2011

Today we went through what would be the last day in the classroom part of this journey, with all of us barely keeping still in our seats as we imagined ourselves standing on the perfect tropical beach that is BVI. For a good chunk of class, Mr.Kirby and Doc went over again what we will be experiencing there, the...

Today began unlike most of the others. We walked into class and started by listening to Mr. Kirby and Doc Gruninger discuss the rules for the british virgin islands. Now I could list those but you would probably fall asleep so I'll move on. Brody and Hayden did the first article today about the blenny, a fish that can...

Today in class we began by going over our trip. The talk about it really got me excited and ready to go. After this we talked about Brody and Hayden's article. It was about the adaptations of the leaping blenny. This relates to marine biology because it gives us an idea of how marine organisms might have made the...

Today was another ecstatic dayo f marine biology, but sadly, our last day of actual class. But on the plus side, we are going to the British Virgin Islands. Well, onto today. We began class by discussing two articles. The first was about fish that areable to "live" on land. The specific fish mentioned in the article was the...

Today was very exciting because it was the last day in the classroom and that much closer to the trip! We started out the class going over a few things on what to bring and also various expectations. After we finished talking about that, we moved right into two articles. The first article discussed the leaping blenny and how...

Today we discussed the final two articles. The first one discussed a certain species of terrestrial blennies that can move from water to land. What was unique about these blennies was that their tails did this special twisting motion that allowed them to jump farther. This enabled them to jump from the water to land onto various rocks, where...

So today marks the tenth and final day of the Marine Bio course (well, the last day of class portion). We spent part of class discussing the things we needed to bring, addressing any last-minute problems, and reviewing the overall expectations from our class. Our articles today were about the peculiar terrestial behavior of the leaping blenny as well as...

We started class today by talking about the schedule of our trip to the BVI and the expectations during it. Then we talked about leaping blennies. In its self I did not find the information in the article particlarly interesting; however, the discussion about evolution that stemmed from it was. We talked about evolution and how humans might have...

Today marked the last day of class at Jesuit. It was no different than any other class we have had yet. We started off the class with another discussion about the upcoming trip. After 30 minutes of discussion, Brody and Hayden took over the class and discussed their article. Their article examined the life of a specific fish called...