Seventh and eighth grade students from Titusville Middle School embarked on an adventure to Wallops Island, Virginia on Sunday, May 12 for an experience of a lifetime. Students traveled for nine hours on a bus to the Marine Science Consortium located on the mainland of Virginia's Eastern Shore. Salt, fresh, and brackish marshes, estuaries and bays, unspoiled ocean beaches, and three barrier islands- Assateague, Chincoteague, and Wallops were explored. When they arrived, they participated in a three hour boat training which included the use of otter trawls, refractometer, current cross, plankton net, Van Dorn bottle, and secchi disk.