Bayville Primary School

Locust Valley High School students will soon be relaxing on the many beautiful beaches on the north shore of Long Island, but in late May many of them did their part to keep those beaches clean in partnership with local environmental organization, Friends of the Bay.

The 31 students spent the day at Stehli Beach in Bayville, where the group collected trash to help get the beach ready for the summer season. Assisted by their teacher, Donna Fredericks, and Friends of the Bay program coordinator Marianna Eades, the students also collected water data using chemical indicator tests and air quality data using a multipurpose digital sensor. They practiced ecology fieldwork techniques that are used to collect data about the distribution of species along the intertidal zone of a rocky beach.