Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 8:37AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Welcome to the Camp Internet Channel Islands Oceanography Dig …… we are going off shore today to explore the waters surrounding the Channel Islands of California. What features on land and in the sea influence life in the channel waters ? Where do they come from ? What do they cause ? Let’s find out !!

: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 8:43AM PST (-0800 GMT)

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 8:44AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG #1 - What is the largest geographic feature that influences life in the Channel ? button

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 8:44AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #2 - What are the names of the two zones in the water that meet in the Channel and influence life in the Channel waters ? Where do they come from ? button

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 8:44AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #3 - What happens when these two forces meet ? What is the name of the events that is created where they meet ? button

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 8:45AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #4 - There is another BIG force that effects sea life in the Channel waters and it happens in February and March each year – right when the whale visitors increase in number. What is this force caused by and what does it do to the water ? button

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 8:45AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #5 - Now read carefully, what is the name of the SOUTHERN current that brings the warmer Mexican waters up into the Channel and what time of year does this happen ? button

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 8:45AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #6 - What are the names of the two channels off the coast of Southern California ? button

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 8:45AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #7 - Name the three main features in geography UNDER the sea in the Channel waters. Which are higher and what is the lowest ? button

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 8:46AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig#8 – How many types of whales and dolphins visit the Channel waters and what agency studies them ? button

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 8:46AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #9 - Learn about the Sustainable Seas Expedition that is studying the oceanography and marine biology of the National Marine Sanctuaries. From their main page at this button , click on Channel Islands to find out what technologies they are using to study the Channel Islands Sanctuary. And what documents do they create using those technologies ? Come back and tell us what you discover !

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 8:47AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #10 – If you could be an animal or creature living in the Channel waters – which would you choose and why ?

Tsunami, H.P.S.: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 12:30AM PST (-0800 GMT)
The largest geographic feature that directly impacts on the oceanography of the region is Point Conception on the mainland at the northernmost tip of the Channel.

ayami tyndall 7th: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 12:44AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Point Conception, is the LARGSST geographic feature that influences life in the Channel.

ayami tyndall 7th: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 12:52AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2 the Oregonian zone from the arctic Alaskan waters and the California zone from mexico and they meet in the channel.

ayami tyndall 7th: . . . . Fri, Nov 10, 12:56AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#3 When these two currents meet a powerful gyre rotation is created known as the Transitional zone.