This file has been started to present some of the information we have accumulated on the pool in order to stimulate students to raise further questions and devise problems that can be investigated at the pool. It is also intended to be part of a cumulative digital legacy that those examining the pool can pass on to future students. A characteristic of the pool that is significant is that it is deeper than most of the other pools and it provides good variations in stratification of temperature and salinity.
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- Surface area calculation.Meter stick is shown. This pool has low species diversity, with only those vertebrates shown below occurring in the species count.
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- Environmental Systems class 2000 . On the right are some of the species found in the pool: amphipods, harpacticoids and the odd littorine snail.
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- Matt and Hugo and members of the environmental system class try to film the harpacticoids in the pool.
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- The profile of the pool.
Some ideas to consider:
The stratification of Salinity and Temperature in this pool is quite distinct. More work could be done in gathering seasonal records of this. Also, the main organisms, harpacticoids are abundant in the late spring and summer. It may be interesting to identify their source of food, probably diatoms that form a thin layer on the walls. Since the pool only receives new salt water occasionally, temperatures can fluctuate. The pool is however usually shaded by the rock cliff to the South.