Students of Summerville Elementary participated in L.A.M.P.S. activities last night at their STEAM Fest! 

We had another great day of data collection yesterday! Check out what we found of the mudflat yesterday! 

Gracilaria collection is not just happening on the mudflat at Fort Johnson. Dr. Sotka has traveled to Japan in order to collect samples and conduct research. Stay tuned for updates!

It was a beautiful day to sample this past Monday. While out in the field, we spotted a live moon snail! 

Moon snails  are predatory sea snails. They prey mostly on bivalves like clams, but they will also eat almost any other shelled mollusk they encounter, including other moon snails! 

Have you ever seen a shell on the beach with a perfect hole in? Great for making necklaces right? Believe it or not those holes are created by moon snails! Moon snails will drill holes through shells using its radula (kind of like a tongue) and secreting acids.  

Lab meetings are an important part of science life.  They are a way for lab-mates to catch up and discuss current and future projects, as well as meet new prospective lab members.

Thanks East Cooper Montessori for all of your data submissions lately! Keep up the great work! 

We had another great day of surveying! Check out our image gallery for this month's quadrat pictures! 

Over the past month, 21 elementary schools across the state of SC have been exposed to L.A.M.P.S. and scientific inquiry activities in the classroom!