Greeting the grunion...
Apr. 10th, 2006 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishA co-worker in the San Diego area let us know about this project, and it sounds like fun; so I signed John and I up for a workshop to be "Grunion Greeters."
http://www.grunion.org
Basically, it's just going down to the beach during a spring tide (highest high tide - occurs at the full and dark of the moon) at night, watching grunion washing up on the beach to lay their eggs in the sand, and collecting some basic data about them, which hopefully will eventually be used in a biomass assessment. My boss and co-worker have been involved with it for several years - why didn't they tell us sooner?
Today is the last day to RSVP for the Cabrillo Aquarium workshop on Friday at 8 pm (San Pedro), if anyone here in my area is interested; all the workshops are here. Some of them have already happened though.
What the heck is a grunion, you ask? Some people think they're the Southern California version of a snipe hunt, but they do actually exist. So do snipe, for that matter...
http://arachnid.pepperdine.edu/grunion/media/slideshow.htm
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/grnindx3.html
http://www.grunion.org
Basically, it's just going down to the beach during a spring tide (highest high tide - occurs at the full and dark of the moon) at night, watching grunion washing up on the beach to lay their eggs in the sand, and collecting some basic data about them, which hopefully will eventually be used in a biomass assessment. My boss and co-worker have been involved with it for several years - why didn't they tell us sooner?
Today is the last day to RSVP for the Cabrillo Aquarium workshop on Friday at 8 pm (San Pedro), if anyone here in my area is interested; all the workshops are here. Some of them have already happened though.
What the heck is a grunion, you ask? Some people think they're the Southern California version of a snipe hunt, but they do actually exist. So do snipe, for that matter...
http://arachnid.pepperdine.edu/grunion/media/slideshow.htm
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/grnindx3.html
