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Robert Giltner '13

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It’s the final countdown

Beep! Beep! Beep! A sound every teenage boy is afraid to hear. Unfortunately the men of cedar cabin woke up to this morning. Everybody up! We heard next. It was doc again. Once again we arose and got dressed. We then loaded up and drove off to the dock. Once we got there we went over to the visar...

Island time day 5

Crash! Boom! Crash! That's what the men of cedar cabin woke up to this Friday morning. But of course Gabe and myself fell back to sleep. Next thing I know I heard someone knocking on my door. It turned out to be Doc waking us up. I then got dressed and walked down to the gate. A minute later...

Island time day 4

Today we began our island adventure by heading straight to the docks. When we got there we started having breakfast. We then headed out to the Rhone, a ship that shank and became an artificial reef. Afterwords we sailed over to another island where we snorkeled and got the story of how the Rhone shunk. After we got the...

Island time day 3

Today we began our adventure with a class about reef check, a program that helps surveys reefs and shows other marine biologists and divers the current situation of the particular reef. We then followed that with a practice run of how a reef check would be conducted. One of the instructors laid out this tallied measuring tape. She then...

Island time day 2

Today we woke up to the banging of our door. I went down to the street to wait for speedys and then we were off. We arrived and old yard hotel again for some breakfast. It was yummy. Then we started our class on coral reefs and fish i.d. . Sam started engaging us in talks about corals reefs....

Island time day 1

Today we woke up and went down to the guavaberry resort office were tina, the hotel owner, laid down the ground rules for the hotel. Afterwords we all got in the taxi company "Speedys" van. From there we traversed to old yard hotel( it was actually nicer then guavaberry) and had breakfast. We then started our orentation about the...

On the tenth day

Today in class we started off by talking about what next week will hold. We had many questions and doc amd Mr. Kirby had all the answers. We then went on to the artivle project where we talked anpbout lionfish ecology and about the leaping blenny. The leaping blenny article came first. The article was about how the blenny...

And on the ninth day

Today in class we began by finishing up our dog fish shark dissection. This went by fast. While my partner Nick was dissecting the shark I was typing the answers to the lab. Once we were done with the dissection the class went back into our actual classroom and continued our article projects. Today's articles were about how dolphins...

JMB8 the ocho

Today we were surprised with an assignment that asked us why the articles we read were important and how they helped the big picture. After we finished that assignment, my partner Nick Dell and I went on and talked to the group about our article. Our article was about the mimic octopus and an oyster that had an adhesive...