fundy,
because of the high tides we have,
we have a vast diversity of
organisms that are here to be
studied and to learn about
and to have an appreciation for.
