🐣 LEVEL I: BON PORTAGE 🌿

About

July 27-30
4 days, staying in cabins overnight
Bon Portage Island (the Evelyn and Morrill Richardson Field Station in Biology)
12 seats
Pay-what-you-can
Drop-off/pick-up times and locations to be determined
No prior knowledge needed

Bon Portage Island (also known as Outer Island) is located 20 minutes south of Barrington.

Activities

Taking a boat, we’ll travel 3 km to and from Bon Portage Island off of the Shag Harbour wharf
Assisting female biologists from Acadia University with their Leach’s storm petrel (a small grey seabird) conservation research, we’ll help “grub” the adult and petrel chicks from theirs nests to take different measurements of their health and growth
Doing a marine pollution workshop, we’ll learn about how pollution affects marine animals, and how we can reduce our consumption of single-use plastics
Collecting plastic waste that has washed ashore on the Island, we’ll do a chemistry experiment
Setting fish traps in the Island’s saltwater ponds, we’ll collect and measure the small fish and learn about basic data collection
Coding on computers, we’ll learn how to make graphs that visualize wildlife data
Hiking across the Island, we’ll learn about edible plants and the Island’s biodiversity
Learning about careers in wildlife conservation and what it’s like to study wildlife conservation at college and university
And more!

Eligibility

This program is open to girls and under-represented genders ages 12-15 who live in the Maritime provinces (NB, NS, PEI). Participants from other areas are welcome to apply for our wait list.