Intertidal Ecology Talk with Megan McOsker
March 29 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
This workshop is presented by Greenhorns and Smithereen Farm, as part of the Low Low Tides seaweed harvest workshop and educational series. For more info, please visit greenhorns.org/events.
With a focus on Evolutionary history of seaweed as the foundation of the marine food web: birds and multiple tropha of sea tiny sea creatures
Megan McOsker grew up in Rhode Island, where she spent as much time as possible in and around the ocean in the company of the coastal inhabitants such as horseshoe crabs, tautog, Irish moss,, beach grass and sea ducks. The coast of Maine is her home and is where she attended College of the Atlantic. There she studied human ecology with a focus on marine ecology, and it was there she became deeply interested in field biology. She has studied Magellanic penguin behavior in Argentina, distribution of humpback, finback, right and other whales in the North Atlantic and even did a project on acid fog. Post college she worked on ocean going vessels studying marine mammals, sea birds and eventually she started working on small passenger ships in the Antarctic, Arctic, Amazon and other locales.
Starting a family brought on a more terrestrial existence and she now has had a 15-plus-year career as a teacher, kicked off by attaining her masters of science in teaching at the University of Maine. She has taught natural history and ecology at Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki, computer science at Mt Desert Island High School and physical and life science at Conners Emerson school. During the summer months she has continued to engage in whale research, most recently working for the New England Aquarium right whale project. She has also worked at HS2, a summer program at Colorado Rocky Mountain School for talented, lower income students.. Except for Colorado, where the seaweed is only present in fossil form, she has lived a life surrounded by seaweed. Her favorite memory of kelp is watching a male orca rise up out of the giant kelp forests surrounding Sea Lion Island in the Falkland Islands.
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