2011

Today was full of information including finishing off a dissection, talking about two more articles, and beginning a project over the things we will see while in the BVI. Starting off the class, we went to lab to continue where we left yesterday with the dogfish shark dissection. Because we had to stop mid-lab, our shark was not as...

Today in class we began by finishing up our dogfish shark lab. All that me and Kells had to do was remove the skin on the head of the shark and look at the brain. The cerebellum was about the size of a cashew. Following the clean-up of this lab we began the daily discussion over the two articles....

Today we did quite a bit, starting with finishing out dissection of the Dogfish. I thought it was cool to feel the Ampullae of Lorenzini on the shark's rostrum. That didn't take too long because we were nearly done from the day before. So nothing new to report there. Then we went over the articles. The first one was about...

Today, we started out, not by discussion, but by going straight into the lab to do what i believe is our last dissection. We got our dogfish shark that we had begun dissecting yesterday, and began removing the skin and skull, bit by bit, from the top of it's head, in order to see the brain. After that, we...

Today started with a very interesting article about the echolocation behaviors of porpoises. The experiment was done by tagging the fish and monitoring it's clicks before, during and after the catch of a dead fish. The article pointed out that as the fish got closer, the clicks became more frequent and the decibels decreased. As a class we determined...

Today marked the second to last day of class at Jesuit. We started things off today by talking about the British Virgin Islands and briefly touched on our itinerary for the week there. After discussing the itinerary we headed over to the lab and finished dissecting our dogfish shark. Will and I mainly just worked on cutting open the...

To begin class today we finished our dogfish shark dissections. My group did not have a lot left to do so we finished pretty quickly. After everyone finished their dissections we cleaned up the lab and by that time class was about half way done. After cleaning up we had another two groups present their projects. The first group...

In today's class we continued to discuss two more articles. The first article discussed echolocation in the context of finding and capturing prey. The article gave a brief summary on animals that use this tactic to find and capture their prey. The bat was one of the main examples used. The bat sends out impulses in order to locate...

Class today was just as exciting as all the other ones, but the schedule and organization was a little different. We actually started class of with a brief discussion about the BVI and our itinerary when we are there. Mr. Kirby explained all the dives and meal plans to us. Then we went straight to the lab to finish...