June 2018

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Fifth-grader Katy Aaron and a group of classmates from Plum Cove School hoist a sail on the schooner Ardelle during a marine science field trip Wednesday in Gloucester Harbor. The students were the fifth graders from all the city's elementary schools to take the year-end sailing trip, the climax of Maritime Gloucester's Ocean Explorers program which visits all the schools throughout the year to teach students about the marine ecosystem. On Wednesday's trip, the Plum Cove fifth graders took water samples at different depths and record data on temperature, salinity and other properties.<br />
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MIKE SPRINGER/Staff photo
Fifth-grader Katy Aaron and a group of classmates from Plum Cove School hoist a sail on the schooner Ardelle during a marine science field trip Wednesday in Gloucester Harbor. The students were the fifth graders from all the city's elementary schools to take the year-end sailing trip, the climax of Maritime Gloucester's Ocean Explorers program which visits all the schools throughout the year to teach students about the marine ecosystem. On Wednesday's trip, the Plum Cove fifth graders took water samples at different depths and record data on temperature, salinity and other properties.
6/13/2018

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$MIKE SPRINGER/Staff photo<br /> Plum Cove fifth-grader Kayla Fogarty uses a refractometer to measure the salinity of seawater during a marine science field trip Wednesday on the schooner Ardelle in Gloucester Harbor. Maritime Gloucester education director Amanda Madeira, right, taught the students that salt refracts or bends light as it passes through water. By measuring the refraction, the fifth graders were able to able to measure the salt level.<br /> 6/13/2018$

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