Mason Posner teaches anatomy and physiology, marine and vertebrate biology at Ashland University in Ohio. He does research on the evolution and function of the vertebrate eye lens and has interests in undergraduate research and teaching technology. He leads a Biology capstone course on science communication.
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Live tweeting a class field trip to the Outer Banks

Kayaking out of Manteo harbor with the Queen Elizabeth II in the background

This Thursday morning my marine biology class at Ashland University will be piling into two vans and trekking for 13 hours to the Oregon Inlet Campground on the outer banks of North Carolina for three days in the field.  This is the [...]

Mole crab molts litter the beaches

What a difference a month makes.  Back in April I brought my marine biology class to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for our end of semester field trip.  We saw lots of surf clam shells on the beach then, and some arks, but not a lot of other diversity in shells.  And the month [...]

A successful field trip to the Outer Banks

I recently returned from my latest class field trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  I am fortunate to teach an upper level marine bio course at Ashland University in Ohio.  Yes, Ohio.  My students can see live marine specimens in our saltwater aquarium, and lots of collected organisms from the Atlantic and Pacific [...]

We made it to the beach

It took us almost 15 hours in our two vans to get from Ashland, Ohio to Oregon Inlet, but we had some great BBQ (Currituck BBQ) on the way and a quick stop at walmart for the camping gear we left behind. But we are here, tents are up, my students had their first trip [...]

Marine Biology in the Outer Banks

End of the semester teaching and a slew of chair duties have kept me away from the blog for a few weeks.  But it is now 4:18 am and I am off with a colleague and 10 students for my semi-annual field trip to Oregon Inlet, North Carolina in the Outer Banks for my Marine [...]