The Aquarium Class
   Marine Science 120:  Marine Aquarium Science Class.  Spring Semester 2008 Ticket # 30057 
   Fridays, 11:00 - 12:10 a.m. + 2 hours arranged per week working in the O.C.C. Public
   Aquarium. 1 unit.  Professor Dennis Kelly

   Course Description: This is a full credit class offered through the O.C.C. Marine Science  
   Department to students interested in setting up a home aquarium, aquarium science, fish,
   shellfish, aquarium management, and careers in the aquarium field.  This class gives students
   the opportunity to work in a public aquarium with live marine organisms, as they learn the
   techniques for collecting organisms; maintaining them in captivity; feeding; cleaning; repair;
   record keeping; animal husbandry methods; disease detection, treatment, and prevention;
   water quality asssessment and management; use of state of the art instruments and equipment;
   and many other aspects of aquarium science.  Students will work with both cool temperate
   and warmer tropical water species and systems.  Students will learn how to work with others,
   collaboratively, to assure that an aquarium is run successfully.  There will be reading
   assignments, quizzes, writing assignments, field trips, work assignments, and a midterm and
   final exam.  From experience in this class students can become qualified to in a large public
   aquarium as an aquarium assistant or successfully set up, care for, and maintain persona home
   or private aquariums.  In addition to the above, some students go on to work for one of the
   several aquarium service companies or tropical fish stores in Orange County.

  
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The Peacock Mantis Shrimp
  Hemisquilla ensigra (at left)
  is one of the many colorful
  southern California marine
  animals on display at the
  O.C.C. Public Aquarium
  (above).  The mantis shrimp
  is a dangerous predator and
  kills its prey by striking with
  its unusual, folded front
  yellow arms.

  The O.C.C. Public Aquarium works with
  other institutions to further the goals of
  marine aquarium science.  One of our
  partners is the Aquarium ad Aquaculture
  Science Program at Saddleback College.
  Julie Anderson created this wonderful
  Occupational Certificate, Assoicate Degree,
  or Transfer Program over the last three
  years.  We recommend that you visit their
  website.  Click here to visit webiste:
Photo at left is of the Spring Semester 2008
  Aquarium class on their first class field trip
  - March 7, 2008 - to the Ocean Institute in
   Dana Point Harbor.  There they were given a
   tour of the aquarium systems and education
   facilities by "Jennifer" - on the the aquarium
   staff. 
MS 120 Aquarium Class field trip
  to the Ocean Institute in Dana
  Point to observe practices, the system
  of their aquarium, and speak with
  Ocean Institutes Aquarium Managers
  about how they operate this much
  larger "educational" aquarium
  operation.
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