Shark Dissection in Marine Ecology Course

Dissecting a shark has a way of commanding interest at Huntington High School where a Marine Ecology class was led through an exciting lesson by science teacher Sarah Hall this week.

The one semester, half credit course is available to Huntington sophomores, juniors and seniors who have successfully completed the Living Environment course.

“A hands-on approach with be applied to investigate various ecological relationships in the marine environment,” states the course description. “Students will actively participate in various laboratory investigations, including setting up and maintaining a marine aquarium, observing marine life and measuring physical aspects of the ocean environment.”

Marine Ecology has always been a popular course at Huntington High School. Students have long found value in it and many have gone on to pursue projects in the field in the Science Research course.

“Marine Ecology is the scientific study of marine-life habitat, populations, and interactions among organisms and the surrounding environment including their abiotic (non-living physical and chemical factors that affect the ability of organisms to survive and reproduce) and biotic factors (living things or the materials that directly or indirectly affect an organism in its environment),” according to the MarineBio website. “Marine ecology is a subset of the study of marine biology and includes observations at the biochemical, cellular, individual, and community levels as well as the study of marine ecosystems and the biosphere.”