Last Saturday June 13th, members of the AFS subunit volunteered at the 30th annual St. Mary's Country Crab Festival on behalf of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratories. When we weren't touring around to stalls with hot dogs, ice creams, and crabs by the dozen, we were stationed at the CBL booth, offering kids the opportunity to see a plastic model crab, learn how to tell a male and female crab apart, assemble a puzzle of local fish species, or come face to face with a juvenile crab, extracted the day before from the bay itself. These were among those collected by PhD student Hillary Lane as part of her ongoing project to study the effects of pH and salinity on their development.See below for some more photos of the event including children enjoying the displays and the final crab race of the evening. A big thank you to the organizers of the Crab Festival, the Leonardtown Lions Club for allowing some of our members to come out to their event and help support science education and outreach:
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