In the News - August 2008
Aquatic Sciences Day Set for September 18
PINE BLUFF, Ark. - The 7th annual University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB)
Aquatic Sciences Day for high school students is scheduled for Thursday, September
18, 9:30 a.m. - noon. The event will be held at the UAPB Aquaculture/Fisheries
Center Research station, behind the Agricultural Research Center off Oliver Road.
High school students will experience a fun and educational day of biology,
chemistry, engineering, mathematics and nutrition through hands-on activities
related to aquaculture and fisheries, in an outdoor setting. This is also a
great opportunity to learn about careers and education in the field of
aquaculture and fisheries.
This year's program features eight new learning stations bringing the total
to 21. Each learning station is tied directly into the content strands of the
Curriculum Framework for various subjects. Most of the activities at the
learning stations will be continuous and interactive. Among the new
demonstrations are fish metabolism, growing fish in recirculating systems
instead of ponds, tools and techniques to determine the age of a fish, types and
habitats of Arkansas turtles, and luminescent fish - glowing fish that live in
the deepest parts of the ocean. Find out how their lights work, how they find
mates and avoid predators.
Other demonstrations will present the tools and techniques used by fisheries
biologists to sample and evaluate lakes, streams, and rivers, water chemistry,
fish trivia, and the harvest of an aquaculture pond.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's traveling aquarium will also be on
site to display some fish native to Arkansas' rivers and lakes.
For more information and/or to sign up to your school to attend, contact
Cassandra Hawkins-Byrd at (870) 575-8123 or
cbyrd@uaex.edu.
August 22, 2008
By: Carol Sanders
Writer/editor
UAPB School of Agriculture
Fisheries and Human Sciences
(870) 575-7238
sanders_c@uapb.edu
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