Catalina Environmental Leadership Program

What we learned

Giant Brown Pelican

A Giant Brown Pelican is a huge bird. The most amazing fact about the Giant Brown Pelican is that its mouth can hold up to three gallons of water and its stomach can only hold one. So when it swoops down and grabs the fish, it releases the excess water into the ocean.

From: CELP

By: Vasisht and Matt

• A brown pelican’s pouch can hold up to 3 gallons of water, when it’s stomach can only hold one.

• Source: Catalina Environmental Leadership Program

Mia MirzayanandMolly Mittelberg

Kelp Bass

Kelp Bass love to eat Two Spotted Octopus. However, one Kelp Bass cannot attack it by itself. When one sees one, it stares at it intently. More come and stare until there are enough. Next, they ambush the Two Spotted Octopus.

From: CELP

Norris Top Snail

The Norris Top Snail is a very interesting specimen. It loves to eat kelp. So what the Norris Top Snail does is it goes to the bottom of the kelp and slowly but surely eats its way up to the top. When it gets to the top, it drops down and floats to the sea floor and starts over again.

Garibaldi Baby Garibaldi are bright

blue when they are adults the turn orange, so if a baby is going in to an adults territory they know that they are just babies .

Adult Garibaldi

Sources http://whozoo.org/Anlife2002/johnengl/JDE_Garibaldi2.htm http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo

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Between Baby and Adult Garibaldi

By: Hannah Lam

Garibaldi

When a garibaldi is a juvenile, it is electric blue. The blue warns the adults that they are just babies, so the adults don’t get territorial around them. As they grow up to a “teenager”, they become orange with blue spots. Then when they are adults they become fully orange.

By: Kanako and Kallie

Source: CELP

BY HELIA FOTOOHI

FACT: Baby Garibaldi fish are always electric blue, but as they grow, the baby electric blue fish, become bright orange! Then if a baby Garabaldi enters adult territory, they know it’s just a baby.

Source: learned at CELP

BY HELIA FOTOOHI

Fact: All Sheepshead fish are born female, but if have to, they can change to male.

Source: learned at CELP

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The Sea Cucumber By Marissa Habashy

• The Sea Cucumber feeds on dead and decaying substances making them a Detritivore, and they also eat other things such as algae. After they eat, the food in their stomach is separated from the sand in there causing them to let out fresh clean sand that helps the plants underwater.

http://library.thinkquest.org/J001418/seacuc.htmlInformation:

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Some fish travel in schools of hundreds, maybe even thousandsBy: DavidSource: C.E.L.P. snorkel

Kelp can be used in Ice cream, Toothpaste, and in compost. Kelp forests House many fish and other sea life.

Source: Celp Slide Show

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The ancient Egyptians saw numerous constellations differently than the ancient Greeks, for example Orion was depicted as a pharaoh. In addition, two stars in the belt of the constellation Orion line up with two of the Egyptian Pyramids of Giza, as do the Three Hopi Mesas in Arizona and the Nazca Lines in South America.

Galaxies

• Galaxies! We are only one galaxy in the whole universe! Think about millions of other galaxies out in space maybe even just like our planet earth. Maybe some scientist will discover them (maybe even me!)

• Sources: CELP

Fiona Captan

Water sources• Any water, salt or freshwater, is precious all around the world. It takes 29,000

gallons of water to make a pair of jeans! We use water to hydrate ourselves, and humans use lots of water for many other purposes. 3% of the water in the world we use, and for millions of things, like cars or chocolate, we also use for drinking purposes so we do use lots of precious water for ourselves alone!

By: LaraSource: CELP

Source: http://www.benefits-of-recycling.com/livingsustainability/

By Katie Lowery

Sustainable Living

Sustainability is the ability of an ecosystem to function and maintain productivity

BY HELIA FOTOOHI

FACT: Compost means ‘a mixture of various decaying organic substances, as dead leaves or manure, used for fertilizing soil.’

Source: www.Dictionary.com

Composting

Fruits and vegetables that we put into the compost then later becomes nutritious soil for new plants to grow healthy.

Composting is a way to use resources that we don’t need and save our planet instead of putting it to waste.

Sources http://pure-green-living.com/how-do-you-compost/http://howtocompost.org/ http://www.deerwood.bc.ca/2012/06/

By: Hannah Lam andSydney Lau

The sun’s cycle

• First, the sun gives energy to plants and other things we eat. Next, humans and animals, eat the food, and we have all the energy we need.

SustainabilitySus•tain•a•bil•i•ty

[sus•tain•a•bil•i•tee]Environmental Science: the quality of

not being harmful to the environment and/or leaving enough natural resources for future generations

In nature, there is no waste, excluding humans (if humans were ever included.) When a bird eats an orange, it also eats the seed. Later, the bird will poop out the seed, along with dung, which will help fertilize the seed to grow into an orange tree. This helps in maintaining sustainability in nature.

Humans, however, have plastic cups and Styrofoam packaging that will take millions of years to decompose, and even then it probably will be toxic. Humans need to find a way to tie into what others of nature are doing already, or else all recourses may disappear.

Sarah M.

Sustainability Definition :

Meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

Examples:Land and Sea Ecosystems:• Plants and animals have

formed adaptations to help them save water so they could live for months of drought.

• Plants and algae absorb solar energy, turning sunlight into nutrition for themselves and the community.

Human Communities • Reuse and recycle everyday

material; for example: reusable shopping bags, backyard composting, and electronics with recyclable parts.

• Water conservation; low- flow faucets, taking shorter showers or even having a cistern

• Eating locally grown food; is fresher and nutritious, also supports local economy, and doesn't need as many fossil fuels to get to you

Sources: http://celp.net/about/sustainability/background-sustainability-sub-page/ and http://www.keepbanderabeautiful.org/sustainability.html

Kanako and Kallie

Sarah M. and CeCe C.

Fact: The native people of Santa Catalina Island, the Pimuvets, had “landfills,” which consisted of abalone shells, whale bones, and dolphin bones. Nowadays, you can find these landfills by looking at the ground. The darker dirt indicates the decomposed shells and bones.

Source: CELP