Office of Professional & Continuing Education

The School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, The Fisheries Learning Center and Dauphin Island Discovery Hall Programs have partnered and are offering Coastal Fisheries Camp. This camp will be held on the Dauphin Island Sea Lab campus at Dauphin Island, Alabama. Dauphin Island is a barrier island a short distance off the Alabama gulf coast, south of Mobile, AL.

There will be no transportation from Auburn University. Camp begins and ends at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.

The Coastal Fisheries Camp is a fun and intense 5-day academic camp that introduces high school students to the marine environment. The camp is designed to give students a better understanding and appreciation of the various fields in marine science.

Students will stay in the dorms on the Dauphin Island Sea Lab campus and participate in a variety of activities academic activities. Students will have the opportunity to observe and work with plankton nets, seine nets, water sampling bottles, refractometers and water quality test kits and other equipment. They will also collect and identify marine species from various habitats, participate in lab and field discussions, all under the guidance of award winning marine and aquatic educators from Auburn University and Dauphin Island Sea Lab.

Topics covered will include Barrier Island Formation and Ecology, Beach and Dune Ecology, Human Interactions with the Marine Environment, Estuarine Ecology, Marine Invertebrates, Plankton Communities, Principles of Oceanography, Salt Marsh Ecology, Marine Botany and Marine Vertebrates.

A great deal of time will be spent in the field, exploring and examining different marine communities. Field activities include the exploration of a salt marsh community, beach profiling, and trawling aboard the Dauphin Island Sea Lab's 65-foot research vessel, the R/V Alabama Discovery.

The camp is open to rising 10th-12th grade students.