Cruise off Long Beach Harbor, Los Angeles Co., California on R/V Yellowfin

Spring, 2003 (February 21)

On board the Yellowfin	Preparing Van Veen Grab	Field notes
Calling all mud fans	Smile Class	Taking a close look
Sifting soft bottom sample	Shoshanna, Brian, and Dennis	Rock (or biological) dredge
Dredge rock with hydroids	Octopus sp.	Heart urchin (Lovenia cordiformis)
A deeper rock dredge	More dredged rocks	Mediaster aequalis
Luidia foliolata	Henrica sp.	small chiton and bryozoans
Small chiton	Small chiton	Small chiton
Chiton and calyptraeid snail	Chiton and Ophiodermella ophioderma	Niveotectura funiculata
Crassispira semiinflata	Bursa californica	Seastar, B. californica, Chaetopterus
Chiton expert, Roger Clark	Nichole, Brian, Matt, Kathy	Dr. Jim McLean
Pulling in otter trawl	Waiting for the critters	Here they come!
Emptying the net	The animals	Roger and hornyhead turbot
Sea cucumber	Fossil (?) Cryptochiton tail valve	Dr. McLean is the snail expert
Roughback sculpin	California skate	Cruisin' back to port

Spring, 2002 (February 22)

On board the Yellowfin	Our class	Leaving San Pedro
Not bad aft either	California sea lions	Sampling mud: Van Veen grab
Sifting soft bottom sample	Rock (biological) dredge	Dredged critters
Variety of snails, etc.	Polychaete sea mouse	Seastars, worms, snails, etc.
Another snail image	Gorgonian (sea fan)	Creeping California cone snail
Consulting the field guide	Rock dredge demo	Danger: Gulls overhead
What's next?	Chillin' with the guys	Smooth ride today
Taking notes	Large hermit crab	Brown pelican
First Mate and Skipper	Octopus	Releasing octopus
Oriental shrimp	Rock crab	Kellet's whelk
Cloudy bubble snail & eggs	Pisaster brevispinus starburst	Pisaster oral view
Zooplankton tow	Western gulls	Greeting Committee

View images from other Field Marine Biology (Biol. 317) or Invertebrate Zoology (Biol. 461) dredge trips: - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

Most images by D.J. Eernisse © 2002-2003; Some by R.N. Clark © 2003 as noted on the individual image page