2019
July Field Trip
Half of our tour group about to board the NOAA ship ‘Shimada’. Thirty people participated in the club’s field trip to Newport, Oregon to tour the museum and the marine research vessel, Shimada of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The second half of our tour group on the ship.
Education Outreach Program
On February 5th Marici Reid and John Mellott presented an education outreach program on mollusks to a 4-H marine science club in Linn County. The club is led by Christy Tye from Lebanon, who learned about our shell club by visiting our shell show at the Oregon State Fair last year. Marici provided a 45-minute overview program on mollusks, and John did a second 45-minute program on marine shells and marine fossil shells that can be found in Oregon. About 20 kids and adults attended the outreach program.
Oregon State Fair
The Shell Club information table with the "Guess the Name of the Shell" game before the fair opened.
The information table during the fair.
Marici Reid’s display on the interrelationships between mollusk species and other marine organisms.
Brenda Russell’s display on worldwide shells.
Marici Reid and Brenda Russell were the big winners at this year’s Oregon Shell Club shell show. Marici was awarded the duPont Trophy for top shell display in the show and Brenda received the coveted Conchologists of America (COA) award. In addition, Marici received the club’s Jean McCluskey Award for best educational display and her large giant clam, Tridacna gigas (Linnaeus, 1758) was named the ‘Shell of The Show’. The ‘People’s Choice Award’, in which people voted for their favorite shell display, went to Brenda Russell.