WWU marine center lets students plunge into science

It’s a drizzly, February day, but the spirits of the elementary school students at Western Washington University’s Shannon Point Marine Center are bright as they scour the beach for signs of marine life.
Some of them find limpets and barnacles, others find crawly creatures with claws that cling to their fingers as they bring them to an instructor for identification. Of course, there are also the birds that need identifying: cormorants and loons that bob in the water.