Viewfinder: Full Moon Aids In Wetlands Studies

Laleh Karimi and Peggy Bell, teachers at Ryerson School, brought their fourth grade students to Circle Beach on a field trip at the end of the school year to cap of their wetlands studies where the students learned about the salt marsh ecosystem and tagged horshoe crabs.

Madison Beach and Recreation Department field studies instructors Donna Dione and Juli Ainsworth were on hand to guide them in their studies as they have been doing with other Madison elementary school students. The full moon high tide helped move the horseshoe crabs close in making it easy to catch a number of specimens.

Each class rotated between catching and tagging horshoe crabs and studies on the salt marsh ecosystem during and managed to have some fun too.