Having only completed two weeks of class I have had the pleasant surprise of learning how hands-on the classes at JCU are. Despite the some 20,000 students the university plays host to, they somehow manage to give the classes, or at least the upper level classes, an element of experiential learning. I have so far been on a field trip to a prawn farm where we gathered samples from the ponds to test water quality as well as done a lab in which we got to age fish by counting the annuli in their otoliths, something I have very much been keen to do since starting on my path to be a fish biologist. Additionally, tomorrow I will be going on another field trip, this time out in Cleveland Bay, to look at the effectiveness of bycatch reduction devices used in prawn fisheries.
Having only completed two weeks of class I have had the pleasant surprise of learning how hands-on the classes at JCU are. Despite the some 20,000 students the university plays host to, they somehow manage to give the classes, or at least the upper level classes, an element of experiential learning. I have so far been on a field trip to a prawn farm where we gathered samples from the ponds to test water quality as well as done a lab in which we got to age fish by counting the annuli in their otoliths, something I have very much been keen to do since starting on my path to be a fish biologist. Additionally, tomorrow I will be going on another field trip, this time out in Cleveland Bay, to look at the effectiveness of bycatch reduction devices used in prawn fisheries.
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