Straight from the (Sea)Horse's Mouth: Student Blogs from Millport

I posted a short blog this morning about the Marine Biology field trip that I was teaching on last week, but I didn't give much detail about what the students were actually learning, because I thought it would be much more interesting to hear it from them.

Such enthusiasm!

Over the course of the week, the students kept group blogs about what they were up to and any cool observations they made during the week. There are 14 of them in total, and there are new posts going up all the time now that we're back in the land of working internet access, and you can find them all at:

www.mfestudentblogX.wordpress.com

Just replace the "X" in the url with any number between 1 and 14 (e.g. www.mfestudentblog1.wordpress.com) and you should find yourself reading about some interesting coastal science!

Be warned though, there are a LOT of puns!

Solar Eclipse!

Today we had the most complete solar eclipse over Scotland in 50 years and it was... cloudy. Luckily, the weather-gods were smiling over Millport and there was enough of a break in the clouds around the peak moment that it was possible to see (and photograph) what was going on! As always, click on the images below to see a larger version.

The eclipse over the Clyde

The "peak" moment of the eclipse.

So that's it. This is the only solar eclipse we'll see over the Clyde for another 85 years!