Jellyfish Domination

Team: 62

School: Jackson Middle School

Area of Science: environmental science

Interim: Problem definition:
The humble Jellyfish wasn’t seen as a very big problem in the eyes of the human species until a few years ago when the jellyfish population sky rocketed to the status of over population. Scientists believe that this happened because of Global Warming, runoffs from farms and factories, and over fishing of their natural predators. Because of their over population, the jellyfish have been killing or spoiling fish that are harvested by fisherman, tearing their nets, stinging and occasionally killing people far more than usual.
Problem solution:
Due to the fact that when a jellyfish is killed it releases thousands of eggs we had to think of a more civilized way of getting rid of the jellyfish than just having a mass killing of tens of thousands of jellyfish. So we came up with a hypothesis that if you could catch the jellyfish then you could kill them on land and prevent the spreading of their eggs. We would only need to kill enough jellyfish to lower their population enough to allow the fish to increase their population.
Progress to date:
So far we have started a power point and a Starlogo TNG model. We are near to completing our first model which shows the over hunting of the jellyfish’s natural predators, once we have completed that one we will begin one about how the have become a problem, our plan to solve it, or possibly showing global warming’s effect. On the power point we are showing the different types of jellyfish, where they are invading, what the problem is, and our plan to solve it.
Expected Results:
Our expectations of these procedures would be both environmentally and agriculturally progressive. First, a descent in the harmful jellyfish population would stop the increased problems they are causing to fishermen and wildlife. Second, if we did harvest them it may help fishing businesses profit.
Citations:
These five citations are some of the websites that we gained our information.
http://www.irukandjijellyfish.com/,http://www.barrierreefaustralia.com/the-great-barrier-reef/jellyfish.htm,http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/3344475/Mauve-stingers-to-invade-the-Riviera.html,http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112859&org=EPSC http://hubpages.com/hub/Irukandji-syndrome we found these on 11/30/09.
Team members: Spenser Gomez-Nelson, Brendyn Toersbijns, and Thomas Hughey.

Team Members:

  Thomas Hughey
  Brendyn Toersbijns
  Spenser Gomez-Nelson

Sponsoring Teacher: Karen Glennon

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