Partnership takes student science to the beach - Northwest Treaty Tribes

Partnership takes student science to the beach - Northwest Treaty Tribes

When two Pioneer Middle School students picked their way across the tidelands of Little Skookum Inlet earlier this year, they were conducting an experiment—to see if they could protect oysters from heat exposure during low tides in the summer. The students were retrieving oyster bags they’d designed, which also had temperature-measuring devices that would tell them if the bags worked. The experiment—undertaken at Little Skookum Shellfish Growers…