David Smith '12
Day 7 – David Smith
Today, once again, was started off by discussion led by other students. The first article was about parrotfish predidation on porite, a species of coral. While the article itself didn't make much of a point in itself, but Dr. Grunninger explained that it might be very helpful in another scientists reasearch. The other article was about using grouper as...
Day 6 – David Smith
Today was the most interesting and fun day of class so far. As always, we began with discussion of the articles we were assigned to read. Today, though, we were taught by our peers, with a little help from Dr. Grunninger and Mr. Kirby, of course. We talked about how Butterfly fish feed on coral polyps and how mullusks...
Day 5 – David Smith
Today marks one half of the Dallas portion of the class, and we finnaly got to the biology part of marine biology. We started learned about plankton. I found out that the character Plankton for the show Spongebob isn't really a plankton, because plankton have no control over where they go. We learned that there are two types of...
David Smith – Day 4
Today in class we leaned about the ocean and what physically happens to it all the time. First off, we learned about currents. There are two main causes of currents: the wind blowing over the surface of the water causes surface currents; and the changing water tempurature causes deep water currents because of the fact that warm water rises...
Day 3 of Marine Biology – David Smith
Today we learned about the composition of the earth and how it affects the study of marine biology. We first startedtalking about the theory of continental drift. I hadn't realized how much evidence there was to support that theory, such as the fact that fossils of the same organisms have been found in Africa and South America. We then...
Marine Bio Day 2 – David Smith
Today we started out by talking about two articles we read last night. The first article was about fish migration. It showed that smaller fish with a smaller life cycle were more prone to be displaced by warming water tempurature. The second article was about the effectiveness of marine reserves. It was interesting to find out that the effectiveness...
First Post – David Smith
Two things I want to learn in this class are about how to identify different fish and to learn how fish differ biologically from other organisms. My favorite marine organism is the Whale Shark. An interesting thing that happened while i was diving was that a Perch bit another divers ear