Aquatic field work is a vital component of a Corning School degree.  Faculty and students alike frequent Maine Maritime vessels to learn about the marine environment.  Activities range from quick trips to find invertebrates for Marine Zoology class, to weekend sails aboard the Schooner Bowdoin, to student or faculty research aboard the R/V Friendship.  With so many vessels waiting at our docks, its not unusual, for example, to find the sedimentology class heading to nearby Holbrook Island to study beach processes, or seniors scheduling vessels at the Waterfront for their own scientific investigations.

Marine science has advanced since its earliest times through direct observation and experimentation at sea.  Corning School students continue this tradition with elective courses in biological, chemical, geological, and physical oceanographic cruisework.  Click here to join our students as they plan and carry out a recent chemical oceanography cruise, or here to learn how they investigate seafloor geology.