Marine Conservation Society: Lancashire area group

The Marine ID course on Wednesday 9th June looked at two of the most commonly found animals in the sea – starfish and the anemones, or to get more technical, echinoderms and cnidaria. The talks looked at the characteristic features of the two groups, and were beautifully illustrated with photographs of many different species, mostly taken by the speakers in UK waters. Thanks to Gordon and Ron for a couple of excellent presentations!

Lots of interesting articles over the last week, some physiology – how sharks and seals find their food, and how far can crocodiles migrate? Prehaps my favourite was the article on classifying arrow-worms, a group I knew nothing about them before the article. There is also a nice set of maps of North Americal marine ecosystems, which you can view on Google Earth. Maps almost had a separate section this week, with 3D maps of the oil-spill being computed by the University of Texas at Austin. Unfortunately the article was so uninformative that I couldn’t see any point in referencing it…
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