2011

Today was our final day stuck in a classroom! Sunday, we're leaving for the British Virgin Islands. I'm so excited, it was kinda hard to pay attention, but I did my best. The first article was very interesting. It had to do with a species of fish called the leaping bleany. They are a species of fish that live...

I finally made it through the classroom portion of the class! Everyone seems so excited to go to BVI. Today we just talked more about the actual details of the trip. Then we went over two articles from the night before about the lion fish invasion and another about leaping blennies. The article about lion fish is undoubtably the...

Sadly today marked the last day of class at Jesuit after ten great days. Today we started off by discussing behavioral expectations while we are in the British Virgin Islands. We talked about how we are modeling Jesuit and what we do affects Jesuit as a whole. We then moved on to discuss the articles after Mr. Kirby and...

On this final day in class we were lead in discussion by our classmates. The first article explained blenny fish may have been the bridge between origin of life in the water moving to land. The blenny fish has a vascular layer of skin to transfuse air into their lungs, so they can stay on land for a period...

Today concluded the class room sessions!! Which means the Brittish Virgin Islands are a heart beat away. Today what was done in class included the discussion of two articles and than a presentation from each group over the different kinds of marine life. The first article was over leaping blenny. Leaping blenny are a species of fish whose skins...

It's the final day in a classroom, and it is buzzing with excitement. This Sunday we leave to study organisms in paradise. Today, we started off class listening to two more presentations on articles. The first was about the Blenny fish. The Blenny fish has adapted and evolved to have the ability to not only swim...

Hello again! It's the night time blogger and today after actually reading the articles we had a well lead discussion about the use of ecolocation by porpoises. The bulk of that conversatin consisted of discussing the methodology. The experiment used trained dolphins, so we discussed how that would effect the results compared to testing dolphins born and raised in...

Today was another stuffed day; going from the classroom to the lab and then back, constantly reviewing and discussing our material and preparations for BVI this weekend. It began with Mr.Kirby and Doc discussing an outline of what we would be experiencing at BVI, it felt like the whole class couldn't wait to run in that Caribbean sand. We...

Today was the second to last day of the Marine Biology course at Jesuit. Our schedule today went differently than usual. We began class by going into the lab to complete our dissection of the dogfish. We got to open up its "skull" to take a look at its brain and the nerves connecting to it. The head was...