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World Ocean Day brings students to marine protected area

A pod of common dolphins swims off of Newport Beach on World Ocean Day.
A pod of more than 500 common dolphins swim off of Newport Beach on World Ocean Day 2023.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
By Carolyn ColeStaff Photographer 

On World Ocean Day on Thursday, students from Tuffree Middle School in Placentia took part in a science trip in the marine protected area off Crystal Cove State Park in Newport Beach. They collected water samples, and did plankton studies and fish counts through the Crystal Cove Conservancy program in partnership with Davey’s Locker Whale Watching & Sportfishing.

Two boys throw a net off the side of a boat in the ocean.
Juan Rojas-Avelar, 14, left, and Sebastian Ramos-Rodriguez, 13, both students from Tuffree Middle School, throw a net out that will collect plankton off the coast of Newport Beach on World Ocean Day.
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Sea lions sleep on an ocean marker off the coast of Newport Beach
Sea lions sleep on an ocean marker off the coast of Newport Beach on World Ocean Day.
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Two people watch common dolphins from the side of a boat.
Moyinoluwa Jaiyeola,13, watches common dolphins on a student science trip off of Newport Beach with a group of students from Tuffree Middle School.
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Two pelicans fly off the coast of Newport Beach
Pelicans fly off the coast of Newport Beach, where students collect science data in a marine protected area.
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Two teenagers take pH and temperature water samples and use a clipboard with papers on it.
Alejandra Jimenez, left, and Jalen Telles, both 13, take pH and temperature water samples during an on-the-water science field trip.
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A woman points to a chart on a clipboard and talks with two teenagers next to a small device on a table
Jessica Roame, left, of education programs with Newport Landing and Davey’s Locker Whale Watching, goes over the types of plankton students have collected and how to log their work with Jacquelyn Garcia, 14, center, and Janessa Pineda, 14.
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Students board a boat
On World Ocean Day, students from Tuffree Middle School board a boat to participate in a marine protected area science cruise field trip to collect plankton, sample water and identify fish in the kelp forest through the use of GoPro cameras.
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Three teens aboard a boat look at a laptop screen.
Roberto Garcia, left, Brandon Moreno and Luciano Gonzalez, all 14, look at a video to identify the fish their GoPro cameras captured during an on-the-water science trip.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

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Carolyn Cole

Carolyn Cole is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times. Her coverage of the civil crisis in Liberia won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Cole has been named U.S. newspaper photographer of the year three times. Cole grew up in California and Virginia, before attending the University of Texas, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She went on to earn a master of art’s degree from Ohio University.

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